Operations support
for busy leaders
You’re really good at the thing you do.
Then, somewhere along the way, you accidentally became a CEO instead of an expert in the thing you do.
Suddenly, you’re managing people, projects, communication, budgets, deadlines, systems, contractors...and somehow still trying to do the work you actually love.
All Ships Rise is a digital library of practical video trainings, templates, handouts, and tools designed to help high-performing, neurodivergent, and highly sensitive leaders build healthier, happier, more sustainable teams.
The All Ships Rise approach brings together:
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Operations strategy
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Remote team leadership
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Change management
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Team communication
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Organizational systems
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Training and education
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Psychology-informed thinking
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Somatic and nervous-system education
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Experience with creative and wellness businesses
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A deep understanding of highly sensitive and neurodivergent communities
A rising tide lifts all ships.
The Problem
Mismatched operations
Maybe you've thought:
“I don't trust my team.”
You delegate, only to find yourself checking everything, fixing everything, and eventually doing it yourself.
“My team is unhappy.”
Morale is low. Communication feels off. You know something isn't working, but you're not sure what.
“No one gets what's urgent.”
Everything feels urgent to everyone. Messages are coming through every channel. Your team is constantly reacting instead of prioritizing.
“I can't step away from my business.”
Taking a day off feels impossible because too much of the business lives in your head.
“I don't know how much money I have to spend.”
You're making hiring and spending decisions without a clear picture of what's actually available.
“I hire contractors and end up doing it myself anyway.”
You know what you want when you see it, but communicating what you need is harder than it should be.
“We can't seem to finish anything.”
There's always a new idea, a new opportunity, or a new fire. Projects keep multiplying while completion remains elusive.
“Our marketing doesn't feel like us.”
Your brand voice gets lost between your website, emails, social media, contractors, and team members.
If any of this sounds familiar, your operating systems might not fit the humans using them.
The Solution
A practical operations resource library
All Ships Rise gives you the tools to create structure and clarity within your team without spending all your time training.
Inside the library, you'll find short, practical training videos and ready-to-use resources covering the things that make a business actually function.
Your team will learn:
Communication
Accountability
Project management
Prioritization
Organization
Sustainable systems
Personal growth and development
As founder, CEO, or owner, you will also have 1:1 meetings with your Fractional COO as well as access to resources on:
Leadership
Communication
Delegation
Culture
Financial literacy
Branding
Contractor management
Hiring and onboarding
Performance management
Learn what you need, when you need it, and put it into practice immediately.
What's included
Step 1: Extract & Map
Meet with your Fractional COO to extract your operational processes from your brain and create visual maps of your business using our proprietary methodology. Getting all the puzzle pieces on the table allows us to systematically analyze and improve your operational infrastructure.
Step 2: Audit and build structure
We'll audit your existing systems and meet with your team to determine the best starting point to help All Ships Rise. Here, we might establish regular meetings, assign videos, suggest new roles, or enroll your existing team to implement initial systems.
Step 3: Systematized Team support
We’ll systematically remove bottlenecks, extract you from the day-to-day weeds, and strengthen how work flows throughout your business. We’ll make sure your profit goes up while the business’s reliance on you goes down with ongoing, systematized team support.
Meet your chaos wrangler
Katrina is a dynamic Fractional COO with an eclectic background organizing small businesses, entrepreneurs, and corporations. As an operations strategist, Katrina believes that true innovation and freedom often arise from the safety that structure provides.
She has worked in operations and content in a variety of industries including brand, media, marketing, wellness, and tech, giving her a broad view to support your business. What sets Katrina apart is her intuitive understanding of people and her ability to transform big ideas into tangible results.
Katrina is based in Boulder, Colorado.
In detail: Resource Library
Leadership
trust your team
Set clear expectations, communicate clearly, hold people accountable, and provide the training they need to succeed.
Learn how to:
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Create communication rhythms for distributed teams
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Run effective weekly stand-ups
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Establish clear project ownership
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Help everyone project-manage themselves
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Delegate without simply dumping tasks on people
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Train employees and contractors
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Create accountability without micromanaging
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Address performance issues
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Create and navigate a Performance Improvement Plan
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Have difficult conversations without making them terrifying
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Lead by example
Morale
Boost your team
Build a team people actually want to be part of, where people feel seen, supported, informed, valued, and connected to the work.
You'll learn how to:
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Define meaningful team values
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Create rituals for connection and celebration
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Build effective check-ins
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Understand individual motivators and priorities
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Learn how people prefer to communicate and receive feedback
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Ask for honest feedback
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Create anonymous feedback systems
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Use outside perspectives when needed
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Turn feedback into actual change
Culture
team alignment
Create shared expectations around what needs attention now, what can wait, and how your team should communicate when something genuinely needs escalation.
You'll learn how to:
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Use prioritization frameworks like the Eisenhower Matrix
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Create escalation protocols
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Establish expectations for email and messaging
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Use subject lines to communicate urgency
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Leave messages that create calm urgency
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Determine how often different communication channels need to be checked
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Reduce unnecessary communication noise
efficiency
clear bottlenecks
Build a business that can function without you, rather than all decisions relying on your time and energy.
You'll learn how to:
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Identify what's unnecessarily dependent on you
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Transfer knowledge out of your head
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Build repeatable systems
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Delegate with clarity
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Create ownership
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Develop a team you can trust
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Schedule actual time away
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Build operations that continue while you're offline
Profit
Financial literacy
Create enough financial visibility to make good operational decisions.
You'll learn:
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Budget tracking basics
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How to understand what's available to spend
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How to think about operational expenses
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When it makes sense to hire out
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How to evaluate the cost of doing something yourself
organization
Implementation
Stop hunting for the file you know exists somewhere or the SOP you swear your team created last year. Organize your backend in a way that makes sense to everyone who uses it.
You'll learn how to:
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Audit your existing files
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Standardize file organization
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Create naming conventions
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Make information easier to find
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Delegate organization
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Build systems that reduce cognitive load
alignment
Brand discovery
Your brand isn't just your logo; it's your emails, website, social posts, sales conversations, client handouts, phone calls, and the way your team communicates.
You'll learn how to:
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Define and document your brand voice
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Write in your brand voice
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Know when AI can help, and when it shouldn't
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Create cohesion across touchpoints
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Use company values as a foundation for communication
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Help your team communicate consistently without sounding robotic
delegation
hiring + Training
Stop hiring great people and then wondering why the work isn't right.
You'll learn how to:
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Hire contractors more intentionally
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Communicate what you actually need
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Create useful briefs
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Understand creative vocabulary
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Set expectations
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Give effective feedback
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Reduce communication mismatches
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Create clearer handoffs
growth
idea proiritization
As a neurodivergent business owner, you have no lack of great ideas, but a business can't grow if every new idea becomes the new priority.
You'll learn how to:
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Identify shiny object syndrome
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Create a strategic roadmap
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Distinguish ideas from priorities
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Establish team KPIs
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Define what “done” actually means
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Keep projects moving toward completion
"What changed is my business is everything! My perspective, direction, driving force, focus on future income, ability to juggle more, simplify and see more, and engage with my company in a real and deeply meaningful way."
Fluidity Performance
YOUR EXPERIENCE
With the support of a Fractional COO and detailed resource library, our clients experience:
Increased profit margins
Less confusion, better systems, and more efficiency means less waste and more productivity.
less stress
Reduce worry over your team and clients getting what they need.
higher team retention
When the business runs smoothly, people are more likely to stay and grow.
team support
People-first operations
Businesses need systems, accountability, budgets, deadlines, and performance standards. Humans need autonomy, clarity, rest, connection, psychological safety, and room to work in ways that support how they actually function.
The sweet spot is where those things meet. That's human-centered operations.
Give your team the tools to succeed without needing you for every little thing. Your team shouldn't have to guess what you mean, chase you for answers, or reinvent the wheel every time a project starts.
All Ships Rise gives your team practical training and resources to build the skills they need to communicate clearly, take ownership, manage their work, and work well together.
Help your team:
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Communicate clearly and confidently
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Know what's expected of them
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Manage their own projects and assignments
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Understand what's urgent—and what can wait
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Run effective meetings
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Navigate conflict and difficult conversations
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Give and receive feedback
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Take ownership and follow through
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Know when and how to escalate an issue
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Work effectively across distributed teams
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Onboard new employees and contractors
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Understand how their work connects to the bigger picture
Give your team the tools to become more capable, confident, and autonomous so there's more clarity and less oversight.
With the right tools, they can solve more problems themselves.
When they understand the system, they can help improve it.
And your team rise,s together.
leadership support
People-first operations
All Ships Rise gives leaders practical tools for the parts of the job that don't necessarily come naturally: managing people, delegating, creating accountability, making decisions, communicating expectations, and building systems that don't depend on you.
Help yourself:
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Delegate without abdicating responsibility
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Build trust without micromanaging
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Set clear expectations
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Create healthy accountability
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Give feedback without avoiding difficult conversations
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Navigate performance issues
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Build a communication rhythm that works for your team
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Create priorities and protect them
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Understand your financial capacity
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Decide when to hire and when to DIY
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Get out of the day-to-day
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Build systems that work when you're not available
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Create space for actual time off
Discover leadership practices that work with your brain, your energy, your values, and the reality of the business you've built.
And sometimes, the best leadership decision is recognizing that you don't have to be the leader of everything. If leading the day-to-day isn't where you're strongest—or simply isn't where you want to spend your time—hire someone who is.
