Right Hand Packages

  • EXPLORE

    Decide whether/when you need a Right Hand.

  • LAUNCH

    Onboard a new Right Hand.

  • CALIBRATE

    Take an existing Right Hand to the next level. Asess an aspiring or current Right Hnd.

  • ACCELERATE

    Teach a great Right Hand how to sit in the top seat. Teach the CEO how to make room at the top.

EXPLORE

Clarify thinking, identify risks and opportuities, and make an informed decision about whether it’s time to share the top leadership spot.

Four structured 90-minute coaching sessions and a Right Hand Report™ with insights, goals, and recommendations. Sessions are 2 weeks apart. Report delivered after last session.

LAUNCH

90-day program to get a new Right Hand started right. Align expectations and define reporting, decision making, communication, responsibilities, and more.

Month 1: Four-hour Foundations Session. Unlimited coaching to help Right Hand make the game plan. Two-hour Go Forward meeting to finalize and approve the plan.

Months 2 and 3: Implement and troubleshoot. Two structured coaching calls with Right Hand each month. One coaching call with CEO each month.

CALIBRATE

Assess: Discreet discovery process to diagnose problems, understand strengths, and make recommendations about your current Right Hand situation.

Develop: A formal, completely custom training plan that will strengthen blind spots and fill relevant skills gaps. We’ll teach the specifics of how to be a Right Hand. We’ll also teach CEO how to manage the Right Hand for future success.

ACCELERATE

Get serious about your goals for expansion, sell, or succession. We’ll devise a program that minimizes risk by systematically increasing Right Hand responsibility, autonomy, and leadership.

Stop hoping your Right Hand will be able to replace you someday, and instead, make it happen on a specific timeline.

  • “I’m a Right Hand (aka the COO). My CEO and I have been working with Dr. Stone for a few months. I first thought, do we really need this? Upon seeing the results and successes we are getting I can say this was the best decision my CEO made for both of us to get on the same page and stay on the same page. Often you think, I know how to manage my COO . . . well, frankly, you don’t. The COO also thinks I know exactly how to do my job . . . which frankly is not true either. If you really want to “Get the Right Hand Right” and take your company to the next level, then Dr. Heather Stone is THE SOLUTION.”

    -Dr. Jonna Blank, COO, Wealth Factory

  • "A few meetings into my work with Dr. Stone / Practical PhD I recognized all the interviews with Chief Operating Officer candidates and the extensive hiring process was the easy part. The hard part is the onboarding of the new COO in an efficient, constructive manner. I knew there were several items I needed to address but Dr. Stone helped me see there are so many more items that need to be prioritized to ensure success in this new relationship. Involving a true professional to guide this onboarding process to be by our side a made all the difference in getting off to a great start. Dr. Stone is a genuine professional."

    Norm Westervelt, CEO, Wealth Factory

We are Right Hand experts. We can help you decide the big questions:

  • When’s the right time for a Right Hand?

  • Is my situation too unique for a Right Hand to succeed?

  • How do I avoid a big mistake on a Right Hand hire?

  • Is my current Right Hand going to cut it?

  • How do I get out of the Right Hand mess I’m in?

  • Is my Right Hand good enough to replace me someday?

Benefit from a proven system and our experience with hundreds of CEOs and Right Hands. You don’t have to figure this out yourself!

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  • "Great framework to get the most out of CEO & Right Hand."

    Heidi Frye, CEO, Disruptive Advertising

  • "Practical thought process on how to be a better RH man and develop one!"

    Gary Overy, VP of Operations, Ohio Metallurgical

  • "Very applicable to the needs no one ever talks about. It feels like we should know this, but we don't."

    Jonyce Bullock, CEO, Squire & Company

  • "Heather's approach for analyzing and informing that critical Right Hand decision is on point and the most practical I've ever seen. This is incredibly valuable and time very well spent."

    Tyson Smith, CEO & Founder, Reading Horizons

“There are as many ideas about what a COO does or how they do it as there are CEOs. COO is the hardest senior job description to write in any organization.”— Cameron Herold, The Second in Command

We don’t do executive search, so we’ve enlisted a best-in-class partner who does. They are trained on our proven Right Hand system. One Eighty Collective is our designated Right Hand recruiting firm.

Their services integrate seamlessly with ours, so you can move quickly from “Do I even need a Right Hand?” to “My new Right Hand is in place and working out awesome!”

Ask how to save money by bundling EXPLORE, HIRE, and LAUNCH together!

50+

Average hours our clients save (per search)

92%

Average candidate acceptance rate

40%

Faster time to hire than industry average

100%

Clients that have referred us to another company or have come to us as a referral

Watch our joint webinar on hiring a Right Hand!

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Figure out exactly what you need in a Right Hand and how to hire one.