Real Estate • Consumer Products • Service Businesses

Unlock More Value From the Business You’ve Built.

You’ve spent years building your business. Before you transition it, there may still be more value to unlock in the way it operates. I work directly with established owners to improve profitability, strengthen operations, and support the financial performance behind business value.

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Lovens Gjed, Fractional COO
Why Me?

I’m an Operator First.

I understand that your business is more than what appears on a financial statement. It’s the people you’ve trained, the customers you’ve earned, the processes you’ve figured out, and years of solving problems that most people never see.

But when it comes time to sell, a potential buyer has to be able to see a business that can perform beyond its current owner.

That’s where I come in.

My background is in operations—leading teams, managing multi-location businesses, improving processes, and solving the everyday problems that quietly affect profitability.

I combine that hands-on experience with Lean Six Sigma, project management, and business analysis to look at your company from an operator’s perspective: Where are we losing money? What is slowing us down? What depends too heavily on you? What can we improve before a buyer takes a closer look?

My job isn’t to tell you how to run the business you spent years building. It’s to work alongside you, find the value that may still be hidden inside the operation, and help turn those opportunities into measurable improvements.

So when a potential buyer looks at your business, they see more than what you built.

They see a business positioned to keep performing after you leave.

Lean Six Sigma · DMAIC

A Disciplined Approach to Improvement

Every phase answers one question: how does this create measurable value for the business?

D
Define — Where Can We Build More Value?

We start with your goals and identify the parts of the business that may be hurting profitability, creating unnecessary risk, or making the company less attractive to potential buyers.

M
Measure — What Are the Numbers Telling Us?

We establish where the business stands today—costs, margins, productivity, capacity, downtime, and other measures that influence profitability and business value.

A
Analyze — What’s Holding the Business Back?

We find the root causes behind unnecessary costs, bottlenecks, inconsistent performance, and other operational issues that could affect how a potential buyer views the business.

I
Improve — How Can We Make the Business Stronger?

We address the highest-impact opportunities to reduce costs, improve productivity, strengthen profitability, and create a better-performing operation.

C
Control — How Do We Make the Results Last?

We put simple systems, responsibilities, and performance measures in place so the business can consistently perform without depending on you to manage every detail.

The End Goal

A more profitable, predictable, and transferable business—better positioned to demonstrate its value to potential buyers.

There May Be More Value in Your Business Than Your Current Numbers Show.

We’ll start by learning about your business, your transition goals, and the operational opportunities most worth looking into.

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Where I Fit

A consultant recommends what should change. As your Fractional COO, I help make the change happen.

I work alongside you and your team to improve operations, increase profitability, and build a more predictable, transferable business—strengthening the value you can demonstrate to potential buyers without the commitment of a full-time COO.

You may already have a broker, CPA, attorney, or valuation professional. Those relationships remain yours. I work directly for you — the owner — as your Fractional COO, focused on the operation: people, processes, productivity, quality, capacity, cost, and profitability. The goal is not another dependency. It is to leave behind a stronger operating system.