From Growth-Trapped to Growth-Ready: Build Operations That Scale
You've built a successful business, but success created chaos. Team in place but everything revolves around you. Systems breaking under growth pressure. You're trapped between too successful to stay small and too chaotic to scale. In this interactive session, discover the framework successful founders use to scale without being the bottleneck and you'll identify which gaps hold you back and what to fix first.
Mara Whitener
Business Problem-Solving Strategist & Fractional COO
Mara Whitener — Strategic Growth Partner for Founders at the $600K–$1M+ Mara Whitener is a trusted advisor to growth-stage founders navigating the complexity of scaling past $600K–$1M+. With over two decades of experience building and operating successful service-based companies, she helps CEOs reclaim control by tightening strategy, aligning leadership, and stabilizing internal operations for long-term, sustainable growth. Her specialty lies in solving what others overlook: the internal bottlenecks that silently erode momentum: misaligned teams, broken systems, scattered priorities, and founder over-functioning. More often than not, Mara spots the bottlenecks breaking growth that Founders can’t spot on their own. She brings a rare combination of strategic insight and operational rigor, delivering hands-on partnership that moves businesses from reactive to reliable. Clients turn to Mara when their business has outgrown its foundation—and their success is creating more friction than freedom. She’s not here to offer advice from the sidelines. She’s a Strategic Growth Partner who works inside your business to implement the structure, leadership clarity, and operating rhythm that drive scale without burnout. Her approach is sharp, efficient, and always customized. No fluff. No filler. Just the infrastructure, insight, and execution support your business actually needs to grow with confidence. Outside of business, Mara is a lifelong advocate and community leader, with five Congressional Awards for leadership impact. She’s also a foster pet parent and behind-the-scenes introvert who finds joy in turning big visions into clean, scalable systems.
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