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One day to get everyone pointing the same way.

Build a business where you free up time to grow, instead of spending your day solving problems.

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Yara van Leeuwen
What it gets you

Your business becomes less dependent on you.

We implement new behaviour and connect people, process and tooling, so your team runs the operation and you get time back to run the business.

  • Straight to the core
  • Learn and implement
  • Impact from the first moment

We set a direction

Together we pin down where the business is going, who decides what and what you expect of people. So you can let go without losing your grip.

We create open communication

People learn to say what they see, while it is still small. That is the condition for everything else: as long as the conversation is not honest, people simply bake the noise into your processes.

Ownership back in the team

Your managers make decisions, see things coming and adjust on their own. You no longer have to jump in everywhere.

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A team that knows the intent, gets it and lives by it.

Most companies are short of hands. What they actually lack are people who know what they are contributing to.

Who this is for

Do your people barely see each other? Then take a hard look at the handover.

Shifts, locations, days at home: fewer and fewer teams sit in the same room all week. And everything that isn't nailed down disappears exactly where the work changes hands.

A handover isn't an administrative step. It's the moment your culture becomes visible.

Who this works for
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What you get

Three things change. After that, it runs without you.

A team that sorts it out itself

Monday morning runs without you. People talk to each other and sort it out together.

Managers who lead

Your manager builds a team that decides and grows on its own. You get updates instead of emergencies at nine in the evening.

New ways of working that last

Roll out a new system or process and the team joins in. Questions come up, feedback comes in, and after a few weeks everyone simply works with it.

The framework

The Founder Free Leadership Framework

One team. One direction. One result. Five pillars you work through in this order, until your organisation runs without you.

  1. Leadership

    Direction. Inspire. Delegate.

    Where do you want to go? You set the direction, make roles clear and say out loud what you expect of people.

  2. Clarity

    Clear frames. Clear agreements.

    You bring people along in what you are planning. Everyone knows what is expected of them and where the lines are.

  3. Honesty

    Saying what needs saying.

    People name what is going on, give each other feedback and learn from one another. It won't be right first time, and that's fine.

  4. Transparency

    Knowing what is really going on.

    Only once you communicate honestly can you get processes right. Otherwise people simply bake the noise into the system.

  5. Ownership

    Responsibility. Anticipate. Adjust.

    People take responsibility, see things coming and adjust on their own. That is when your organisation runs without you.

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Imagine your revenue doubles tomorrow. Or grows tenfold.

Could your team handle it? Scaling up makes existing problems bigger, not smaller.

How it works

A year of building together, or one day to get started.

Always inside your own business, with your people and your challenges. Which format fits, we decide in the first conversation.

Duration 12 months

Founder Free Business

The complete programme for you and your managers. In a year we build an organisation that runs the operation itself, so you get time back to run the business.

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What's included

  • A team scan at the start, so you know where you're coming from
  • Monthly sessions with you and your managers
  • Personal coaching for you as the owner
  • A second team scan at the end, so you can see what changed

Or start with a single day.

One day

Everyone pointing the same way, in one day

Because successful teams are no accident. One day with your team to get sharp on where things are heading and who is on the hook for what.

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One day

Setting new year goals and actually hitting them

Goals for the new year that get further than January. We translate them into behaviour straight away, so they're still alive in March.

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One day

Feedback as a success factor

Teach your team to name things before they grow into a conflict. Feedback becomes ordinary instead of tense.

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A quick introduction
“I wake up the business world, before growth outpaces the team.”

For years I worked in companies that kept pushing relentlessly. The results were never good enough and you could cut the tension with a knife. Until I discovered where it really went wrong: goals were never translated into behaviour and process on the work floor.

Yara van Leeuwen
Specialist in behaviour change and productivity
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On the fence?

Too busy to start on this now? Then this is the moment.

Waiting until things calm down does not work. Things only calm down once everyone points the same way.

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Want to talk through your situation?

Fifteen minutes on the phone is enough to know whether this fits. If it does not, you will know that too, and you will have a few things to work on yourself.

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