You do not need more ideas. You need a better operating system.
Most business owners have already tried everything the market offers. Generic business coaches who never ran anything themselves. Consultants who handed over a report and disappeared. Books and frameworks you worked halfway through before the next fire pulled you back in. Advice from people who have never built what you are trying to build.
The problem was never your effort. The problem is that most help is not built for an owner who needs to build a real business, not collect more ideas to think about.
This Advisory is built for one job: moving you from owner-dependent growth to a business that performs because the right people are making the right decisions on the right rhythm.
Stop being the most essential person in your business.
Your team runs the day. You run the business.
When this work is working, you get clearer priorities and fewer reactive decisions. You get stronger visibility into the numbers that actually drive the business. You get managers who hold their own accountability instead of pushing it back to you. You get systems that reduce daily chaos. You get better financial control. And you get a business that performs without you in the middle of every decision.
In the first 60 to 90 days, most owners feel the early relief as roles, rhythms, and decisions start shifting to the team. Those early gains compound. By the end of the Advisory, the business runs on a different operating system than the one you started with.
One structured program. Real installation. Direct access to Sturdy.
Workbooks and Exercises
Didactic content, fill-in templates, structured exercises, and reflection prompts for all 12 modules. And they get adapted to your particular business. While there are best practices, there is no one-size-fits-all. These are the tools you adapt and adopt to install each piece of the operating system in your business. They produce specific, practical outputs you will implement immediately, not theory you file away.
Two Structured Group Advisory Calls per Month
Leader-led sessions with a defined agenda, built around the frameworks, decisions, and operating principles that move a small business forward. You work through real problems alongside a small peer group of business owners facing the same kind of challenges. You leave with something specific to implement, not something to think about.
One Private 1:1 Strategy Session per Month with Sturdy
A dedicated session on your business and nothing else, with Sturdy McKee directly. Not an assistant. Not a junior coach. Sturdy works through your numbers, your bottlenecks, your leadership gaps, and your next moves with you. You leave with a clear, personalized plan and the reasoning behind it.
The Full 6-Hour CEO™ Operating System
The complete framework that walks you from an owner-dependent operation to a business that runs on documented systems, clear roles, and the 7 Critical Metrics. Twelve modules covering the Business Operating System, Vision, Financial System, Customer Experience, Differentiation, Business Model, Team Management, KPIs, Sales & Marketing, Strategic Alignment, Team Building, and A-Player Hiring. Full access for the 16-month Advisory term.
This is not another framework. It is installation.
Most business coaching for owners is too general to apply. Most consultants give advice without installation. Most programs do not stay with you long enough for the changes to take hold.
We build your Playbook, one you will actually use. Together we install the systems and processes that define your new operating system and make them come to life.
You are working with someone who built a company to six locations and 48 employees, sold it, and has spent the last ten years working with owners on their hardest decisions. What you get is not a curriculum delivered from a distance. It is direct pattern recognition, applied to your specific business for 16 months.
After a decade inside the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, working alongside owners from every kind of business, one thing became clear. At least 80 to 90 percent of what we do as owners is the same. We all do marketing and sales. We manage finance and cash flow. We recruit, hire, and develop people. We track the numbers that matter. The only real difference is what we ultimately deliver. The operating system underneath a strong business does not change from one industry to the next.
The value is the judgment, the accountability, and the right pressure applied at the right time. The frameworks and the 7 Critical Metrics are how that judgment gets installed in your business.
The peer group matters. You are in a room with other owners who carry the same weight you do. Different businesses, the same core problems: people, cash, systems, growth, and the discipline to lead instead of do. That shared experience sharpens everyone in the room.
What business owners are building.
Specific owners. Specific numbers. Specific changes.
Sue
Grew from $1.2M to $1.975M in revenue, year over year. Built her management rhythm and developed her players.
Garrett
Vacations without worry. 18% profit margin. The practice holds its performance whether he is there or not.
Dimple
Left the country for four weeks. The practice grew by 100 visits while she was away. The systems, processes, and team she built through the 6-Hour CEO™ ran it without her.
Dave
Hired his dream PT and stepped out of the clinical role. He now leads the business instead of working in it.
Tyler
Opened his first independent clinic, doubled staff, stayed in the black. Expanded without losing control or losing profitability.
Linda
“Your coaching enabled my business to survive my cancer diagnosis.”
A structured path from A to B.
This is not random coaching. Every cohort walks the same 12-module progression, grouped into three phases. Each phase builds on the last. By month 16, the business is running on a different operating system than the one you started with.
Clarify
Get clear on who you are, where you are going, and how the money works.
By the end of this phase, you know what kind of business you are building, what you stand for, and how your financial engine actually works.
Systematize
Build the systems that let your business run without you.
By the end of this phase, your practice operates on documented processes instead of your memory, your heroics, and your willpower.
Lead & Scale
Step into true ownership and build a team that executes your vision.
By the end of this phase, you lead an aligned team with a clear strategy and a hiring system that attracts and keeps top performers.
This is not for everyone. Which is the point.
The Advisory is built for small business owners who have built something real and are tired of being the answer to every problem. Owners who want better decisions, stronger margins, a more capable leadership team, and a business that generates more value without depending on them for everything. Owners who take action: when they see what to do, they do it, instead of collecting more ideas. Owners who know what they know, know what they do not, and are confident enough to bring in an outside perspective when they are stuck.
This is not for owners looking for a few tips, a motivational bump, or a shortcut. It is not for owners who want a fully customized one-on-one program; that is what Sturdy’s one-on-one coaching is for. It is not for people still deciding whether to take their business seriously, or who would rather think about it for another quarter than move.
If you have built something and you are ready to stop being its most essential component, this is the work.
One commitment. Real change takes time.
This is a single commitment because lasting change in a business takes time. Systems take time to install. Managers take time to develop. Team behaviors take time to shift. Owner habits take time to change.
That is why the Advisory runs 16 months. Twelve members maximum per cohort. Small enough for real attention. Large enough for the peer group to matter. When a cohort is full, it is full.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to stop being the bottleneck?
Book a call with Sturdy to talk through your business and see if the Advisory is a fit. Or reserve your spot in the next cohort with a $289 deposit that will be applied to your first payment.
Twelve seats per cohort. When it is full, it is full.