Ryan,
I scrolled past an Instagram post of yours asking if anyone knows of available leaders, as you are seeking leaders for your Atlanta and D.C. locations.
I can help you source leaders and build teams. I can also help you fix a problem you haven’t named by assisting as a fractional COO — an instant partner to help navigate the new complexities you are likely facing due to growth and change.
As businesses grow and make changes, they must establish a new homeostasis for the growth or change to hold. Growth and change are natural producers of strategic misalignment, causing gaps throughout the company. Strategic gaps are difficult to identify and resolve.
Strategic gaps often present as people problems: trouble keeping employees, siloed leadership, customer service issues, inconsistency of brand across locations, stress, gossip, and insecurity. That is why people try to hire, train, replace people with technology, and fire their way out of these situations. They’re not people problems. People are indicating that something much bigger is happening.
Hiring alone won’t fix this. You don’t need a recruiter. You need a competent partner who understands the pressures you’re facing — someone who listens and creates the space you need to lead without becoming another thing you must manage.
I’ve included two potential engagements. The final engagement is determined based on gaps and vision. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions while reading or after. My cell is below if text is easiest.
— Searcie (Sir-See) · 678-895-7967 (C)
You’re looking for leadership. The generic answer is a recruiter or internal sourcing. A recruiter may source a candidate you like who looks good on paper — but there is much more to hiring, and to the success of the new hire, than the placement.
Half of senior leaders fail in their first 18 months — and most of those failures trace back to the role and what’s underneath it, not the candidate. You’re not in a business that can absorb that twice.
I source team members who understand your vision, mission, and needs — and I build what’s needed to find the right candidate and what’s needed to keep them.
Most recruiters work transactionally — find a résumé, vet it, hand it off. This is different. What follows is what a proper search looks like when the goal is for the person to succeed, not just for the seat to be filled. These are not done in sequence — we run as much as possible in parallel for the fastest result.
A diagnostic-led engagement that rebuilds the operating layer underneath TGS — so the company can run like a large organization.
The engagement begins with a diagnostic, so every decision is made for you. I provide a plan based on the diagnostic and your vision, delivered through clear project deliverables you can see and track.
The Gathering Spot has gone through many changes and needs to find its new homeostasis. The systems underneath — processes, training, feedback loops, the way information moves — are still built for one location and thirty people.
This is not a failure. It is the natural result of growth. The company has outgrown its structure, and it is time to rebuild. Every new location and every new hire adds complexity without adding capacity — until you establish a new rhythm.
The next page shows the six deliverables with the highest immediate impact for where TGS is right now — followed by the full program, all twenty deliverables, on the page after.
Out of twenty in the Fractional COO program, these six carry the highest immediate impact for where TGS is today.
Every role defined around your competitive strategy, not a template. Development path and 90-day plan written before the offer letter, with departmental strategy, SOPs, and team structure built underneath — so the leader isn’t handed a blank canvas.
The vision says “grow to five cities,” but the decision-making structure, reporting lines, and accountability systems were never rebuilt to support five cities. I complete the half-built strategy — connecting vision to the systems and people that produce results.
A member in D.C. should feel TGS the same way they feel it in Atlanta. I build the experience standards, train every team on them, and make sure they hold across every location — before each one drifts into its own version of service.
Right now you find out something’s broken by being in the room when it goes wrong. You can’t be in every room across five cities. I design the systems that tell you what’s working and what’s not — so you can decide from anywhere.
A deep look at how work flows through TGS today — who decides what, where information moves, what gets stuck — then a redesign of the processes so the company runs the way it was meant to.
You can’t run D.C. like Atlanta — different members, competition, and expectations. I research each market so every decision about programming, staffing, and investment is tied to what that specific city needs.
One engagement, one price. None of it is sequential — it runs in parallel based on what the diagnostic surfaces and what you need first.
I’m an executive service operator who understands the natural cycles of operations and how to build one that honors your vision. When I help leaders create environments where people can succeed, lives change.
My goal is to reduce the burnout and chronic stress that come from people being asked to carry work the business itself isn’t built to handle. When strategy, operations, and daily decisions don’t line up, the pressure doesn’t disappear — it moves onto people.
Given the urgent seats in Atlanta and D.C. plus the scaling strain underneath, I’d start with the Diagnostic and run both programs concurrently — Executive Search to fill the seats now, the Fractional COO engagement to rebuild what they land inside, so the placements actually hold.
Sixty minutes to figure out where the gap is leaking most and whether I’m the right partner to close it. If we move forward in that conversation, I’ll apply a 15% discount on your first three invoices.
Contact me however is easiest — the number below is my cell. Every part of the conversation is confidential. My goal is to help.