The company has people, but the hard call still returns to you.
Work moved. Permission did not. The next step is not another vague request to delegate.
Business coaching, consulting, and advisory for owners
Build the next stage of your owner-led business.
If the business is growing but every serious choice still lands on you, work directly with Stan on what moves next.
The work can combine coaching, consulting, and advisory, then stay with the decision while your company puts it into action. Stan is based in Sacramento and works across the Bay Area and virtually.
Ongoing 1:1 work starts at $1,500/month. Larger work is quoted after scope. One focused session is $750.
21+years in business pressure
110+owners and operators
10+jurisdictions involved
50+countries traveled
The real fit question
You should know what working with me feels like before you inquire.
You explain what happened. If the numbers and the story do not agree, I stop at that point. We stay with it until the choice is clear enough to act on.
You keep authority over the company. Your team carries the work inside it. I question the comfortable answer, connect the parts that affect each other, and stay involved while the facts change.
The goal is not to leave impressed. It is to leave certain enough to act and calm enough to carry the decision.
When owners use the work
The business is moving. The same pressure keeps coming back.
A label is rarely the whole problem. A growth decision changes cash. A team decision changes control. A partner decision follows the owner home.
More activity has not made the business easier to lead.
Revenue, pricing, capacity, cash timing, and ownership can point in different directions.
The next choice affects more than one part of the company.
Partners, a board, expansion, a sale, or cross-border work needs one connected business view.
Owned work you can inspect
The relationship should earn the next month.
The work itself shows what the relationship is built to hold, what moved, and where the evidence stops.
One owner kept the working rhythm going without missing it.
Five real-estate deals in Belgium and one in Hong Kong moved into action.
The business offer changed through years of work, not from a one-time template.
Mutual fit
The best work is honest before it is comfortable.
This is a working relationship, not an audience. The fit depends on how you want to think and act.
You can say what is actually happening.
- You want direct thought, not automatic agreement.
- You will act between conversations and return with evidence.
- You want outside judgment without giving away owner authority.
You want validation, a guaranteed result, or someone to run the whole company.
- Legal, tax, accounting, investment, and regulated work needs the right specialist.
- Done-for-you delivery needs an agreed scope and operating responsibility.
- A decision already closed does not need honest comparison.
Ways to start
Choose the amount of working relationship the business needs.
Fit comes before price. A contained question should not be sold as a larger engagement. A larger move should not be squeezed into one call.
Ongoing 1:1 work
$1,500 a month
Biweekly, month to month, for recurring owner-level choices and follow-through.
See ongoing workCompany, leadership, ownership, or board work
Quoted after scope
For work that needs more people, defined responsibilities, on-site participation, or cross-functional movement.
Ask about the workOne focused session
$750 once
One 90-minute conversation when continued access or a larger scope would be excessive.
See the sessionWork with Stan
If the fit feels right, tell me what is happening.
I answer the request personally. You will get a direct yes, no, or better route. No payment happens on the application.