Feeling maxed the eff out -- like if one more thing is put on your plate, you'll burn it all down? This is for you.

Welcome to Golden Key Advisory

1:1 Strategic Support & Consulting

Where business owners come to get a simple & effective game plan and strategic support to bring order to chaos, and put out the fires that keep lighting your butt on fire.

"Finally feeling confident AND competent with how to scale my business!"

Before we partnered with Lauren, we were really struggling with scaling the business and team dysfunction that pulled me back into the weeds.

The biggest frustration we had was feeling like we didn’t have a clear path to get the business and team where we wanted them to be.

The biggest ROI and ROTI is my sanity.

I have clarity on how to move forward and can now see light at the end of the tunnel.

Lauren gave me the competency I needed to have in order to take our business to the next level.

Her advising on utilizing our team members in their best capacities has made our team function in a healthier way then we ever have had and our business has had record breaking growth since.

-Josh Herrington | CEO at 6th Gen Home Services | Austin, TX

Tell me if this rings any bells, you’re…

  • Feeling overwhelmed with the million things you have on your plate running the day-to-day of the business
  • Feeling exhausted and struggling to make simple decision because you just can’t find the time to breath and think
  • Wanting to take a vacation but have very little confidence the business will still be standing when you come back
  • Feeling like your day runs you instead of you running your day
  • Struggling to get out of the weeds; you know you cannot fix this by doing more because you physically can’t continue to do more 
  • Starting to resent how the chaos and stress of your business is now bleeding into other areas of your life

Now, take a breath, I got you. Now imagine for a moment what we can do together:

  • Create a game plan to bring order to the chaos, and put out the fires that are lighting your butt on fire once and for all
  • Having the confidence and clarity you’ve been longing for to know exactly what you need to do to take a step forward and get out from under your business
  • Identify gaps in profitability and where you are leaking revenue so we can shore that up and keep more money in YOUR pocket
  • Unlock your team and how to work with them more efficiently, profitably, and successfully to give you back TIME
  • Finally feeling (and BEING) productive instead of busy and getting some gosh darn traction and momentum
  • Setting you and your business up for sustainable success so you can take a much needed vacation whenever and to wherever you want moving forward. 
We’ll guess what my friend, you’re in the right spot to make that beautiful picture above a reality – and so much more.
—–> It all starts here. 

Golden Key Advisory

Where business owners come to get traction and create sustainable scaling so that you can have the business you envision which is an ASSET, instead of a job!

Golden Key Advisory is for busy, overwhelmed business owners who are sick and tired of being tired and buried.  

You want to get out of the business day to day, but because every day presents a new barrage of fires and “things to do” you’re just not sure how to get off the reactive rollercoaster.

You know your business has a next level but you can’t do more.  You need support, leverage, strategy, and a plan to get you out of the weeds and back into the parts of your business that you love. 

You need the biz doctor. 

Lauren is going to be your advisor, your right hand – a neutral third party here to help you navigate getting to the next level as seamlessly and simply as possible.

Together, she is going to help you shift your business from reactive to proactive, from job to asset, from chief-everything-officer to true business leader and have a heck of a lot of fun along the way.  Sound like exactly what the doc ordered? Here’s the skinny.

How it works:

First, the most exciting part of this is that this isn’t just for you, nope! 

You get TWO seats – one for you and one for your second in command so we can make progress faster and cut out the whole game of telephone to your chief implementor and second in command.   

Part 1: Check those Business Vitals

There are few things I hate more than bandaids and whack-a-mole in business.  Save that for someone else, we don’t do that here.  

The first place we start is with a diaagostic look into your business so we treat the root causes of what’s keeping you trapped, not red herrings. 

Surgery not bandaids to actually move the business forward consistently and get you off this overwhelm spiral. 

We look at your 

  • People (team)
  • Process (ops)
  • Profit (where is your revenue leaking, revenue cliffs, and concentrated risks)

We dig deep into your business to see whats working and what’s not so we focus on the right things that will make the biggest impact. 

We want to make sure what we uncover will have positive ripple effects in the business as a whole, not in a silo and are the best use of your limited time and resources. 

Part 2: Proactive Planning: Strategy to Scale Sustainably 

Once we have that clear picture of your business from the diagnostic, we break it down into bite size (and doable) game plan to bring clarity to the chaos.  

Your game plan includes:

  • Your top priorities for the next 6 months such as key hires, operational changes, profitability improvements, etc.
  • Any threats we see coming down the pipe like concentrated risks, revenue cliffs, team red flags and how to address them
  • And of course a report to find the money in your business so you can instantly save money on the bottom line and make more profits from your team.

Part 3: Business Rhythms & Consistency to Maintain Momentum

So much success is dependent on you getting out of the weeds and staying out.  Learning to focus on what really moves the needle and fills your cup which is a muscle you are going to have to grow. 

So you and Lauren are going to be in the business gym month to month making sure you are staying the course, being consistent, accountable, and in committed action to ensure that you don’t get back on the burnout roller coaster, that your profits keep growing, that you set up your business for success to run without you when you take that long overdue vacation. 

It’s time for you to run your business instead of feeling like it is running you.   

Bottom line:  We know you are time poor, wearing all your many hats, so GKA is designed simplify and give you the accountability, plan, and structure you need to get out from underneath that mountain of business day-to-day and actually feel like you are making progress not just treading water. 

Bottom line: We’re going to help you finally breathe a sigh of relief with your business, get out of the trenches, make a bigger impact, increase profitability - and enjoy your business (and life) again!

She gives me tools so I am empowered to do this on my own – not just theory – she gets inside my business and feels like an extension of my business, like a partner, not just a resource that will go away! 

-Monica B. | San Francisco

In Golden Key Advisory you’ll get:

  • Clarity on what is working, what isn’t and a game plan + accountability to actually move your business forward AND simultaneously  get you out of the trenches.
  • Tools, frameworks, and processes to simplify and tune up your business /team so that it starts running like a well oiled machine without you 
  • Greater profitability, efficiency, simplicity, consistency, and impact.
  • Clarity on who you need on your team to get you permanently out of the trenches of day-to-day operations
  • Leadership tools to help you be the best leader you can be and help set your team up for more success  
  • Proven practices to create a high performing team that can be autonomous without you so you can stop burning the candle at both ends, take a vacation, and get farther faster
  • Less stress and frustration in your business 
  • Accountability and business strategy that help you scale sustainably and simply (repeatable, predictable, sustainable, and consistent success!)
  • Support to help you in all the highs and lows that come with running a business.  It can be lonely at the top, but not anymore.  Lauren’s go you!

"CONFIDENT ABOUT WHO WE NEED TO HIRE AND HOW"

Before we partnered with Lauren, we were having trouble finding competent staff. The biggest frustration we had was feeling like we were at a dead end or worse a never ending carousel of employee turnover.

It was during the diagnostic phase that it really hit me how valuable and different her consulting is. She actually helped us save $150,000 in top line team expenses!

Working Lauren and her team was a wonderful and worthwhile experience that I would recommend to any business leader looking to improve not only their business and teams, but also themselves as leaders.

-Brian Mitchell | Partner at Mitchell & Pahl Wealth Management | OKC, Oklahoma

MEET LAUREN GOLDSTEIN

Lauren Goldstein is founder and CEO of the award-winning and globally recognized boutique business consulting firm, Golden Key Partnership. 

Her clients lovingly call her “The Biz Doctor” (which also happens to be the name of her podcast).

Her superpower is helping 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs uncover what is keeping them stuck in the trenches of their business, so that they can have more freedom, impact, success, happier teams, and can breathe a much needed sigh of relief.

Lauren’s greatest asset is helping business owners successfully transition through the gap of business operator to true business owner; from chief everything officer to powerful and effective CEO & leader by creating the right team for you and backing it up with the right systems and ops. 

Bottom line, Lauren helps you have a business that can sustainably grow without you feeling like it is all on you – and one that when you decide to take that deserved vacation, it runs without you having to worry. 

She’s been featured in Thrive Global, Huff Post, Authority Magazine and is a trusted expert to fortune 500 companies like Apple, Nike, and AT&T, among others.

This (and more) is what you get to look forward to with our work together!

  • You are out of the day to day and finally have – say it with me – TRUE ENTREPRENEURIAL FREEDOM – you know time freedom to step away from the business and work on other projects (or streams of revenue) that you are passionate about and the business still marches on.
  • You’ve mastered how to effectively (and easily) lead your team – they feel like partners not just employees
  • Your business is finally set up your for sustainable success and growing without burning you or the team out
  • You have absolute clarity on where you are and where you want to go – and more importantly how to bridge that gap
  • Your business is at peak efficiency and profitability – with a high performing team thats right for you
  • You have someone on speed-dial to support and guide you as you navigate scaling and growth
We’ll guess what my friend, you’re in the right spot to make that beautiful picture above a reality – and so much more.
—> It all starts here.

COMMON QUESTIONS:

Here are some of our common questions. 

If you have other questions, feel free to reach out to hello@goldenkeypartnership.com or book a call.

While I don’t know your schedule, what I do know is the ROTI (return on time invested) will pay massive dividends. 

My goal is not to create more work for you but actually to get you unburied and your business running without you which will take work and time so you will need to prioritize our work because it is going to bring you the clarity to calm the chaos and actually CREATE time. 

Our work together is designed to work WITH your business.

It is long tail work that does take commitment and consistency, that being said I have never had a client not get results.

The caveat here is that everyone’s results are different and specific to your business so before we even begin we make sure the results you are looking to achieve are clear and we have a plan to get you there.

YUP! You’re actually who this was designed for… the “on the verge of burnout” entrepreneur.  

Our work together is designed to get you out of this spread too thin stage in the trenches.  (and spoiler, it is simpler and closer than you think!)

Golden Key Advisory is geared towards 7-Figure service(-based) businesses that have teams of at least 3-5.

If you are just starting to grow your team then we have something else that would be a better fit for you called the CEO Strategy Session – where we set you up for foundational success so when you do hire, you do it right and you don’t waste time or money.  

If that is something you would like to know more about email us and we would be glad to send some more info your way.