A Mentor for Founders and Owners

Build a business that serves your life.

Your business should serve your customers, your team, and the life you’re building it for. I help founders and owners, from startups to established companies, get all three right.

The result is more time, clearer decisions, and a business that gives you as much as it takes.

Book a 15-Minute Call → Bring one decision you’re weighing.
Take the Free Diagnostic → 4 minutes. See where your business is strong and where to focus first.
What the Business Is For

A business that isn’t serving your life is failing.

It doesn’t matter what the P&L says. Revenue can be up, the team can be growing, and you can still be the one paying for it.

Most founders build what they think they should before they name what they want. Knowing what you don’t want is a lot easier than naming what you do.

Direction starts with what is true.

  • What the numbers show.
  • What each leader sees from where they stand.
  • What you want the business to do for your life.

Including the parts that are hard to hear.

Drew Sloss
Founder · Operator · Mentor

I’ve built through it. I’ve also learned what it costs.

250+
Employees led
Across two states
5
Locations scaled
A high-seven-figure organization built from the ground up
24
Years Operating
Still in the business today

Twenty-four years taught me what a business can give, and how much of your mornings, weekends, and attention it will take if you let it.

Now I help founders and owners name their summit, meaning the life they want the business to give them, and then build a business that gets them there.

I mentor from experience, so some days the work is a hard question and other days it’s “Don’t do that. Here’s what it cost me.”

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The Manifesto

A business has to serve out and in.

Out to your customers, your team, and your community, and in to you and the people you love. The manifesto lays out what I believe about building a business that does both.

Read the Manifesto →
Work With Drew

Ways to work together.

The work starts with where you are and what you want the business to do for your life. When it helps, it extends to your leadership team.

Seasons

When you need peers who carry the same weight.

Eight founders and owners. One 90-minute session a month, a monthly one-on-one with Drew, and a retreat in Nashville each year.

View Seasons →

You Are Here

When your team needs to get oriented together.

A half-day workshop for your leadership team to see where the business stands, so you aren’t the only one who can see the whole picture.

Explore You Are Here →

The Diagnostic

The free way in.

Sixteen questions across clarity, alignment, momentum, and purpose. You’ll see what deserves attention first.

Take The Diagnostic →
What Clients Say

The work, in their words.

“I was in the middle of a major scaling-up, launching a whole new arm of my business, and the conversations with Drew about strategy and my gut checks were crucial. His experience building a big company, managing large teams, and recovering from the ups and downs of doing that for decades is impossible to replicate with someone who hasn’t physically done those things. He leads with a human-forward, life-balance-first approach, which is exactly what I needed.”
Jacob J.
“Drew helped me streamline processes, delegate tasks more effectively and follow up better with my staff, which gave me more time outside of my business. While working with him, I was even able to open a second business.”
Elyse B.
Elyse B. Spa Haus Nashville
“Meeting with Drew is a highlight of my week. His ability to take my chaotic brain and messy word vomit and turn it into something powerful is unmatched.”
Brittany P.
Start Here

Is your business taking you where you want to go?

Start with fifteen minutes. We’ll talk about where you are and where you want the business to take you.

We.Progress.

Mentorship, workshops, and a private room for founders and owners who want a business headed somewhere they chose.

Field notes for founders on leadership, direction, and what the business is for.

drewsloss.com · East Nashville