For owners who have already built something that works, and now want it to work without them: the day to day handed over, the business run from wherever you like, your presence a choice rather than a requirement. Up to ten owners, two parts of three months each. By enquiry.
Customers come, invoices get paid, there is some kind of team. This is a capstone, not a starting point. If you are at zero, start with the Local Business MBA.
The phone only you answer. The decisions that queue behind you. The customers who ask for you by name. You can point at it.
Some want their evenings. Some want to run it from another country. Some want to sell it one day without the buyer needing them. All of those are the same work, done in the same order.
You do the handing over, with help at every step. If you would rather keep the keys, the work won’t take, and I’d rather say so now.
Starting from zero: see above. Owners who want it all done for them: there is done-for-you help along the way, but the handing over is yours to do. And anyone who wants a promise that the business runs itself by graduation. Nobody honest can make that promise, so I will not.
Where the business needs you, measured rather than felt. A map of the decisions, knowledge and work that still route through you, and the order to move them in. Your 90-day roadmap is written here.
Knowledge into documents, decisions into rules, work into people. The Delegation Stack in practice, on your real operation, one handover at a time, alongside owners doing the same.
Absence tests. You leave parts of the business on purpose and we watch what holds. What breaks gets fixed; what holds becomes permanent. Then you go somewhere nice.
Most programmes are built to continue. This one is built to finish: you graduate from it. A programme that never ends is a dependence problem of its own, and I have spent a decade designing against exactly that.
I also think remote should be an outcome of a well-run business, not a first step, and that optionality is the real freedom. Not running the company from a laptop on a beach; being able to choose whether you run it at all this week.
None of the four needed me in the building.
“It’s been a huge relief to see how well you have handled things, and to know that when we’re gone and unreachable you genuinely have everything under control.”
“He loves having us, and right now [two of our VAs] are running his whole business while the other three are all out. He’s doing between $210,000 and $250,000 worth of business each month.”
“Then I don’t have to choose between my family and my business. I can still be there for my family without sacrificing my business.”
“I hope to meet you someday as I near my goal of being (almost) completely removed from the business and traveling the world!”
“A lot of it came down to delegation.”
“I love Chris’s emphasis on taking your time through the foundation steps. The momentum you gain by taking small consistent bites is REAL. … My family has started to dream about moving to London once my business can be run remotely.”
“Now, I can really focus on the big picture!”
“Chris Schwab and the Inova team rock! We’ve scaled our business well into 7 figures utilizing his team. Couldn’t do it without them!”
“Your interview and that book has made me believe I can achieve more freedom for myself, thank you.”
Said over the years by Inova Local clients and Local Business MBA students. The cohort is new; the work behind it is not.
Five questions, read personally. If it looks like a fit, you get the details and a short call. No payment before either.
Received. You will hear from me within the week, and if it looks like a fit, the details and a short call follow.
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