Get your business out of the weeds.

I've been in the weeds.

I spent years on the line before I opened Gan Shan Station in Asheville in 2015. A year later we added Gan Shan West, a smaller, more casual spot.

I could run a kitchen. Running a business was harder. The people side wore me down, the systems lived in my head, and I became the bottleneck for every decision. I was young and afraid and had never learned what true leadership and management were. That frustration hollowed me out, and in 2020 I burned out and sold Station.

Then COVID hit, and it woke me up. I stopped reacting and went at the problems head on. With my team, we moved fast, made smart calls, and stayed open the entire time. Over the next three years we nearly doubled the business.

But I was running on grit, not a system. I got tired, lost my passion, and sold West in 2023.

That's when I found EOS, and saw what I'd been missing all along. A clear vision. The right people in the right seats. A scorecard. A rhythm for solving problems. I'd been trying to build all of it from scratch, alone, while running service.

Now I help leaders get it in place before they burn out.

Sound familiar?

• You've built something real, and it's outgrown the way you run it.
• Your leadership team works hard but isn't rowing in the same direction.
• The same issues come up every meeting and never get solved.
• Every decision still runs through you.
• You want your business to give you more life, not take it.

Mise en place for your business.

In a kitchen, nothing good happens during service unless the prep is done first. Everything in its place, everyone knowing their station. EOS does the same thing for your business.

1. The 90-minute meeting

I sit down with your leadership team and walk you through the whole system: what it is, how it works, and what it asks of you. You'll know whether it fits, with no pressure either way.

2. Focus Day

The first full day of prep. We put the right people in the right seats, build a weekly scorecard, set your 90-day priorities, and start a meeting rhythm that actually solves issues instead of circling them.

3. Vision Building Day 1

We define who you are and where you're headed: your core values, your focus, your 10-year target, and your marketing strategy.

4. Vision Building Day 2

We turn the vision into a plan: what the business looks like in three years, the goals for this year, and the priorities for the next 90 days.

5. Quarterly sessions

Every 90 days we step back, check the plan, solve the biggest issues, and set the next quarter's priorities.

6. Annual planning: two days

Day one is about team health: how you're working together and where to get stronger. Day two builds the plan for the year ahead.

We keep at it until running this way is simply how your team works and you no longer need me in the room.

No binders. No scripts.

I'm not a consultant who hands you a report and leaves. I listen closely, ask the hard questions, and say what needs saying, even when it's uncomfortable. Most teams already know what's holding them back. They just haven't said it out loud.

So that's where we go. The real work happens in the hard conversations, and my job is to make the room safe enough for the truth to come out.