Who we work with, what it costs, and how the work runs. If your question is missing, email connect@theadaptway.com.
Start by finding out exactly where the business still routes through you, using the free Owner Independence Diagnostic. From there, Adapt runs two stages: Design finds where the business leans on you, and Build hands real decisions to your leaders so performance holds without you.
Adapt, known publicly as The Adapt Way, works with established Australian businesses, 20 to 200+ people, still led by the owner who built them, $2M to $100M+ in revenue and owner-run for ten years or more. Adapt is based in Perth, Western Australia, and works with owners nationally.
Three things move the business off you: your leaders start owning real decisions against a clear scorecard, an operating rhythm keeps the business moving without you calling each one, and how the business actually works gets documented so results stop depending on your memory.
Established Australian businesses, 20 to 200+ people, still led by the owner who built them.
The typical business is $2M to $100M+ in revenue and has been owner-run for ten years or more. The owner is weighing what comes next: stepping back, scaling, or a future sale or succession.
Adapt helps owner-led businesses reduce dependency, lift leadership capability, and build enterprise value. The work runs in two stages. Design finds where the business leans on you and builds the plan to shift it. Build hands real decisions to your team so the business holds together without you.
Both stages run on the platform from day one, so the work stays visible and it sticks.
Design starts at $15,000 for the workshop series, and runs to $25,000 for larger ownership teams.
Build runs from $4,500 a month, typically up to $10,000 a month, scaling with the size of the leadership group.
You will know the full number before you commit. No surprises.
Lumia is Adapt’s combined offer: coaching that designs how the business runs without you, and the platform that holds it from day one.
A free online diagnostic for established Australian SME owners. Eighteen questions, under five minutes. It measures where the business still depends on you across six dimensions, including role clarity, leadership beyond you, and how the business runs day to day.
You see your result straight away, with your highest-risk area and the first move to make. No email is required to see your result.
The first step of The Adapt Way. Before any strategy work begins, Adapt builds an honest picture of how the business is organised today: how each leader works, how the leadership team works together, and how the business itself holds up.
That picture becomes the baseline everything after it is measured against, and the strategy work that follows is built on it.
A structured conversation about what motivates one person at work and how well the business is delivering on it. It reads seven motivators, and each one is captured twice, once for how important that factor is to the person and once for how well their current role delivers it.
A Cultural Leader inside the business runs the conversation, and the answers become data the leadership team uses as an input into strategy and cultural initiatives.
A confidential 45-minute conversation with Adapt, with no fee and no obligation. We give you a private read of where the value sits in your business and where the key-person risk hides, and you decide if there is a next step.
Buyers and successors price key-person risk into the multiple. When the big decisions, the customer relationships, and the knowledge of how things run all route back to the owner, the business is harder to transition and sells at a discount.
Reducing that dependency protects enterprise value and gives you options: sell, step back, or stay, on your terms.
Succession planning usually produces a document and a date. The Adapt Way builds the independence itself: leaders who own real decisions, a documented way the business runs, and value a buyer or successor will pay for. The plan then has something real behind it.
Adapt is based in Perth, Western Australia, and works with established businesses across Australia.
The Adapt Way is built on Succession Thinking, the framework by Bill Withers. Adapt is the implementation: the coaching and the platform that install it in your business.
Adapt's thinking has been published and featured in the Herald Sun, AICD's Company Director, Channel 7, Yahoo Finance, CEOWorld Magazine and CCIWA, along with interviews across Australian business podcasts and radio. The full list, with links to every original piece, is on our published work page.
Yes. Every conversation is private. We will not add you to a list or pass your details on. You decide if there is a next step.
Take the Owner Independence Diagnostic for an honest read in under five minutes, or book a confidential Owner Independence Review. You can also email connect@theadaptway.com and we will reply ourselves within two business days.
Build a business you could leave, even if you never do.
The value and independence that make stepping back, selling, or staying your choice.
Under five minutes, no email. The Owner Independence Diagnostic shows your highest-risk area and the first move to make.
