That's Founder Gravity. I help founders of $5M–$20M service and operational businesses move decisions into the team and keep control of the business.
ICF Executive & Team Coach, Certified Chair.
You handed over the tasks. The decision rights stayed with you.
Quotes still need your approval. Delivery issues still land on your desk. Leaders still bring you decisions instead of making them.
You step in because it's faster, and because you notice things nobody else does.
That's Founder Gravity in practice. We clarify who owns which decisions, give leaders the authority to do their jobs, reset accountability, and put governance around the changes so they stick, not advice, not motivation. Structure that survives past the conversation, so decisions stop escalating back to you once the engagement ends.
Most founders end up hiring three different people for this: an advisor, a coach, a chair. Each sees one piece. Advice conflicts. Progress slows. You end up joining the dots yourself.
I don't split it. One relationship: structure, leadership, governance, all from the same seat.
Concrete manufacturing. IT and managed services. Hospitality. Chemical distribution. Cleaning franchises. Equipment finance. Renovation retail.
The specifics are never the same. The constraint almost always is. Different industries, different balance sheets, same pull back to the founder as the business grows.
Fortnightly sessions over six months, working directly with you and the leaders now holding the decisions, with support between sessions on whatever's live that week.
I also speak at keynotes, panels, and podcasts, but the core of what I do is the advisory relationship above.
That's the audience, plainly: $5M–$20M, already performing, already has a team in place. Here's how to tell if it's actually you.
I also work with the leadership teams and next-gen leaders inside these businesses, developing the people who now hold the authority that used to sit with the founder.
What changes once Founder Gravity stops quietly running the business.
A year in: revenue up from $1.6M to $4.5M. Net profit at 49%, nine points above his own target.
Growth wasn't the hard part. Still deciding everything himself was.
So before his next holiday, we handed off the deciding: real authority, clear rules for what actually needed him. He went fully offline. The business kept moving without him.
Read the full storyOne question, every time: if you vanished for a week, what would still land on your desk?
Take a full week off. Phone off. No approvals, no check-ins, no rescuing.
Whatever breaks was never actually delegated. Whatever doesn't, didn't need you at all.
That's not a vacation. That's the test.
Six questions. Two minutes. See which part of the business is actually pulling authority back to you.
In 30 minutes we find where authority is breaking down and why decisions keep escalating. You leave with one clear priority that takes pressure off you and gets decisions moving again.