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Leadership Development Consulting
A leadership development consultant builds the bench an owner-led company needs to grow past its founder.
Free call first, then the $1,500 Bottleneck Diagnostic
Key takeaways
- A company at five million has one person who can run anything. A company at twenty million cannot. Building the three or four who can takes six to twelve months.
- Group sessions carry the shared material. Individual coaching is added only where one person needs it.
- The bench is assessed first, because developing everyone at once is the default instinct and it spreads the spend to nothing.
- Material is built from decisions your company faces this year. Development stalls when the case study is about an airline.
A leadership development consultant builds the bench an owner-led company needs to grow past its founder. It starts from your actual team and its actual gaps, not from an off-the-shelf curriculum. That matters because the model behind most catalogue programs was built for companies with ten thousand employees and an HR department.
What this covers
- Built from an assessment of your current bench, not picked from a program catalogue
- Targets the one layer that cannot yet run unsupervised, identified before design begins
- Group sessions, with individual coaching added only where one person's case needs it
- You participate in every cohort, because a bench only grows if the owner stops deciding
- Runs 6 to 12 months, because bench capability does not change in one quarter
- Real company decisions from this year used as the working material, not case studies
- A written internal standard, so the next promoted cohort inherits a defined path
The problem
A company at five million has one person who can run anything: you. A company at twenty million cannot. Somewhere between those two numbers the company needs three or four people who can each carry a function through a bad quarter without you stepping in. Building those people takes longer than anything else on this site. Six to twelve months, typically, which is why this is a program, not a course.
How it is designed
- 01The current bench is assessed first: who is already running unsupervised, who could with support, and who is in the wrong seat. That names the layer to work on. Developing everyone at once is the default instinct and it spreads the spend to nothing.
- 02Content is then built from real decisions your company is facing this year. It works when the material is live and stalls when it is a case study about an airline. Group sessions carry the shared material. Individual coaching is added only where one person's case needs it.
- 03You participate. This is not optional, and it is the most common reason these programs fail elsewhere: the bench is trained to decide and then the owner keeps deciding, and within two quarters everyone is back to asking.
What stays afterwards
A written internal standard: what a manager at this company is expected to own, what they escalate, and what a promotion into the layer requires. That document is why the next cohort is easier than this one.
Alternatives
Management coaching for one newly promoted manager. Executive assessment when the question is who to develop rather than how. Organizational design consulting when the bench is capable and the structure gives them nothing to own.
| 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.