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Watch your business bloom with real, rooted business foundations.

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The online business world is designed to keep you distracted and dependent on the next tactic or strategy.

HARD TRUTH:

However, building a sustainable business is nuanced and personal.

Some days you wish someone would look at your business and tell you what to do. To help you build foundations that work for your expertise, your industry, and your vision of success.

You’re tired of gambling on social media formulas, marketing funnels, and productivity hacks.

Not to mention an online business world that treats every service provider like a cookie-cutter coaching business.

Building a business doesn’t mean following the usual playbook of endless content creation and complicated tech. Let’s focus on the essential systems and rhythms that create real results, with your whole picture in mind.

DEFINE: 6-month small group mentorship & curriculum

Define Your Foundations Cohort

  • Enrollment opens 2x per year

  • 6-month journey

  • 15 participants

  • Investment: $300/month

You’re beyond the basics of starting a business, but you know there are holes in your foundation that are holding you back.

Instead of play-acting at business, let’s build something real.
You’ll get structured foundational coursework plus personal attention to implement it in your specific business.

We’ll focus on the core business systems you need, help you make decisions based on your business vision and values, and give you clear next steps at every stage.

Ideal for business owners who have been in business for at least a year but feel like they’re still “winging it”.

REFINE: INDIVIDUAL + SMALL GROUP STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Refine Your Foundations 1:1 Consulting

  • Currently accepting new clients

  • Investment: Starting at $1000/month

You’re too skilled to keep fumbling around with business basics or getting lost in a crowded program full of people who aren’t at your level.

Let’s take your working foundations and really refine them. This isn’t about starting from scratch, it’s about elevating every aspect of your business: your client base, your messaging, your offers, and your operations. I act as your strategic partner who can look across your entire business, spot the opportunities, and help create a truly actionable plan tailored to your sophistication level.

Ideal for established expertise-based business owners making $10K+ monthly who need a strategic thought partner.

ALIGN: MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP

Deeper Foundations Membership

  • Join anytime

  • Month to Month commitment

  • Investment: $3o/month or $300 annually

This isn’t another community platform where you’ll get lost scrolling or feel pressured to keep up with endless discussion threads. Instead, you’ll get essential frameworks taught through live workshops on key topics like:

✔ Understanding what business you’re actually running

✔ The six core business systems

✔ How to tend to the metrics that matter

✔ Setting and managing meaningful projects

Plus, monthly Q&A calls where you can get real-time answers about implementing these frameworks in your business, monthly metrics reviews, and quarterly planning sessions to help you put what you learn into practice.

Ideal for business owners learning the fundamentals or maintaining your momentum.

Here’s what focusing on deeper business foundations can do for you:

Kelley secured 6-figures in next year’s projected income…before the current year even ended.

“I already have baked in for next quarter, six figures, all because of refining that word-of-mouth piece. Instead of looking to abandon it, I was able to systematize it.”

— Kelley Bonner, Burn Bright Consulting

Maura’s lead-gen and book of business exploded.

“My business totally blew up during the period where I was working with her and I went from ‘Why can’t I get any new clients on the calendar?’ to ‘I need to stop booking new client calls so I can do the work I’ve got.’

— Maura Madden, Maura Madden Financial Planning

Dani sold out her coaching offers. Twice.

First, I launched a coaching project that sold out. Then in the summer, I launched a light-lift six-week group program that saved me, financially over summer. Jessica suggested the idea on one of our calls, I put it together, hoping to get 10 people signed, and ended up with 25 people!

— Dani Cirignano, Self Made

Courtney booked out her services 5 months in advance.

After working with Jessica and implementing relationship marketing strategies thoughtfully designed for my business, I booked out three months in advance… then four…and then five! The seeds I sowed during the cohort are bearing fruit and bringing stability and predictability back into my business!

— Courtney Fanning, Big Picture Copywriting

LET ME BE CLEAR:

None of my clients followed my playbook or a secret “proven process”

They earned their success by planting strong roots and building foundational systems designed specifically for their expertise, their clients, and their vision of success. They focused on nurturing the right foundations first, not chasing quick-growth shortcuts.

With the right foundations, your business can flourish too.

Ready to plant deeper roots?

I’m Jessica Lackey, your deeper business and operations consultant.

McKinsey and Harvard MBA-trained Fortune 50 consultant with experience building online and “offline” businesses (who knows her way around a tarot deck.)

I’m focused on helping you build strong business foundations that make running your business easier over time, by addressing the core systems that lead to a sustainable business with real substance.

My approach bridges the gap between corporate expertise and soulful business building, giving you a clear path to predictable profitability that aligns with your values and vision.

No more gambling on tactics that don’t fit your business model or struggling alone with generic advice.

Just practical, powerful systems/foundations designed to help your expertise-based business thrive long term.

  • Amelia Hruby - Owner of Softer Sounds and host of Off The Grid Podcast

    “Jessica looked ‘under the hood’ of my business and was able to quickly and accurately assess what was going well and where I was out of alignment (with myself, my clients, my goals.)”

    I now know where my business is going and how to get there. And I feel like I understand the financial big picture better than I ever have.

    — Amelia Hruby, Owner of Softer Sounds and host of Off The Grid Podcast

  • Julie Morris - Persona Media

    “Just because you can grow a business doesn’t mean you can successfully operate it.”

    Jessica brought her skills and expertise to pragmatically solve the organizational mess that a brilliant marketer like me needed. I wanted to solve all the problems in our organization but had no clue which angle to attack from. She’s realistic and an absolute genius and gets into the details with you.

    — Julie Morris, Persona Media

  • Jennifer Bower - Fortuna Money

    “After my work in Deeper Foundations, I’m seeing consistently higher revenue, and I have a realistic plan for long-term growth.”

    — Jennifer Bower, Fortuna Money

  • Kelley Bonner - Burn Bright Consulting.jpg

    “I was able to systematize [my business], versus trying to find an additional stream of income.”

    — Kelley Bonner, Burn Bright Consulting

  • Linda Rhyne - Linda Rhyne Consulting.jpeg

    “You’re really clear on keeping the human aspect of work and business in the center. I truly believe my business would not be where it is today without her support.”

    — Linda Rhyne, Linda Rhyne Consulting

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