Jen Eckhardt

Advisor | Mentor | Speaker

I don’t just help business owners fix what’s broken. I help them see what others miss.

As a former Fractional COO, turned Advisor to 100s of founder-led companies, I’ve spent nearly two decades diagnosing the root causes behind stalled growth, messy operations, and team misalignment. What I’ve learned is simple: surface solutions waste time. Real transformation starts at the core.

Today, I work as a strategic advisor to CEOs of $2.5M to $25M service firms who are ready to stop being essential to the business and start building something that can thrive without them. Together, we install the structure, systems, and leadership capacity that turn complexity into clarity and effort into enterprise value.

Our approach is not about scaling at all costs. It’s about designing a business that aligns with your values, protects your team, and creates real freedom. The kind that lets you grow without burning out. The kind that makes your company more valuable every quarter.

I built this work through experience. I know what it’s like to build a business that takes more than it gives. I also know what it takes to rebuild one that creates freedom, impact, and legacy.

This isn’t theory. It’s a philosophy, a method, and a commitment.
Freedom is not an accident. It’s engineered.
And legacy is not what you leave behind. It’s how you lead right now.

Our Structured, Proven Methodology

For nearly two decades, I’ve helped founder-CEOs escape the invisible trap of owner-dependence—not by working harder, but by redesigning the business from the inside out.

We don’t just install systems.
We shift power.
From you… to a team that can deliver without your constant presence.

Our approach is engineered to remove the root constraint stalling growth—while honoring the people who helped you build it. No filler. No time-wasting meetings.

Just a methodical path to greater freedom, enterprise value, and impact.

Because staying stuck isn’t just exhausting. It’s expensive.

Reliable Results:

40%+
Year-Over-Year
Revenue Increases

43%+
Employee Engagement Index Boosts

95%+
Reduction of CEO Involvement in Operations

  • She’s generous with everything: her energy, with her discoveries, with how much she puts into your success. She wants you to succeed on every level and it shows in her program assets, in her weekly calls but most especially, in her presence.

    Christel Crawford, Founder
    The Conscious Entrepreneur System

  • Jen’s expertise is the ideal balance of coaching, mentoring, informing, and challenging—helping me grow as a leader while improving our team and company culture.

    Theresa Dormi
    Tumult Labs

  • Jen has guided us through a year of transitioning to a self-managing organization. She's helped us draw the map of where we want to go.

    Patty Lawrence, Founder
    TurboExecs

  • Jen is a super sharp strategist who understands what it takes to get operational alignment, help the Visionary leader become free from the weeds of "operational overcommitment" and get the team focused on the goals that will serve the organization best.

    Krista Clive-Smith, CEO
    Krista Clive-Smith

  • Jen is a world-class problem solver and incredible asset to any team she might find herself on. Combining her business acumen with her incredible leadership skills and the heart of a lion, Jen's a true force.

    Chelsey Siltanen, President
    Siltanen & Partners

  • Jen has helped me personally, and our business as a whole, on multiple projects from time management to hiring to scaling operations. Very good at what she does and very helpful to busy CEO's like myself.

    Stephen Beach, CEO
    Craft Impact

  • Our business benefits greatly from the resources we get from Jen and I'm a much better support to my CEO because of her coaching and guidance. We consider her our "secret weapon" in optimizng operations and processes. It's a comfort to know that I have someone with her knowledge and experience guiding me.

    Brooke Blair
    Exitology