The Alignment Company

I help founders survive their own success.

When you're the answer to every question, the business can't outgrow you. I fix the processes and build the team together, so it runs without you in the middle of it and you get out in front, leading where it goes next.

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Sound familiar?

If you're the founder, the owner, or the CEO an owner brought in to run it, this is probably close to home.

None of this means something is broken. It means the business outgrew the way it was built.

Every operational problem has a people problem inside it.

Most advisors fix the process or coach the people. The fix only sticks when you solve both. I've spent my career running operations, and I'm a trained mediator. I work on both sides at once.

AI is a current example. Most rollouts stall for the same reason operational changes do: the tool works, and the people and process around it weren't ready. How I help teams with AI enablement

How it works

  1. 1

    Find it. It starts as a conversation about where the strain is greatest and where people wait on you, so you leave able to name the real problem and what it would take to fix it. Together, we look at it from both the people side and the process side, because a fix that skips either one doesn't last. Skip one, and in six months you're back where you started.

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    Align it. The right people in the right seats, and the people who run the process help design it. That gets you a team that knows what is changing and why. It gets you accountability, because you can hold people to a plan they agreed to. And it gets you a better solution, because it comes from the people who know the work best.

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    Hand it off. It's ready to run, and you're no longer driving it. The processes are written down and working, and what used to run through you now runs through your team. You get your time back to lead where the business goes next. I stay until it holds, then step out.

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Results

Growth without chaos

A multi-location service business grew revenue more than 30% year over year on flat bookings, by running the business better.

Turnaround

A manufacturing plant that had never made a profit went from a $12M loss to a profit of more than $20M in one year.

Retention

Every client I've worked with has extended or signed a second engagement.

Brian Hanley listening and taking notes in a client meeting

Operator. Mediator. In your corner.

I've led manufacturing operations, built technology and business systems, and trained as a mediator. That combination means I can fix the process and resolve the tension around it, so the change actually holds.

Start with a conversation.

A call is a short, no-pitch conversation. You'll get a real read on where the business is stuck and what to do about it, whether or not we work together.

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