01Growth Plan Refresh
Revisit key ideas from the 10ksb curriculum and apply them to your business today. Evaluate the performance of your growth opportunity, reconsider important assumptions, and recharge your growth planning.
Your Business Advisor LLC
Let's Put Your Business Back in FocusPut Your Business Back in Focus
Business advising for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses graduates ready to refresh their growth plans, tackle challenging problems, or prepare for what comes next.
Business advising for 10ksb graduates ready to refresh growth, solve challenging problems, or prepare for what comes next.
You already know what it means to step back and work on your business instead of only working in it. Sometimes, however, the roadmap gets harder to see. Priorities compete. Problems linger. Growth plans need to be reconsidered.
Your Business Advisor LLC gives 10ksb graduates a structured opportunity to step back, regain perspective, and move forward with greater clarity.
Step back from the day-to-day. Revisit what matters. Create a clearer path forward.
A fresh perspective
You Built the Plan. Now It May Be Time to Revisit It.It May Be Time to Revisit the Plan
Growth changes your business. It can also change the questions you need to answer.
Your 10,000 Small Businesses experience gave you time and perspective to examine your business from a different vantage point. As your business evolves, you may need that perspective again.
We can revisit key ideas from the program, examine what is happening in your business today, and determine where renewed focus could create the greatest impact.
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Choose the Kind of Support Your Business Needs Now
Three customizable approaches designed around different business priorities.
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02Problem Analysis and Solution Planning
Identify challenging issues that may be delaying growth, diminishing profits, or creating frustration for your team. Then move from analysis toward practical solutions and implementation.
03Exit Plan Readiness Assessment
Start examining whether your business is positioned for a future exit. Assess processes and procedures and consider the relative financial worth of the company as part of determining your readiness to begin planning an exit strategy.
The advisory framework
Awareness. Insight. Impact.
A structured way to move from understanding what is happening to deciding what to do next.
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Awareness
Understand the environment, circumstances, conditions, and situations facing your business today.
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Insight
Examine the issues that matter most, including growth opportunities, customers, competitive positioning, financial fitness, people and culture, marketing and sales, operations, and processes.
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Impact
Turn insight into action through a detailed implementation plan with priorities, milestones, and meaningful measures of progress.
Working together
Focused Advising. Clear Next Steps.
The engagement is structured to keep strategy connected to action. After an initial discovery conversation, the work moves through the Awareness, Insight, and Impact framework.
Engagements include weekly Zoom work sessions, detailed meeting notes, and clearly identified action items for follow-up. Each engagement has defined milestones and concludes with an After Action Review to capture key learnings and accomplishments.
01 / Discovery
Discuss your priorities and determine the most appropriate path forward.
02 / Advising
Work through the issues using the Awareness, Insight, and Impact framework.
03 / Implementation
Translate decisions into specific actions and follow-up.
04 / Review
Capture key learnings and accomplishments when the engagement concludes.
About Marcy
Business Experience From the Inside Out
Decades of experience advising businesses, developing leaders, improving organizations, and helping owners turn strategy into action.
Marcy Rosenbaum began her career advising a small business in Greenbelt, Maryland, helping the company reach the Inc. 500 while navigating emerging technology.
Her career later included organizational development work on Wall Street, where Goldman Sachs recognized her work developing performance-management systems for teams operating under rapid change and competitive pressure.
She went on to lead consulting and organizational-development initiatives across corporate, nonprofit, and educational environments.
When Goldman Sachs launched the 10,000 Small Businesses program in Miami, Marcy returned to what she most enjoyed: working directly with small business owners. Over 10 years in the program, she worked with more than 700 business owners, helping them shape strategy, develop business plans, understand financial statements, and prepare compelling pitches.
Today, she works with a limited number of businesses through Your Business Advisor LLC.
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Ready to Make Time for Your Business Again?
Refresh your growth plan. Tackle a challenging business problem. Or begin assessing your readiness for a future exit.
Start with a complimentary discovery conversation. We'll discuss your priorities and explore which approach may make the most sense for your business.
Common questions
FAQ
Who is this business advising designed for?
Your Business Advisor LLC was launched specifically to serve graduates of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.
What types of business challenges can we work on?
The three core service areas are Growth Plan Refresh, Problem Analysis and Solution Planning, and Exit Plan Readiness Assessment.
Are the services customizable?
Yes. The three services are customizable packages designed around different business priorities.
How are advising sessions conducted?
Engagements include weekly Zoom work sessions with detailed meeting notes and action items for follow-up.
What happens during the consultation?
The discovery conversation is used to review your interests and priorities and explore the most appropriate path for working together.
Is the discovery consultation complimentary?
Yes. The initial discovery call is complimentary.