You've built a great business. Now build a team that runs it.
I help founder-led small and medium-sized businesses create clarity, accountability, and operating rhythms so the business can grow without everything routing through the CEO.
Fractional COO. 7 years implementing business operating systems (EOS, ScaleUp, OKRs). Operator with 25 years of leadership and scaling experience.
You’ve built something real. Now it needs to run without you in every room.
This is for founders and CEOs of profitable businesses who have good people, real momentum, and too much dependence on the person at the top. The business has outgrown informal management, but the leadership team is not yet functioning as a true operating team.
Common signs
- •Every major decision seems to come back to your desk.
- •Your team waits for approval instead of owning decisions.
- •Meetings feel like status updates, not decision-making sessions.
- •You can’t step away without the business feeling it immediately.
Move from founder-led to leadership-team-run.
I help the owner and the leadership team build the operating clarity, ownership, and decision rhythms that make a business easier to run and easier to scale.
What we build
- •Clear ownership for key decisions and priorities.
- •A leadership team that meets with purpose.
- •Operating rhythms that create follow-through.
- •Accountability without micromanagement.
What changes
- •You get time back to lead strategically.
- •Your team stops checking back on everything.
- •Meetings become useful instead of draining.
- •Growth becomes less dependent on your personal bandwidth.
Real results from real business owners.
"Andreas brought tremendous clarity, rigor, and empathy to the process. He brings insight, balance, intuition, and a calm confidence. His approach is both rigorous and human."
"He has been a leader and knows the issues companies encounter. He brings real leadership experience to the meetings, and it is obvious he is truly invested in our success — as individuals and as a company."
"Andreas is an invaluable resource in growing, managing, and strategically operating our business. A great guide and one of the best listeners I have ever worked with. A true part of our team."
I’ve been in the room when the team wasn’t working.
I’ve spent 25 years building and operating businesses across five continents, including leading a 300-person team and helping scale a PE-backed company through successful exit. I also spent six years as a Certified EOS Implementer, which sharpened my ability to help entrepreneurial teams align and execute. Outside of work, I'm an Ironman finisher — and I bring the same approach to business that endurance sport demands: consistent systems, honest assessment, and the discipline to keep showing up when it's hard.
Credibility that matters
- •25 years operating experience.
- •7 years implementing business operating systems (EOS, ScaleUp, OKRs).
- •Leadership Chair for Bay Area CEOs.
- •EMCC Accredited Executive Leadership Team Coach.
A simple path to better execution.
Book a conversation
We look honestly at where the business is stuck and whether this is the right fit.
Work with the team
We identify the real bottlenecks, clarify ownership, and reset the way the leadership team operates.
Install the rhythm
Priorities stick, meetings improve, and the business becomes less dependent on the founder for every move.
- •Founders stop being the daily decision bottleneck.
- •Leadership teams take clear ownership and deliver on commitments.
- •Decisions are made faster with less rework and confusion.
- •The business scales with stronger execution and less founder strain.
Your next stage of growth won’t come from working harder. It’ll come from your team working better.
Let’s have a 30-minute conversation and see whether this is the right next step for your business.
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