Strategic Advising and Coaching for Experienced Business Owners

You started your business, worked hard, and built something real. You’ve worked through countless difficult situations, made big decisions, and navigated complicated changes. You’re smart, resourceful, and capable of figuring things out.

But now you’re facing a problem, decision, or change that isn’t so straightforward. You might be confused or stuck, or you might want another perspective as you think it through the situation.

Maybe you want to stop offering a service, but it accounts for a significant portion of your revenue, and you can’t see how to make the change without putting your stability at risk.

Maybe you’ve built a team that allows your business to do more, but managing the team has become a bigger responsibility than you want to shoulder. You’d like things to be simpler, but you feel responsible for everyone you hired.

Maybe you’re trying to make an important decision about the direction of your business, but every option has drawbacks, and you can’t figure out what makes the most sense.

Or maybe you’ve tried several ways to solve a particular problem, but nothing’s worked. You’re wondering whether you’ve been going about it all wrong.

Part of what makes this so difficult is that there are a lot of factors at play. Your income, your clients, your team, and what you want for yourself—they all all matter. And a decision that solves one issue seems to create another.

You’re way past generic formulas or business blueprints, and you’re not looking for someone to tell you how to run your business. (Okay, some days you are.)

What you want is a second brain to work through the problem with you. Someone who can understand the complexity of your situation, ask intelligent questions, challenge your assumptions, contribute ideas, and help you think through the options and tradeoffs to figure out what might actually work.

You’re not looking for someone to come in and take over the problem. You want someone to work with you and help you solve it.

What I Offer

I’m a seasoned business owner and strategic problem-solver. I offer strategic advising and coaching for experienced business owners who want help working through a complicated problem, decision, or change.

You bring your knowledge of your business, your situation, and what matters to you. I bring my experience, ideas, observations, and analytical thinking. I don’t come in with a predetermined solution or simply hold space while you figure it out yourself. We work on the problem together, sorting through the complexity without losing sight of the bigger picture or rushing toward a particular solution.

Maybe you know exactly what the problem is but can’t figure out how to solve it, or maybe you’re dealing with a huge, complicated mess that you haven’t been able to sort out. You don’t need to organize your thoughts or come prepared with possible solutions.

I ask questions, notice patterns, question assumptions, and help you examine things from different angles. We consider the whole situation, including the practical realities and limitations you’re dealing with. We want to understand what’s really going on, what makes the situation complicated, and how the different parts affect each other.

Then we work through possible solutions in detail. We look at what each would involve, how it might affect other parts of your business, and what tradeoffs you are and aren’t willing to make. We also consider alternate approaches, ways to combine ideas, and different adjustments that could make an option workable.

The goal is to find a workable way forward given the circumstances and the very practical realities you’re dealing with.

How We Work Together

We begin with a 90-minute session.

Often, one conversation is enough to make a significant difference.

For example, one seasoned business owner I worked with was contemplating closing her business and doing something completely different. After our conversation, she realized she loved the work she offers but needed to change two things: her relationship to uncertainty and her marketing plan. This changed what she was focusing on in her business and pointed to her next personal growth edge.

Another consulting team was convinced they had a sticky marketing problem. After our conversation, they realized they were selling an offer they didn’t want to sell anymore. They pivoted the whole business to a suite of offers that has both them and their clients excited. From there, they reworked their entire business strategy.

There’s no expectation about how many sessions you have. Some clients get what they need from one conversation and move forward on their own. Others prefer to have regularly scheduled sessions to support them as they work through complicated decisions and changes. Others come as they need support.

How we work together after the first session is up to you.

Investment

90-minute sessions are $500.

Long-term engagements are available by request and customized to the client.

Get Started

Think we might be a good fit?

Email me and tell me what’s going on and what you hope to get out of working together. I’ll personally respond within 2-3 business days with any questions I have for you and information about next steps.

Have other questions? Contact me here.