Stop fighting fires and focus on high-impact projects instead.
Clear Strategies + Efficient Systems + Confident Leaders
The Hard Truth:
Endless hustle doesn’t build a business – it slowly kills it.
Growth feels like a treadmill—lots of effort but little forward progress.
Important decisions are delayed because you’re stuck putting out fires that shouldn’t exist.
Small miscommunications snowball into big problems that cost time, money, and trust.
You’re grinding harder than ever, but profit margins stay stagnant—or worse, shrink.
Every day starts with a to-do list, but it never connects to the bigger picture.
Your team feels drained—high turnover, unchecked overtime, and disengaged faces tell the story.
We believe today’s companies can efficiently generate more profit WITHOUT sucking the life out of everyone in it.
How it works
We use a three-phase process to foster sustainable improvements:
1. ASSESS
- Identify the bottlenecks and costly inefficiencies that impede growth.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of challenges.
- Find opportunities for improvement by reviewing key metrics and operational systems.
2. DESIGN
- Review recommendations for high-impact activities.
- Receive tailored solutions that use proven tools and custom templates.
- Draw from best-in-class planning frameworks
3. INSTALL
- Partner 1:1 with our team to install solutions.
- Get responsive, prioritized advice to maintain focus
- Train managers and leaders to execute strategies confidently.
- Regularly track progress, adapt and refine.
Grow your business while you OUTgrow busyness.
Key Outcomes
CEOs, COOs, CMOs, and operational managers of established companies in the Mid-Atlantic region work with us to achieve:
Strategic Focus
Shift from reactive decision-making to a proactive, strategic approach that ties long-term goals directly to daily operations.
Standardized, Repeatable Processes
Establish consistent, repeatable workflows that improve efficiency and ensure reliability across operations.
Confident Leadership and Delegation
Equip your leaders with the tools and frameworks to delegate effectively and trust their teams to achieve consistent results.
Improved Communication Inside and Out
Strengthen internal communication to reduce silos and enhance collaboration while sharpening external communication to attract top talent and drive sales success.
Why Work With Us?
Founders and executives see measurable gains in team performance, profitability, and satisfaction.
Ideal Clients: CEOs, COOs, CMOs, and operational managers of established companies
Our clients have already achieved a solid foundation of success, but they’re ready to optimize for sustainable growth.
provokebetter has meaningful expertise serving tech, advanced manufacturing, and creative services firms as they improve efficiency and unlock the full potential of their existing teams and business.
Our clients typically employ 11-50 people and attain $3M to $10M in annual revenue. Since we are based in the Washington, D.C. metro area, clients cluster in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Core Belief: Endless, unfocused hustle slowly kills businesses.
A strong, healthy business starts with aligning strategy, leadership, and culture so you can reduce daily busyness and focus on future goals.
As leadership and management consultants, we know sustained growth comes when you professionalize cashflow controls, operations, offerings, talent development, sales, and marketing.
Your Expectations for Engagement: Active Participation
Leaders who commit to consistent engagement—showing up for scheduled sessions, applying the insights gained, and reaching out proactively—experience the most substantial, sustainable growth.
By revisiting assessments, refining solutions, and staying responsive to changing needs, we help your organization continuously improve and maintain alignment with its overarching goals.
Hit Higher Revenue Goals
We started at a kitchen table and grew without a plan in place. That only got us so far.
We now have a clear vision for our goals and the company we want to grow. That's allowed us to nearly 2x revenue in less than two years WITHOUT burnout.
President, Technology Solutions Firm
Vital To Our Growth
We realized we needed to invest in our business when explaining what we did was exhausting.
provokebetter helped us focus on simplifying and systemizing our operations... vital to our growth and significant for all internal changes.
Accounts Manager, Systems Integrator
We Are Better Because of You
Working with you guys has led us down a path that has worked really, really well for us.
We now have the systems and accountability we need to reduce stress and confusion, and take on new business.
Project Manager, Creative Services
OUR MISSION
Grow Your Business. OUTgrow busyness.
I used to feel trapped in the business I led. Not anymore.
You’d think that growing up in a family-owned business would teach you management best practices. It didn’t for me.
Are you too busy being the hero of every crisis that you fail to be the architect of the company’s future? Yep. I made that mistake before.
Maybe you are like me and think being a company leader will give you more control over your schedule. Well, it didn’t work that way for me…. at first.
It wasn’t until I learned how to systematically replace bottlenecks with breakthroughs that everything changed. And that’s why I want to help you.
Now, we have clear, actionable strategies tied to long-term goals.
- No one in my company feels overburdened or burned out.
- There are no information silos that cause costly mistakes.
- We don’t miss growth opportunities or leave revenue on the table.
- I have time to plan, nurture key client relationships, and develop leaders from within.
You can, too!
When you align leadership, strategy, and culture, you’ll create a high-performance workplace that sustains itself.
– Whitney Hahn, CEO
Leadership and Management Consultant
provokebetter
