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Looking for a speaker who's actually been in it?
The founder who became chief of everything.
I'm Tiff, a Fractional Chief of Staff for creative founders. I've spent 20+ years in the back of small businesses, and I work with founders who got so good at their thing they accidentally ended up running a company around it. I talk about what that actually costs, and what it takes to get out from under it.
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Most rooms want tactics. I’d rather talk about why the tactics keep not working.
I’ve spent twenty years in the back of small businesses, watching capable founders become the bottleneck in the thing they built. I talk about why that happens, why the usual fixes don’t stick, and what actually has to change first.
Discussion Topics…
You're the CEO. You're also everything else.
Why the founder who knows everything becomes the thing capping her own growth, and what to do about it.
Why "just delegate it" never works.
Delegation fails for identity reasons, not process reasons. What actually has to shift before a handoff sticks.
Start with the life. Then build the business that can hold it.
Most people fix the business and hope the life improves. The case for doing it in the other order.
The hire that finally sticks.
Why most first hires fail, and what has to exist before you bring anyone in.
