In 1996, Kevin Small was recruited by the leadership development author John C. Maxwell.  Kevin was tasked with the creation of a platform that would be used to bring Maxwell's leadership books to market.  As the President of Maxwell's company, Kevin launched a satellite event training series that would enroll over 1 million students while rolling out an integrated publishing platform that launched four New York Times bestselling leadership titles.  Maxwell's annual book sales grew to over 1.2 million books.   Under his leadership, the company grew dramatically over the next four years – from 10 to 125 people, and from $2 million to $25 million in revenue.  Kevin managed the company’s sale in November 2004. 

In March of 2005 Kevin founded The Marcus Buckingham Company around bestselling author and Gallup Researcher, Marcus Buckingham.  For the next three years Kevin built a research and training company around Buckingham's body of work developed after Buckingham left The Gallup Organization.  Kevin served as the Executive Producer for Buckingham's award winning film, Trombone Player Wanted, and launched the book, Go Put Your Strengths To Work, which was debuted with a dedicated Oprah show and a national book tour.

Meanwhile, the book business was changing quickly.  Publishers were less and less able to commit the usual level of resources to authors’ launches.  Kevin recognized that market conditions would soon require that authors have their own marketing representation in order to have impact -- despite the strength of their ideas, or their platform.  Kevin’s response was to form ResultSource, a boutique marketing firm that works with today’s thought leaders to build bestsellers. 

Today Kevin Small serves as the Managing Partner to ResultSource as well as SmallBooks.com where he agents business, self help and Christian Living books.

Kevin and his wife of 15 years, Robin, have four children and reside in Carlsbad, CA.