Founding cohort · Online · By invitation
Even with a great team, your business can still feel chaotic.
You don’t have a people problem. You have a systems problem.
Join the ManageHub Accelerator and turn chaos into calm. It’s an invitation-only working group of nine leaders. You bring a project manager from your own team, and over 90 days the two of you install ManageHub’s Meeting-Hub with your people, so your team runs the week and you finally get time to build the organization you meant to lead. One hour a week, online, built on Baldrige best practices.
2 of 9 founding seats filled
The problem
If everything runs through you, nothing really runs.
Growing organizations hit a wall. The leader works harder, the team waits on the leader, and the future keeps getting pushed to next quarter. Leadership school costs money and time you don't have.
Sound familiar?
More decisions land on your desk than should.
You hold back on delegating because work comes back wrong.
Meetings run long and decide little.
Departments work in silos and problems surface late.
Strategy lives in your head, not in your team's week.
Good people stall because there is no clear path to grow.
What this is
Not a class. Not a networking group. Not traditional consulting.
It is a working group. Nine leaders install the same operating system at the same time, with their own people, and hold each other accountable for doing it. Leaders direct. Employees implement.
You leave with
A running Meeting-Hub
Your team reports progress, blockers and next steps in one living agenda, without you chasing it.
You leave with
Time back for strategy
Management by exception. You see what needs you and let the rest run.
You leave with
A deeper bench
Your project manager and your employees learn to carry the load by doing it, every week.
You leave with
Eight peers
Leaders from other industries who have solved the problem you are stuck on.
How it works
Three things working together.
01
Baldrige principles
The why. The Baldrige Excellence Framework, the national standard for performance excellence, made practical for an organization your size.
02
ManageHub Meeting-Hub
The tool. A living agenda in Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 that surfaces bottlenecks and health indicators every week.
03
Nine leaders
The accountability. You report back to the table every week. Nobody wants to show up empty handed.
Meeting-Hub is where the loop starts.
ManageHub runs on four connected systems, and each one feeds the next. The people closest to the work raise issues and ideas. The best become decisions. Decisions become action. What you learn updates your systems and standards, and that surfaces the next round of issues and ideas.
The 90 days install the Meeting System first, because execution is where most organizations lose the week. Once your team runs it, the other three plug into the same loop.
Why Baldrige
Everything you learn is based on America’s standard for best management practices.
The Baldrige Excellence Framework is the national framework for performance excellence. Congress created the Baldrige program in 1987, and NIST manages it today. Award-winning businesses, hospitals, schools and nonprofits use it to lead, improve and get results. Most smaller organizations never use it, because nobody shows them how. ManageHub turns its best practices into weekly habits an organization of 10 to 50 people can actually run.
Where the 90 days put Baldrige to work
Leadership
You set direction and clearly set expectations. Your team carries the work.
Strategy
Strategy moves out of your head and into your team's week.
Workforce
Your project manager and employees build a deeper bench by doing the work, every week.
Measurement
Progress, blockers, next steps and health indicators, visible every week.
Operations
Month three brings in your core operations and the harder pieces.
Results
Each leader reports what changed. We track it every week.
The first 90 days
Learn it by doing it, one week at a time.
The first 90 days are the founding experiment. The group keeps meeting after that.
MONTH 1 · WEEKS 1 TO 4
Set up and launch
Customize a stripped-down Meeting-Hub. Fewer tabs, fewer objectives. Launch it with your team by week four.
MONTH 2 · WEEKS 5 TO 8
Populate and run
Fill it with real work. Employees take over the reporting. You start leading by exception.
MONTH 3 · WEEKS 9 TO 12
Add operations
Bring in the harder pieces: operations, health indicators, and strategy your team helps carry.
AFTER DAY 90
The table continues
The group keeps meeting. Founding members help shape what comes next.
WHEN
One hour a week, same day and time, for 12 weeks. You get the schedule on your intro call.
WHERE
Online. Join from anywhere in the country.
WHO ATTENDS
You and your project manager.
EACH SESSION
Part teaching how to customize the tool. Part reporting back to the table.
Who gets invited
I can only help the willing.
We want leaders who will do the work and bring their people with them. We recruit across industries on purpose: a manufacturer, a nonprofit, a healthcare practice and a professional services firm learn a great deal from each other.
A good fit
✓ You lead a business, nonprofit or association with 10 to 50 employees.
✓ You feel the growing and slowing pains described above.
✓ You can name a project manager who will attend with you.
✓ You will be there every week for 12 weeks.
✓ Your team uses Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
✓ You will share what you learn with the other eight.
Not a fit right now
You run a solo business with no employees.
You want someone to do it for you.
You cannot protect one hour a week.
You are looking for a networking group or a class to watch.
Larger organization? The private 90-Day Install on managehub.com may fit better.
Your facilitator
Mike Kramer, CPA
Founder of ManageHub. I have spent 25 years helping leaders build organizations that run without them, rooted in the Baldrige framework. Clients have gone on to 18× and 14× EBITDA exits. Now I want to prove this works faster when nine leaders do it together.
How to take a seat
Four steps. The last two prove the commitment.
STEP 1
Apply
About ten minutes. Tell me about your organization and what is getting in your way.
STEP 2
Talk with Mike
A 30-minute conversation to see if this is the right fit for both of us. Terms are discussed here.
STEP 3
Show the commitment
Name your project manager, put all 12 sessions on both calendars, and take the ManageHub Success Score.
STEP 4
Take your seat
Sign the participation agreement and join the first working session.
Questions
What leaders ask first.
How much time does this take?
One hour a week together, plus the work you and your project manager do between sessions to set up and run Meeting-Hub with your team.
What does it cost?
Founding seats are complimentary. Voluntary contributions are welcome but never expected, and only after you see significant value.
Do I need special software?
No. Meeting-Hub runs in the Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 you already use.
Why a project manager?
Because the goal is a system that runs without you. Someone on your team needs to own it from day one. That is how you build a deeper bench.
What happens after 90 days?
The group keeps meeting. Founding members help decide what the table works on next.
Founding cohort
7 seats left at the founding table.
Apply if this is you. Nominate someone if it is not.