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Four doors, one operator

Four ways to put money back on the table.

Every engagement is finite, has a written plan, and is run by someone who has carried the number himself. Choose the door; we will help you find the room.

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What does Coach to Success offer?

Coach to Success offers four engagement formats for $5M–$50M service businesses — a 2–3-week Profit Leak Audit, a 90-Day Sales Sprint, an Advisory Retainer and Interim Leadership — each fixed in scope, written down before it starts, and led by Steven C. Lindstrom.

The four doors

Which door is your money behind?

Revenue that never gets sold. Margin that leaks between the estimate and the invoice. A branch with no one steering. A business that has outgrown the way it is run. Each has a door.

Where does it hurt? Pick one to highlight your path.

Engagement formats

Finite. Scoped. Written down.

Four formats. Pricing is scoped on the discovery call — fixed fee, monthly, or day rate — and never by the hour. The method is the same in each; the results are the point.

FormatDurationPricingWhat happensBest for
Profit Leak Audit2–3 weeksFixed feeLine-by-line review of your trailing-twelve P&L, contracts, indirect costs, equipment and vendor spend. You get a ranked leak list with dollar values and a recovery plan.Owners and PE partners who suspect the margin is leaking but cannot see where.
90-Day Sales Sprint90 daysFixed feeDiagnose the team, install the process, train DISC-based selling, coach weekly, measure pipeline and closes every Friday.Sales teams that have gone comfortable, or a new manager who needs a system.
Advisory Retainer3, 6 or 12 monthsMonthlyWeekly operating cadence with the leader, monthly P&L review, deal and people coaching, quarterly plan. Sales, operations or both.Owner-operators growing past $10M and leaders who want a seasoned voice at the table.
Interim Leadership90–180 daysDay rateSteve steps in as VP, GM or Regional Director. Stabilize, fix the P&L, rebuild the team, hire and hand off to the permanent leader.PE portfolio companies and branches between leaders or in a turnaround.

Typical ranges are shared on the first call; every quote is written before work starts.

Which door?

A thirty-second decision guide.

Steve Lindstrom reviewing a plan across a conference table

Questions

Before you choose.

If you are unsure where the problem is, start with the Profit Leak Audit — it is short, fixed-fee and produces a ranked list with dollar values. If you already know it is sales, start the 90-Day Sales Sprint. If you have no leader in the chair, talk to us about interim leadership this week.

Audits and sprints are fixed-fee and scoped on the discovery call. Retainers are a flat monthly fee. Interim roles are a day rate with a defined term. We do not bill by the hour, and we do not stretch engagements — every one has an end date.

Yes, and often we should. Sales and operations are two halves of one system: a team that sells work the operation cannot deliver at margin is not helping you. Where both need work we sequence them so your leaders are never overloaded.

Most of our work is remote and nationwide. We are based in Tampa and travel for discovery, key sessions and interim roles anywhere in the United States.

All questions, answered

Next step

Clarity starts with one conversation.

Thirty minutes. Bring your trailing-twelve P&L if you have it, bring the problem if you don’t. We will tell you plainly whether we can help — and what it would take.

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