Enjoy a prosperous business that leaves room for everything else that matters.
I help founder-led businesses build operations that scale or sell.
THE REAL COST
Does your business stall when you step away?
Operations slow down. Employees don't know what to do next. Sales wait for your follow-up.
Your team is capable. What's missing is the playbook that lets them drive things forward.
A growing business should give you more room, not less.
If you're scaling
Growth stops where your capacity stops. Hiring brings more questions instead of more room.
If you're preparing to sell
Buyers pay more for a business they can see running. Without documented operations, you sell on their terms, not yours.
Keep leading your business. Build the operations that let your team carry more of the load.
WHAT CHANGES
More profitable to scale. More valuable to sell.
When your team has the playbook, you get your options back.
Operations keep moving.
Work gets done the same way whether you're at your desk or not.
Your team knows the next step.
Clear roles and documented processes give them the confidence to act.
Follow-ups happen on time.
Leads and clients hear back, even on your day off.
You choose when to step away.
The Tuesday afternoon, the vacation, or the exit. All on your timeline.
ABOUT NICOLE
Meet the operator founders wish they'd found sooner.
Nicole Bauer is curious enough to ask the question no one else thought to ask, honest enough to tell you what's really going on, and decisive enough to act on it. Most people have one or two of those. Nicole has all three.
Before founding Empresa Growth Partners, she spent six years at Bulu, a startup that pivoted twice: from subscription boxes, to private-label fulfillment for Fortune 500 brands, to third-party logistics. She joined as the first enterprise account manager and became the senior operator the whole company counted on. She held the client relationships, the institutional knowledge, and the systems that kept the business moving. She oversaw Bulu's implementation of EOS®, and she runs Empresa Growth Partners the same way.
She has experience in a wide range of industries: government and defense, fintech, SaaS, higher education, nonprofits, direct-to-consumer subscriptions, logistics and fulfillment, consumer products, entertainment licensing, and real estate. Working inside that many different organizations taught her to read a new room fast, earn trust quickly, and spot the unwritten rules that shape how a business really runs.
Working with Nicole doesn't have to be forever. It can be for a season, because what got you here won't get you where you want to go. It's how she's always worked: find the solution, document it, hand it off, and move on. The surest sign a client is ready for their next phase? They try to hire her in-house. That's when she helps them make the transition, whether that means hiring a full-time COO or preparing to sell.
M.S., Leadership Education | Certified Online Business Manager
HOW IT WORKS
Your path to scale or sell.
Step 1:
Book a Discovery Call
A quick 20-minute call to find out whether I'm the right partner for where your business is headed. Answer a few short questions when you book so we make the most of our time together.
Step 2:
Start with what matters most
Begin with a [Strategy Call] or a [Starter Project]. Both have a clear scope, timeline, deliverables, and price. We'll choose the right starting point together.
Step 3:
Get your options back
Put the plan to work in 90-day sprints with me running operations alongside you and your team. At the end of each sprint, we decide together what your business needs next: another sprint, or a team and systems ready to run it without me.
WHAT YOU CAN COUNT ON
Clear terms. No long contracts. A plan with the end in mind.
What you get in step two is yours to keep.
Whether you work with me afterward or not.
You commit 90 days at a time.
Nothing longer.
I build for the handoff.
Success is a business that no longer needs me.
