From founder-reliant to self-running.
In 90 days.
For founder-led businesses that are busy but not moving forward and where every decision still defaults back to the founder.
I step in as your Fractional EOS Integrator and work alongside your leadership team until the business runs without depending on you.
Not advice and a slide deck.
Hands-on, embedded implementation with a measurable goal: a leadership team that owns their numbers, runs effective meetings, and moves priorities forward without coming back to you, within 90 days.
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The Operating Business
Most growing businesses have the right people and the right ambition. What they are missing is the operating system that lets both convert into consistent execution.
The Operating System Diagnosis takes three minutes. Twenty questions across four sections. You will get an overall score, a breakdown by section, and a clear view of where the gaps are.
No fluff. Just a straight read of where things stand.
About Sylvie Cowell
Sylvie has spent the last decade as an operator inside businesses, not advising from a distance, but working where strategy meets execution and the gap between the two becomes painfully visible.
As Head of Operations of a £700k consultancy, she restructured the business, saved 7% of turnover in unnecessary costs within five months, and built the accountability structures it had never had. She has seen what happens when a founder tries to scale without the right structure. The effort is there. The intention is genuine. But without clear ownership, accountability and an operating rhythm, growth creates chaos instead of momentum.
That is the gap the Integrator role was built to close. Within the EOS framework, the Integrator is the senior operator who works alongside the leadership team to bring the system to life in practice, not just in theory. Roles are defined. Accountability is embedded. Processes are simplified. The meeting rhythm is established and held. Performance is tracked through clear, practical measures, and the team learns to move priorities forward without defaulting back to the founder.
Sylvie steps into that role on a fractional basis, giving founders the operational second-in-command their business needs, without the overhead of a full-time hire.
This is not a consultancy model. She does not arrive with recommendations and leave.
She stays until the change is embedded, the team is running independently, and the results are visible.
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Every engagement starts the same way: understanding how your business actually operates today, where execution breaks down, and what needs to change first.
From there, I work with you in one of two ways, depending on where you are with EOS and what your business needs right now.
Fractional EOS Integrator
For businesses already running, or attempting to run on EOS but not seeing traction.
I work alongside you and your leadership team to make EOS stick in the real world. That means consistent Level 10 meetings, meaningful scorecards, clear accountability, and issues being solved without everything coming back to you.
This is hands-on, embedded support focused on removing you as the bottleneck and getting your team confidently running the business day to day.
Within 90 days, the goal is simple: a leadership team that owns their numbers, runs effective meetings, and moves priorities forward without relying on you for every decision.
Fractional Operations Leadership
For businesses not fully committed to EOS, or needing stronger operational foundations before it can work.
I step in as a senior operational partner to bring clarity, structure and consistency to how the business runs. We simplify how work flows, define ownership, and create an operating rhythm that reduces firefighting.
The focus is on building a business that is easier to run, where decisions happen at the right level and the team can operate with confidence.
How it works
There is no fixed template. But the work follows a consistent pattern.
Clarify What Matters
We start by understanding how your business actually operates today: roles, decisions, priorities, and where execution breaks down.
This creates shared clarity across the leadership team and removes the noise that slows everything down.
Build the Right Structure
We put practical systems in place that fit your business.
Clear accountability, defined ownership, and the rhythms and tools, including EOS where it adds value and support consistent delivery.
Embed and Evolve
We work alongside your team until new ways of working become habits.
Meetings improve, decisions stick, and progress becomes visible.
This is where the results follow and where your team stops needing you to hold everything together.