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For founders and CEOs at inflection points

We design businesses worth owning.

Senior acumen embedded in $5M–$50M owner-led businesses — until the outcome is real.

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New cohorts start every month. Numbers are not reissued.

The Work

Value, made real.

$1B

Government

Citizen-services digital transformation for a major New Zealand city.

$1M → $238M

B2B Services

Enterprise value rebuilt in 18 months by challenging who paid for value.

$1M → $10M

B2B Services

Annual profit multiplied 10× in the same 18 months.

9 new streams

Any Sector

New value streams surfaced from assets already inside the business.

From a single citizen to the Fortune 500 — Kingdom-minded owners, businesses worth owning.

The Session

The 90-Minute Peloton Session.

One owner. Eight advisors. One Investable-by-Design verdict.

  1. 01

    A live diagnostic on the Strategy Bicycle™: is your business Discovery-Ready, Exploration-Risky, or Blind-Searching?

  2. 02

    The single downshift that unlocks 18-month enterprise value.

  3. 03

    The 3–5 objectives your next capital event actually requires.

  4. 04

    A Reverend-in-Residence discernment check on the decision most owners get wrong.

  5. 05

    A clear read on whether Shift is the right next move — or not.

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Complete in itself. No obligation to continue.

The Team

Category creators, not consultants.

Jason Borowicz

Founder

13 years designing businesses worth owning. Architect of Imaginactions™. Author of the Shift Design Deck (2018). Designer of a $1B citizen-services transformation for a major New Zealand city. MBA and Master’s in Human Development.

Bill McKendry

Advisor · Fractional CMO

Category-defining marketing leader. Built brand systems that survived scale. Advises on the marketing engine behind Investable-by-Design businesses.

Nick Harding

Australia Master Franchisee

Operator translating the Shift methodology into the Australian market. Owner-led perspective on rigor plus curiosity in day-to-day execution.

Best practice?

Useful for handwashing.

Growth is different.

Most owner-led businesses aren’t failing because they lack ideas. They’re failing because they invent before they know what they’re building for.

We call it Invention Before Intent.

It burns cash. It burns teams. It burns the years you don’t get back.

Shift exists to end that.

The Framework

The Imaginactions Advantage

Five success factors. One decisive edge. Embedded in every engagement.

IIntent Before Invent
IIInvite Failure to Dinner
IIIGo Where Others Won’t…
IVA Team at Play Wins the Day
VAlign to Accelerate

Not theory. The codified pattern behind every receipt above.

The Method

Rigor plus curiosity. At three layers.

Every engagement combines the rigor of business-case development with the curiosity that human-centered design demands.

We work at three layers simultaneously — organization, team, and personal — because businesses don’t transform when only the org chart moves.

The 5D Framework

DDiagnose
DDefine
DDecide
DDevelop
DDeliver
The Founders Peloton — walnut plaque with brushed brass plate. Reads: Number 001, Jane A. Doe, Shift Labs · Class of 2027, Issued 05 June 2027. Engraved creed: I do hard things well. Issued by Jason Borowicz, Shift Executive Partners.
The Peloton

A permanent number. A walnut-and-brass plaque. A creed.

Every Founder who completes a Shift engagement earns a permanent number in the Founders Peloton. Numbers are not reissued.

The plaque is walnut and brass.

“I do hard things well.”

The creed.

Who this is for

New cohorts every month. Not every Founder.

01

Acumen

You’ll understand what we say and act on it.

02

History

Your business is real. Labs: $75K–$1M in revenue. Advisory: $5M and up. Owner-led at every stage.

03

Ambition

You are aiming beyond incremental growth.

04

Stewardship

The way you build matters as much as what you build.


If you’re chasing growth without stewardship, we are the wrong firm.

Questions

Before you request a session.

Does this have to lead to recurring work?

No. The 90-Minute Peloton Session is complete in itself. It is designed to demonstrate a tangible leap for your business — nothing more. If a deeper engagement is right, we’ll both know.

How much does it cost?

The session is complimentary for qualified applicants. New cohorts start every month, and the filter above is how we choose.

What if we’re not a fit?

We’ll say so, plainly, inside 90 minutes. Disqualification is a service — it protects your next year.

What do I bring?

A candid read on your last two years and the decision in front of you now. No decks, no dashboards.

Who joins the session?

You, the owner. Optionally one operator you trust. On our side: a Shift principal plus the discernment perspective of the Reverend in Residence.

What assumptions inside your business have become expensive?

If growth feels harder than it should, request your Peloton Session. We’ll both know inside 90 minutes.

New cohorts start every month. Numbers are not reissued.