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THE PROBLEM
You're working 60+ hour weeks and revenue has flattened.
When the Founder is the Ceiling
What you have isn't a leadership team, it's a reporting team. And growth is capped at the limit of your personal bandwidth.
Every important decision still routes through you.
Your leadership team waits for direction instead of setting it.
You can't take a full week off without the business stalling, and the strategic work you should be doing keeps getting crowded out by operational firefighting.
OUR APPROACH
Four Working Parts
We install a leadership operating system built around four moving parts that work together, not a one-off workshop or a coaching engagement that fades after six weeks.
Leadership Team Build
Move from a founder-and-reports structure to a real leadership team with shared ownership of company outcomes, not just their function.
Planning Cadence
Install quarterly and annual rhythms that drive execution discipline. Strategic priorities get set, tracked, and finished — not restarted.
Decision Architecture
Map which decisions belong to the founder, the leadership team, individual functions, or front-line staff. Push decisions to the right level. Free the founder for the work only the founder can do.
Accountability Structure
Clear priorities, shared metrics, and follow-through that doesn't depend on the founder chasing people down.
Built on the Scaling Up methodology, refined for professional services firms.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
A 12-month engagement combining facilitated sessions, ongoing coaching, and the working tools your team uses every week.
Leadership and operating-system diagnostic
Monthly leadership team coaching
Quarterly planning sessions (4 per year)
Monthly founder one-on-one coaching
Annual strategic planning session
Participant workbooks and frameworks at every session
Decision rights map for your business
12-month roadmap with quarterly milestones
KPI and accountability framework
PROOF
2×
Revenue Growth → Successful Exit
THE SITUATION
Stratus 360, a professional services firm and Salesforce partner, came to us with strong technical capability but a generic offer portfolio and a leadership team that wasn't yet running the business.
WHAT WE DID
We installed the operating system, aligned the leadership team behind shared priorities, and refocused the company from a broad Salesforce offering portfolio to a defined niche.
RESULT
Stratus 360 doubled in size and proceeded to a successful exit.
WHO THIS PILLAR IS FOR
Is this your situation?
The founder is in every important meeting
Revenue has flattened at the limit of the founder's bandwidth
The leadership team exists on the org chart but doesn't run the business
This pillar is built for founder-led professional services firms in the $2M–$50M range where one or more of these is true:
The founder wants to step back from day-to-day operations
An exit, succession, or partner transition is on the
horizon
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