What's standing between you and your next level of growth?
After working with hundreds of founder-CEOs as a business coach, I've found that growth rarely stalls for the obvious reasons. Leaders blame sales, hiring, or cash flow—but those are symptoms. The real constraint hides deeper: in your strategic planning, your people, your execution systems, or your culture. This assessment helps you stop guessing and find the actual bottleneck holding back your business growth strategy.
GROWTH READINESS ASSESSMENT
Surface-level fixes rarely work because everything in a growth-stage business connects. A revenue problem that looks like sales often traces to unclear strategy. An execution breakdown that seems like a people problem stems from misaligned planning. This assessment separates signal from noise by scoring six dimensions independently: Planning, People, Strategy, Execution, Cash, and Culture. In 15 minutes, you'll see exactly where your bottleneck sits.
PLANNING
A systemized approach to setting long-term vision, aligning your team around key priorities, and driving accountability for execution. This dimension examines whether your strategic planning process creates clarity and momentum—or just produces documents that sit on a shelf. Strong planning is the foundation of any business growth strategy.
STRATEGY
A clear, compelling, and differentiated position in the market. This dimension looks at whether you know exactly what operational capabilities will drive growth—and whether you're building them deliberately. Effective strategic planning isn't just what you say; it's what you do differently than everyone else.
CASH
Clear insight into which parts of your business contribute to margin and which ones drag it down. This dimension examines labor efficiency, investment returns, and cash flow cycles—whether you understand how much cash growth requires and how long it takes to generate a return.
PEOPLE
Having the right people in the right seats, doing the right things. This goes beyond talent to examine your leadership team structure—whether it's designed for the strategy you're implementing or inherited from an earlier stage. Effective leadership coaching and executive team development become critical as you scale.
EXECUTION
Processes that run smoothly without drama and a culture of continuous improvement. This examines whether your team consistently turns plans into results, identifies inefficiencies early, and constantly looks for incremental ways to drive value—or whether initiatives stall and priorities shift before they deliver.
CULTURE
Clarified ground rules, expectations, and a way of working that's genuinely yours. This looks at whether you've defined not just your values but your anti-values—what you're willing to sacrifice to be who you are. Strong culture attracts the right people and repels the wrong ones. These aren't good or bad; they're about fit and integrity.
Download the Growth Readiness Assessment and score your business across all six dimensions in less than 15 minutes. The PDF includes rating scales, scoring calculations, and an interpretation guide—everything you need to pinpoint exactly where your growth constraints are hiding. Enter your information and we'll send it straight to your inbox.
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Client Testimonials
"Bruce designed a 2-day workshop that reflected our priorities, with each exercise fitting seamlessly into the next—from big-picture thinking to a well-defined BHAG. Team members returned to their desks with a renewed sense of clarity and a clear sense of progression toward our goals."
Kimberly Rae Gilbert, VP of Operations, EdTech Startup
"The frameworks Bruce used tie together the vision of the company through 5-year and 3-year goals—down to quarterly OKRs. As a facilitator, he was masterful. If you need to get a strategy down, Bruce is an amazing coach."
Bennett Morrison, VP Product, Security Scorecard
"From the forethought and preparation of sessions, to the materials provided, to the structure and sharing of comments—all calibrated precisely to our strategic vectors—Bruce operates with openness, confidence, and tact. The resulting direction and feedback loops are useful and sustainable."
Dean F. Oliver, Director of Museum Services, Know History
"We needed to set a clear vision for the future and align on what it would take to get there—in a short timeframe. Bruce quickly established trust, brought a clear framework, and stepped us through the key steps of strategy development. Our team left aligned and energized."
Ed Holmes, CEO, Greenlight Guru