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TAB Gateway

WASHINGTON

Merrill Csuri

Owner/President

TAB Gateway

Welcome to TAB Gateway—The Alternative Board in North Jersey (Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson Counties) and New York City. We help business owners, founders, and executives make better decisions and find balance between personal and professional goals through confidential peer advisory boards, executive coaching, and leadership team development.

For over 30 years, The Alternative Board has helped thousands of leaders achieve better results. Our members consistently report increased profits, improved work-life synergy, and greater confidence in their strategic decisions. Here's how we can support your success:

 

Peer Advisory Boards 
Our structured, facilitated monthly sessions bring together 6-10 business owners and leaders from non-competing companies to:

  • Share fresh perspectives and strategic insights that challenge your thinking and accelerate growth
  • Share the weight of leadership with peers who understand your journey
  • Build in accountability to drive progress on your goals
  • Connect with The Alternative Board's global network of successful business leaders

One-on-One Executive Coaching
Complementing our peer boards, executive coaching provides personalized guidance to deepen your leadership journey. Working together, we'll:

  • Translate insights into action with your personalized Business Builder's Blueprint™
  • Deep dive into your unique business challenges and opportunities
  • Focus on your specific leadership evolution and business transformation
  • Develop concrete action plans for your most pressing priorities
  • Establish sustainable momentum for lasting positive change

StratPro® – Leadership Team Transformation
Our comprehensive program combines strategy and productivity to align and empower your leadership team. Through expertly facilitated workshops and structured follow-up sessions, we help you:

  • Create a compelling vision that engages your entire organization
  • Transform business challenges into growth opportunities
  • Develop and execute powerful, actionable plans
  • Build a deliberate culture based on shared values
  • Establish clear accountability and decision-making processes
  • Define and track the metrics that matter

About Merrill: Merrill brings a unique perspective from experience working with diverse leaders across sectors. At the United Nations, she facilitated thematic working groups that brought together business, university, and non-profit leaders. During her decade in tech startups, she held leadership roles focused on business operations and employee engagement, while providing executive coaching to CEOs navigating relationships with investors and boards.

Beyond the boardroom, Merrill happily shares life's adventures with her husband and two young boys. She's an enthusiastic runner who has completed two marathons and twelve half marathons (so far!). Her passion for growth extends to various interests including hiking, snorkeling, SCUBA diving, and crafting. As a recent transplant from city to suburbia, she's expanding her horizons from houseplants to home gardening. A true global citizen, Merrill has visited 23 countries and 32 states, and attended four Olympic Games (and counting!).

Let's explore how we can elevated your business and leadership journey. Schedule time to chat with me via calendly.com/merrill-csuri

Member Success

As a TAB member, through the regular coaching sessions and monthly Board meetings, I gain invaluable mentor and peer support. The TAB ethos and coaching approach has helped me to plan personal and business goals and set direction. This is supported by the wealth of knowledge, skills, experience and support that is shared by the board who provide Impartial, informed and considered guidance and advice on all types of business issues, that enable me to gain fresh perspectives, identify blind spots and fill my skill gaps. Over the last twelve months TAB has effectively become my company’s non-executive board and its members my trusted colleagues.
Saul Goldfarb
Goldfarb & Associates
There is no silver bullet to becoming successful, you just have to stay focused on your goals. TAB has helped my business grow significantly by encouraging me to take a step back and identify the basics I need.
Jo McCabe
Mr. Handyman
TAB helped me to focus on the things that have made my business scalable. I was tempted to divert my attention to another endeavor, but TAB helped me determine that was not prudent. The economy, and specifically new building starts, have helped, but the degree of capitalization would not have been possible were it not for TAB. I compare my situation with another franchise owner who was in my shoes several years ago and I am way ahead, in fact we just bought him out. My revenues have doubled, and my capacity has increased four times from what it was three years ago. I have time to be with my girls, work on my hobbies and enjoy life.
Bill Armstrong
President – ProHome Colorado
We have an excellent group of professional business owners. I learn something from them each month. Hearing and seeing what they are doing in their business is motivational for me. And they are not "yes" people. They tell me when I should be doing something differently.
Lynn Gastineau
Gastineau Log Homes, Inc.
My TAB coach has gotten me on track and kept me on track since 2005 toward the goals I’d originally stated," says Perlmeter. "I’m totally confident that we’ll continue to realize the vision that I have for the company in our second decade.
Stu Perlmeter
President – First Resource
16 yrs. in business. Company was run like mom and pop shop for 14 years. Since joining TAB we have been able to identify our niche in the market and now the company is being run like a real company with focus and clarity as to where we are going and an actual plan on how we’re going to get there. Our company is poised to grow in size and wealth beyond my expectations and with TAB I will be able to sleep at night in the process.
Ted Curato
TLC Painting
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