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Early GrowthUnder $3M5 – 20 employees
 Building on Growth$3M – $12M20 – 50 employees
 Scaling Up the Company$12M – $30M50 – 125 employees
 Maturing the Enterprise$30M+125+ employees

The challenges ahead are only
getting bigger. Are you and
your team ready?

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OCTET / Building on Growth
$3M – $12M revenue  |  typically 20 – 50 employees

Your team is growing,
but you're still the one
making most of the calls.

You have capable people around you and managers taking real responsibility. But why does it feel like they can't execute on their own?

At this stage your growth is energizing.

Leadership challenges are getting more complicated.

Leadership & Talent

I hired her because I thought she could own this — so why am I still stepping in every time something important goes sideways?

Growth Strategy

We keep winning bigger clients, and every time we do, our delivery breaks and we embarrass ourselves.

Delegation

Delegation & Accountability

I gave my managers real responsibility, and I'm realizing I never actually decided which calls are theirs to make without me.

Strategic Options

I want to bring in a financial partner to fund our growth, and I'm terrified of giving up control of the company I built.

Profitability

Profitability & Cash Flow

Revenue keeps climbing, and somehow there's less cash in the account at the end of every month.

Customer & Market

My original clients complain they don't get personal access to me anymore, now that I've handed them to account managers.

Operations & Systems

We bought new software to fix this, and my team still keeps their own spreadsheets on the side.

What's Next

What's Next

I finally have a real management team, and for the first time I'm asking whether I'm building this on purpose, or just still building it.

Sound familiar? Where do you turn when you need advice on your challenges?

The part that doesn't show up on the org chart.

There are more people around you.
And fewer people you can really talk to.

I finally have leaders around me — and the thing I most need to think through is often about them, which makes them the one group I can't say it to.

Is there anyone on your team you can be honest with about your own doubts? Who tells you when you're wrong, and means it?

Building a team doesn't give you someone to think out loud with. That's a different room.

A personal board of CEOs you choose.

Monthly candid conversations with measurable impact.

This is where you work through your complicated decisions. In confidence. With seven other non-competing CEOs who understand what you've built and where you want to grow. They hold you accountable because you ask them to.

8
PEER ADVISORS
NON-COMPETING
Leadership
& Talent
Growth
Strategy
Delegation
Delegation &
Accountability
Operations
& Systems
Profitability
Profitability
& Cash Flow
Customer
& Market
Strategic
Options
What's Next
What's Next
How your Octet board drives measurable impact.

Transforming Obstacle to Opportunity.

Your peers help you achieve your goals before you're ready to share them with your team and your customers.

01 · Define
You define your obstacle.

You bring a real obstacle, decision, or opportunity — not a status update.

02 · Challenge
The group works the problem.

Seven peers question your assumptions, share what's worked for them, and widen the options in front of you.

03 · Commit
You commit to a plan.

You leave with a specific commitment to act — not a list of good ideas to think about later.

04 · Execute
You put it into practice.

You execute the plan, adjust as it meets reality, and drive it toward a result in your business.

05 · Account
You report the result back.

You bring the outcome to the next meeting — what happened, what changed, and what you learned.

Perspective → Commitment → Action → Accountability
Octet Forum

Enriching conversations with outside experts.

The Specialist Advisory Forum convenes on a six-week cadence to bring targeted expert perspective to the board.

EVERY 6 WEEKSSession cadence
2 HOURSLate afternoon

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