The Growth Ceiling Audit
A growth ceiling almost never shows up because the founder ran out of strategies. It shows up because the way you learned to lead was built for a smaller, simpler version of this company, and it can’t carry the one you have now.
Underneath it there’s usually a specific behavior doing the damage — avoiding, controlling, rescuing, overfunctioning, refusing to delegate, seeking approval, or quietly creating the chaos you then get to be the hero for resolving. That’s not a thinking-capacity problem. It’s a pattern, and patterns are learnable, which means they’re also changeable.
Another framework won’t tell you why you’ve avoided the conversation for six months.
Enough safety to tell yourself the truth. Enough accountability to act on it.
Includes a personal diagnosis from Todd within 48 hours.
Twelve questions, no score to brag about. You’ll find out which pattern is most likely running your business, and what it’s costing you.
Urgency has become the operating system. Everything is a fire, so nothing is a priority, and your team has learned to stop deciding anything until you show up.
Hyper-independence that you have filed under high standards. You can’t delegate, so the company can’t grow past your personal capacity, and your best people leave to go somewhere they are trusted.
You have gotten very good at the work you already know how to do, and the company has stopped growing at exactly the edge of that. It is doing the wrong thing beautifully, and it costs you the year you spend perfecting something that was never the constraint.
Todd reads it himself and comes back to you within 48 hours with what he sees — the pattern, the business consequence he’d expect it to be producing, and the first thing he’d look at if you were his client. No sequence, no drip, no pitch deck.
As a founder, work and life are one and the same. As an entrepreneur and father Todd knows this all too well. Meet with Todd to learn how his personal experience and coaching style can help you design a life that can be turned from a dream to a reality. We look forward to learning more about you and your business!
"Todd does a good job of understanding the business side and pulling that in conjunction with the personal side, with the family side—because relationships transcend all sides. That’s why he sits pretty high on the seat, closest to the head of the table, in the Chris Carsten cabinet."
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