— Business Owners

Strategic Business Advisors

Expand your capacity to increase revenue, profitability, and valuation by engaging strategic advisors who help you expand your thinking, clarify your goals, set priorities, manage change, and execute consistently to get results.

Our strategic business advisors know what it’s like to be in your shoes. Their managerial and operational
experience makes them uniquely qualified to help visionary owners lead and manage growth.

We specialize in helping you increase revenue, profitability, and valuation. This requires growth strategies that

  • Reduce owner dependence
  • Increase monthly recurring revenue
  • Reduce customer concentration
  • Demonstrate sustained growth and profitability
  • Build management team acumen
  • Document replicable processes
  • Leverage technology
  • Invest in talented staff
  • Cultivate a culture of accountability
  • Leverage your competitive advantages

What This Looks Like

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum - it’s the result of smart decisions, intentional actions, and consistent performance. Our process is about helping you identify, align, and execute the strategies and tactics that allow you to build a business that works for you, not the other way around.
01

Discovery & Defining Success

We start by understanding the current state of your business and where you want to go; together, we’ll define your criteria for a successful advisory relationship tailored to your growth and/or succession/exit planning objectives.
02

Strategy Development

We’ll work together to identify key areas to consistently focus on to align your efforts, create momentum, and produce results. Whether you're focused on growth, optimizing profitability, enhancing talent development to support succession, or mapping your exit strategy, we’ll define actionable steps at every phase of the process.
03

Action & Execution

We help you make key decisions, set deadlines, and align resources to make it easier for you to work on rather than in your business. This can include using data to guide pricing decisions and make financial projections, elevating your approach to talent management, process documentation, and delegation, and navigating your the practical and emotional considerations related to leadership transitions and understanding exit options.
04

Measuring Success

Progress isn’t just about bold moves and big decisions. It’s about taking consistent action. As roadblocks come up (and they will), we’ll adjust accordingly without getting distracted from your goals. Our job, even when we’re not in the room together, is to support you in maintaining focus while evaluating what’s working, engaging subject matter experts as needed, and adjusting your strategy and tactics in response to your new current state, as well as any new circumstances impacting your timeline.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Will you work with my other advisors?

Yes, collaboration and coordination among your financial, wealth, business and legal advisors is essential. Purpose First Advisors is eager to work with your existing team or help you source the advisors you need.

Will you meet with my leadership team or other staff?

Yes, we work with leadership teams and support owners in building the capacity of their teams by helping them understand the owner’s vision, key priorities, long-term goals, and performance expectations.

What do you need from me to get started?

After executing a contract we ask you to provide as many of the following documents as possible. If you don’t have them, that’s not a problem as it helps us identify where we need to close gaps or make improvements.

  • Formation and governing documents (operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, etc.)
  • Financial statements for the last 3 years in Excel (with your P&L by month)
  • Pricing documents
  • Marketing and sales documents/plans
  • Org chart
  • Job descriptions
  • Process/procedure manual
  • A list of key technologies (accounting, project management, CRM etc.)
  • Other business documents

Related Ideas

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  • Christy’s keen ability to identify my actual needs and focus me on the critical aspects of my business has been transformative. She’s provided insights and asked probing questions that emphasize the importance of planning with the end in mind.
    Stephanie Haenchen
    Owner, Pace Marketing
  • Christy’s coaching has has been instrumental in elevating my business to new heights. Her ability to facilitate strategic conversations has been transformative, helping me identify opportunities, overcome obstacles, and refine my business strategies for optimal results.
    Paya Sample
    Owner, Peak Leaders Collective
  • Christy took the time to assess my business model, understand my goals, and identify areas for improvement. What impressed me most was her ability to provide tailored strategies that were practical and immediately implementable.
    Sue Bailey
    Owner, Celebrating Life Cakes
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