The SOL Collective is an elite community for Business Strategists and Operational Leaders who advise and support founders to successfully and sustainably scale their business.
The future of operations is strategic...
Elevate Yourself from Operations Leader or Strategic Advisor to Strategy and Operations Leader (SOL)
With the ever-increasing reliance on AI to automate operational activities, the role of an Operational Leader is changing. Become the in-demand and indispensable Strategy + Operations Leader (SOL) that small business founders are searching for.
Become a strategic leader who understands how to balance sustainable and scalable growth with operational efficiency.
As someone who serves as the right-hand to a founder, whether in an operational leadership role or as a strategic advisor, your role is the bridge between the founder's big bold vision and goals and delivering the results they want.
While incredibly valuable and fulfilling, this role is also incredibly challenging.
As part of the SOL Collective, you’ll enhance your ability to manage up and down in the business, effectively set expectations, handle challenging situations, and lead the business to scalable and sustainable success.
You'll also become what we call a "Visionary Whisperer", able to effectively work with a founder as both a challenge-partner and strategic possibility-partner. This critical blend will set you apart from other right-hand leaders and advisors.
Here's What's Included in the SOL Collective
Monthly Strategy & Ops Leader (SOL) Workshops
Get live expert trainings and support every month on next level strategy + operations leadership including:
Strategic Thinking and Leading Change: You'll develop the ability to think strategically, foreseeing how vision and abstract strategies translate into actionable steps and how to align changes in the businesses you work with. You'll also understand how to embrace an agile mindset and working style.
Advanced Communication and Leadership: You'll enhance your leadership communication skills to effectively manage upwards and downwards within the organization including techniques for handling difficult conversations and conflict resolution and setting clear expectations and accountability standards.
Problem Solving and Decision Making: You'll develop the skills and tools to make informed decisions and solve problems that align with strategic business goals including problem-solving strategies in complex scenarios.
Becoming a Visionary Whisperer: Understand how to work effectively with a Visionary founder and be their trusted right-hand advisor at an Executive-level (which is very different than other levels).
The AI-Enabled Business: Understand how to effectively leverage AI and automations to simplify and streamline business growth and operations.
High-Value Systems and Content Every Month
Each month you get access to ready-to-implement systems and content to support strategy and operations leadership.
To get you started, you get instant access to Operation Reclamation, a digital program designed to help you eliminate wasted time and money, get laser focused on what matters most, and avoid bright shiny objects. $497 value
From there, you unlock a new training or system each month you are a member.
High Caliber and Supportive Community
Build relationships with and mastermind with other right-hand strategy and operations leaders so you always have a trusted network of peers to collaboratively support and bounce ideas and challenges off of one another.
We believe in collaboration over competition and that we all uplevel when we support one another.
SOL Collective is by application or invite only so you can be confident you'll be with other high caliber leaders and advisors at your level.
Support from the Strategic Ops Institute Team
In addition to a supportive community of other operational leaders and strategists, you also get support from the Strategic Ops Institute team.
We regularly share insights and answer questions in the community, pulling from our extensive experiences as COOs, CMOs, and Business Strategists and our in-depth knowledge of building, growing, and scaling small businesses.
"In the Know" Trends and Info
In your role, you are often expected to know everything - new tools, new trends, important changes that impact both marketing and operations. It can be exhausting trying to keep on top of it all.
Well, now you don't have to subscribe to dozens of newsletters and follow countless social media accounts to stay informed - we do all of that for you.
We'll keep you up to date on the latest developments and changes in marketing and operations so you are always several steps ahead of the business owners you support. Look a whole lot smarter without having to invest more time!
Easy Access Via Desktop or Mobile App
The SOL Collective is in Circle, making it simple to access on desktop or mobile via their app. With single-sign-on, you can easily access all of the communities you are a part of in Circle all in one place.
We believe in keeping things lean and giving you everything you need and nothing that you don't.
This is not some overstuffed program with numerous calls and content you don't have time for.
Everything we deliver is high-value, high-impact, and low-time commitment. You get 1 live workshop, 1 content drop, and endless support each month!
Who the SOL Collective is For
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Meet Crista Grasso
As the "Business Optimizer," I specialize in elevating the talented leaders who serve as the right hand to visionary founders and CEOs. My mission? Helping these invaluable operations experts level up to become true Strategy and Operations Leaders (SOLs).
I know firsthand that sustainable growth doesn't require rigid, overcomplicated solutions. That's why I take a radically simple approach - identifying the core leverage points and architecting the repeatable systems and flows to maximize impact with minimum complexity.
With over 20 years as a world-renowned lean and agile transformation expert and working in lock-step with the C-Suite of Fortune 500 leaders as well as bootstrapped small businesses, I blend strategic thinking and creative problem-solving with the right systems and structure to consistently provide simple, yet innovative, solutions tailored for each client's ambitious vision and goals.
And I created an entire lean scaling system for you to do the same!
Why Join? Here Are Some of the Benefits
Blend strategy with operations to differentiate yourself from other Ops Leaders and be more in-demand
Get strategies to simplify, systematize and scale your own services as you scale your clients' businesses
Invest in yourself by committing the time to uplevel your skills, your confidence, and your connections
Have a safe space to ask questions and get support when you need it from others who've been-there-done-that
Have Questions?
We understand you may be hesitant to join sight-unseen.
That's why we offer flexible month to month payments with no contracts.
Go ahead and join and if it's not for you, simply cancel before the end of your first month and you won't be billed again.
OKAY, I'M IN! LET'S DO THIS!