Fractional Leadership and Business Coaching for Startups and Small Businesses Seeking Breakout Growth
🫵🏼 Are you a founder CEO who knows you’ve reached the point where you need expert help to break through to the next level of growth? 🚀
🫵🏼 Are you ready to commit to doing things a different way that may be uncomfortable at times, but proven to work? 😅
☑️ If you answered “yes” to both questions, we may be a good mutual fit.
Read on to learn more…
Here are some of the ways I can help your business develop the collective agency it needs to fulfill its mission and purpose:
📌 Define or clarify and operationalize your core values, mission, vision, and purpose
📌 Design and implement an org structure with the business functions, roles, and metrics you need at every level to succeed
📌 Build and/or implement scalable systems, processes, and teams
📌 Research, develop, articulate, and execute viable growth strategies
📌 Ensure alignment, accountability, and effective collaboration across all business functions
📌 Lead your team to long term sustainable growth, profitability, and impact
Typically, I work with clients in one of the following ways:
1️⃣ Inside your business, working with your team as a Fractional COO or as an Integrator for companies running on EOS®
2️⃣ Coaching you and your leadership team on how to do the work yourselves – teaching, sharing new tools, and facilitating your ongoing progress 🚌💨
3️⃣ Coaching individual CEOs 1:1 or in group cohorts
I am a certified System & Soul (S2) coach. S2 is a next-generation business management framework with a powerful tool set for helping founder-led businesses break through💥 to the next level of growth.
As an overarching framework for running an entire business, System & Soul resonates with me most because:
1️⃣ It’s flexible, adaptable, and extensible. Much like open source software, you can customize it and plug in the best pieces 🧩 from other sources without “breaking” it. By comparison, other frameworks can be too rigid and static.
2️⃣ The S2 community is committed to the framework’s continuous evolution, innovation, and improvement, so it will grow with your business 🧬 and stay relevant over time.
3️⃣ Probably most important: it systematically addresses the complexities and nuances of culture-building in ways other popular management frameworks don’t.
If you’re exploring business management frameworks for the first time or looking to find a new one, I’d be happy to explain the S2 model to you and how it compares to other frameworks.
🔗 Click here to complete a five-minute diagnostic questionnaire that will tell you where your business is at now and what you need to work on that I could potentially help you with.
The results may be enlightening for you. I’ll follow up afterwards to see if you’d like to schedule a free consultation to review them and explore potential next steps.
To achieve breakthrough growth, business owners need two things:
1️⃣ An operational leader who understands how to align an entire organization around a strong vision and plan.
2️⃣ The right operational infrastructure and management practices to execute on strategy and hold people accountable for delivering results.
Fractional leadership offers exceptional value. As a Fractional COO or Integrator for companies running on the EOS®, I will accelerate your growth by bringing years of executive leadership experience, knowledge, and skills to your company at a fraction of the cost of a full-time exec. You get the horsepower you need to jumpstart your company’s next-level growth without having to pay for excess bandwidth.
As a Fractional COO, I can get you from organizational chaos to spinning flywheel by:
As a Fractional Integrator for companies running the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) management framework, I will help you gain traction by:
I work as a 1:1 coach with select Founder CEOs who mutually align on mission, purpose, and values. I will work across just about any industry. What matters most is that you’re “coachable” — i.e., growth mindset; honest with yourself and others; self-aware of your own strengths and weaknesses; humble enough; willing to risk being emotionally vulnerable; open and willing to listen, learn, and try new things; and motivated to change. As long as that’s the case, we’ll be able to accomplish a lot together and have fun doing it!
1:1 coaching operates on a rolling quarterly calendar and is customized to meet you where you’re at, address your specific needs, and provide as much accountability and structure as is necessary to deliver results.
Whether it’s leadership development and mentoring, business development and growth strategy, presentations and crucial conversations, long-term vision casting and planning, I can help.
The easiest way to find out if I can help you is to set up a free exploratory call. Let’s get acquainted with each other, talk about your current state, and see if it makes sense to take next steps.
I’m a full-stack operations exec with 15+ years’ leadership experience in ecommerce, software product management, digital marketing, sales, creative direction, HR, customer support and CX.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
For over 10 years, I had the privilege of leading ops for a pure play online retailer in the musical instrument and equipment space.🎶 With the help of a gifted leadership team✨ and every employee in the company, we developed and executed an innovative growth strategy, scaled operations, and aligned teams to deliver over $100 million in organic sales growth in 9 years, while >3x’ing profitability.💸💸💸
On the human side, we:
🎯 Built a data-driven culture aligned with the business’s core values and unique expertise
🎯 Hired, coached and mentored the right leadership team to take us to the next level
🎯 Fostered ownership, initiative, accountability, and healthy collaboration
🎯 Drove relentless customer focus, talking to customers regularly to identify improvement opportunities, consistently receiving the highest customer satisfaction ratings in our industry
🎯 Transformed a low morale, high-turnover culture into a place where the best employees stayed long term, recruited their friends, grew professionally, and became family 🫶
👉 To discuss your particular business needs with me, schedule a free consultation.
🖊 “Rising through Resilience: Why You Should Listen to Your Team and Get to Know Them Personally and Professionally” | Medium.
NOTE: I first published this article in January, 2022, on LinkedIn. If you’re a small to medium-sized business (SMB) owner struggling to find and keep even just adequate talent, I don’t need to tell you how the pandemic continues to disrupt the workplace status quo. As a fractional COO specializing in SMB growth, I’ve talked…
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