Founder-to-CEO Sprint
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You've seen the pattern. Here's how to break it.
Founder-to-CEO Sprint
3 Sessions - 3 Weeks: Stop being the bottleneck.
Watch this 3:48 video to see if this is for you
Ugo Nuvoloni - Ing MBA - CEO and Founder of Exedir
Your bottleneck report showed you something you probably already suspected:
The way you operate as CEO is limiting your company's growth.
That's not a criticism. The habits that got you here were necessary.
The problem is that they've outlived their usefulness, and they won't go away on their own. Because this isn't about learning to delegate.
It's about unlearning the identity that makes delegation feel impossible.
What this actually looks like in your week
You're working 60+ hours
You're working 60+ hours, and the company still runs through you.
Your team is capable. You hired well.
But everything still lands on your desk.
"Strategy can wait"
Strategy and what's important keep getting pushed to "next week". It has for months.
Meanwhile, you solve 10 urgent problems and feel useful. Tomorrow, your team will bring some more.
"I just do it myself."
You've tried to delegate before. It didn't stick.
You're back where you started, telling yourself it's faster to just do it yourself.
Delegation isn't the problem.
You've always been told the answer is better delegation.
Hire better people. Use a RACI matrix. Write clearer briefs. Let go more. Trust your team.
You've tried. Probably more than once. And it worked for a few weeks, until it didn't.
And you were back in every decision, staying up fixing what someone else "didn't get right."
Here's why it didn't stick: delegation isn't a skill problem.
Your Job Description is.
It's an identity problem. Every framework in the world fails if, underneath, you still believe that you are the person who solves the hard things.
That belief was true when the company was 5 people. It's the exact thing stopping it from growing past 15.
You don't need another delegation framework.
You need to change who you're being as CEO. The framework follows.
If that lands, keep reading.
Join the Founder-to-CEO Sprint
3 sessions in 3 weeks. One focused shift in how you operate as CEO.
Session 1. SEE
We map the real pattern: where you're the bottleneck, why it keeps happening, and what it's actually costing you.
Session 2. SHIFT
We rewire the identity from Chief Problem-Solver to Architect, and design your first Safe-to-Fail handoff of a real responsibility.
Session 3. HOLD
We review the handoff you executed between sessions and lock in how you protect the new way of operating when pressure hits.
This is not open-ended coaching.
It's a structured sprint with a specific outcome
No ongoing commitment.
If the work we do together is valuable and you want to continue, we can discuss that separately. But the sprint is designed to stand on its own.
Who this is for:
This Is NOT For
How the Sprint Works
Session 1. SEE
You can't change what you haven't clearly seen.
We map what's actually happening, not what you think is happening.
The decisions that quietly came to you last week. The "quick check-ins" that weren't. The moments you overrode your team without noticing.
You'll see the cycle: vague delegation → disappointment → you jump back in → team stops taking initiative → you conclude "faster if I do it myself." And the real cost: hours lost, strategy starved, good people quietly checking out.
You leave with uncomfortable clarity: the missing architecture.
That's why you're the bottleneck. Not your team. Not your market. The architecture.
Session 2. SHIFT
The company scaled. You didn't. Yet.
The identity session. Most coaching skips it. We work on the gap between who you were at 5 people and who you need to be at 15, 50, 150.
Chief Problem-Solver → CEO.
Being needed everywhere → making yourself unnecessary.
You write your new CEO job description. Then we pick one real responsibility stuck on your plate and build a Safe-to-Fail handoff: scope, outcomes, check-ins, cover clause.
You leave with something to execute before we meet again.
Session 3. HOLD
Transformation between the sessions.
By now you've executed the handoff. You've felt the discomfort of someone else doing it their way.
You either caught yourself jumping back in, or you didn't, and they owned it. We review what actually happened. Where you held. Where you slipped.
Then we lock it in: how you protect this when the next fire hits and hero mode calls you back.
You leave with an operating model that lets you monitor whether you're holding the shift or drifting.
What you walk away with
Your specific bottleneck pattern - removed.
Not a generic diagnosis. Not a plan.
The exact decisions, habits, and moments where you're choking your company's growth - surfaced, and with responsibilities off your plate by the end of the sprint, with the architecture to keep them off.
Clarity on your CEO role and what it NO longer includes.
Written by you, for the next stage of your company.
The responsibilities that used to be yours by default are now clearly on other people's plates.
What you stop doing is what makes the shift real.
Your Safe-to-Fail delegation framework
A repeatable structure you can apply to every future handoff: scope, outcomes, check-ins, and cover clause.
Because the hardest part isn't making the shift. It's holding it when the next crisis tempts you back to hero mode.
The Deal
I'm validating a new structured format for my coaching and mentoring practice.
I've spent 15 years doing this work: the method is proven. The format is new.
You get the full experience.
I get honest feedback.
This is a pilot with a limited number of spots. I select participants through a short application and a qualifying call.
In return, I ask for:
Your full commitment
Show up. Do the work. Apply the frameworks in your company. This only works if you are committed to real change, not just collecting more ideas.
Your honest feedback
Tell me what resonates and what does not. I want your uncensored feedback on the content, the pace, the tools, and the way we work together so we can sharpen this into the most impactful program of your life.
Your results and story
If the program creates real breakthroughs for you and your company, I ask for your permission to use your story, metrics, and testimonial as a case study when we launch it publicly.
5 Spots Available
Full Application Takes 90 seconds.
If you are a fit, you will hear from Ugo personally
What CEOs say about working with me
"Ugo brings more than just the ability to see opportunities: it brings the ability to reach them."
Eric Converse
Venture Partner at Favonius Ventures; USA
"His teaching skills and availability have been fundamental and priceless to me."
Mario Tesone
CEO Natura & Sapori
"Ugo has a wide range of skills. You can always count on him."
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MD Salus Wellness Ltd; UK
"Ugo inspires immediate trust for his approach and professionalism. Excellent salesman and businessman. His energy is impressive."
Vedat Oguzhan
Serenpas CEO
"With remarkable professionalism, Ugo is endowed with a gift of communicativeness and empathy that allows him to drag the group in times of difficulty."
Graziano Vignali
Metco President
"Highly competent and worthy of the greatest trust."
Martin Coulthard
Business Owner
Having grown a Start-up into a Multinational with 98% of the world market, Ugo has direct CEO experience in Software, Manufacturing, Services, Marketing, Internet Marketing, and Retail, B2B & B2C.
Since 2007, Ugo has been Consulting, Coaching, and Mentoring CEOs and Entrepreneurs to help them grow their businesses and regain control of their lives.
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Ugo Nuvoloni
Ing. MBA -Mentor - EXEDIR Founder and CEO
5 Spots Available
Full Application Takes 90 seconds.
If you are a fit, you will hear from Ugo personally
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