The Owner Dependency Diagnostic + Strategy Sprint

This private Strategy Sprint is designed to identify where your business currently depends on you and help you decide what should stay that way — and what needs to change.

Before we meet, you'll complete the Owner Dependency Diagnostic, which looks at six areas of your business:

Revenue


How much revenue relies on your direct involvement? 

 

Decisions


What still waits for your judgment, approval, or context?

 

Delivery


How much of the value clients receive requires you personally?

 

Relationships


Which important client, referral, partner, or vendor relationships depend primarily on you?

 

Operations


What keeps working because you remember it, notice it, fix it, or know how it works?

 

Growth


How much forward momentum depends on you generating the next idea, initiative, offer, or source of demand?

 

I'll review your results before our session so we can spend our time working on the business behind the scores rather than simply reviewing an assessment.
During Our 90 Minutes Together

We'll work through three stages:

Diagnose

 

Where is owner dependency concentrated in your business?


Evaluate

 

Which dependencies are Strategic because your involvement creates meaningful value?

Which are Vulnerable because they create unnecessary fragility, constraint, risk, or obligation?


Redesign

For each priority dependency, we'll determine the right response:

Keep it.
Your involvement belongs here.

Transfer it.
Someone else can own the responsibility.

Systemize it.
The business needs a reliable process rather than your memory or intervention.

Leverage it.
Your expertise is valuable and needs to be multiplied rather than repeatedly delivered by you.

Eliminate it.
It no longer deserves to exist.

You'll Leave With a 90-Day Redesign Plan 


Following our session, you'll receive a concise Owner Dependency Redesign Plan identifying:

  • the areas where your business relies most heavily on you 
  • Strategic Dependencies worth intentionally preserving
  • Vulnerable Dependencies that deserve attention
  • the recommended response for each priority area
  • your three highest-priority changes for the next 90 days 
  • measures you'll use to know those changes are working
  • what becomes possible as the business requires less unnecessary involvement from you

For this initial pilot, we'll also reconnect for a 30-minute follow-up after approximately 30 days to review what you've implemented, what's changing, and where you've encountered friction. 

This Is Probably for You If...

Your business is established and generating real revenue.

You don't need basic startup advice.

You're not necessarily looking to sell your business or disappear from it.

You simply know that too much still depends on you personally — and you'd like more choice about what your role looks like going forward.

You may want more capacity.

More resilience.

Better profitability.

More room to think.

More time away.

The ability to grow without automatically creating more work for yourself.

Or simply the ability to decide where you want to remain deeply involved and where you no longer want to be required. 

Investment

$997

The pilot includes:

  • Owner Dependency Diagnostic
  • Pre-session analysis
  • 90-minute private Strategy Sprint with Sandra Martini
  • Owner Dependency Redesign Plan
  • 30-minute implementation follow-up

I am opening five pilot spots for this first round.

These are working sessions, not generic coaching conversations. We'll be looking at the structure of your actual business and making decisions about where it should — and shouldn't — continue to depend on you.

Ready to See Where Your Business Needs You — and Whether It Should?

Apply for one of the five pilot spots.

About Sandra Martini

For more than 22 years, Sandra Martini has worked alongside business owners to solve the messy, cross-functional problems that rarely fit neatly into one department.

Her work has spanned strategy, operations, marketing, sales, client experience, systems, profitability, and implementation — often inside the same business over many years.

Several of Sandra’s client relationships have lasted for years, and some for more than a decade. That long-term view has given her the opportunity to see how businesses evolve, where owner dependency quietly builds over time, and what actually happens when strategy has to survive real-world execution.