From 1 → 4
One 7-figure business became four.
A founder reclaimed the space to think strategically — and built three additional multi-seven-figure companies.
The Suite · 2026 Cohort
Scale beyond
yourself.
A year-long mastermind for visionary founders and second-in-command leaders building businesses that grow with more structure, ownership, and less founder dependency.
5,000+
Founders served
300K+
Books sold
15 yrs
Operational depth
With Adrienne DorisonCreator of Clockwork™
Scale✦
Sell✦
Step Away✦
Succession✦
Sovereignty✦
Scale✦
Sell✦
Step Away✦
Succession✦
Sovereignty✦
Scale✦
Sell✦
Step Away✦
Succession✦
Sovereignty✦
Why remove owner dependency
Four reasons our clients prioritize this work.
If you have goals for any of these, you need to remove owner dependency.
01
Scale
You can’t grow what depends on you.
02
Sell
A business that depends on you is worthless, or unsellable.
03
Step Away
Take time off for kids, maternity leave, health, hobbies, lifestyle changes.
04
Succession
Build a legacy that is an asset, not a liability, after you’re gone.
What this work makes possible
The shift you feel when the business no longer runs through you.
Tax season unplugged
A fully unplugged month during tax season.
He stepped away during the highest-pressure season of the year while the company kept moving.
Zoom Zero
An operating model with zero standing meetings.
An agency redesigned communication so decisions no longer depended on everyone being live and on calls at the same time.
The weight, visualized.
The diagnosis
Growth isn't the issue. Dependency is.
From the outside, the business may look successful. Revenue is up. The team has grown. There's momentum. You've built something real.
But behind the scenes, you're still carrying too much of the weight.
You're still the one:
- ▸answering questions no one else can seem to answer
- ▸reviewing work that should not need your review
- ▸making decisions your team should be able to make
- ▸holding the vision, the context, and the standards all in your own head
- ▸stepping away physically without ever really stepping away mentally
A flexible schedule with the same weight isn't freedom. A bigger business that still depends on you isn't the kind of scale you wanted.
The real problem
Most founders don't need more support. They need a stronger structure.
At a certain stage of business, the problem is no longer effort. It's architecture.
You may have already invested in:
coachingleadership developmentoperations supportteam trainingsbetter systemsAI toolsstrategic planning
And yet you're still too central. Why?
Because most support systems develop the founder without fully developing the person responsible for translating vision into execution.
The CEO gets clearer.
The operator gets busier.
The company keeps growing.
And the bottlenecks get more sophisticated.
AI doesn't solve this either. If your team lacks clarity, decision-making structure, and leadership alignment, AI will just help everyone move faster into the same broken pattern.
The issue isn't speed. It's dependency.
The Suite is built differently
Two seats of leadership, developed together.
Most rooms are designed for the visionary alone. The Suite develops both seats — the founder with the vision, and the operator responsible for turning that vision into reality.
Seat 01
The Visionary
Get out of the day-to-day. Clarify what only you should own. Lead at the level growth now requires. Stop carrying decisions that belong elsewhere.
→
Seat 02
The Operator
Increase judgment and decision-making capacity. Strengthen execution leadership. Hold more responsibility with confidence. Become a true operational partner.
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Real scale happens when these two stop functioning as bottleneck and support — and start functioning as strategic leader and empowered operator.
What becomes possible
When leadership is shared at a higher level.
Build a business that creates more money without requiring more of your nervous system to hold it all together.
- 01Decisionsstop defaulting back to you
- 02Operatorhandles more with confidence and discernment
- 03Teamasks better questions, then brings better solutions
- 04Executiongets cleaner, communication simpler
- 05Standardsbecome transferable
- 06Capacitymore whitespace, more trust, more strategic altitude
Is this you?
This is for you if…
- your business is growing, but too much still runs through you
- you have an operator, OBM, integrator, COO, or right-hand leader ready for more development
- you're tired of being the glue holding everything together
- you want scaling to feel cleaner, calmer, and less personally expensive
- you don't want more advice — you want leadership infrastructure
- you're building a real company and want it to become less dependent on you
Not for founders looking for quick hacks, surface-level team management tips, or another room that only speaks to the CEO while ignoring the person responsible for execution.
A 12-month container
Inside The Suite, you and your operator are supported together.
I
Founder Coaching
Get out of the day-to-day. Clarify what only you should own. Lead at the level growth requires.
II
Operator Development
Increase judgment, communication, and execution leadership. Become a true operational partner — not a high-capacity assistant.
III
Shared Leadership Alignment
Shared language, clearer expectations, cleaner decision-making, stronger trust, more functional rhythms.
IV
Implementation + Application
Full integration, not just insight. Apply what you're building in real time so the business actually changes.
V
Strategic Use of AI
Once the structure is sound, AI becomes a leverage amplifier — not a chaos accelerator.
The result
Not just a better team. A less dependent business.
Founders taking real time off without things stalling
Operators stepping into stronger ownership and leadership
Faster execution with less back-and-forth
Reduced decision fatigue across the org
Improved profit through cleaner operations and less founder drag
Stronger retention, better communication, more trust across the team
The point is not to remove the founder's value — it's to remove the founder as the constant point of strain.
Why Adrienne
Built from 15+ years inside the real operational challenges of growing companies.
Adrienne is the creator of the Clockwork™ program and co-founder of Run Like Clockwork alongside Mike Michalowicz. The best-selling book Clockwork has sold more than 300,000 copies, and Adrienne has personally helped over 5,000 business owners reduce owner dependency.
What makes her work different is that she doesn't just coach the founder in isolation. She helps rewire the way the business actually functions — through stronger leadership, clearer decision-making, deeper operator ownership, and the operational structure required for sustainable scale.
With experience across small, mid-sized, and corporate companies, plus certifications in Lean Six Sigma, SCRUM, and Smart Growth advising, Adrienne brings strategic and operational depth to the exact challenges that keep growing businesses stuck.
5,000+
Founders served
300K+
Books sold
15+
Years operating
Everything included
A year-long ecosystem for the visionary, the operator, and the business they're building.
Two parallel programs running side by side — plus shared strategy, support, tools, and proximity required to scale beyond founder dependency.
01 / Foundation
From The Boardroom
- +Monthly leadership workshops
- +Monthly roundtable discussions
- +Full 2026 workshop series + replays
- +Private Boardroom community
- +Tools, scripts, frameworks, templates
- +How to CEO + How to COO training programs
02 / Community
Suite-Only Spaces
- +Private Visionary-only channel
- +Private Operator-only channel
- +Combined Suite channel for collaboration
03 / Calls
Suite-Only Monthly Calls
- +Monthly Founders Circle — strategy, vision, CEO leadership
- +Monthly Operator Circle — skills, ownership, peer support
04 / Intensives
Quarterly Mastermind Intensives
- +4 virtual intensives per year
- +Alternating visionary + operator tracks
- +Mastermind + guest expert sessions
- +Dedicated implementation time
05 / In-Person
Live Events
- +2-day mastermind — Tampa, FL · October 2026
- +2-day mastermind — Spring 2027 (PR or Nashville)
- +Visionary + operator + joint sessions
- +Travel and accommodations not included
06 / Experts
Guest Experts
- +AI implementation experts
- +Wealth-building and investment expert
- +Curated guest experts year-round
07 / AI
Weekly AI Implementation
- +2× monthly AI implementation resources
- +24 plug-and-play tools across the year
- +Each resource maps: person · agent · automation
08 / Toolkit
Custom AI Tools
- +01 — Time Analyzer
- +02 — Delegation Designer
- +03 — IPO Builder
- +04 — Job Posting Builder (coming soon)
09 / Kick-Off
Strategic Beginning
- +New Member Orientation
- +The 5 Levers of Untapped Growth — live class
The Investment
Founding member pricing — for leaders who move.
The Suite is normally $40,000 per year. During this founding enrollment, we're taking up to $16,000 off — locked at this rate for life.
Founding Member
$29,000$40,000
Save $11,000
Annual — paid in installments
Founding Member · Pay in Full
$24,000$40,000
Save $16,000
One payment, biggest savings
Included for every founding member
- ◆Rate locked at your founding price for life
- ◆Full Delegation Audit by Adrienne — calendar + time tracking via Loom, with the first three things to delegate identified (person · agent · automation)
- ◆One private call with Adrienne at the beginning of your Suite year
- ◆One private call with Emily for your operator
Apply within 48 hours — bonus
- ◆A second private call with Adrienne — use it whenever you need it most
- ◆A second private call with Emily for your operator — same structure for the second seat
Who this is for
For founders ready to build beyond themselves.
Especially powerful for founders who are…
- in the multiple six-figure to multi-million stage
- with a small but meaningful team
- already investing at a high level
- who know the issue is no longer just strategy
- ready for the next level of leadership, not just the next tactic
The Suite is not for…
- ×founders looking for entry-level business basics
- ×people without team support in place at all
- ×those who want passive consumption without implementation
- ×founders who want to stay involved in everything and simply do it more efficiently
When the founder is no longer the bottleneck
The business doesn't just grow. It grows up.
- More revenue
- with less personal strain — the business is no longer extracting your nervous system.
- Operator ownership
- more effective, more discerning, more capable of holding real responsibility.
- Cleaner team function
- less confusion, less escalation, less dependency, more accountability.
- Better decisions
- the ones that reach you are made from a more strategic altitude.
- More space
- more whitespace on your calendar — room to lead proactively.
- Real trust
- built through structure, communication, and leadership maturity.
- A business that holds growth
- more clients, revenue, complexity — without fragmenting you.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Still have questions? Apply and we'll review fit before any commitment.
If you know, you know
IYKYK.
The Suite was built for the moment when what got you here is no longer what will get you where you're going. When the founder is ready to lead at a higher level. When the operator is ready to own more. When the business is ready for a stronger way of running.
You don't need more convincing. You need the right room.
Invitation to apply
Apply for The Suite.
Once your application is submitted, we'll review fit and follow up with next steps. If it's aligned, you'll be invited into a room designed to support the visionary, strengthen the operator, and help the business scale with more clarity, capacity, and sustainability.
- ◆Designed for a limited number of founder + operator pairs
- ◆Applications are reviewed for fit
- ◆Founding member pricing and bonuses available for a limited time
- If you know this is your room, trust that.