We are not consultants, outsourced development, or franchise brokers.
CGI Franchise is a community of franchise development professionals based in Temple, TX. Our franchise community and Brand Partners are global.
The CGI Franchise team coaches and trains your brand’s development team to help them understand and apply our system based on real-time, hands-on franchise development experience. The team will coach you through the ROS® process and train you to accurately record data based on your brand’s numbers. The Recruitment Operating System®’s success is the result of our team’s cumulative recruitment history. It is constantly being evaluated against industry standards, trends, and changes and still proves to be one of the most successful processes’ throughout the industry.
Our commitment to each Brand Partner is to help them restore confidence in their brand and their team and teach them how to get the quality candidates they deserve.
Art Coley, Jr • CFE
CEO
Art Coley has been passionate about small business ownership since he was 15 when he opened a hamburger stand in Temple, TX, and eventually started franchising. Art’s various career endeavors have been centered around making small business ownership accessible for entrepreneurs worldwide.
In 2015, Art noticed a gap in the franchising industry. A franchise might have a good business model and initial success in unit growth, but without a focused system for franchise development, the franchise stalled out. Using decades of experience driving system-wide revenues for Top 200 brands, he formed CGI Franchise. Art and CGI Franchise have addressed the gap in systems and processes for a thriving franchise development team. The system is called the Recruitment Operating System®. Over the years, Art has been influenced by several key figures, including a 1994 encounter with Bud Hadfield, founder of the International Center for Entrepreneurial Development (ICED). Bud inspired Art to deepen his understanding of the franchise industry and the correlation it had on small business owners. The rest is history.
Art’s passion for working with franchise brands in development, recruiting, and onboarding has made him one of the top franchise development professionals in franchising.
He resides in Temple, Texas with his wife, Jean. They have three sons, one granddaughter, and one dog.
Call or Text 281-658-9409
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Jenny Langfeld • CFE
Executive Vice President of Operations
Jenny Langfeld has over 15 years of franchising experience and has been a Certified Franchise Executive with the International Franchise Association for ten years. Her vast knowledge and experience in franchising bring credibility, strong industry knowledge, and hands-on experience to her role as COO.
She has worked with the Top 200 franchise brands across the country. Jenny’s main focus is the implementation of ROS®, required Franchise Development, Onboarding, Systems, and Processes to support Training and Financial Management to deliver the board’s and investors’ required results.
Jenny and her family live in Temple, TX, with their two dogs.
Call or Text 832-257-1561
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Nicole Yates
ROS® Performance Coach
Nicole Yates has an extensive career in the franchising world. She has worked with brands within the US and Internationally in Poland, the Caribbean, and Central America. Working with a few large brands nationwide and internationally, such as RE/MAX, Keller Williams, and SpeedPro.
Nicole has learned and gained experience from the franchisor and franchisee sides. Her roles include development, franchise sales, brand management, reporting, events, marketing, and lead generation.
Nicole’s experience working with various franchise roles (national & international) and with franchise brokers and clients has enhanced her ability to nurture and build client relationships. As a franchise owner herself, she understands the variety of needs on both sides of franchising.
Nicole lives in Colorado with her husband and two children.
Kelsey Greco
Business Development Manager
Kelsey has the privilege of discovering new brand partners who need help achieving their goals for franchise growth.
Kelsey’s career began in the nonprofit world, where she fell in love with matching people with organizations that align with the impact they want to make. She migrated to franchise sales with a boutique fitness company, barre3, where she grew the brand over four years and throughout the pandemic.
While recruiting for barre3, Kelsey felt the need for an expert and began looking for training. That’s when she met the ROS® team and knew she had found something special. When the chance to do business development for ROS® was presented, she took on the role of Business Development.
Kelsey and her husband live in Portland, OR with their two dogs, Whiskey and Obi (yes, they have their own social media account). Together they own a whiskey-themed recording studio in Portland called the Rye Room.
Bill Brakemeier
Senior Facilitator, Trainer, and Recruitment Coach
On a weekly basis, Bill engages with our Brand Partner leaders, managers, and recruiters to teach different skill sets and behaviors.
ROS® focuses on improving daily habits and competencies at all levels within your development team, so Bill coaches on content, metrics, and training tools that will elevate each recruiter’s game, key activities, and results.
Bill has spent 30+ years helping entrepreneurs and leaders achieve their dreams and manifest their professional goals. As a Fortune 100 Sales trainer and Franchise Coaching specialist, he has worked with 100 plus different industries in over 160 metro cities. Bill’s work with dozens of Franchise brands since 2005 has been reinforced with over 10,000 hours of individual coaching sessions and thousands of group webinars and workshops since 1991.
Bill is a serious book collector and enjoys anything related to psychology, theology, and neuroscience. He lives in Littleton, Colorado, with his family.
Miles Bently
Advisory Board
Miles primarily works with our Brand Partners brands at an executive level, advising on specific situations that prevent recruitment.
Miles has had a career focused on sales, including a season with the Xerox Corporation in several roles. For the past fifteen years, Miles has advised small business owners on how to grow sales.
Miles loves the outdoors – mountain biking, paddle boarding, and walking with my wife and two dogs. He has two daughters and three grandchildren.
Brenda Coley
Office Coordinator
Brenda is originally from Dallas and graduated from H. Grady Spruce in Dallas, Texas. She attended college at Central Texas College in Killeen, TX.
Brenda has known Art since day one since she is his mother, giving her a very small edge. She ensures that whenever a group comes in for training, they are well taken care of and feel a part of the CGI family. She also ensures that anything and everything office is in tip-top shape every day.
Brenda has been married to her husband Art Coley, Sr for over 50 years, and has three grown children and seven beautiful grandchildren.
We Get Franchise Recruitment.