BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING CASE STUDY
Reclaiming 15+ Hours a Week for the CEO
How we dismantled the "CEO bottleneck" at a scaling tech firm, empowering their leadership team and freeing the CEO to focus on strategic growth.
Client
NextGen Dynamics
Industry
Enterprise SaaS
Services
Operational Analysis, Leadership Coaching, Framework Design
The Situation
NextGen Dynamics (name changed) was a high-growth SaaS company whose success had created a critical problem: their talented CEO had become the single point of failure for the entire organization. Every significant decision, from marketing copy to minor product features, required their sign-off.
The Challenge: The CEO Bottleneck
The company's growth was being throttled by the CEO's limited bandwidth. The desire to maintain quality had created a culture of dependency that was now stifling the very innovation that had made them successful.
Paralyzed Decision-Making
Projects would stall for days waiting for CEO approval. The leadership team was hesitant to take initiative, leading to missed deadlines and a reactive, rather than proactive, business culture.
Founder Burnout
The CEO was working 70-hour weeks, buried in tactical details and unable to focus on the high-level strategic work required to navigate their competitive market, leading to exhaustion and frustration.
Our Approach: A Framework for Delegation
Our goal was to build a system of trust and accountability that could operate without the CEO's constant intervention. We implemented a 3-phase plan over 60 days.
01
Decision-Making Audit
We interviewed the leadership team to map every key decision point in the company. We analyzed the risk and impact of each decision, creating a clear matrix of what truly required CEO-level input versus what could and should be delegated.
02
Delegation & Accountability Framework
Our goal was to build a system of trust and accountability that could operate without the CEO's constant intervention. We implemented a 3-phase plan over 60 days.
03
Leadership Team Coaching
A framework is useless without the confidence to use it. We coached the leadership team on how to take ownership, make decisions within the new framework, and communicate their progress effectively, rebuilding a culture of empowerment.
The Results: A Liberated CEO, An Empowered Team
The new framework fundamentally changed how NextGen Dynamics operated.
15+
Hours Saved weekly for the CEO
50%
Faster Project Kickoff
9.2/10