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Meet Bill
Bill Kerig is an American entrepreneur, filmmaker, television producer, and author. His peripatetic career through sport, print, film, and tech has been guided by one simple question: I wonder if I can? He asked it about becoming a pro skier, writing for a living, making movies, creating magazines, as well as founding and running tech companies. And every time, he asked that question, it was answered by a chorus of Hell, NO. You can’t. The naysayers only served to fill his tank, and today, he’s taken some 19 companies, films, books, and magazines from concept to market to exit.
And as he gotten older, he’s become bolder.
Although he’d owned and ridden motorcycles his whole life, the world opened up for him when his children dragged him into dirt biking at age fifty. Taking motocross lessons with eleven-year-olds, he found not only humility but a new and outlandish liberation.
When his sixtieth birthday coincided with crushing professional and personal loss, he turned to adventure motorcycles for the solace and space to find a way through one of life’s most difficult and underrated transitions. In adventure motorcycling, he found a metaphor for getting unstuck, for leaning in, for using throttle to clear obstacles, and for loving the wild ride that a risk-embracing life can provide.
Bill has written for Fast Company, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, the Associated Press, USA Today, ESPN.com, Ski, Skiing, Powder, Snow Country, Bicycling, Mountain Bike, Mountain Bike Action, Snowboard Life, Velo News, Aspen Magazine, The Denver Post, and Vail Magazine. His books have been published by Random House, Times Mirror, and Stone Creek Press.
His films have been acquired by Apple TV, Netflix, Showtime, Sony Pictures Classics, and PBS. He’s produced for CBS News, 48 Hours, ESPN, ABC News, Fox Sports, The Weather Channel, Outside TV, Outdoor Life, and PBS. His experience also includes producing at two Winter Olympic Games and commentating on ESPN’s Winter X Games.
As founder/operator of multiple venture-backed and acquired companies in media, sports, and education technology, Bill is known for turning around underperforming organizations, building high-efficiency teams, and scaling products from concept to exit.
Today, he is working on his twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second endeavors (a tech company, a film, and a book) and has found a new passion for leading other entrepreneurs through their own I-wonder-if-I-can moments with his Traction Business Accelerator service.
Thousand Faces Media
In the late 1990s, Bill Kerig was whirling through simultaneous careers as a pro skier, journalist, photographer, screenwriter, television producer, and commentator. Thrilled with all the varied opportunities, he nonetheless felt like he was wearing a thousand hats to carve out a singular living. At the same time, he also became deeply influenced and inspired by the work of American writer, professor, and mythologist Joseph Campbell. Incorporating his own multi-faceted approach to career with a private homage to Campbell and his most well-known book, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Kerig named his production company Thousand Faces Media. For nearly three decades he has produced high-quality films, books, television shows, magazines, and commericials under the TFM banner.
At Traction Business Accelerator we meet you where you are and work together to get you where you’re going. If your business is in the ditch, we pull it out. If it’s rolling but needs acceleration, we pour fuel in your tank. Headed the wrong way? We’ll provide navigation. One thing we won’t do, is take your money, flash a PowerPoint, and say, See Ya! Specializing in sport, sport-tech, edu-tech, and documentary film, we’re open to any challenge.