About Andrew Volkman
Hi, I’m Andrew, The Biztelier.
Most business coaches will give you actionable advice.
I’ll show you how the whole thing fits together — and why it wasn’t working in the first place.
That’s what architects do. We don’t just solve the problem in front of us. We understand the structure, challenge the brief, find the misalignment, and redesign from first principles. I’ve been doing that in one form or another for my entire career — across industries, across continents, and across every scale of business.
The background that makes the difference
I am, in addition to everything else, a registered Architect in the literal sense — Master of Architecture, National Award winner, and designer of work that has attracted over 400,000 photo views on Google Maps.
That discipline — the long-view thinking, the understanding of how systems connect, the patience to see a complex thing whole before touching any of it — is the foundation underneath everything I do.
After Architecture is education. I’ve tutored and taught mathematics, physics, French, English, and Architecture across multiple countries and institutions. Consistently in the top 1% academically. More importantly: genuinely passionate about the act of lifting someone else’s understanding. Teaching isn’t separate from business coaching — it’s the same instinct, applied differently.
Then the business years. The crown of that chapter was seven years as CEO of a two-outlet health and wellness operation — twenty internal staff, a complex service delivery model, built and run and successfully handed over at the end of my term to the next CEO. I know what it looks like when a business runs well. I also know, from the inside, what it looks like when it starts running the person at the top.
That combination — architectural thinking, teaching instinct, and real operational experience — is what I bring to every client engagement. It is not a combination a single-track professional can offer.
Why I Do This
I didn’t grow up with money or an obvious path. What I had was curiosity, a willingness to evolve, and a string of mentors who were generous enough to invest in me when they didn’t have to. That debt doesn’t go away. It gets paid forward.
The owners I work with are competent, committed people who built something real — and somewhere along the way found that the business they built is consuming the life they built it for. That gap between what was promised and what is actually happening is the problem I exist to close.
More profit. More time. More energy. Built deliberately. Built to last.
Beyond the business
I’ve lived in six countries and visited thirty more. I sail — recreationally in Perth, Malaysia, and Thailand, and across open water between countries. I rock climb. I snowboard. I build campervans. I paint. I speak English, Japanese, French, and Mandarin, with varying degrees of elegance.
I mention this not to impress, but to be honest: I am someone who built their business specifically so that life could be lived fully alongside it. That is not a talking point. It is the lived proof of concept behind everything I teach.
Working together
I work with a small number of Architecture business owners at any one time. Engagements begin with a Deliberate Business Diagnostic — a building of your business brief – just as you would with a client of your own.
If you’re ready to stop running your business by accident, a discovery call is the right next step.
And if you know someone who needs help here’s what you say:
“He works with established Architect business owners who feel like prisoners of the business they built — and redesigns it so they’re running it deliberately instead of being run by it.”