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A two-day operational reset for multi-unit leadership teams

Make Work Suck Less Intensive

Who is this for? This information is essential for franchisees, district managers, and regional leaders seeking business consulting. It also benefits hospitality operators and multi-unit leadership teams aiming for operational clarity.

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Why most leadership training fails operators

Training enhances people, especially in the context of business consulting, where continued instability often stems from outdated systems. Without operational clarity, performance regresses, and leaders in multi-unit leadership roles may find themselves burning out once again.

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Who is this for?

This is for organizations where:


Top performers are constantly firefighting due to a lack of operational clarity. Bench strength isn’t scaling with growth, leading to challenges in multi-unit leadership. Labor pressure is rising faster than capability, and execution consistency varies by location. Additionally, leadership development feels reactive, underscoring the need for effective business consulting.

What Changes After the Intensive

Hero Hours Decline

Repeated Corrections Drop

Repeated Corrections Drop

Most leadership teams in business consulting are compensating for structural friction with personal effort. After achieving operational clarity, escalation reduces because decision ownership becomes clear and execution expectations stabilize, especially in multi-unit leadership.

Repeated Corrections Drop

Repeated Corrections Drop

Repeated Corrections Drop

When priorities are sequenced and accountability is visible, leaders in multi-unit leadership roles spend less time re-explaining standards and decisions. This operational clarity reduces leadership fatigue and increases execution consistency, which is essential in effective business consulting.

Initiative Count Reduces

Repeated Corrections Drop

Performance Becomes Explainable

Organizations enhance their performance by fully executing fewer priorities. Business consulting can assist leadership teams in multi-unit leadership roles to eliminate competing initiatives that dilute operational clarity.

Performance Becomes Explainable

Performance Becomes Explainable

Performance Becomes Explainable

Operational variance decreases as leadership systems become predictable, particularly in the context of business consulting. This shift allows performance to transition from personality-driven outcomes to results that are structurally repeatable, enhancing operational clarity in multi-unit leadership.

Alignment Raises the Floor

Performance Becomes Explainable

Alignment Raises the Floor

Top performers are no longer required to compensate for systemic gaps in operational clarity. Through effective business consulting, leadership alignment can create stability across locations, ensuring that excellence is not confined to isolated pockets but is experienced throughout multi-unit leadership.

Why operators bring Drew in

We are a professional business consulting and management firm committed to helping businesses achieve their goals. Our team of experts, with extensive experience in multi-unit leadership, is dedicated to providing tailored solutions that ensure operational clarity for each client. Explore our website to learn more about our services and discover how we can help your business grow.

How the Intensive Works

Onsite for 2 days

Private Workshop

This private executive working session is designed as a form of business consulting to reduce structural friction and create operational clarity across multi-unit leadership teams.

Private Workshop

Onsite for 2 days

Private Workshop

This intensive business consulting engagement is delivered as a private session for a single organization or leadership group. The work is specifically designed around your operational reality — rather than generic leadership models. Discussions, exercises, and decisions are grounded in live performance conditions, current priorities, and existing leadership dynamics, ensuring operational clarity. This approach guarantees that the outcomes are immediately relevant and executable within your multi-unit leadership structure.

Onsite for 2 days

Onsite for 2 days

Pre-Work Alignment

The intensive business consulting session is conducted onsite over two consecutive days to allow for full leadership focus and uninterrupted structural work. Unlike traditional training environments, the goal is not merely knowledge transfer; rather, it is to achieve operational clarity and alignment among leaders. 


During this time, leaders step out of the daily operational noise long enough to: 


• identify structural friction 

• clarify ownership 

• simplify priorities 

• stabilize execution expectations 


This approach creates space for decisions that are challenging to make within the normal operating rhythms of multi-unit leadership.

Pre-Work Alignment

Leadership Development

Pre-Work Alignment

Prior to the intensive business consulting session, leadership stakeholders engage in a structured alignment process designed to enhance multi-unit leadership effectiveness. This process includes: • performance context review • leadership expectation mapping • organizational pressure point identification • clarity on desired outcomes The goal is to ensure that the two-day session begins with operational clarity and a shared understanding rather than discovery. This dramatically increases the effectiveness of the time onsite.

Post-Work Roadmap

Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Following the intensive, leadership teams receive a structured execution roadmap designed to support implementation in their business consulting efforts. This roadmap includes: • priority sequencing guidance • accountability structure recommendations • leadership communication alignment points • operational stabilization focus areas. The objective is not just inspiration — it is about achieving sustained change through effective multi-unit leadership. Organizations leave with a clear path to reduce friction, enhance operational clarity, stabilize performance, and maintain alignment over the following 90 days.

Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Our leadership development programs are designed to help you build the skills and expertise needed to lead your business to success. We offer a range of training and coaching programs to help you become a more effective leader.

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Leadership Alignment Intervention

Diagram of The Better Alignment Model showing four key business elements.

The Make Work Suck Less Intensive is structured as a focused leadership intervention in the realm of business consulting, rather than a traditional training program. This two-day engagement is designed to stabilize execution environments, clarify accountability structures, and reduce performance volatility across multi-unit leadership organizations. Organizations engage BTY when performance inconsistency evolves from a local leadership issue into a broader structural leadership system issue, emphasizing the need for operational clarity.

Engagement Investment

Private workshop intensives are structured as: $10,000 per engagement plus travel and accommodation. This format allows organizations to bring together the multi-unit leadership teams responsible for execution stability and long-term performance alignment. The objective is not merely information transfer; rather, it aims for operational clarity and stabilization.

Why Organizations Structure It This Way

Leaders attending the intensive are not removed from the business to 'learn theory.' They are stepping out briefly to: • diagnose execution friction • sequence leadership priorities • align accountability expectations • design systems that reduce escalation dependence. This approach to business consulting enhances multi-unit leadership by fostering operational clarity. Most organizations recover the investment through reduced leadership churn, fewer reactive initiatives, and improved execution consistency.

Engagement Format

Intensives are delivered: 


• privately for leadership teams focused on multi-unit leadership 

• onsite within operational markets to enhance operational clarity 

• in a concentrated two-day format 

• with pre-alignment preparation 

• and a post-intensive execution roadmap 


This structure ensures that insight from business consulting converts into operational behavior — not just agreement.

When Execution Needs Structure, Not More Effort

Most leadership teams are not struggling because they care less. They are struggling because the operating system they inherited requires too much personal energy to sustain performance. The Make Work Suck Less Intensive offers business consulting to help organizations transition from effort-driven execution to system-driven stability, providing essential operational clarity. If this transition is now necessary for your multi-unit leadership team, begin the engagement conversation below.

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This brief conversation helps determine whether the intensive business consulting is the right intervention for your multi-unit leadership environment, timeline, and performance objectives, ensuring operational clarity.

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