Get your team on the same page.

Strategy Sessions and Growth Advising for small teams who want clear direction for their business and the accountability to make steady progress towards it.

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Part facilitation, part consulting, part coaching—I lead strategic conversations between you and your co-founders so that you get on the same page and leave with clear next steps.

Let someone else lead the meeting for a change.

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WHAT MY CLIENTS ARE SAYING

“Kate has been instrumental in helping us lay better foundations for our sales, marketing, and business design.

Kate has this uncanny ability to take in a lot of information (both said and unsaid) and distill it into clear and digestible next steps. It's hard to imagine how we would have sifted through the many-layered mess we were in last year without Kate's keen eye and thoughtful support. It is no wonder some of her clients see her as their business therapist."

— Nathan Clarke, Director of Craft & Production Coolican & Company + Co-Founder Toronto Woodturning

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“The primary task of being a leader is to make sure that the organization knows itself.”

— Margaget J Wheatley 

When you’ve been in something for a while—understandably caught up in keeping the day-to-day moving—it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture.

Maybe you feel disconnected from why you started the business in the first place, or enough has changed that the original ‘why’ no longer fits.  Either way, it’s time to address those big directional questions:

  • Who are we?

  • Where are we going?

  • What’s worth saying yes to—and no to—in order to get there?

You can’t read the label while you’re inside the jar.

If you’re a group of co-founders running a business, this is the problem with trying to lead and participate in these visioning and reflection sessions at the same time—you can’t see the label while you’re inside the jar.

Having an experienced, thoughtful outsider serves a few important functions:

  • Someone else leading means you get to truly be a participant—this opens up a different quality of attention and thinking

  • A new person with fresh questions shifts the dynamic between co-founders, and lets you have conversations you couldn’t on your own

  • An outsider sees the business as it is now, not how it used to be or how you want to believe it is. I’m not limited by the history and story you’re carrying, which makes it easier to spot gaps and opportunities. I can take things seriously while holding it lightly.

Together, we figure out what’s worth doing.

Here’s what I care about when I work with a team:

  • Clear direction—is your ladder against the right building? There’s no use getting into tactics and action planning until the strategy is right and the obstacles have been named.

  • Prioritization and pacing! Figuring out the actual capacity and pace of the business, and setting stretchy yet doable goals so that you see progress. It’s incredibly demoralizing to keep setting targets you don’t hit

  • Learning from what’s happened. Slowing down to reflect is the best way to save time and money, and to improve your relationships between founders

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Sessions start at $2000 CAD / ~$1400 USD

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If nothing changes, nothing changes.

Here are some signs your team may benefit from a session with me:

  • You keep setting targets you don’t hit

  • Big-picture conversations you’ve been meaning to have keep getting put off. Even if you made the time for the meeting itself, someone has to do the prep work to lead it, so it likely won’t happen

  • Founders are starting to want different things from the business, and low-grade tension is building

  • You keep saying “we need to do marketing,” but you don’t have the specifics of what that means

  • You want accountability from someone who isn't one of your co-founders

You’re aware that the status quo is holding you back.

What would change if you finally had the conversation? All you need to do is carve out the time and show up. I'll prepare and lead the rest.

Interested in trying a session with your team?

Please fill out the form below, and I’ll be in touch shortly to set up an introductory conversation to see if we’re a fit.

I'm based in Hamilton, Ontario, and work with clients across Canada and beyond. Sessions can be held remotely or in person.