The Advisor.
ABOUT KATHLEEN JOHNSON
Kathleen Johnson has owned and operated multiple service and trades businesses. Including hitting six figures in the first year, and one strangled till gone by a product recall. She knows what breaks at scale because she's broken it herself.
That history followed her into the advisory work. As a counselor with the Small Business Development Center, she worked with founders across industries and revenue stages. The presenting problems were different. The structural issue was always the same.
Founders were doing Owner work when they needed to be doing CEO work. Capable people stuck in operational bottlenecks because they had never built decision infrastructure or defined what was theirs to own versus what needed to be delegated. The business had outgrown the structure. And no amount of effort was going to fix a structure problem.
She built StoneCold Comeback to fix it.
ENTREPRENEUR · STRATEGIST · ADVISOR · FACILITATOR
Blunt. Strategic.
No cop-outs.
She advises because she knows the structure, not because she read about it.
She's direct. No hand-holding. No soft coaching language. If you want someone to validate your excuses, she's not your advisor.
She works with founders across industries and personalities. Leave the ego at the door and come ready to do the work.
She operates solo by design. This work requires depth and strategic restraint. She protects her IP, works with a limited number of clients, and doesn't scale for scale's sake.
Edge and empathy. You'll get both. The edge comes first.
STOP BEING THE CEILING.
If you're a founder doing $500K+ in revenue and you're ready to transition from operator to strategic CEO, start the conversation.