Free · 9 questions · 4 minutes · Results on screen, no call required
IF YOU DISAPPEARED FOR 30 DAYS, WHAT WOULD SLOW DOWN?
5 minutes to see where your company still depends on you, why it happens, and what to fix first.
Built for CEOs running $10M to $200M companies
In five minutes you will see:
Your Executive Dependency Score, out of 100
Which of the four dependency types is running your company right now
What that specific type is costing you in decision speed
The one thing to change first, and the three to leave alone
The problem isn’t that you’re involved. It’s where your company still needs you.
“My team needs me too much” is the symptom. The Scorecard looks underneath it, at the four places an organization can become dependent on one person. Most companies have one dominant type, not all four, and the fix for each one is different. That is why general advice about delegating has not worked.
Where are decisions getting stuck?
Are decisions waiting on your approval when someone else could reasonably own them?
Why are things coming back to you?
Does your team actually lack authority, or have they learned that escalating to you is the safest way to get a decision made?
What happens when you’re not there?
Which parts of the business slow down, stall, or wait when you step out of the room?
Who else can see the whole picture?
If the full context lives in your head, your team is not avoiding ownership. They are missing the information required to take it.
What this is not
Another article about delegating
A framework you will put in a drawer
A productivity tool
It is a diagnostic. It tells you what is actually happening, then stops.
What others are saying
"She removes dependency. Lisa is the person I would call first."
- Rick Kloete, President, Kloete Group
"Lisa has a rare ability to identify what's actually slowing a company down, and it's almost never what the CEO thinks it is."
- Scott Aaron
Top 15 Executive Coach, CEO World Magazine · KTLA 5 · CBS News · Thrive Global
You already suspect where the bottleneck is. The question is whether you name it or keep paying for not knowing.
PS. In a January 2026 study of C-suite executives and managers at companies above $250M in revenue, nearly three in four leaders estimated their organizations lose up to 5 percent of annual revenue to slow decisions and delayed execution. The largest contributor was not technology. It was leadership behavior.
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