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Dear female founder, you’ve worked hard for your business


 

You  deserve a team that can take it from here

Whether you’re scaling, selling, or simply want space to live your life, it all starts with building a leadership team that doesn’t just follow your lead but carries your vision.

Sage’s Pathway can show you how.

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Imagine your business thriving  without you constantly at the center of every decision.

It might feel impossible right now. That’s because most founders – especially women – get trapped doing it all themselves.

They


 
hire managers but take over when things don’t go perfectly.

 
desperately want to step back but feel they’re abandoning their business.


struggle to detach themselves from the day-to-day.

Here's the truth:

Your business can
run without you.

But only if you have a leadership team that knows how to think, solve, and strategize in line with your vision. However, those leaders aren’t going to just show up at your door.

No one is going to hand you a team of talented, ready-to-lead managers who can seamlessly take over. 

Leadership talent doesn’t emerge overnight. It’s cultivated. It requires consistent mentorship, guidance, and trust. But nurturing talent doesn’t mean tolerating poor performance or lowering the bar.

Your role as the founder is to nurture that leadership talent through clear feedback, coaching, accountability, and well-defined expectations.

But to do that successfully, you need a clear framework to guide both you and your team through this process.

That’s what you’ll learn in Sage’s Pathway.

No one is going to hand you a team of talented, ready-to-lead managers who can seamlessly take over. 

Leadership talent doesn’t emerge overnight. It’s cultivated. It requires consistent mentorship, guidance, and trust. But nurturing talent doesn’t mean tolerating poor performance or lowering the bar.

Your role as the founder is to nurture that leadership talent through clear feedback, coaching, accountability, and well-defined expectations.

But to do that successfully, you need a clear framework to guide both you and your team through this process.

That’s what you’ll learn in Sage's Pathway.

Welcome to

SAGE’S PATHWAY

A live, two-day online training for female founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners who need to build a leadership team that takes ownership, makes decisions, and drives results—while they step fully into their role as CEO.

Training Dates: March 20 and 21, 2025

SAGE'S PATHWAY

A live, two-day online training for female founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners who need to build a leadership team that takes ownership, makes decisions, and drives results—while they step fully into their role as CEO.

Training Dates: March 20 and 21, 2025

One-Time Payment

$4,997

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Sage’s Pathway is for women ready to step back from their businesses, but they need managers they can trust with the vision they worked so hard to bring to life. 

We’ll have two days of training.
We know you’re busy, so every call will have a replay if you can’t attend live or need to step out.

BIG 3 Takeaways:
What You Will Implement Immediately

 1. Stop Answering, Start Asking: Shift from Problem-Solver to Leadership Coach
✔ Instead of answering every question and fixing problems, the founder will commit to only asking questions that require their managers to think and decide for themselves.

2. Set the Standard: Define & Communicate What Leadership Looks Like in Your Company
✔ Instead of assuming managers know what’s expected, the founder will clearly define and communicate what leadership means in their business.

3. Commit to Letting Go: Hand Off One Decision You’ve Been Holding Onto
✔ Instead of micromanaging decisions out of habit or fear, the founder will choose ONE significant decision or responsibility they’ve been holding onto and fully delegate it—without taking it back.

TWO-DAY AGENDA

 TWO-DAY AGENDA 

MARCH 20

DAY 1:

SHIFTING FROM
DOER TO LEADER

Goal: Change how you lead so your managers change how they lead. Shift from being the problem-solver to the leadership architect of your business.

Leadership Mindset – Becoming the Architect, Not the Worker

  • Why leading is not managing (and how to stop being the best worker in your company).
  • The Leadership Identity Shift: Letting go of the belief that working hard equals leading well.
  • Emotional Acumen: Build more confidence, self-trust, and decision-making in how you lead without second-guessing.
  • The Guilt-Free CEO: How to releasing the need to overwork to prove your value.

The Leadership Ecosystem – Structuring Leadership at Every Level

  • How to embed leadership expectations into your business so managers rise into their roles, hold their team members accountable and act as representatives of the business rather than advocates for their staff
  • The 3 essential leadership conversations every founder must have with their management team:
    CEO → Managers: Setting clear leadership expectations.
    Managers → Their Teams: Holding their own teams accountable.
    Cross-functional Leadership Check-ins: Keeping the organization aligned.

The Decision Process – Leading When There’s No Right Answer

  • Why your managers keep coming to you for answers—and how to stop it.
  • The Answer-to-Question Shift: Stop solving and start leading through questions, not answers.
  • The Leadership is Feminine Results Process: Making decisions based on vision and results, not fear and manipulation.
  • The Ownership Transfer: How to fully delegate responsibility to leaders, even if they aren’t owners (so you don’t take it back).
  • The hardest part: Letting them lead without you (and why this is the real and required test of leadership for them and for you).

MARCH 21

DAY 2:

DEVELOPING LEADERS WHO CAN THINK, DECIDE, AND ACT INDEPENDENTLY

Goal: Implement new leadership behaviors that immediately shift how your managers show up and take ownership.

From Managing to Leading – Setting the Standard for Leadership in Your Business

  • What expectations must be crystal clear for anyone in a management role?
  • How to lead managers who aren’t naturally leaders (yet).
  • The Leadership Agreements Commitment – A formalized declaration of what leadership means in your company (to be shared with your team after the workshop).
  • How to hold managers accountable for the results of their team, not just their effort.
  • Recognizing when a manager isn’t stepping up—and what to do about it.

Developing Leadership Maturity in Your Managers

  • How to isolate manager performance compared to team member performance.
  • Steps to demonstrating and curating emotional acumen and managerial maturity throughout the leadership team.
  • Your role and their role when there is disagreement, gossip or even hostility between managers on your team.
  • When managers don’t want you to hire anyone else to support their team or the business.
  • The impact of “managing up” and “thinking down.”

Leading Without Friction – Building a Culture Where Leadership is the Norm

  • How to stop tolerating, going numb, or hiding from what isn’t working.
  • Encouraging critical thinking and decision-making in every role.
  • Coaching managers instead of solving their problems: How to reinforce independence.
  • Coaching and managing ‘the person in the room’ and not chasing “Accountability Squirrels.”

The decision to cultivate leaders in your business isn’t an easy one.

You’ve worked hard to bring this vision to life. It lit a fire in you and positively impacted your customers and your team. I’m here to help you navigate this transition in a way that keeps that fire burning.

Learning to lead, and develop other leaders, isn’t about changing who you are. It’s about stepping into a version of leadership that is uniquely you.

Hi! I'm Kris Plachy

I’ve coached hundreds of women through their journeys as business owners and leaders, and I’ve learned that leadership skills offer so much more than a business that runs smoothly. It is an essential life skill that, once possessed and embodied, amplifies your personal and professional agency for the rest of your life.

I believe that learning to lead with confidence, courage, and grace is vital for women.

Period.

Hi! I'm Kris Plachy

I’ve coached hundreds of women through their journeys as business owners and leaders, and I’ve learned that leadership skills offer so much more than a business that runs smoothly. It is an essential life skill that, once possessed and embodied, amplifies your personal and professional agency for the rest of your life.

I believe that learning to lead with confidence, courage, and grace is vital for women.

Period.

Is Sage’s Pathway right for me?

Depending on where you are in your business,
Sage’s Pathway may (or may not) be your next best step.

If you:

  • Have a growing business but still feel like the only one who gets how things should be done, even though you have managers.
  • Are exhausted from making every decision and solving every problem, even though you have managers who ‘should’ be able to step in and lead without you.
  • Know your managers could step up—but you don’t know how to get them there.
  • Want to finally be the CEO, not the instruction guide, micromanager and/or answer desk.

If you:

  • Are in the process of hiring your first team members after being a solo-preneur.
  • Don't have any managers in your business yet (i.e. you're managing team members who do the work).
  • Don't have any plans to hire a manager right now.

If Sage’s Pathway is NOT a fit for you right now but you are ready to grow your team the right way—check out my signature course Lead for Women.

If you’re ready to step away from the ‘doing’ part of your business but aren’t sure how to take the leap, Sage’s Pathway is for  you.

Sage’s Pathway will help you


→ Transition away from the ‘doing’ side of your business—without feeling guilty.

→ Teach your leaders to make decisions confidently—without you rushing in to save them.

→ Leave your business in capable hands—without worrying about vision.

Sage's Pathway will help you


→ Transition away from the ‘doing’ side of your business – without feeling guilty.

→ Teach your leaders to make decisions confidently – without you rushing in to save them.

→ Leave your business in capable hands – without worrying about vision.

Join us March 20 & 21

One-Time Payment

$4,997 

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I want you to be completely satisfied with your investment but I also know that sometimes we purchase things that aren’t a good fit.

If you’re not completely satisfied, let us know within 7 days of purchase to receive a full refund.

No questions asked.

Frequently Asked Questions

Create a thriving business —whether you're in it every day or not.

The Sage’s Pathway is designed for women like you: successful founders who need a leadership team to carry the weight of your vision so you can focus on what only you can do.

This isn’t just another leadership course—it’s a step-by-step roadmap to build the team and the business you’ve been dreaming about.

One-Time Payment

$4,997 

ENROLL TODAY

Here, leadership is feminine, equity is non-negotiable, and every woman’s growth is vital; not optional. We believe love is love—and the more love, the better. Spirituality is personal, and every individual has the right to choose their own path. We respect facts, laws, and systems that create clarity and fairness for all. And above all, we know that the point of being human isn’t to judge or divide, but to expand—through connection, experience, and honoring what makes us different.

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