Growth Advisory · Entrepreneurs and leadership teams

From strategy
to growth.

We mobilize you and your leadership team around direction, priorities and ownership — with a One-Page Growth Plan and a leadership rhythm that delivers decisions and progress quarter after quarter.

Growth Advisory for CEOs and leadership teams — more than business coaching.

Not coaching. Not classic consulting. You get a leadership rhythm of a One-Page Growth Plan and Leadership Sprints — so growth no longer hangs on you alone.

JUSTGROW Growth Advisory
You're growing — and want more than biggerScale-up or Mittelstand
Where you startYou start with a one-day Leadership Sprint — or deeper: 1:1 as CEO, with your team, in the Growth Program. Always: with you, not for you.
What changes for youMore alignment in the top team, less coordination load, visible progress on 2–3 initiatives

Sound familiar?

  • „Everyone’s pulling their own priority. No one the shared one."
  • „We’re growing. But the pace doesn’t match the ambition."
  • „Transformation is running. Just too slowly for the market."

Growth rarely fails
on the product.

Solid numbers — and still standstill. That’s the growth trap. Four patterns you may recognise — all four solvable.

01 / Diagnosis

Hidden growth barriers

Your company reacts more than it acts. The symptoms are visible – the cause isn’t. We make it measurable.

02 / Alignment

Silos despite endless meetings

Good teams. Plenty of calls. And still leaders work more against than with each other, even when they don’t mean to.

03 / Strategy

A strategy that only lives in PowerPoint

Your strategy is convincing – but it never lands in the everyday. No one could explain it in 60 seconds.

04 / Focus

Priorities no one prioritises

Everyone acts in good faith. Just not on the levers that truly count. Focus becomes an empty word.

From the workshop
— „Strategy that lands in the everyday — not in a slide deck." Olaf Sell, Growth Advisor — 02 / Image
The thesis behind it

More isn’t growth. Growth sharpens — wiser, more connected, more grown up.

It compounds. It connects. It carries. For managing directors whose growth wants to mature — not for those who only want to go faster.

One page. One growth plan.
The whole team.

The One Page Growth Plan is not a new framework. It translates your strategy into a format your leadership team understands in one morning – and that carries quarter after quarter.

One Page Growth Plan Q3 / 2026
Target picture 2028 DACH top 3 in service speed by 2028.
Differentiating levers AI-driven sales steering. Service speed. Data clarity.
Big 3 priorities Ship an AI use case live. Pricing reform. Onboarding 14 → 7 days.
Accountability An owner per lever. Weekly rhythm. Monthly review.
v3.2 — review fri 14:00 ★ Anchor of the quarter

Your strategy on one page.

Four elements that make any strategy hold. Concrete enough to make decisions — compact enough to know by heart.

  • 01A shared target pictureWhere we want to be in three years — in one sentence anyone can explain.
  • 02Three levers, three prioritiesNot a roadmap with 47 points. Three things that count this quarter.
  • 03Accountability with a faceEvery lever has a name. No more steering-committee diffusion.
  • 04A rhythm that holds…Weekly, monthly, quarterly – instead of 14 ad-hoc meetings.
… and connects what otherwise falls apart: Strategy · Leadership · Execution · Mobilization
93%
Growth that holds

Share of companies with a sustainable growth trajectory rose from 15% to 65%.

52%
Less stress

CEOs report substantially reduced stress levels. 40% moderate improvement.

85%
Fewer meetings

97% better personal productivity, 96% better team productivity.

Source: from over 50 supported Mittelstand and scale-up engagements, as of 2026. Full study on request.

Impact

On three levels — at once.

CEO

Sparring as a partner, clear questions, a protected space for decisions.

Leadership Team

Alignment on priorities, a rhythm that holds, accountability made visible.

Organisation

Strategy becomes behaviour. Behaviour becomes growth.

Not sure which path fits you? That’s what the discovery call is for.

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— Leadership teams that have worked with us —
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A client, several quarters on
„Growth from €74m to over €120m. Our leadership team restructured, strategy work now a process. Olaf keeps us on the growth path — and accountable. With JUSTGROW we have a true Growth Companion at our side.“
Eckhard Koehn · CEO A multi-year engagement

The team
behind it.

We believe growth doesn’t fail on ideas, but on alignment and execution in the leadership team – and the next stage begins with the entrepreneur. That conviction comes from 20+ years with European Mittelstand and family businesses. Today we put it to work with the Mittelstand and scale-ups.

Olaf Sell

Olaf Sell

Growth Advisor · Managing Director

20+ years of strategy and growth support in European Mittelstand companies and scale-ups. Focus: translating strategy into the everyday.

Georg von Laffert

Georg von Laffert

Growth Advisor · Partner

An operator with scaling DNA from industry and tech. Guides leadership teams between strategic clarity and hard execution.

Frequent questions
before a first conversation.

What CEOs and managing directors typically want to know before investing 30 minutes in a discovery call.

What is a One Page Growth Plan?

The One Page Growth Plan is the translation of your strategy into a single-page format your leadership team understands in one morning and carries for a whole quarter. It consists of four elements: a shared target picture, three differentiating levers, three quarterly priorities and clear ownership.

What is Growth Advisory, really?

Growth Advisory is strategy and growth support for CEOs and leadership teams in growth or transformation phases. Unlike classic strategy consulting, we don’t deliver slide decks — we work as outside sparring alongside your team, until strategy measurably lands in the everyday and a workable quarterly rhythm is established.

Which programs does JUSTGROW offer?

Four main formats for different phases. The Growth Program is the structural support over 100 days or 12 months for a leadership team. Growth Circles are curated peer groups where managing directors work real growth topics in sparring every 4–8 weeks. Workshops are compact in-house formats for one concrete question — strategy, growth plan, KI-Kompass or leadership-team alignment. CEO Sparring is direct 1:1 support with Olaf Sell or Georg von Laffert. Details on the respective program pages.

What happens in a discovery call?

30 minutes in which we assess your current situation — and you assess ours. You leave with three prioritised growth levers, an honest take on whether our support fits, and a clear next step — even if we never speak again.

Who is Growth Advisory right for — and when not?

Right: for ambitious CEOs in scale-ups and the Mittelstand who want to build growth that holds and are ready to actively involve their leadership team. Not a fit: if you’re looking for a classic McKinsey audit, need a quick restructuring, or as a CEO don’t want to actively take part yourself.

How fast do we see impact?

First visible effects typically after 4–6 weeks — usually clearer decisions and fewer redundant meetings. Strategic impact (market position, business-model shifts) takes 2–4 quarters. We set measurement checkpoints early, so after each sprint you see what has moved.

Ready for a quarter
with real rhythm?

A 30-minute discovery call. You leave it with (1) three prioritised growth levers, (2) an honest take on whether our support fits, (3) a clear next step — even if we never speak again.

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