Ambition + Action + Achievement

Dodie Jacobi

Ambition to Action

BOLD. INNOVATIVE. GUTSY. NOVEL. DISRUPTIVE. BALLSY.
FUTURISTIC. VALIENT. INTREPID. AVANT-GARDE. PROFOUND.

When any of the above words describe your company’s next step, you need more than the systematic approach you’ll get from a strategic planning facilitator, EOS consultant, or business coach whose job is to optimize business. Asusual.

Your audacious ambition needs a different, yet proven source of guidance and knowledge that can’t be taught.

You need knowledge that can only be learned from having been where you're going.

On paths that don't yet exist. Many times.

Each year, I guide a handful of exceptional companies from audacious ambition to rewarding action, through the infinite unknown variables, without compromising core business stability.

So bring your boldest ambition. And I'll bring 40 years of diverse experience from founding 10 for- and not-for-profit ventures, creating innumerable products, and leading and advising hundreds of the most accomplished Owners and C’s in the country through every kind of inflection point: startups, pivots, strategic alliances, partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, good-to-great reinventions, innovation launches, spin-offs, sells, and closures.

The greater your ambition, the more fun we’re going to have making it happen.

Currently booking for 2025

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Engagement

Engagement is organized in a three-phase process refined with companies of all sorts and sizes to make ambitions actionable and achievement probable. Every step of engagement is tailored for your knowledge, experience, resources, and goals. You work exclusively with me, in a combination of planned in-person and zoom sessions, with ad hoc between-session email and zoom support. You have the option of including in our process your entire leadership team and even your employees. This simple three-phase frame guides how we'll define your Ambition Strategy, allocate resources for Action, and collaborate through Achievement. Through every step, I advocate for your swiftest profitability and a gratifying journey.

Audacity

First, we create a Ambition Strategy to unite all who will participate in our engagement with a precise definition of your ambition. A series of debriefs, guided conversations, and historic documentation give me context to help you define the outcomes you want, why this is a worthy pursuit, and how you'll go about getting both what you want and what your market demands.

Action

Then, we create an Action Plan to connect your Ambition Strategy with real results by allocating resources of time, money, talent, and energy without disrupting your core business. This Action Plan becomes our guide, but don't get too attached to it. We will not be sticking to the plan.

Achievement

Then we implement the Action Plan, tracking toward your ambitions and course-correcting for continued progress. I am with you at every step in quarterly zoom sessions, and in between-session emails and zooms ready with new recommendations and creative ways through the inevitable do-overs, second guesses, and distractions that are part of any worthy endeavor.

Added Resources Individualized pop-up lecture how-to's, operational tools, educational content, and introduction to other trusted professionals.

One Year Duration Your ambitions may require change bigger than can be accomplished in a year. Legacy clients get the first option for the few vacancies available each year.

Outcomes

Your experience in our collaboration is customized, and so are the outcomes based on your ambitions, priorities, and specific results. Most every engagement includes at the least the following impact:

Precisely-defined ambition worthy of your pursuit
Smart plans informed by the collective wisdom of our respective experiences
Reduced risk and uncertainty about what's unknown with iterative, right-sized discovery experiments
Progress without disrupting core business stability
Creatively maneuver what’s unexpected with new ideas and solutions
Commitment to the goal and nimble adaption of the plan (there’s always another way)
Mindset support with empathy through setbacks and celebration through milestones

Investment

I am committed to assuring your investment in engagement is just that - an investment, with returned tangible and intangible value that exceeds your financial cost.

Your investment depends on whether you have employees or don't, and who in your organization will participate in this process. Pay schedules are available for the remainder after paying half to begin what is a front-loaded engagement. Terms for any customized scope are detailed prior to beginning.

Solopreneurs or Sole Owner Participation $27,600

Multiple Owners, or Owner Plus Leadership Team Participation $42,600

Owner(s), Leadership Team, and Employees Participation starts at $85,600 (varies by number of employees)

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About Dodie

Dodie has throughout her long career in innovation and entrepreneurship collaborated with hundreds of clients who report collaboration integral to their success. She’s worked in more than 75 industries from highly technical, scientific startups to avant-garde creative artists. She's built and advised for- and not-for-profit companies. Past clients include all types of business: Mom and Pop shops, service firms, soloists, fast companies, and manufacturers with more than 200 employees. She's helped secure funding from every funding type and source including bootstraps, venture capital, debt loans, crowdfunding, angel investors, and philanthropists. And she’s worked at every stage of venture maturity many times – from research and development to startup, expansions pivots, acquisitions, mergers, and closings.

Dodie has collaborated with such recognized organizations as IBM, Jim Henson's Muppets, Harrison/Erickson (most famously, Phillie Phanatic's creators), Children’s Television Workshop, PBS’ History Detectives, Hallmark, Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Sprint, Universal Press Syndicate, The Kansas City Star, Zahner Architectural Metal Fabrication, and hundreds of other organizations.

In Dodie’s latest venture, Dodiodo, she develops intellectual properties with a purpose for media, entertainment, and market-leading b2smb brands. She continues to advise a handful of other companies also pursuing grand ambitions.

Dodie has a Bachelor of Music, Vocal Performance degree from Southern Methodist University and has sung in 9 languages. A committed urbanite, she lives in Hyde Park in Kansas City, Missouri, with dog Simon and cat Fiona and rides horse Taye in choreography to music and on happy trails.