BUILD ACCOUNTABILITY. IMPROVE EXECUTION. GET BANDWIDTH TO BREATHE.
The weight of the business is sitting on your shoulders, fires never stop, and growth keeps exposing cracks. You don't need another consultant — you need someone inside the operation fixing the real problems. Fractional operations leadership builds the backbone your team has been improvising around, turning chaos into order and execution that takes the weight off you.
Who This Is For
Built for leaders who need the business to carry more weight.
When the company has outgrown its current operating model, this is where Catapult Ops Group fits.
CEOs and leadership teams stretched too thin
Your executives are buried in operational noise - managing tasks, chasing follow-through, and carrying too much of the organization themselves.
Organizations growing faster than their infrastructure
What worked with your startup team, doesn't hold with your business at 10x the size, and needs a stronger operating model behind it.
Founder-led businesses at an operational ceiling
The systems are no longer keeping up. Decisions funnel through you, execution is uneven, and the business cannot keep scaling through founder energy alone.
Businesses preparing for transition or sale
You need the operational backbone, documentation, and accountability a buyer or successor expects - without slowing the company down.
Booming or stuck - but not ready for a full-time COO hire
You need experienced operational leadership to stabilize, scale, or prepare for the next chapter, but a full-time executive is not the right move yet.
Key Outcomes
What the right operational backbone delivers.
Bandwidth for you to lead. Bandwidth for family. Bandwidth to breathe.
Operational Clarity
Clear ownership, aligned priorities, and shared expectations so the business operates smoothly without constant executive interpretation.
Team Accountability
Systems, cadences, and leadership behaviors that make follow-through the default instead of another job sitting on the CEO's plate.
Scalable Systems
Processes, structures, and workflows designed to absorb growth, complexity, and transition without constant intervention from the top.
Leadership Bandwidth
Operational burden comes off leadership so founders and executives can focus on strategy, relationships, and the next stage of the business.
Exit and Growth Readiness
A stronger operating backbone that supports expansion now and creates a more transferable business for future leadership or sale.
How Engagement Works
A structured approach to building leverage.
From operating reality to repeatable execution - with the business becoming stronger at each step.
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Assess the Operating Reality
We get an honest picture of where things stand - conversations with leadership, an objective read on friction points, and clarity on what is driving burnout, bottlenecks, or fragility.
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Prioritize High-Leverage Improvements
We identify the changes that will create the most leverage, then sequence them so the team gains traction without being buried by another initiative list.
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Embed with Leadership and Teams
We operate in the rooms where decisions get made - building relationships, driving accountability, and working alongside leadership instead of solely advising from a distance.
Leadership
Experienced operational leadership for pivotal business stages.
Tim is an operations executive who has spent his career helping organizations execute with discipline, scale with intention, and build stronger operating foundations. He serves as a trusted partner to founders and leadership teams navigating growth, transition, and the demands of a business that needs to function beyond one person.
His approach is direct. No complexity for its own sake - only the systems, accountability, and execution required to make the business run well and become more durable over time.
Core Competencies
- Operational strategy and execution
- Process design and optimization
- Organizational structure and design
- Team leadership and executive partnership
- Scaling operations through growth stages
- Cross-functional accountability systems
- Performance management and metrics
- Nonprofit establishment and compliance
- Business planning & predictive decisioning
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Serving organizations nationally
Ready to build an enterprise that can carry more without you carrying all of it?
Let's talk about the operational lift required for your next stage - growth, transition, or sale readiness.
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