Onward & Upward Consulting

Career Coaching & Performance Mentoring

Small Business Consulting

Event Planning & Management

From start-up companies to established firms with up to 500 employees, Onward & Upward Consulting is positioned and ready to help you take your business to the next level. We also work with individuals on career coaching & performance mentoring.

Schedule A Free Consult

Better Business Results. Quicker.

Rich Swerbinsky is the founder of Onward & Upward Consulting, a firm focused on helping business owners expand revenue & profits through growth, organizational effectiveness & operational efficiency. Rich has also curated a consortium of subject matter experts for the firm to supplement his areas of expertise - growing & scaling businesses, career coaching & mentoring, and event planning & management. Rich can be contacted at [email protected].

Corporate Experience

Honesty & Integrity

Entrepreneurial Success

8+ years (2015-2023) as the President & COO of The Mortgage Collaborative, America's largest cooperative network to the residential lending industry

20+ years experience (1996-2015) running residential lending divisions at the VP level or higher for three different federally chartered banks

Served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Ohio Mortgage Bankers Association and graduated from the Ohio Bankers League Leadership Institute

Graduate of Case Western Reserve University's "Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence" curriculum

Profoundly involved in the local community, serving as the President of Twinsburg Baseball for 8+ years, helping found The Friends of Twinsburg Parks, and serving two terms on Twinsburg's Parks & Recreation Committee

Over 40,000 connections & followers on LinkedIn and co-hosted the popular "Rundown with Rob & Rich" weekly video show for several years

Led over 50 seminars on time management & work from home productivity

Graduate of Harvard Business School's "Leadership Through Kindness, Compassion & Ethics" program

Owner & Creative Director of The Cardboard Jungle (current), a company that specializes in selling sports cards & performing live streamed box breaks of the hottest new sports card products

Creator & Executive Director of The World Series of Wiffle Ball (America's largest wiffle ball tournament), which saw 192 teams participate in their recent 9th annual event (2013-current)

Founder & Owner of TheClevelandFan.com, the most trafficked independently owned Cleveland sports website at the time of the sale of the company (2005-2014)