Fractional COO/CFO and Business Growth Advisor

Build a business that grows without depending on you to run it.

Executive-level financial and operational leadership for established owner-led companies that want stronger profits, better execution, and a business that can scale beyond the owner.

Your business has grown. Has the way you run it?

When the operating infrastructure fails to keep pace with growth, the owner becomes the default decision-maker, problem-solver, and safety net.

Financial Clarity
Operating Discipline
Scalable Growth

The growth problem

Success can hide a weak operating system.

Revenue may be up while margins, cash flow, accountability, and the owner's time move in the wrong direction. Those are not isolated issues. They are signals that the company behind the revenue needs to mature.

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Revenue is growing, but profitability is not keeping pace.

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Too many decisions and problems still require the owner.

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Managers stay busy, but accountability and execution are uneven.

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Financial reports exist, but they do not create decision-ready visibility.

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Processes depend on tribal knowledge instead of repeatable systems.

06

The business is successful, but the owner cannot comfortably step away.

Build the company behind the revenue

One executive lens across finance and operations.

Operations drive financial performance. Financial results reveal where operations need attention. Phil connects both perspectives so leadership can identify the real constraints, set the right priorities, and execute with discipline.

Executive leadership

Fractional COO/CFO

Integrate financial visibility, cash planning, profitability, process improvement, KPIs, management cadence, and execution discipline.

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Owner and CEO

Business Growth Advisory

Turn competing priorities into a focused plan, strengthen management accountability, and reduce the owner's role as the operating bottleneck.

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Measurable adoption

AI Strategy and Implementation

Identify where AI can improve revenue, profit, capacity, or time—and prioritize opportunities by business value rather than novelty.

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Owner independence

If everything depends on you, the business is not scalable yet.

Owner dependency is rarely one problem. It is a web of decisions, relationships, knowledge, processes, and leadership responsibilities that never transferred out of the owner's hands.

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Decision dependency

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Operational dependency

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Knowledge dependency

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Customer dependency

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Leadership dependency

A structured method

The Scale and Thrive Strategic Growth System

Growth problems cross departmental lines. This five-stage system strengthens the business as one connected operating system rather than fixing symptoms in isolation.

Clarity and Diagnostics

Financial Visibility

Operating Systems

Leadership and Team

Scale and Owner Independence

Selected Business Impact

35+Businesses advised
$2MAnnual losses confronted in a manufacturing turnaround
40%Distribution-center productivity improvement
100%Revenue growth supported during a recession
4First U.S. manufacturing and distribution operations built for four global companies

What business leaders say

Strategic insight that translates into results.

Phil combines structured thinking with hands-on involvement—helping owners, CEOs, and leadership teams understand performance and move priorities into action.

“Phil’s systematic approach and quarterly management flow helped us grow the business and generate $1.3 million in operating profit over our first three years.”

— MS, CEO

“Working with Phil helped us think strategically about the business and provided valuable insights into our financial performance and growth potential. His hands-on approach was of great value to our team.”

— DB, President/CEO, Manufacturing Company
Phil Wofford

Experience from the owner's side

Advice grounded in operating responsibility.

Phil brings more than three decades of perspective across business ownership, executive leadership, operations, finance, engineering, manufacturing, technology, and organizational leadership.

  • MBA
  • Georgia Tech Engineering
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
  • AI Workflow Black Belt
Why owners work with Phil

The next stage

What is keeping your business from scaling cleanly?

In a strategy conversation, we will identify the financial, operational, and leadership constraints that deserve attention—and determine whether working together makes sense.