Summit works with owner-led firms in the Nashville metro that have outgrown the founder's instincts. We pair private coaching for the owner and leadership team with the operating cadence a growing company needs to run without the owner in the room.
Every engagement is shaped to the company in front of us. These are the five distinct offers most clients start from, engaged singly or in combination.
Weekly private coaching for the founder or CEO. The room where you think clearly about the business without the noise of the business. We work on what only the owner can decide.
The weekly, monthly, and quarterly rhythm that keeps the business aligned without the owner constantly forcing it. We install the weekly 1:1 and monthly review cadence on our partner platform HeyRamp, which keeps structured check-ins and performance conversations in one place after we leave.
Group coaching for the leadership team. We raise the quality of debate, the honesty of the room, and the accountability between peers. Ends when the team can run a hard conversation without us in the room.
Sales, operations, finance, and delivery each need a single owner, clear numbers, and a defined seat. We work through the org function by function until every seat has a person, a number, and a rhythm.
Coaching for family-owned firms navigating a generational handover, a role reshuffle, or a next-generation coming in. We hold space for the business decision and the family conversation as two separate things.
Pick the shape that fits where the business is right now. Most clients start with a diagnostic call before committing.
Diagnose, design, and install the operating cadence and coaching rhythm. Ends with a working system, not a report. The most common way to start.
Monthly senior coaching for the owner, plus optional leadership team sessions. Quarterly recalibration. Cancel any month with 30 days' notice.
Facilitated quarterly planning, annual off-site, or a targeted leadership team session. Useful when the team needs to think together without the owner running the room.
Every engagement moves through the same four stages. Each stage has a purpose, a deliverable, and a graceful exit point if the work is done.
Two weeks of listening. Owner conversations, leadership team interviews, and a read of the numbers to surface what is actually holding the company back.
We sit with the owner and shape the coaching rhythm, the meeting cadence, the scorecards, and the accountability structure the next 90 days will install.
We run the cadence with you. Weekly owner coaching, leadership sessions, the monthly review. The system goes from a plan on paper to a habit in the calendar.
Monthly senior coaching, quarterly recalibration. Our role shrinks over time. If the cadence is holding, coaching graduates to on-call.
Owner-led. Doing real work. Ready to stop being the bottleneck. If that describes the company, the coaching tends to take.
Home services, professional services, trades, healthcare practices, agencies. The kind of firm where the owner still knows every client and the P&L, and the ceiling is their own time.
First-to-second generation handovers, sibling partnerships, family boards. Companies where the business conversation and the family conversation live in the same room and need help staying separate.
Post-startup, pre-professional-management. The stage where the founder has to build a leadership team that can hold the company without them, and doesn't know where to start.
The questions we hear on nearly every introductory call. If yours isn't here, ask on the call.
Owner-led services firms, family businesses, and growth-stage companies in the Nashville metro and Middle Tennessee. Most engagements are with founders, second-generation owners, and CEOs of firms doing between $2M and $40M in revenue who want senior coaching without the overhead of a national firm.
Yes. Summit is based in Franklin, Tennessee and serves clients across the Nashville metro and Middle Tennessee in person. We also work with a small number of remote clients nationwide by video, typically when a Nashville-area referral moves out of state.
An operating cadence is the recurring rhythm of 1:1s, weekly leadership syncs, monthly business reviews, and quarterly planning that keeps a company aligned without burning out the owner. Most owner-led firms have no cadence at all, or one that only lives in the owner's head. We install a cadence that runs whether the owner is in the room or not.
Consulting hands you an answer. Coaching builds your capacity to reach the answer yourself, and next time without us. Summit does both. A typical engagement is coaching on the owner-operator level, paired with hands-on consulting to install the operating discipline the coaching depends on.
Ninety days for the initial diagnose, design, and install phases. From there, most clients move into a monthly sustain retainer for six to twelve months while the cadence takes root. We build in a graceful exit at every stage. If coaching stops being useful, we say so.