Transform Your Business to Run Without You in 90 Days OR LESS

So You Can Scale, Sell, or Step Back Without Losing Profitability

This program is designed for:

7 to 8-Figures Entrepreneurs who want to scale without burnout

Business owners preparing for an exit in the next 1-5 years

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If you're a successful entrepreneur who feels trapped inside the very business you built...

If you wake up at 2 AM making decisions that somehow only you can make...

If you've tried to step back but everything starts falling apart without you...

Then this free masterclass will show you why every traditional approach to delegation and "working on your business" has failed you and reveal the systematic solution
that finally works.

The Entrepreneurial Paradox Most Successful Business Owners Face

You built something valuable and important. You have clients who depend on you, a team that looks to you for guidance, revenue that flows because of your leadership.

But somewhere along the way, your success became your cage.

You can't take a real vacation without constant "urgent" interruptions

Your team brings every important decision to you

You've become the Chief Everything Officer instead of the visionary leader you meant to be

You feel guilty when you're not working, but exhausted when you are

You can't delegate anything truly important because "no one will do it like you do"

Sound familiar?

Why Everything You've Been Told About Delegation and "Working ON Your Business" Is Wrong

The real problem isn't that you need better time management or more delegation skills.

The real problem is that your entire business was unconsciously designed around you as the irreplaceable center.

You've created what I call a "Founder-Dependent System" and until you understand this distinction, everything else you try will fail.

Most business consultants will tell you to:

Hire more people (but more people won't solve this if they're still waiting on you for decisions)

Create better systems (but SOPs don't fix founder dependency)

Delegate more effectively (but you can't delegate within a system designed to require you)

What you really need is a complete redesign of how your business operates without you

Hi, I'm Michèle Hecken

Twenty years ago, I built my translation company with a radical decision: I was going to design it to run without me from day one.

Everyone told me I was crazy. "You can't step back," they said. "The business will collapse without you."

But I was a single mom, and I refused to sacrifice my relationship with my daughter for the sake of "hustle culture."

For over 15 years, I worked less than 10 hours a week while my company served Fortune 500 clients and grew consistently every year.

When I sold it, I received 6.7 times EBITDA—far above industry averages—because I wasn't selling a Michele-dependent business.

I was selling a beautifully designed system.

Since then, I've helped over 200 entrepreneurs make this same transformation across industries—from professional services to manufacturing to agencies.

What's Possible When You Transform from Essential to Exceptional

Work 20 hours per week or less while your business grows consistently

Take real vacations without constant interruptions or business emergencies

Build a more valuable company - systematic businesses sell for 30-50% higher multiples

Develop real leaders on your team who make excellent decisions without you

Focus on vision and strategy instead of constant firefighting and operations

Create a legacy business that thrives beyond your daily involvement

TESTIMONIALS

What my entrepreneurs are saying

Alina Birsan

AB LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS

Peter Sage

SERIAL ENTREPENEUR

Billy Friley

FOUNDER

TESTIMONIALS

Success Stories from Clients

Michèle offers a comfortable space that allows me to dig deep.

Michèle offers a comfortable space that allows me to dig deep on what is needed in our organization to grow and have a strong succession plan.

She challenges and pivots our conversation in directions that otherwise I don’t think would be explored so thoroughly. I look forward to my meetings and using her as a sounding board.

Karen Sommers

Principal, Citywide Facility Solutions

Your advice has helped
me move mountains.

Your advice has helped me move mountains. Offboarding myself was very scary at first - I worried that I would end up with less, but after implementing a lot of the lessons that you showed me, my numbers went way up. Once I was able to get my head out of the trenches, I was able to work on the business.

It's truly changed my entire way of thinking about business and helped in so many areas.

Sarah Dray

CEO - Dray Translations

Michèle helped me push through preconceptions of what a leader is.

The shift in my perspective has been life changing, benefiting my business and personal life. Michèle helped me push through preconceptions of what a leader is and has helped me realize what I need to be as a leader that is genuine.

Improving confidence has led me to consider expanding my business, being intrepid in the pursuits at

Only By Midnight and life in general.

Jennifer Laface

Director - Only by Midnight

Founder of The Art of Offboarding

Meet Michèle

Ex-CEO, Advisor and Public Speaker. Contagious optimist, lover of freedom, shifter of paradigms and artist. Michèle Hecken is an ex-CEO who helps high-performing leaders design an organization where each person spends their time working on things they love.

Over 25 years, Michèle built a global, multi-million-dollar translation company. Her journey looked like that of many successful entrepreneurs except for one key difference: she was the “Absent CEO.”

Michèle turned the company into a well-oiled machine that continued to scale without needing her to micro-manage people, systems, and business units. Despite being a single mother, Michele lived a life of freedom, growth, financial success and happiness – all while scaling her company.

She sold the company at a premium – culminating in a high-7-figure exit – because she had leveraged one superpower: The ability to Offboard herself from the business so she could focus exclusively on what inspires her while eliminating the rest.

Today, Michèle serves as an Advisor to high performers who want to run businesses that serve them and live lives they dream of.

Michèle has given talks and workshops across the globe, from Fortune 500 companies to groups of entrepreneurs. She has been featured in numerous media outlets including Inc. Magazine, the Financial Post, Smart Business Revolution, the Edmonton Journal and others.

The Cost of Staying Essential

Every day you remain trapped in daily operations:

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

Businesses dependent on their founders sell for 30-50%

less than systematic operations

GROWTH IMPACT:

Your competitors who've successfully offboarded are focusing

on strategy while you're stuck in tactics

TEAM IMPACT:

Your team can't develop real leadership because the system

rewards dependency on you

PERSONAL IMPACT:

You're missing the life you built your business to create

The cost of staying essential is always higher than the investment required to become exceptional.

The Offboarding Guarantee

If you don’t see a clear roadmap to step back from your business in the first 30 days, we’ll refund 100% of your investment as long as you attend all coaching calls, complete the assigned action steps, and follow the strategy we give you.

Ready to Design Your Freedom?

I only work with a select number of entrepreneurs at a time because this transformation requires focused, personalized guidance.

If you're serious about evolving from essential to exceptional, book a complimentary Strategic Offboarding Session where we'll:

Diagnose exactly what's keeping you trapped in daily operations

Map out your ideal business structure - one that runs without your constant involvement

Create a clear 90-day roadmap for your transformation to exceptional leadership

Determine if The Art of Offboarding is the right fit for your situation

This is not a sales call. It's a strategy conversation designed to give you clarity whether we work together or not.

Only available for entrepreneurs doing $1M+ annually who are committed to transformation.