Your company is growing, but you feel that your team could achieve more, and you have become the bottleneck. I work with founders and leadership to bring focus, built trust and reduce founder dependency, releasing the full growth potential of the company.
Fractional COO & Strategic support for Founder-CEOs
Helping organisations grow on healthy foundations
I’m a generalist and a human-centred leader. My approach to helping organisations is open-minded, systemic and result-driven.
Susanna Laanikari, Founder of the Grounded Company
Ambiguity in an organisation eats productivity and innovation. Small problems grow into big ones over time.
I help you create clarity, identify the most critical bottlenecks, and unlock your full growth potential by finding ways to address them—through people, systems, and structures.
Services
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Fractional COO
Embedded senior operational leadership for companies where growth has outpaced structure, with a fraction of the cost of a full-time role.
→ 2-10 days/month embedded in your team (remote + in-person)→ Create clarity around priorities, roles, responsibilities, and ways of working
→ Build decision-making frameworks and operational systems enabling the team
→ Reduce founder dependency on tactical decisions and release their time & energy to strategic work
→ 6-12 month engagements with flexible intensity
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Strategic Sparring
Focused support and challenging for founders who want to stay ahead of growth challenges, how and when needed, without adding execution overhead.
→ On-demand support for key challenges and decisions→ Strategic thinking partner who challenges assumptions
→ Fresh perspective on growth bottlenecks
→ Build organisational readiness before problems become urgent
→ Flexible engagement model that fits your needs, like a 1-hour sparring session, offsite planning and facilitation, a clearly scoped project, or continuous support.
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Collaborative Capacity Model
Building a model that combines traditional employed teams with cultivated freelancer communities—enabling financial resilience while maintaining quality and culture.
→ Design hybrid team structures (employed + freelance)→ Build curated freelancer communities aligned with culture
→ Create financial resilience through variable capacity
→ Maintain quality and culture while increasing flexibility
→ Turn fixed costs into a competitive advantage
“As interim COO at Gubbe, Susanna was able to identify where the real need was and helped us direct our focus to the right things, namely interpersonal trust, leadership structures, and creating clarity.”
— Meri-Tuuli Helin, Founder & CEO of Gubbe
Get in touch
If you want to hear more, please reach out to me.
Book a 30-minute intro call
You can also send a message or call me:
susanna@groundedcompany.fi
+358 50 4386 489
Koskelantie 25 F 51
00610 Helsinki
Finland