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Business Beyond You – Owner Independence Diagnostic
How much of your business still depends on you?
The decisions that wait for you. The customer relationships only you manage. The work you’ve handed over that somehow keeps coming back.
These dependencies take up more than your time. They can limit growth, weaken your team’s confidence and make it difficult to step back, even when you’ve built a successful business.
The Owner Independence Diagnostic helps you understand where those dependencies sit, what keeps them in place, and where to focus first.
Discover what’s happening across seven areas of your business.
Delegated Authority: Can your team make decisions without checking with you, and do those decisions stand?
The Commercial Engine: Do sales, pricing and customer relationships depend on you, or can the business generate work without your involvement?
Operating Load: How much of the day-to-day work still lands on your desk? What could you make time for if it didn’t?
Leadership Depth: Do you have people ready to take responsibility, and what support do they need to lead confidently?
Knowledge and Systems: Could someone else run the work using what’s documented, or does too much still live in your head?
Financial Control and Visibility: Can your team understand the numbers, see what’s ahead and make informed decisions?
Embedded Responsibility: When you hand something over, does it stay handed over, or do you eventually take it back?
Your results will show where the business sits on the Owner Independence Ladder, from Owner Driven through Owner Led and Management Led to Owner Independent. You’ll see the strengths you can build on, alongside the areas that need attention.
Understand the results. Decide what to do next.
I’ll use your answers to prepare a personalised written report that explores your strongest and weakest areas, the patterns behind your scores, and the gaps worth discussing.
Then we’ll spend 60 minutes together working through what those findings mean for your business.
I’ll help you explore why certain responsibilities still depend on you, what needs strengthening before you hand them over, and which changes are likely to make the greatest difference. We’ll also consider where your involvement should remain deliberate, and where stepping back too quickly could create problems.
You’ll leave with your first move in writing: one dependency to address, the action that will help shift it, and a way to check that the responsibility stays handed over. Yours to put into practice, whether or not we work together again.
Whether you want more time, room for growth or to prepare for succession, you’ll have a clearer picture of what your business needs next.
Your $495 diagnostic includes:
The full 49-statement questionnaire and short follow-up questions
Your results across all seven categories and the Owner Independence Ladder
A personalised written report, delivered the day before your session
A 60-minute online review with Chris on Zoom
Your practical first move, recorded in writing
Purchase your diagnostic, complete the questionnaire, then book your review with Chris.
A business that works beyond you starts with knowing where it still needs you.
How much of your business still depends on you?
The decisions that wait for you. The customer relationships only you manage. The work you’ve handed over that somehow keeps coming back.
These dependencies take up more than your time. They can limit growth, weaken your team’s confidence and make it difficult to step back, even when you’ve built a successful business.
The Owner Independence Diagnostic helps you understand where those dependencies sit, what keeps them in place, and where to focus first.
Discover what’s happening across seven areas of your business.
Delegated Authority: Can your team make decisions without checking with you, and do those decisions stand?
The Commercial Engine: Do sales, pricing and customer relationships depend on you, or can the business generate work without your involvement?
Operating Load: How much of the day-to-day work still lands on your desk? What could you make time for if it didn’t?
Leadership Depth: Do you have people ready to take responsibility, and what support do they need to lead confidently?
Knowledge and Systems: Could someone else run the work using what’s documented, or does too much still live in your head?
Financial Control and Visibility: Can your team understand the numbers, see what’s ahead and make informed decisions?
Embedded Responsibility: When you hand something over, does it stay handed over, or do you eventually take it back?
Your results will show where the business sits on the Owner Independence Ladder, from Owner Driven through Owner Led and Management Led to Owner Independent. You’ll see the strengths you can build on, alongside the areas that need attention.
Understand the results. Decide what to do next.
I’ll use your answers to prepare a personalised written report that explores your strongest and weakest areas, the patterns behind your scores, and the gaps worth discussing.
Then we’ll spend 60 minutes together working through what those findings mean for your business.
I’ll help you explore why certain responsibilities still depend on you, what needs strengthening before you hand them over, and which changes are likely to make the greatest difference. We’ll also consider where your involvement should remain deliberate, and where stepping back too quickly could create problems.
You’ll leave with your first move in writing: one dependency to address, the action that will help shift it, and a way to check that the responsibility stays handed over. Yours to put into practice, whether or not we work together again.
Whether you want more time, room for growth or to prepare for succession, you’ll have a clearer picture of what your business needs next.
Your $495 diagnostic includes:
The full 49-statement questionnaire and short follow-up questions
Your results across all seven categories and the Owner Independence Ladder
A personalised written report, delivered the day before your session
A 60-minute online review with Chris on Zoom
Your practical first move, recorded in writing
Purchase your diagnostic, complete the questionnaire, then book your review with Chris.
A business that works beyond you starts with knowing where it still needs you.