


COO Alliance · Vivid Vision · scaling
Cameron Herold
Cameron Herold is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and speaker best known for helping founders and second-in-command leaders scale companies with clarity. As former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, he helped grow the company from roughly $2M to $106M, then built a career teaching Vivid Vision planning, culture, and operator excellence.
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Overview
Cameron Herold is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and speaker best known for helping founders and second-in-command leaders scale companies with clarity. As former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, he helped grow the company from roughly $2M to $106M, then built a career teaching Vivid Vision planning, culture, and operator excellence.
He founded COO Alliance, a peer network and live-event community for chiefs of staff and COOs inside growth companies.
What they teach
- Second-in-command leadership and operator peer learning
- Vivid Vision and strategic clarity for leadership teams
- Hiring, culture, and meeting systems that scale
- Private COO Connect intensives for $5M+ companies
Why SUCCESS readers care
Herold’s work is classic SUCCESS entrepreneurship: how operators turn vision into execution without the CEO becoming the bottleneck. COO Connect events are small-room, high-accountability gatherings rather than stadium keynotes.
Sources
Grounded in cameronherold.com and cooalliance.com official pages.
Past highlights

COO Connect Boston 2026
Private 2.5-day COO Connect intensive for second-in-command leaders in $5M+ companies, hosted by Cameron Herold and COO Alliance at MIT’s Endicott House.
