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The Structure Session

One day to untangle everything that runs through you.

A half or full day, with your team in the room or just you. We find where the work jams, decide what comes first, and you leave with a plan that starts Monday: owners, order, and dates.

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Selected clients

Delta Dental Hy-Vee HarperCollins Publishers Zondervan Compassion International Nextiva Townsend Institute Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa Iowa Soybean Association

You know the math.

The work keeps coming. The hours stay the same. Every decision, every next step, and every "what do we do first" still lands on you.

With a team, that looks like good people waiting on you and a Tuesday that disappears into questions only you can answer. On your own, it looks like a list where everything is urgent and the one project that matters most keeps slipping.

The default answer is more. Another hire, a better agency, longer days, one more program. What's usually missing is structure. Work comes in from every direction, nothing filters it, nobody but you knows what comes first, and the week goes to reacting.

That's a fixable problem. It takes a day.

Email Slack Client asks Quick favors New ideas YOUR WEEK

Every direction, no filter

Email Slack Client asks Quick favors New ideas ONE INTAKE YOUR WEEK

One gate, three lanes

How it works

Three moves. Before, the day, and after.

Before The assessment. You fill out a short assessment and we do the homework: how work comes in, how it moves, where it dies.
The day The session, plan included. A half day or full day, just you or you and up to four people who carry the work. In person or on Zoom. We map how the work really moves (not the version on paper), find the jam points, design the fixes, and write the plan before anyone leaves the room. Owners, order, dates. No two-week wait for a deck.
After Thirty days of follow-up. A month of coaching after the session, so the plan survives contact with your calendar.

The shape of the day

Assessment review
Map the workflow
Find the jam points
Design the fixes
Write the plan
Justin Wise leading an early Structure Session workshop
Running these rooms since 2010 · 200+ sessions
"Justin ran a growth/strategy session for me and two others on my team, and it was the rare workshop that was genuinely fun and left us with a very tactile plan that we could begin to work on the next day. Justin doesn't just hand you ideas; he gets your whole team aligned on the message and the delivery, so you leave with a roadmap instead of a notebook full of theory. My team and I have done plenty of these sessions with different coaches and consultants, and we always left wanting more. Justin's was the exception. Hands down the best we've done."

Daniel Doyle, Owner, Rise Constructs

What you leave with

A plan, not a notebook.

Everyone in the room walks out knowing what to work on each month and what to stop. You get a Structure Map and an action plan we build live in the room, plus a month of follow-up while you put it in motion.

✓ A Structure Map of how the work really moves today
✓ The two or three structural fixes that free the most capacity
✓ Rules of the road for incoming requests, so they stop landing as fire drills
✓ A written plan with owners, order, and dates
✓ A month of access to Justin while you put it in place

The plan

Action plan

Written in the room

Fix Owner When Intake gate live You Week 1 Weekly triage, 20 min J.R. Week 1 Two projects parked You Week 2

You walk out with this, filled in. Not a deck two weeks later.

Who this is for

Founders, owners, and leaders with more on the plate than the business can carry.

A founder with more good work than one person can carry, and something bigger on the way. An owner twenty years in whose team still waits on every call. A practice that grew past its systems. A department that became the bottleneck by being good.

The trade doesn't matter, and neither does the headcount. If your first instinct is another hire, a better agency, or longer days, run this experiment first. It costs less than the hire or the agency.

Who this is not for

If you're still finding your first clients, this is the wrong room. Same if the answer you're hoping for is a person to blame. This session makes the process the villain. If that sounds like a relief, keep reading.

Investment

One day now, or another year of the same.

Most common Half day $5,000 One core problem. One team, or just you.
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Bigger room Full day $10,000 Several teams in the room, or the long-range picture on the table too. Deeper map, bigger plan.
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Both include the pre-session assessment, the action plan built live, and thirty days of follow-up advising.

The session is guaranteed. If you don't leave with a plan you believe in, we'll make it right until you do.

Where the week goes

Reacting
Building
Today
Reacting
Building
After the session

Same hours. Different week.

"Justin took the time to talk through our processes and help us identify our strengths and blind spots, rather than come in and force a pre-determined answer to a problem."

BETH SHELTON, GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA

"Working with Justin was a great way to bring thoughts and ideas into focus with a distinct action plan to move forward. He brought high-level members from my business together to brainstorm ideas."

Dr. John Townsend, New York Times best-selling author and founder of the Townsend Institute

"With a small staff and big dreams, we needed a strategy that would maximize our efficiency and impact. Justin crafted a tailored plan that aligned perfectly with our goals and resources, and empowered our team with the tools to run it."

Rush Nigut, President, Victory Mounds

Logistics

In person in the Des Moines metro, at your office, or on Zoom.

Just you, or you and up to four others in the room.

Email us and we'll agree on a date. Payment or a PO locks it in, then your pre-session materials go out.

Pay by card through Stripe. ACH available.

Questions

Straight answers.

Where does the session happen?

In person in the Des Moines metro or at your office. Zoom works when it has to, but the whiteboard is better in the room.

Half day or full day?

Half day for one core problem, with one team or just you. Full day when more than one team needs to be in the room, or when the long-range picture is on the table alongside this quarter's work. If you're unsure, start with the half day and tell us if the list grows.

Who should be in the room?

The people who own the work and the people who can commit to changing it. Past five or six, a workshop turns into a meeting. The assessment can go wider than the room, and usually should. If you run the business on your own, the room is you, and that's enough. Anyone who'll carry part of the plan, like an assistant or a key contractor, is welcome too.

Why not do this ourselves?

Most teams can build a plan internally. What usually happens is the owner's view wins the room and the plan turns into a to-do list. We bring the outside process that forces the tradeoffs: what comes first, what waits, and what stops. If it's just you, there's nobody in the room to push back. That's the point of the day.

What's included?

The pre-session assessment, the day itself, the written plan with owners and dates, and thirty days of follow-up afterward. Nothing sold separately.

How do we pay?

Card through Stripe, or an invoice against a PO. If your company needs vendor setup first, we'll turn the paperwork around the same day you send it.

What happens after I email?

We agree on a date. Payment or a PO locks it in. The assessment goes out to everyone in the room, the answers come to us, and then we meet.

Got a question not answered here?

Email hello@structuregroup.co, or reply to the note that sent you here. If you're not sure the session fits your problem, ask that too. You'll hear back within one business day.

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"This netted me a 4x return on my investment with Justin immediately, and that was just the first opportunity."

JOE ALBANO, FOUNDER, TECH CACHE