BUILT TO RUN : ONE-DAY FOCUS WORKSHOPS

Your team is working hard. Are they rowing the same direction?

Most leadership teams agree in the room and drift apart in execution … not from lack of effort, but from a missing filter. This is one day, spent installing the direction your team can actually run on.

Quote by David Allen: "You can do anything but you can't do everything."

Why your lack of focus is hurting your business.

Everyone's busy.

Nobody's idle.

And somehow the business still isn't moving.

That's usually not an effort problem… it's a filter problem.

Good ideas keep pulling your team in five directions instead of one.

Without a clear answer to what matters most, teams end up in silos, each one heads-down and working hard, sometimes even competing with each other instead of rowing together. Busy isn't the same as productive.

Jim Collins put it plainly: too many good ideas is what keeps a business from becoming great. Focus isn't just choosing what to do …it's just as much about naming what your team stops doing, so the effort that's already there finally goes somewhere.

Who This Is For

We believe in complete alignment before any commitment. Review the criteria below to ensure our workshop formats match your team's stage and momentum.

A good fit if:

  • Your company is doing $1M+ in revenue

  • You have a leadership team of 5–10 people

  • The people attending lead others and are eager to drive change

  • You (the owner) and your principal leaders are in the room

  • First workshop? Start with Vision & Direction Day — it's the foundation the other two build on

Not the right fit if:

  • Someone on the team doesn't want to be there (reluctant participants work against the outcome, so we don't force it)

  • Your leadership team is larger than 10 people (we'll talk about a different format)

  • You're not willing to try new things or make real changes

  • You're not ready to make hard decisions — including cutting things you're already doing

  • You're not willing to put the clarity into action once the day is over

Startup Note: Early-stage startups are welcome too: the clarity matters just as much before you scale as after.

Implementation Note: Want hands-on help actually putting the clarity into place afterward, not just the day itself? That's what Fractional COO is for.

FOCUS

One day. One piece of direction,
installed for good.

Where your leadership team stops pulling in different directions and starts rowing in the same one.

Vision & Direction Day

Leave with a clear, usable mission and vision your whole leadership team can recite and use to make decisions without you in the room.

OutcomeYou leave with: a Guiding Principles document

Quarterly Execution Day

Set your quarterly priorities, assign real ownership, and stand up the simple scoreboard and weekly cadence that gets them actually done.

OutcomeYou leave with: a quarterly goal tracker

Process Clarity Day

Get clear, at the leadership level, on what needs to be done and what doesn't - where the team should spend its effort, and which processes need to go.

OutcomeYou leave with: a value stream map

Each day runs about 6 hours, in person, with pre-work sent ahead so your team arrives ready to think, not cold. I facilitate, asking the questions and guiding the process, but the clarity is built by your team, not handed to them.

Why this matters

Alignment isn't a soft skill. It's a growth lever.

Measurable operational freedom across diverse industries and business models.

60% of employees say they don't know their company's goals, strategies, or tactics.
86% of employees don't clearly understand their company strategy.
Only one in ten strategies are ever successfully executed.
The perception gap: 27% of leaders believe their team is aligned. 9% of employees agree.

I've spent over 10 years teaching people how to set real goals and build the systems to actually reach them. Built to Run isn't theory I'm testing on your team — it's the same method, compressed into one focused day.

TRANSPARENT PRICING

Your Investment

Direct, one-on-one intensive facilitation designed to unlock permanent operational freedom.

FULL-DAY WORKSHOP RATE

$2,997

per day - 2026 rate, available through December 31. Moves to $4,997 on January 1.

What is included in your engagement:

  • Comprehensive diagnostic pre-work and executive discovery
  • Full-day intensive in-person facilitation and roadmap build
  • Executive-ready operational deliverables and process documentation
  • One dedicated follow-up leadership execution session

2026 rate of $2,997/day holds through December 31 - after that, it's $4,997.

The 30-Day Clarity Guarantee

I can't guarantee what your team does with the clarity after the day - that part is on you. What I can guarantee is the clarity itself. Attend the full day, and if you don't walk away with a document your leadership team can actually use, tell me within 30 days and I'll refund the workshop fee. (Travel and location costs aren't included in the refund.)

Travel & Location Logistics

  • Hosting in beautiful Ponte Vedra is possible with a room surcharge (depends on the space needed)

  • + $500 if you're more than 100 miles from Ponte Vedra, FL (covers my transportation)

  • + $500/night I need to travel to you (covers my food and lodging).

details on your audit call

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Questions Owners Ask

What if my team pushes back on the process?

It happens less than you'd think when the right people are in the room. That's why I ask that attendees be champions who lead others and want to be there - reluctant participants are the one thing that actually undermines the outcome, so we screen for that before the day, not during it.

What happens after the workshop?

You leave with a physical document for that day (guiding principles, goal tracker, or value stream map), plus one follow-up leadership meeting included to check that it's being used, not shelved.

What if it doesn't work for us?

See the 30-Day Clarity Guarantee above - if you attend the full day and the deliverable isn't something your team can genuinely use, I'll refund the workshop fee.

Which day should we start with?

If this is your first workshop, start with Vision & Direction Day. It's the foundation the other two build on.

Built to Run is one piece of a larger system - Focus gives your business direction, Flow builds what runs it, Flourish is what follows. Explore the full path →

FINAL STEP

Ready to install direction
in one day?

Book your free Business Flow Audit and we’ll decide together which workshop day fits best.

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