Service
Executive Team Coaching
Most of what holds an owner-led company back lives between roles, not inside them.
Free call first, then the $1,500 Bottleneck Diagnostic
Key takeaways
- Two capable executives can each do their job well and still produce a decision that never gets made, because neither owns it and both think the other does.
- Owners call it a communication problem. Underneath it is usually a decision nobody owns, or a team that has learned to wait.
- Everyone is interviewed privately first. What comes back to the room has no names on it.
- Who decides what gets written down and signed, because a verbal agreement about authority lasts about ten days.
Most of what holds an owner-led company back lives between roles, not inside them. Two capable executives, each doing their job well, produce a decision that never gets made because neither of them owns it and both believe the other does. This work fixes that directly, in the room, with everyone present.
What this covers
- Your leadership team of 3 to 8 in one room, not a series of private conversations
- The disagreement nobody has said out loud gets named in session 1, because it is usually the real problem
- Decision rights rewritten and signed before anyone leaves the room
- Follow-up checkpoints at 30, 60 and 90 days so the alignment survives the quarter
- Run as facilitation: nobody in the room is the client, including you
- One confidential interview per team member first, reported back as themes with no names attached
- A written team operating agreement as the deliverable, signed by everyone present
Who this is for
Owners of companies between $500k and $50M with a leadership team of three to eight people. The symptom is usually described as a communication problem. It rarely is. Underneath it there is a decision nobody owns, a disagreement the group has been working around for months, or an owner who still decides everything and a team that has learned to wait.
How it works
- 01It starts with one private interview per team member. What comes back into the room is a set of themes with no names attached. That step matters, because the disagreement blocking the decision is almost always something several people have said privately and nobody has said together.
- 02The sessions are facilitated, not coached. Nobody in the room is the client, including you, and the group hears that at the start. We work through the live disagreement, then decision rights: who decides what, who gets consulted, who just gets told. That map is written during the session and everyone signs it. A verbal agreement about authority lasts about ten days.
- 03Checkpoints follow at 30, 60 and 90 days. Without them the group drifts back, and the session becomes an offsite people remember fondly and never act on.
What this is not
It is not therapy for the team, and it is not a workshop with sticky notes. Where the conflict is between co-owners with equity at stake, the right format is mediation, which has a different structure.
Alternatives
One-to-one executive coaching where the problem turns out to be one person. Organizational design consulting where the overlap is structural rather than personal. Mediation for business partners where the split runs along ownership lines.
| First step | A free 30-minute call |
|---|---|
| Then | The Bottleneck Diagnostic, $1,500, fixed |
| After that | Scoped and priced from what the diagnostic finds |
| Delivery | Virtual, or on site by arrangement |
| Built for | Owner-led companies, $500k–$50M revenue |
| If we are not the fix | We say so on the call |
Next step
How to start
Book a free call. We talk for about thirty minutes about your company and what is stuck. If it sounds like something we can help with, the next step is the Bottleneck Diagnostic, a fixed piece of work at $1,500 that tells you in writing what is actually holding the company back. Any work after that is scoped and priced from what the diagnostic finds. If it turns out we are not the right fit, we will tell you on the call.
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Start with a free call
Thirty minutes about your company and what is stuck. If we can help, the next step is the $1,500 Bottleneck Diagnostic. If we cannot, we will say so.