You built the business. Now the team needs you to lead it.
Bishoff Advisory helps owners of firms with 20–80 people see how their team actually experiences their leadership, then build a 90-day plan to close the gap.
The distance between how you think it’s going and how your team lives it.
Most owners can’t see it from the top. It shows up as good people leaving, meetings that change nothing, and decisions that keep landing back on your desk.
This is your half of the gap. For each statement, mark whether you’d agree, and whether you think your team would. Watch the two circles: the further apart they sit, the bigger the gap.
Your team is likely living a different business than the one you see. That is exactly what the Intensive is built to close.
Talk through your result on a Gap CallA quick conversation starter, not a formal assessment. Your team’s half comes from the Leadership Gap Pulse inside the Intensive.
Sound familiar?
“Your team already knows where the gap is. Most owners are the last to hear.”
Start with a conversation. Stay for the plan.
Gap Call
Bring the leadership problem that keeps pulling you back into the day-to-day. You’ll leave knowing whether there’s a gap worth working on.
- Talk through what’s actually going on
- Get a straight read on fit, no pitch deck
- Leave with one next step, even if it’s not us
Leadership Gap Intensive
We measure how your team experiences your leadership, show you the gap, and build a 90-day plan with you and your core leaders to close it.
- Leadership Gap Pulse: a confidential team survey and readout
- Working sessions with owners, partners and core leaders
- A 90-day plan with named owners and check-ins
A fixed plan with a start and a finish.
Leadership help isn’t the same as HR help.
Most owners at this size weigh three options. Here’s where each one fits.
| Bishoff Advisory | Fractional HR | Hiring an HR manager | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main focus | How the owner and core leaders lead the team | HR operations: hiring, policies, compliance | Day-to-day HR for the whole company |
| Payroll, handbooks, compliance | Not included; stays with your current setup | Usually included | Included |
| Works directly on the owner’s leadership | Yes, that’s the work | Sometimes, as a side service | Rarely; they report to you |
| Commitment | 90-day Intensive, then optional monthly advisory | Ongoing monthly retainer | Full-time salary and benefits |
| Best when | The problem is alignment, turnover or everything running through you | HR paperwork and compliance are falling behind | You’re large enough to need HR every day |
Built for owner-led firms that outgrew running on instinct.
Healthcare practices, professional services, trades and agencies. The industry matters less than the stage you’re at.
This is leadership, strategy and structure. It is not HR admin: no payroll, handbooks, compliance or terminations.
- ✓You own or co-own the business and still run it day to day.
- ✓You have about 20–80 people.
- ✓There’s no senior HR or people leader.
- ✓You’re still in the middle of most decisions.
- ✓You want a real plan, not another workshop.
I’ve been the people leader on the inside. Now I sit on your side of the table.
Owners have a passion for the business they’re building. They’re experts at what they do, but sometimes they fall short where it matters most: with their people. They just don’t see their gap. I love working with owner-led firms because they’re hungry to learn and always striving to improve. They just aren’t quite sure how to get their teams to the next level.
- ResearchPublished in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Business Ethics
- TrainingDoctoral training in organizational behavior
- LeadershipChief People Officer experience leading people strategy through rapid growth
- IntegrationHR business partner through a post-acquisition integration
Leadership consulting for owner-led businesses
Bishoff Advisory is a leadership advisory firm in Spanish Fork, Utah, founded by John Bishoff. We help owners of firms with 20–80 people close the Leadership Gap: the distance between how the owner sees the business and how the team experiences it.
The work starts with a free Gap Call, measures the team’s view with the Leadership Gap Pulse, and turns it into a 90-day leadership plan. Owners come to us for partner alignment, employee turnover, and businesses where everything still runs through the owner.
Booking takes a minute. Pick a time on John’s calendar, and you’ll get a confirmation email with a Google Meet link.
Twenty minutes. Your business, your team, a straight answer.
Nothing. It’s 20 minutes to see whether there’s a gap worth working on.
No. The work is leadership, strategy and structure. Payroll, handbooks and compliance stay with your current setup.
Yes. The Pulse survey reports themes, not names.
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