When Everything Runs 
Through You, Nothing Scales

BOS❤️™ helps creative teams scale through cocreative structure and distributed ownership — preserving innovation, autonomy, and culture without forcing top-down control.

Mission

Our mission, told by our founder

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Audience

Built for Founders & Leaders who are...

Exhausted from making every decision and being the answer to every question.

Feeling like growth broke something that used to feel natural and collaborative.

Wanting to share leadership without losing control of what matters to them.

Ready to build a team of empowered people who think, own, and lead their work.

How We Do It

Our Method: Cocreative Thinking

We help founders and leaders shift from reactive firefighting to structured co-creation, clarifying who owns what decisions, externalizing leadership load, and building a lean structure where talented people operate independently.

Cocreative Thinking™ Model
What is BOS❤️™

BOS❤️™ is a Structured Operating System.

BOS❤️™ (Business Operating System) is a staged framework for founder-led creative and innovation-focused companies.

It begins with personal operating clarity, expands into leadership alignment, and scales into organization-wide structure.

This is not coaching.
It is operating architecture.

Tier 1

Founder
Coaching

Starting at $1499/Month

Built For: Founders and leaders ready to reach the next milestone and lead with more clarity.

What's Included:

  • Weekly coaching sessions on a pre-scheduled cadence.
  • On-demand access to book time when situations arise.
  • Resources, training & tools tailored to your stage.
  • Situational support beyond traditional coaching sessions.
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Tier 2

Leadership Team
Alignment

Starting at $3099/Month

Built For: Founders with a first layer of leaders who need to operate as a cohesive unit.

What's Included:

  • Facilitated team alignment sessions.
  • Defined ownership areas for each leader.
  • Shared language and operating principles.
  • Coaching support for founder and leadership team.
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Tier 3

Organizational
Rollout

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Built For: Scaling companies ready to build a team-of-teams that can run without you in every decision.

What's Included:

  • Organizational pilot design and rollout plan.
  • Internal champion identification and enablement.
  • Consistent cross-team operating playbook.
  • Tooling and process guidance throughout.
  • Scalable structure that reduces founder dependency.
*Coming Soon*
Leadership Load Review™

Start With a Review

The Leadership Load Review™ is a comprehensive diagnostic, not a sales call. You'll leave knowing exactly where your bottleneck is and what to do about it.

It Exists to:

Effectively prioritize focus.

Remove noise and amplifying signal.

Identify simple changes that have a big impact.

It is intentionally:

Bounded.

Non-escalatory.

Not a sales call in disguise.

Market Comparison

What Makes Us Different?

Culture Preservation

Measurable Impact

Capacity Management

Company-wide Systems

People-first Design

Other Organizational Operating Systems

General Leadership Coaching

BOS❤️™

Results & Testimonials

The Results Speak
for Themselves

32.7%

Increase in profit margin

10+

Hours reclaimed weekly

1 Day

Leadership team aligned for the entire year

"BOS❤️™ has pulled us out of the loop we were stuck in and gave us a path to become a better company and stronger leaders."

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Jeff Caron

Founder, Sonder

"Chris's strategies made me realize that managing a team is really just another kind of design challenge, and I could use my design skills to approach it. It got me thinking more creatively about how to spot and solve operational problems for my team."

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Anne Brown

Design Director, Paper Leaf

"Chris challenges your mindsets, helping you see opportunities right in front of you. I appreciate the candid nature of the conversations we can have together."

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Sophie Maisonneuve

Partner and Creative Director

"Chris takes the necessary time to weave into your team and truly understand what is needed, then he finds effective ways to fill the gaps."

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Dave Johnson

Founder & CEO, Omnee

“Chris was amazing at honing in on people's personal strengths, finding unique ways of highlighting their weaknesses in order for them to grow and develop best practices for themselves.”

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Derek Kadis

Director of Adoption, Omnee

"When Chris creates a vision, it is for the company. His visions embody change and the risks that go with it. He puts in the work every day to make them come true."

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Matthew Willox

Technical Director, gskinner

"Chris has become a champion of extending our net to make sure we get diverse designer candidates."

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Chris Kohanik

Senior Designer, gskinner

"Chris is a deep thinker. He's also a rare combination: a craftsperson turned team leader, someone who actually knows the power of true, people-focused leadership and can execute on that."

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Jeff Archibald

Founder & CEO, Paper Leaf

"Chris's thoughtfulness and high-touch approach set him apart tremendously. Love his frameworks."

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Jen Derks

Creative Director, Four Fin

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Is this just coaching?

    No. This is systems design for leadership teams. I don't just ask questions and help you think — I bring frameworks, tools, and patterns from 25+ years of building and transforming teams. You leave with practical systems you can use immediately, not just insights.

  • Will this add more meetings?

    The opposite. Most of my work helps teams eliminate unnecessary meetings by creating better clarity, decision-making frameworks, and alignment. We design systems that reduce coordination overhead, not add to it.

  • Does this work for creative teams?

    Absolutely. I spent 15+ years leading design and creative teams in agencies. I understand the unique challenges of creative work: balancing structure with flexibility, managing scope, creating space for craft while hitting deadlines. This isn't corporate process — it's lightweight systems designed for creative environments.

  • What if my team resists change?

    Resistance usually means poor implementation, not bad ideas. We start small with the highest-leverage problem (usually time and priorities), create early wins, then build from there. No big-bang transformations. Changes are co-created with your team, not imposed on them.

  • How long does implementation take?

    It depends on where you start. A leadership team coaching engagement is typically quarterly (3 months). Individual workshops produce immediate clarity and action. The goal isn't "finishing" — it's building your capability to design your own systems over time.

  • Can we customize this for your industry?

    Yes. Everything I teach is adapted to your context. I don't do cookie-cutter implementations. We use your real challenges, your actual team dynamics, and your business constraints to design the system that works for you.

  • Who is this for?

    Leadership teams and team leaders (typically 3-10 people) who are underwater with priorities, leading talented people who should perform better as a team, and tired of firefighting. Most often leadership teams in small-medium businesses going through growth. This is for leaders willing to have hard conversations and do real work — not just talk about it.

  • Who is this NOT for?

    This isn't for people looking for quick fixes, motivational content, or someone to tell them exactly what to do. It's not for enterprise-scale processes or teams that aren't ready to be honest about what's not working.