You built a business that works. Now it needs your work. Decisions have to come through your desk, the vision lives in your head, and building a business that runs without you is a second full-time job you don't have and extra hours for.

The cohort experience gives you the context and process to make a plan instead of asking you to invent something on your own.

I designed the Legacy Leadership Architecture in six sequential domains to take a business from running on its owner to running by its owner. The cohort applies the architecture with a room of peers working through the same struggles. Hear how other leaders are working through some of the same roadblocks and how to get through them.

What’s Included

Legacy Leadership Assessment — Day-one

baseline and Week-13 re-assessment.

Measurable movement across all six domains.

Your personal execution plan, assembled from

your artifacts in the final two weeks.

A working artifact from every domain.

Published Vision + Communication Cadence,

Decision Matrix, Culture & Cohesion

Diagnostic, Bench-strength Map,

Operations-to-Vision Gap Analysis,

Replaceability Test Plan.

Structured Q&A in every session plus an

asynchronous question channel with a weekly

voice memo response.

Fourteen live sessions across 100 days.

90-minute teaching sessions alternating with

60-minute application clinics — about 17

synchronous hours total.

Access to session recordings and the cohort workbook. A private re-assessment debrief defining the domain that deserves your next season of work.

What you can expect to work on

You'll work on your own business, in order, one domain at a time.

You start with vision. Not just a statement for the wall but a published vision your team can repeat, carried by a communication rhythm that keeps it in front of them. Then decision-making, where you build a matrix that filters decisions by weight and owner, so the ones that don't need you stop arriving at your desk.

From there the work moves to your people. You'll run a diagnostic on how your team actually functions together and schedule one intervention against what it surfaces. Then you'll identify the leaders coming up behind you and write a development plan for each of them, which is where most owners discover the bench is thinner than they assumed.

The back half turns to the business itself. You'll map your operations against where the company is going rather than where it's been, which produces a gap analysis you can sequence instead of a list you can only feel guilty about. Then you'll design a replaceability test — a real, scheduled picture of what the business does when you step into a different role.

In the final two weeks you assemble all of it into a ninety-day execution plan for the year ahead. You leave holding a plan you built, not one you were handed.

  • A published vision cascading through a communication rhythm your team can easily follow.

  • A decision matrix to filter decisions in such a way that you don’t have to always be the one to make them.

  • Your next leaders identified + a development plan for each of them.

  • Operations mapped against the direction of the company, instead of tradition.

  • A tested picture of what the business can do when you step up or out.

  • A plan for next year that has meaning, intentionality, and direction.

Don’t take my word for it.

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    We expected some productive guidance during our Innovation Day but didn’t expect to be able to accomplish so much, all while having a good time doing so.

    Nathan Hansen, President at CDP, Inc.

  • Bryce

    Working with Jonathan Sheeley was a game-changer for my business. As the owner of growing business, I needed help developing systems and growing as a leader. Jonathan provided clear, actionable guidance that improved our team workflows and helped me become a stronger executive. His expertise in systems and leadership coaching exceeded my expectations.

    Bryce Thompson, Owner at Lakeshore Bookkeeping

  • Anne

    Working with Jonathan Sheeley has been an incredible experience for FreeFlow CEO and our clients. Jonathan’s leadership summit was nothing short of transformative—our clients walked away with actionable insights and a renewed sense of purpose in their businesses.

    Anne McKinney, Automation Specialist at FreeFlowCEO

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    "I have worked with Jon for many years, and he is more than just great consultant. He is a great man. He is a man of integrity."

    Luke Meilke, Founder & Videographer at FuZion

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FAQs

  • I’m Jonathan Sheeley, a Legacy Coach and Business Advisor. I’ve spent over a decade guiding leaders and teams through growth, transition, and decision-making under pressure. My passion is helping business owners d what they do best, build their company.

  • The cohort is designed with busy leaders in mind. You’ll participate in 7 sessions, with 7 additional sessions for working on the tools you need to extend your business into the next year.

  • Many groups focus only on business tactics for today. While that may reap some reward for todays profits, it doesn’t build you a company that can be tested against industry disruption, key teammembers leaving, or changes is the economy. At Sheeley Executive Consulting, we’re all about pushing you to make the hard & long-term decisions.

  • If you’re a business owner who wants to grow without losing sight of family, team, or purpose, this was designed for you. It’s especially helpful if you feel the weight of leadership and want clarity, accountability, and peers who understand your challenges.