Hard Problems. Straight Answers.
"Tough Mile works shoulder-to-shoulder with business owners, board of directors, and government leaders facing financial pressure, operational chaos, compliance uncertainty, and critical turning points. No fluff. Just real strategy and execution when it matters most."
Our Services:
Business Optimization and Turnaround
Stabalize the business. Make the hard decisions. Move forward. When a business is under pressure, clear thinking and decisive action matter. Tough Mile works alongside owners to assess the situation, address the real problems, and implement practical strategies that restore stability and create a path forward.
Financial Strategy and Structure
Many business challenges start with unclear financial information. We help business owners understand their numbers, improve financial structures, manage cash flows, and build systems that support better decisions.
Grant and Project Management
Organizations can lose opportunities or struggle to manage complex initiatives because they lack structure. Tough Mile helps organizations secure, manage, and execute grant-funded programs and major projects with clear systems, accountability, and oversight.
Why Tough Mile?
Tough Mile Strategies is led by Rich Mothes, an experienced financial and operational leader who has managed complex programs, multi-million-dollar budgets, and high pressure decision making environments. With experience in financial oversight, operational systems, and grant funded initiatives, Tough Mile works with public organizations, non-profits and private businesses such as athletic facilites, Construction firms, Architectural firms, Supply Houses, Retail Shops and many other business entitites to bring structure, clarity and stability to difficult challenges. Our work has included restructuring financial systems across both the public and private sectors, uncovering millioins in unclaimed billable revenue and allowable costs, and rebuilding foundational financial practices that protect public organizations from audit findings and private businesses from financial ruin. We work directly with leadership, business owners, accountants, staff, and governing boards to identify the root of the problem and implement practical solutions that strengthen the organization long after the immediate issue is resolved.
Our approach is simple: understand the problem clearly, develop practical solutions, and help leaders move forward with confidence.
