BizCoach Pro is a ten-week virtual program for owners and CEOs of businesses doing $2M to $50M in revenue. You get one-on-one time with a coach who has run companies and sat in the owner’s chair, plus small group learning sessions with other peers, to help you reach your next stage.
Your coach has made the calls you’re making
Two or three areas, chosen by you
No annual membership or retainer
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
When owners tell us their biggest struggles, three things come up again and again.
“I am tired of the business being so dependent on me. If I am not here, everything falls apart.”
“I am working so hard, and it never feels like we are making the progress we are capable of and achieving our full potential.”
“We have enormous talent and years of experience on our team. Yet, I know we can double the business if we get a little assistance and stay focused.”
Does any of this sound familiar?
These challenges tend to intensify with growth rather than resolve. Just when one challenge is solved, the next thing appears. Often, the key to leading your business to the next level resides in strengthening process and leadership techniques along with prioritization and focus.
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
In a business this size, the next senior role usually exists as a need before it becomes a formal job opening. The work is getting done by someone, informally, even while owners likely know one or two internal people who might grow into it.
Elevating these emerging leaders is the tricky part. High-potential managers usually know the business and the people cold. What they need is some “rounding” to step into a larger role: enough command of the areas outside their own to see how the whole business connects.
Left alone, this usually costs you one of two ways:
Hiring from outside
A search firm typically charges a quarter to a third of the role’s first-year compensation.
Losing the person you’d have promoted
A high-potential employee who doesn’t see a path forward may not stay to find one. Gallup puts the cost of replacing an employee at one-half to two times their annual salary.
BizCoach Pro works for that person too. The same ten weeks, the same five areas, in a cohort of their own. About two hours a week, so it develops them without pulling them off the work you need them doing.
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
Most owners carry on the way they always have until something forces the issue. They often end up making a big decision under pressure when there’s less time and fewer options.
It’s understandable why this happens. Admitting you need help, making time for it, and knowing whom to trust are genuine hurdles.
The good news? You don’t need to be an expert in everything to get past this point. After a short assessment period, we dig in together to learn what areas to prioritize. Our model to help is built on: guaranteed ROI, prioritized efforts, and casting aside internal roadblocks.
No one knows your business better than you. And yet, one of the most common struggles small business owners face as they grow is not being sure of the best path forward in a few lingering business challenges.
With BizCoach Pro, you’ll work closely with a cohort of seasoned operators and peers.
Gain An Advisor
Work through the decisions keeping you up at night with experienced business owners who serve as your advisors outside your business, whom you can trust.
Work With Seasoned Operators
Our coaches are not just theorists; they have actually run businesses similar in structure to yours. We’ve been in your shoes, and we can show you what’s possible.
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
You won’t find the answers to your unique situation in a book or online. Real solutions require collaboration with real business owners who have walked in your shoes. We provide support and expertise in 5 areas, prioritizing those most important to you.
Strategy — Are we organized enough? Am I overmanaging or undermanaging? Are we seizing the right opportunities, or just the ones everyone sees as obvious?
Financials and Metrics — I meet with my bookkeeper and feel we’re sound, but I don’t really use my financial results for decision making, projections, and initiative selections like I should.
Sales and Marketing — Do I have the right sales manager? Why do we turn over a third of the sales force every two years?
Operations — We make incremental gains every year but never a breakthrough. Do I have sufficient bench strength?
Leadership — Do I communicate enough, or do I confuse things? I haven’t used outside advisory or education as a tool for success.
15 hours of coaching, tailored to you and your business
Five group sessions with your cohort
Peer group forum access throughout the program
How the coaching hours get used is scoped with your coach.
Some owners spread them across regular one-on-ones. Others reserve a block of hours to work in-depth on something bigger, like a strategic plan.
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
Over 20 hours spread across 10 weeks, we’ll partner to identify, brainstorm, and usually solve 3-5 challenges or hidden opportunities. You’ll also walk away with a roadmap you keep, so the work continues after the program ends.
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What does your company need to accelerate success?
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Out of the 5 categories above, where can we make the biggest impact?
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Fifteen hours of coaching on the problems you named, plus five group sessions with your cohort.
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
The thing owners most often say they want is guidance from someone who has been in their chair. Here’s who’s in the room.
Strategy, operations, metrics
Thirteen years as President and CEO of Spectra Consulting Partners, working with mid-market owners on exactly this kind of growth, with client results including enterprise value up 3.5X in three years. Before Spectra, he served as President and COO at Convergys, where he and his Team grew the business over 400% to over $1 billion in revenues. He also was a Senior Consultant at Accenture and was President of a $250 million division of Inacom. MBA, University of Michigan.
Financials, processes, leadership
Founded BizCoach in 2016 and is the credentialed coach on the bench, an ICF Associate Certified Coach with more than 25 years in the field. Before founding the practice, she spent eighteen years at the Michigan SBDC working with growing companies. With an undergraduate degree in marketing and an MBA in finance, Melissa’s well-rounded background helps her understand your business and get to the root of issues.
Your company is unique, and your challenges call for customized, targeted help rather than a template. You name the areas you want to get stronger in, and the program is built around those.
We listen hard and leverage the good work you’ve already done, rather than arriving with a system you have to adopt.
Commercial systems like EOS provide a framework but don’t put an experienced advisor in the room. You’re still lonely at the top.
Forums like Vistage or YPO give you peers who understand the seat you’re in, but they’re an annual membership with a heavy ongoing time commitment.
Doing your own research through AI and search is time-consuming, and it will never provide a clear answer to your unique challenges.
We built BizCoach Pro for the gap in that list: practical structure, a real coach, and a room of peers, in a format short enough with minimal commitment.
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
Business Services, Benefits Administration, Owners
The business owner sought to grow revenue from $12 million to $20 million. We started with our Sales and Marketing module, but our support eventually extended to the entire growth plan and management team, from sales to marketing to service delivery to operations. Through our coaching and ongoing involvement, the business succeeded in:
Revenue grew to $30 million, 50% over target.
10-week leadership coaching program
One flat fee per participant, the same for everyone, with nothing scoped or billed separately. We’ll provide a transparent number on the call. Signing up doesn’t commit you to payment. We’ll follow up personally to confirm your spot.
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
BizCoach Pro is designed for the owner, founder, or CEO of a small business with revenue in the $2M to $50M range. It fits best in the $5M to $20M range, where there’s a small management team but the owner is still running much of it personally.
BizCoach Pro takes the 1:1 coaching model of traditional consulting, combines it with the framework of a commercial system, and accelerates the program to see success sooner. We’re able to do this by tailoring each session to your unique business challenges. And the coaching comes from people who have run companies, not from career consultants.
Virtually, and scheduled around your calendar, so there’s no standing travel commitment. If a working session is better done in person, we’ll talk about it.
Each week is either a group session with your cohort or a coaching session targeting your unique situation. How the coaching time is used is up to you and your coach: regular one-on-ones for some owners, a longer block for a deeper working session for others.
A small group of owners from non-competing businesses. What’s discussed in the cohort is held in confidence. This is a condition of participation, not just a courtesy.
We understand things can come up that pull you away. That’s why we provide the materials and tools for any missed sessions. Due to confidentiality, we do not record sessions.
We know our program will work for you. If you don’t see a 300% return after 20 hours, we’ll give you your money back.
Our coaches have run operations in businesses that have made the same climb as yours, along with senior roles at large companies and, in Melissa’s case, ICF coaching certification.
The 10 weeks of training will end, but you keep the tools to carry the work forward. During the program, we help you develop a roadmap that identifies 2-4 longer-term goals and the specific steps you will take to hit them.
Flat fee. Only 2 hours per week. Guaranteed ROI. Learn more and get to know us before you commit. No risk consult to see if it fits for you.
No pitch and no obligation. We’ll ask what you’re working on, tell you honestly whether BizCoach Pro is a fit, and if it isn’t, point you somewhere better.
Free – No commitment – We’ll follow up within one business day
Not Ready to Talk?
The Confidence Check is a short self-assessment across finance, sales, operations and people. About five minutes, and it’s yours whether or not we ever speak.
