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Everything still runs through the founder
Decisions, approvals, and problem-solving keep climbing back to one person, leaving no room to lead the next stage.
Fractional COO & Operations · Minneapolis
Build the operating system behind your growth.
When the founder is still the connective tissue for every priority, decision, and handoff, growth gets expensive. 4498 North brings experienced fractional COO leadership to build the clarity, cadence, and systems that let the business run without everything running through you.
15+Years of executive operations leadership
COOHands-on executive operating experience
95%On-time delivery after process overhaul
EOSTrained Integrator for operating cadence
Where I step in
Six signs the business has outgrown the way it runs.
The symptoms look different from company to company. Underneath, they usually come back to priorities, ownership, process, and operating rhythm.
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Priorities move faster than execution
The team is busy, but the work that matters most keeps slipping because there is no reliable operating cadence.
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Roles and ownership are blurry
Important work lives between people and departments, creating dropped handoffs and quiet duplication.
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Delivery depends on heroics
Work gets done because good people push harder, not because the process is clear, visible, and repeatable.
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The numbers arrive too late
Leaders make decisions from instinct because reporting is inconsistent, incomplete, or disconnected from the work.
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Growth keeps exposing new cracks
Every new client, hire, or market adds complexity faster than the company can absorb it.
The engagement
An operating partner, not another layer of advice.
The work starts with how the business actually runs today: the priorities, meetings, handoffs, systems, and numbers underneath the noise. Then we fix the constraint in the work, not in a slide deck.
I can step in as your fractional COO, operating right hand, or EOS Integrator, depending on what the business needs. The goal is the same: clearer ownership, faster execution, and a company that depends less on founder intervention.
Because I also work across people operations, the operating model and the team model can be built together instead of pulling in different directions.
Weighing the investment? Read what a fractional COO costs and when it makes sense.
How it works
Diagnose the constraint. Build the rhythm. Make it stick.
01 · Understand
See how work really moves
Map the priorities, decisions, handoffs, tools, and team dynamics that are creating friction.
02 · Focus
Fix the highest-leverage constraint
Choose the small number of changes that will create the most operating capacity and momentum.
03 · Operate
Install a repeatable cadence
Build the ownership, scorecards, meetings, and follow-through that keep the change alive.
Talk it through
Get the business out of your head and into a system.
No pitch. Just a conversation about where execution is getting stuck and whether fractional COO support is the right next move.