book your COMPLIMENTARY 15 minute business diagnostic
Stop Guessing What's Wrong.
Diagnose It.
You do not need more ideas. You need to know what is actually keeping your business from running, Growing, and paying you the way you want it to.
in this complementary 15 minute business health diagnostic, Katie evaluates your firm across the five areas that determine the health of a designed business, identifies the primary constraint, and prescribes what needs your attention first
You already know the symptoms.
Revenue has plateaued. You are booked, but not profitable enough. You hired help and somehow created more work for yourself. Leads are inconsistent or aren’t the right fit. Every important decision still comes through you. Your business has outgrown assistance that got you here. You’ve changed your pricing, marketing team or processes and something still isn’t working.
Those look like separate problems. Usually they aren’t.
They are symptoms of a deeper constraint somewhere in the business.
And until you identify that constraint, you can spend a lot of time and money fixing the wrong thing.
This is for you if:
you’ve built a real design business, but it is not performing the way you know it could.
You’re growing, but the business is becoming harder to run.
Your generating revenue, but not seeing enough profit.
You’re considering a hire, pricing change, new service, marketing investment or other major decision and want to know whether it is actually the right move.
You’ve tried fixing individual problems before only to have another one appear.
Or you simply keep thinking, why is this still so hard? That is exactly what we’re trying to diagnose.
If you read that list and recognized yourself in three of them, that's not five problems. That's usually one problem showing up in five places.
What Happens on the Call
Fifteen minutes, three moves.
Step 1. Diagnose where you are.
We start with the realities of your business today: Revenue. Profitability. Team capacity. Marketing services. Leadership goals. Katie drills into what is happening now and what isn’t working the way you want it to. Not the polished version. The actual business.
Step 2. Identify the constraint.
Using the Business Health Wheel, Katie evaluates the five areas that determine whether a design firm can grow profitably and sustainably.
Step 3. Get your business health prescription.
You leave with a Business Health Prescription: your biggest opportunity, your immediate next steps, and what to stop spending energy on.
The health of a design firm comes down to five things
We check all five. You don't need to know which one is broken before you get on the call. Figuring that out is the call.
Financial Foundation: Pricing, profitability, cash flow, and the numbers you've been avoiding.
Predictable Marketing: A pipeline that fills itself instead of one that depends on your mood.
Human Capital: Hiring, delegation, accountability, and the work only you can do.
CEO Leadership: Strategic planning, decision-making, and running the business instead of the projects.
Products & Offerings: What you sell, how it's priced, and the experience the client actually buys.
See how Katie Works in Each Pillar -> Work With Katie
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Who's Diagnosing
Get To Know Katie
Katie did not learn how to diagnose design businesses from theory alone.
She built one.
Color Works started in 2007 with cardboard box of paint chips and grew into a multimillion dollar design farm serving clients across more than 20 states.
She understands what happens when pricing, profitability, hiring marketing operations services and leadership, all collide inside a growing design form.
And she knows that the answer is rarely to simply work harder.
The first step is figuring out what actually needs to be fixed.
The biggest surprise was how grounded Katie is. Very successful, but still very human and relatable and fun." Zoe Browne
Wenatchee, Washington 98801
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