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A 90-Day Business Realignment Advisory

The 90-DayProgram

Restructure how your business operates so execution no longer depends on your daily involvement.

Already attended Built to Run: The Workshop?

If The Workshop made it clear that the structure of your business needs more than a single session to fix, the 90-Day Program is the masterclass, with direct one-on-one support, built around your unique operations. A complete operational rebuild, inside your business, with Pixie working alongside you.

The Problem

Your business works. Clients exist. Revenue exists. The market validated the idea a long time ago.

But the business still runs through you.

Not because you have failed to delegate. Not because your team is incapable. Because decision authority was never structurally defined, so everything defaults back to the person who will make the call. And that person is always you.

Decisions stall until you respond. Managers bring you problems they should be solving. Things you delegated find their way back to your plate. And time away from the business feels more like a risk than a break from it.

This is not a character flaw. It is not a leadership failure.

It is a structural gap. And structure can be fixed.

Let Me Guess

  • Your team is capable, but hesitant.
  • You’ve implemented procedures, yet people still come to you.
  • You hired leaders, but they don’t fully lead.
  • You are still included in conversations you don’t need to be included in.
  • And the more the business grows, the more it organizes itself around your availability.
  • Not because you failed to delegate. But because no one ever clearly defined who owns what, so everything finds its way back to you.

What Needs to Happen.

Decisions move without waiting for you.

Managers operate within clear ownership.

Problems are solved at the level they occur.

Growth stops increasing your daily load.

The feeling of carrying the workload alone, goes away.

You become a true business owner, rather than a business operator.

What’s Possible for You

Picture a Tuesday morning.

You open your laptop because you chose to. Not because
something broke, not because someone is waiting on you.

A problem came up this morning. Your team handled it. They did not text you. They did not wait.

They knew what to do and they did it.

Your leaders are leading. Your managers are deciding. The business is moving and you are not the reason it is.

That is not a fantasy. That is what a business looks like when it is built to run without you.

What the Program Is

This is a hands-on engagement that combines direct coaching with structural support and proven systems.

We work inside your real business to redesign how decisions move through your organization, so your team executes through structure instead of routing everything back to you.

Who You Are

You have a team, but the decisions still come to you.

You have tried delegation. It works until it doesn’t.

Stepping away costs you more than staying.

The bigger it gets, the more it needs you.

You want structure that holds, not another system to manage.

How It Started

Sarah had been running her restaurant for eleven years. Two locations, twenty-two employees, a customer base that kept coming back. From the outside, the business worked.

But she had not taken a real day off in three years. Every shift change brought a question. Every vendor problem found its way to her phone. Her managers were capable people who had quietly stopped making decisions because over time they learned Sarah would make them. She was not hovering over them. She was just always available. And the business had built itself around that availability.

What Changed

The problem was not her team. It was the structure they were operating inside. No one had been clearly told what they were authorized to decide. Escalation had no criteria. The operating rhythm required Sarah to hold it together, so it fell apart the moment she stepped back.

Over 90 days we mapped decision ownership by role, defined escalation boundaries, and installed a weekly operating rhythm that did not require Sarah in the middle of it.

What It Looks Like Now

Sarah took ten days off. No check-ins. No instructions left behind. Her team handled a vendor cancellation, a staffing shortage, and a health inspection across both locations. All of it without calling her. She came back to both locations running at standard. Nothing had piled up. Nothing had fallen apart.

For the first time in years she is running her business on her own terms. She works the hours she chooses. She is present for her family in a way she had stopped expecting to be. The business does not need her to be everywhere anymore. And she built it that way on purpose.

Program Phases

Phase 1 — Find the Leaks

We start by mapping exactly where the business depends on you and why. Not assumptions, but a clear picture of where decisions stall, where delegation breaks down, and what is actually keeping you in the middle of everything.

  • Owner Time and Energy Audit
  • Dependency Diagnostic
  • Leadership Strengths Alignment
  • Advisory Session: Operating Reality Review

Phase 2 — Cut the Cord

We redesign how decisions move through your business. Every role gets clear authority. Every manager knows what they own and what they escalate. The structure that kept pulling everything back to you gets replaced.

  • Decision Ownership Map
  • Escalation Criteria Guide
  • Delegation Alignment Tool
  • Role Accountability Snapshot
  • Advisory Session: Ownership and Decision Recalibration

Phase 3 — Make It Hold

We install the rhythm and boundaries that keep the structure from collapsing when things get busy. Then we test it. You step back, and we verify the business holds.

  • Weekly Operating Rhythm
  • Communication Boundaries Guide
  • Owner Absence Stress Test
  • Implementation Priority Map
  • Advisory Session: Stability and Scale Readiness Review

What's Included

  • Owner Dependency Diagnostics: We identify exactly where your business relies on you personally so we know where to focus first.
  • Decision Ownership Redesign: We assign every decision that currently defaults to you to the right person, with the clarity and authority they need to make it on their own. Escalation Rules and Authority Boundaries: Your team learns what they can handle without you and what actually needs your attention, so you stop being the answer to everything.
  • Escalation Rules and Authority Boundaries: Your team learns what they can handle without you and what actually needs your attention, so you stop being the answer to everything.
  • Delegation Alignment Framework: We build a structure that makes the work you hand off stay handed off.
  • Weekly Operating Rhythm Installation: We put recurring check-ins and communication windows in place so the business runs consistently without you holding it together day to day.
  • Communication Boundary Design: We define how and when your team reaches you so you are available when it matters and protected when it does not.
  • Absence Stress Testing: We test the structure before you step away so you know it will hold before you need it to.
  • 90-Day Operating Realignment Roadmap: You always know where you are, what we are working on, and what comes next.
  • Direct Advisory Guidance Throughout Implementation: I work with you through the full 90 days, inside your real business, as the structure gets built.

THE RESULT

By the end of the engagement:

  • You know exactly who owns decisions.
  • Your involvement stops being required for daily execution.
  • Problems resolve without becoming yours.
  • The business maintains cadence without supervision.
  • You can step away without operational instability.
  • Your focus is now on growing and scaling the
    business.

The business becomes led instead of being carried.

ABOUT THE ADVISOR

Pixie Saavedra is a leadership and operations strategist with a Master’s degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology and nearly 30 years of experience inside service-based organizations.

She helps service business owners reduce owner dependency by aligning leadership structure and decision ownership so companies scale through leaders instead of constant founder involvement.

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