Whole-Business Diagnostic
Understand what is actually happening across the business, not only the most visible symptom.
Conscious Growth® Accelerator
Six-month initial experience
Grow Your Profits.
Scale Your Impact.
Build Your Legacy.
The Conscious Growth® Accelerator is a strategic experience for purpose-driven founders building companies worthy of the mission behind them.
Bring your biggest opportunities, constraints and decisions into a room built to strengthen the whole business, accelerate profitable growth and turn ambition into measurable action.
Who this is for
You should not have to choose between profit and purpose.
Conscious Growth® is designed for ambitious founders and business leaders who want both: a more profitable company, a clearer strategy, stronger leadership, better systems, deeper customer relationships, meaningful positive impact and a business capable of becoming part of the legacy they leave behind.
A strong fit
You are a purpose-driven founder building a company worthy of the mission behind it.
You want profitable growth without sacrificing the values, purpose or people behind the company.
You want to strengthen the whole business rather than chase disconnected tactics.
You are willing to examine assumptions, make meaningful decisions and turn insight into action.
You value sophisticated strategy, human judgment, collaboration and implementation.
You want to build something that creates meaningful value and is capable of lasting.
Not designed for
People casually exploring entrepreneurship
Founders seeking passive content rather than active participation
Leaders unwilling to examine assumptions or make changes
Businesses looking for isolated hacks instead of systemic improvement
People unwilling to implement what they learn
The value comes from applying the work to real decisions, alongside people equally committed to building something that matters.
When this fits
For purpose-driven founders who want experienced guidance, thoughtful challenge, practical strategy and a trusted room in which to work through the decisions shaping the company.
The journey
Focused on the decisions that matter most.
The Accelerator begins with a structured journey designed to help you diagnose the whole business, identify the highest-leverage opportunities and build the priorities, operating rhythm and decision discipline to move forward with greater clarity.
Members can continue beyond the initial experience as part of the ongoing Conscious Growth® community and advisory environment.
Enrollment is open. Membership is limited and reviewed for fit. New members begin through structured onboarding and enter their own journey while participating in the ongoing Accelerator community.
Opportunity Map
Identify where value is being created, lost or left unrealized.
Strategic Priorities
Determine the few opportunities that deserve attention now.
Strategic Roadmap
Translate priorities into a coherent sequence of decisions and initiatives.
Implementation
Connect strategy, people, systems, metrics and execution.
Measurement & Evolution
Track results, learn from what changes and determine the next best move.
The live experience
Perspective is more valuable when it becomes implementation.
Strategic Workshops
Members bring current decisions and opportunities into applied strategy sessions designed to turn insight into coordinated action.
Mastermind & Hot Seats
Members bring real obstacles, opportunities and decisions into expert-facilitated sessions that combine peer intelligence, focused problem solving, implementation and accountability.
Approximately four live sessions during active program months, typically delivered as two sessions in each of two weeks.
What you build
Build clearer priorities, better decisions and the operating discipline to make the whole business more capable.
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Whole-Business Diagnostic
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Opportunity Map
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Strategic Priorities
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Strategic Roadmap
05
Baseline Metrics
06
90-Day Priorities
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KPIs and Progress Tracking
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Strategic Decision History
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Relevant Playbooks and Frameworks
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Persistent Business Intelligence
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Peer Advisory and Facilitated Hot Seats
Continuous strategic intelligence
Your business context should compound, not disappear.
Goals, assumptions, decisions, commitments, transcripts, action items, results, strategic history and lessons remain connected so each conversation can build on the last and organizational memory becomes more valuable over time.
AI-supported intelligence can retrieve context, identify patterns, synthesize learning, prepare for conversations and convert discussion into action. It strengthens continuity and follow-through without replacing founder judgment, peer collaboration or experienced human guidance.
Use AI where it creates meaningful leverage. Keep human judgment where it matters most.
Within the Accelerator, AI may support research, analysis, customer insight, operational efficiency, workflow improvement, personalization, productivity, decision support, marketing and growth, knowledge management and business intelligence. Every use remains grounded in strategy, purpose, customer value, human judgment, trust, responsibility and second-order effects.
01Decision
02Commitment
03Action
04Result
05Learning
06Next Decision
01Decision
02Commitment
03Action
04Result
05Learning
06Next Decision
Methodology in practice
Evidence from Doug’s advisory and company-building work.
“Doug Sutton and Conscious Growth® was a catalyst in the success of Elixinol. In addition to developing our branding and core messaging as a start-up, he helped us create and share our vision and values, which provided a significant competitive advantage in an emerging, never-before-seen industry.”
Application process
Start with a conversation about the business you want to build.
01
Apply
Tell us about your business, your ambition, the opportunities in front of you and what currently stands in the way.
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Fit Conversation
Speak directly with Doug about the company, your goals and whether the Accelerator is the right environment for this stage.
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Begin
Complete onboarding, establish your strategic baseline and identify the priorities that will shape your first phase of work.
Your next chapter