Strategic Operating Partner
I'm Rose Dalrymple, the operator in your pocket for growth-stage founders who are ready to stop being the bottleneck.
Growth changes what your business needs. What got you here won't create what's next.
A vision is not a plan. A plan is not a rhythm. Most founders have the first two, and are missing the third: the operating rhythm that turns strategy into daily work, and daily work into results everyone can see.
Proof, not promises
01
Developing the leader your growth requires
You've got the right person in the seat. They just need to grow into leading at the next level, and sometimes that person is you. This is for the leader who's capable but stretched, and needs someone in their corner to build the confidence, the accountability and the decision-making that leading at this level really takes.
02
Installing the bridge between vision and execution
You've got a strong strategy. What's missing is alignment, accountability and consistency across the team. This is for the business that knows where it's going but needs the rhythm that carries the strategy through everyone, so execution stops being hit or miss.
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Strategic operational leadership embedded in your business
You need an experienced operator embedded in the business, someone to help lead, drive execution, and build the systems that let it all run without you in the middle of it. This is the deepest way we work together. I step in as your fractional COO and take ownership of the operational side alongside you.
Not sure which one you need? That’s what the Flow State Design Session is for.We’ll figure it out together.
Six stages, one continuous golden thread. It doesn’t stop at Results. It loops straight into your next growth target.
The framework
Rose runs this rhythm live with her clients. Not a slide. A weekly practice.
Fifteen years inside operations taught me that the difference between a company that scales and one that spins is rarely talent. It's rhythm, ownership and the willingness to look at the process before blaming the person.
I've led hundreds of employees across dozens of operations, supported acquisitions, and turned around businesses that looked past saving. I bring that operating muscle to founders who are ready for their company to run without them holding every thread.
Rose has the gift of being an incredible operational mind and leader, and a supportive, kind, nurturing human, at the same time. In my decades of working with teams, most people are one or the other. Rose is both, and excels equally in each role.
Katy WidrickFounder/Team MemberA focused session where we look at your results engine as it actually runs today, and map exactly where the rhythm is breaking down.
When you see “Leadership Meeting” on your calendar, and you'd rather hang out with your worst cousin. Yeah... It's probably time.
You get senior operating leadership now, while building clarity on what your company needs next, without rushing into a full-time COO hire.
We find what's off: people, process, or profit, and fix what's getting in the way.
Growth-stage, $2M to $15M+ in revenue, 5 to 300 people.
