While you're busy running today's business...
Who's building tomorrow's?
Between serving clients, leading a team, and keeping everything running, it’s easy to spend all your time on today’s business. I'm Cris, and I help service business owners with small teams from all over the world find hidden time and profit so they have more time for the business they actually want to build.
Your dream business didn’t disappear, but the time to build it did.
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You started as the expert
You brought in the clients, did the work, made the decisions, and figured things out as you went.
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Then the business worked
More clients. More work. A team. More opportunity. Exactly what you were trying to build.
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And your job got bigger, too
Now there are people to lead, work to review, questions to answer, and client commitments to keep.
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Somewhere in there, building got replaced by running
You’re still ambitious about where the business could go. You just rarely get the uninterrupted time to work on it.
At this point, building the business means redefining your role and redirecting your time.
You figured out how to get clients, do the work, grow a team, and keep the business going. That got you here, and it’s worth celebrating. Your next evolution is figuring out what you should still be doing, what can confidently delegate, and where your time needs to go next.
That's where I come in.
There are three ways I help you find more time and profit.
High-Return Leadership
A free Skool community for service business owners who want to find hidden time and profit in the way they lead and run their business. Join live calls, use practical lessons and tools in the Classroom, and learn alongside other owners with small teams.
Business Advisor
Bring me onto your team as an outside advisor who gets to know you and your business. We’ll talk strategy twice a month, and you can send me plans, presentations, systems, marketing, websites, or other work for straightforward feedback.
2 strategy calls + strategic feedback
Month-to-month | Limited Seats
Altitude · 12 Weeks
Work 1:1 with me to spend less time doing, checking, and answering, and more time creating the business you actually want. Application only, limited seats.
Altitude
Find time and profit in 12 weeks
Evolve the job you’ve built for yourself inside the business. We examine your role, your team, and your systems to determine what needs to change so your time can go where you actually want it to.
Audit
Get the full picture.
I work with you and your team to examine leadership, team, and systems from both sides of the business, including your time, decision-making, responsibilities, and workflows.
Assess
Figure out what needs your attention.
We identify where your involvement still makes sense, where your team is ready for more responsibility, and where stronger systems would make the business easier to run.
Ascend
Work out how the change can happen.
We design how responsibilities can change hands, how your team can take on more decision-making, and what systems will support it.
Who it’s for
Service business owners with teams of 3–15 who are spending more time in delivery, approvals, and day-to-day problem-solving than they want to.
Altitude is application only. I only accept clients for this program when I’m confident I can help.
Business Advisory
Bring me onto your team as your business advisor.
Sometimes you don’t need a 12-week engagement. You want someone who already knows you and your business, who you can call when there’s a decision to make, an idea to work through, or something you want another experienced perspective on.
Business Advisory is the Premium membership inside High-Return Leadership. It gives you ongoing access to me for strategy, advice, guidance, and feedback.
Twice-monthly strategy calls
Two 45-minute calls each month to talk through whatever is happening in the business: decisions, problems, opportunities, ideas, or the thing that’s been sitting in the back of your mind.
Strategic feedback
Send me plans, presentations, systems, marketing, websites, funnels, or other work you’d like another perspective on. You’ll have up to 60 minutes of review time each month, with recorded feedback within four business days.
Month-to-month · Limited seats
Join the community for free, then upgrade to Premium for Business Advisory.
Speaking
Need someone to get the room thinking and talking?
I speak and facilitate for business owners and leaders on leadership, business growth, and making businesses easier to run. Expect practical ideas, candid stories, and a room that gets involved.
Past engagements
Leadership, team, and systems, designed together using Meteoric Methodology
Changing your role affects the team. Giving the team more responsibility affects how the work gets done. And all of it changes what the business needs from you. That’s why we work on the three pillars of leadership, team, and systems together.
The Three Pillars
You
Where are you still jumping in because it’s faster, easier, or just what you’ve always done? Which decisions should belong to you, and which ones have simply stayed with you?
Team
What can and should your team decide without checking with you first? Where are they ready for more, and what do they need from you before they can take it on?
Systems
What makes the work easier to do well without you hovering nearby? Think standards, handoffs, information, approvals, and the things people need to keep work going.
The interesting part is what happens between the pillars.
Each combination changes something different about how the business works, from everyday decisions to culture to capacity.
Team + Systems = Clear Action
People know the standard and where their responsibility starts, so work gets done without asking and fewer jobs sit waiting on an answer.
You + Team = Strong Culture
Values show up in how trade-offs get handled day to day, so the team makes decisions you would recognize as your own.
You + Systems = Limitless Scalability
The business can take on another client or another hire without adding hours to your week.
What Clients Say
Hi, I’m Cris
I started as a graphic designer. Sixteen years later, I sold my business.
I co-founded a creative agency in 2006 and spent 16 years growing it into a profitable business before selling it in 2021. As the business grew, my job changed too. I had to learn how to lead people, make better use of my time, and decide where I was actually needed.
Across my career, I’ve advised hundreds of businesses, held senior leadership roles, served on boards and committees, and completed an MA in Leadership. I’ve spent a lot of time around business owners and leadership teams, both as one of them and as an advisor to them. That experience shapes how I work with owners today.
I am located in Canada, but work with clients all over the world.
- 20+Years Business ownership & leadership
- 16Years Building a profitable creative agency
- 100s Businesses advised & supported
- 15+Years Board & community leadership
- MA Leadership, Royal Roads University
A few things you may be wondering
If you want ideas, tools, and conversations you can take back into your business yourself, start with High-Return Leadership. If you want ongoing access to me as a sounding board and advisor, Business Advisory is probably the fit. If you want to spend 12 weeks actively changing how you use your time, how your team works, and what supports the business, that’s Altitude.
Yes. The free community includes weekly live calls, practical tools and lessons in the Classroom, and conversations with other service business owners. You can join and participate without upgrading to a paid membership.
Business Advisory is the Premium way to work with me inside High-Return Leadership. You’ll get two 45-minute strategy calls each month, plus up to 60 minutes of feedback on plans, presentations, systems, marketing, websites, or other work you want me to look at. It’s month-to-month, and seats are limited.
It depends where we are in the 12 weeks. I’ll need more of your time at the beginning while I’m getting to know you, your team, and how the business works. There’s less for you to do through the middle, then I’ll need more of you again toward the end as we work through the changes together. I know you’re already busy, so I’m careful about what I ask you to spend time on. Altitude is supposed to give you time back, not become another job on your list.
Yes, at certain points. I want to understand the business from both your perspective and your team’s, so part of the work includes getting their input. You’re still the primary client, and I’ll be thoughtful about when and how your team is involved.
Across every way you can work with me, the mix is consulting, strategy, and advising. I look at what’s happening in your business, help you sort through the options, and bring recommendations, ideas, guidance, and an outside perspective. Sometimes we’re working through a bigger strategic decision, and sometimes you need guidance on how to lead, respond, or make a decision. I’ll ask plenty of questions, and I’ll also share what I’m seeing and what I’d recommend.
All over the world. I’m based in Canada and work with clients virtually, so we can work together wherever your business is located.
Yes. I speak and facilitate for business owners and leaders on leadership, business growth, and making businesses easier to run. There’s a separate Speaking section above with more information and a way to enquire.