Your business still depends on you.
More than it should.
More than you want it to.
We help owner-operators and leadership teams transfer real ownership and decision authority, so the business can move forward.
Without everything running through you.
When the business still depends on you, the cost shows up everywhere.
At a certain stage, the problem isn’t effort or capability.
You have good people.
The business is successful.
On paper, things look fine.
And yet…
Too many decisions come back to you
Too many actions still require your involvement
Leaders hesitate, escalate, or delay
You’re pulled into issues that shouldn’t need you
Not because your team is weak.
But because ownership and decision authority never fully transferred as the business grew.
So the system defaults to you.
That’s when growth starts to feel like a burden instead of an achievement.
This is what is actually happening.
Too much still runs through you
Decisions, approvals, exceptions, and judgment calls continue to route back to ownership.
Even with capable leaders in place.
Leaders hesitate instead of owning outcomes
Not because they lack skill or motivation, but because authority is unclear and ownership hasn’t fully transferred.
The system defaults upward
As the business grew, roles changed, but the operating assumptions didn’t.
Responsibility expanded without authority moving with it.
None of this is intentional. It’s structural.
This is the work.
This work isn’t about adding more structure or pushing harder.
It’s about identifying where ownership and authority never fully transferred as the business grew, and correcting that intentionally.
I work with owners and leadership teams to make authority explicit instead of assumed, align responsibility with real decision rights, and create conditions where leaders own outcomes without constant escalation.
The goal isn’t disengagement.
It’s clarity.
When authority is clear and ownership is real, decisions move, leaders act, and the business stops defaulting upward.
What changes when this works.
When ownership and authority are clear, the business starts to behave differently.
Not overnight.
Not perfectly.
But consistently.
Here’s what owners notice first:
Fewer decisions escalate unnecessarily
Leaders take ownership without waiting for confirmation
Actions move without constant check-ins
Accountability is clearer and easier to hold
The owner is no longer the default for everything
The business becomes more resilient.
Leadership carries more weight.
And growth starts to feel like progress again. Not a burden.
Owners don’t disappear from the business.
Their role shifts from backstop to steward. Without losing visibility or control.
Who this work is for
This work is for owners and ownership teams who have built real businesses. And are feeling the limits of still being the point of dependency.
Typically, that looks like:
Businesses in the $5M–$30M revenue range
One or more owners still deeply involved in decisions and exceptions
A leadership team in place, but not fully owning outcomes
Growth that has outpaced the original operating model
Owners who want the business to work through leaders, not around them
These owners aren’t looking for motivation or more activity.
They’re looking for clarity, authority, and a business that no longer defaults back to them.
Who this work is not for
This work is not a fit for:
Early-stage businesses still finding product-market fit
Owners who want to stay central to every decision
Teams without trusted leaders in place
Tactical consulting or quick operational fixes
Anyone looking for a framework to install and move on
This work requires real engagement, shared ownership, and a willingness to change how authority actually operates.
What an engagement looks like
This work is not open-ended consulting or ongoing advisory.
Engagements are designed to be deliberate, focused, and complete.
Typically, the work includes:
The owner or ownership team
2–4 key leaders
A defined scope tied to authority, ownership, and decision flow
Direct work with both ownership and leadership together
A clear end state the business can sustain without me
Most engagements run 6–9 months, depending on the complexity of the business and the depth of dependency being addressed.
The work is intensive by design. Not because it’s heavy, but because clarity requires attention.
The goal is not to create reliance on me.
It’s to remove reliance on you.
Start with a conversation
If this resonates, the next step is a conversation.
Not a sales call.
Not a pitch.
A chance to talk through:
Where the business still depends on you
What you want to change
Whether this work is the right fit
If it’s not, I’ll tell you.