Design
Pick your destination and map what it takes to reach it. You finish with a fully designed vision and a roadmap to independence, delivered through a focused workshop series.
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A business worth more when you step back.
Move your business from owner-run to owner-independent, and widen your options to hold, sell or hand over.
18 questions, 5 minutes, no email required.
Adapt helps owner-led businesses reduce dependency, lift leadership capability, and build enterprise value.
500+
Global owners worked with
100+
years of combined SME leadership
100+
years of SME coaching experience
2,900+
teams and leaders worked with
Trusted by established Australian businesses, their leaders and advisers.
For privately held businesses with 20 to 200+ people.
Most owner-led businesses are worth less than they should be.
The same three dependencies turn up across the established businesses we work with. They put pressure on the owner's freedom and the value of the business.
- 01
Owner dependency
A discount on your multiple at sale
When the business runs on your relationships, your judgement and your hours, a buyer cannot trust it to perform without you, and prices that risk into the multiple.
- 02
Leadership routes back to you
Decisions returning to your desk
Your leaders are capable, but accountability for the decision still lands on you, so strategy stalls between meetings.
- 03
Knowledge in your head
A business that can't run without you
How the business runs lives in your head and a few people's habits, so no one else has the clarity to step in.
Adapt makes the business worth more, because it no longer needs you.
Design out the owner dependency, lift your leaders, and document how it runs. The true worth of what you built, follows.
Why Adapt
Our IP. Our platform. Built in Australia.
Succession Thinking®
The proprietary framework by Bill Withers and Adapt, proven across 500+ business owners.
Lumia Platform
The ownership operating system that captures how the business runs, so the gains outlast any one person and compound as you step back.
Australian owned
Made for established Australian owners, and the way you actually run and sell a business here.
From owner-run to owner-independent.
The same business, better. It pays you more to hold, sells for more if you choose to, and hands over cleanly when the next leader is ready.
Today
The business runs on you.
- ✕Every decision still comes back to you.
- ✕Leaders bring you problems, not decisions.
- ✕How it runs lives only in your head.
- ✕The dependency on you reduces the value of your business.
- ✕On holiday, but never switching off.
Owner-independent
The business stands on its own.
- ✓Leaders make the calls and own the outcome.
- ✓How it runs is documented, not in your head.
- ✓A buyer or successor pays full value.
- ✓Strong profit, dividends as you step back.
- ✓Sell, scale, pass it on, or simply enjoy it.
How the work gets done.
Introducing Adapt Lumia, our highly respected coaching and platform program. Two phases of work to get you the outcomes you want.
Build
Execute the roadmap. Move real decisions to your people and embed the leadership, culture and systems, so the business runs independently and grows in value without you in the room.
Learn moreLumia Platform
The owners operating system where roles, vision, strategy, rhythm, teams, culture, systems and progress create compounding value from day one.
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Turn the business you run into the asset you own.
For most owners the business is their largest asset. We make it behave like one.
Where to start, and what it costs.
One program, three parts. Each builds value that stays when you don’t. Most owners begin with a free confidential review.
- 01
Design
from $15,000
A workshop series that maps where the business leans on you, and designs the dependency out.
- 02
Build
from $4,500 a month
Twelve months of coaching that turns the plan into capability your leaders carry without you.
- 03
Lumia Platform
included from day one
Captures every role, decision and rhythm as you go, so what your people build stays in the business and keeps compounding.
Start where it suits you.
See where your business still depends on you, or talk it through in confidence. No pressure either way.
5 minutes, no email. Your result is instant and private.
Limited intake
Design is hands-on, so we only ever run a handful of engagements at a time. Places are deliberately limited.
The cost of waiting
Each year it still runs on you, the owner-dependency discount stays priced into its value and your free time.
The outcomes owners want
$70m AR
We helped a large family business hand over successfully to the next generation within four years.
Our most significant outcomes stay private, at the owners’ request. Talk to us for the detail behind the numbers.
See all the resultsOwners who built a business worth more without them.
I have never seen another business operating system that is focused on owners being on the business, not in the business.
Laura GriersonDirector, Acacia Executive Way beyond anything I've read or seen. A whole philosophy for SMEs towards succession planning and building a resilient business.
Thomas McClungFounder, Dorado Property Our teams are more productive and accountable, Adapt ensures visibility of knowledge, structure, teamwork, and role clarity.
Nicola WardLeader of Culture and Finance, SMS Group Services When demand for our services skyrocketed, Adapt's infrastructure and cultural framework were pivotal to our success.
Julie AdamsFounder, Chemo At Home Find out where your business still depends on you.
18 questions, 5 minutes, no email. See your highest-risk area and the first move to make.
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