Weekly
Plan in Velocity™, then post to the cohort by Monday at noon: last week's commitments, this week's top three priorities, and one request for the group. A co-chair replies within one business day.
Founding cohort forming: Middle TennesseeInvisible Horizons teams up with Visionary Results · Powered by Velocity™
Most peer groups help you think once a month. This one helps you run the business every week.
Visionary Horizons Peer Group is a small, vetted group of non-competing business owners from across Middle Tennessee. Two co-chairs who've run real operations teach and advise side by side. The cohort holds you to your plan every week. And together we install an operating structure so the business stops depending on you for everything.
- $500K–$20M
- company revenue
- 5–12
- owners per cohort
- 90 min
- per week
- Monthly
- in-person half-day
The pattern we see
If every decision still runs through you, you don't own a business. You own a job.
You've grown past the point where hustle works. Your team waits on you. Priorities shift every week. Nobody's quite sure who owns what, so it all lands back on your desk.
The problem usually isn't effort or talent. It's that the structure underneath the business is invisible: who decides, who owns it, what comes first, and how often you check. We make it visible, then help you build it.
The rhythm
Weekly accountability. Monthly in the room. Quarterly on the plan.
Monthly
One in-person half-day with your cohort here in Middle Tennessee: hot seats and applied work on your 90-day plan. Plus a 30-minute one-on-one with your primary co-chair.
Quarterly
Your one-on-one becomes a 60-minute review of the plan you built in Velocity™. Bring your second-in-command, because the plan has to live beyond you.
What's included
Everything you need to run the business on purpose
Monthly in-person half-day
Hot seats and real work on your 90-day plan, with owners who get it. Dates and location set with the cohort.
Weekly cohort check-in
A short written post instead of another standing meeting. Questions welcome any day on the cohort board.
Monthly 1:1 + quarterly review
30 minutes every month with your primary co-chair, and a 60-minute quarterly plan review including your second-in-command.
The Decision Line
When a decision can't wait, get a 20-minute call with a co-chair within two business days.
Velocity™ Intelligence
For you and up to 20 team members: strategic planning, projects and tasks, goals, dashboard, benchmarking, valuation assessment, competitive diagnostics and financial health indicators.
Predictive Index assessment
Debriefed by Debbie, a certified PI consultant. Group session at your first half-day, plus 15 extra minutes in your first 1:1.
The Velocity™ book
Craig Paxson's playbook for building a defensible competitive position.
A path to deeper support
When you need more, you get it from people who already know your business, so you never have to start over.
Confidentiality, in writing
Every member signs an agreement covering both the room and the online board.
Why owners choose this group
Work on your business, not in it.
Most weeks, the business runs you: every question, every decision, every fire lands on your desk. This group gives you a standing reason, and a real structure, to step out of the day-to-day and work on the business itself.
01
Step out of the weeds every week
A five-minute Monday post makes you look at the whole business, not just today's fires. Your cohort and a co-chair see your commitments, so momentum happens between meetings, not just during them.
02
Two co-chairs who see the whole business
Craig brings the market and strategy view. Debbie brings operations, structure, and people. You get two outside perspectives on the business you're too close to see clearly.
03
Build the structure that frees you
We start outside-in with your market and competitors. ArchitEX™ builds the structure underneath, and Velocity™ ties your 90-day plan to a weekly scorecard, so the business runs on a system instead of on you.
The structure underneath
The four pillars of ArchitEX™
A business that runs without you in every room stands on the same four pillars.
These are the ones we build with you.
A business that runs without you in every room
Decision Rights
When decision rights aren't defined, capable people default to escalation — not because they can't decide, but because it's safer not to. We define what's theirs to decide.
Ownership
When ownership is undefined, ‘good’ means something different to everyone. We make ownership explicit across functions, so effort converges instead of scattering.
Priorities
When priorities diffuse, individual work stops connecting to enterprise direction. We align priorities so the work people do maps to where the business is going.
Cadence
When communication depends on a person instead of a structure, you get variance — and variance at scale is what wears a leader out. We build the rhythm that keeps alignment alive without you in every room.
Built on your market position and a 90-day plan in Velocity™
Investment
Founding-cohort pricing
Founding rates are locked for 24 months from your start date.
Prepay annually and get 12 months for the price of 11.
Company revenue
$500K – $1.25M
$500/ month
Founding rate · Standard rate after cohort 1: $800/month
Company revenue
$1.25M – $20M
$750/ month
Founding rate · Standard rate after cohort 1: $1,000/month
Our guarantee: Attend your first half-day and your first one-on-one. If it isn't a fit, we refund what you've paid.
This group is for you if…
- You own a $500K–$20M company in Middle Tennessee
- You're done competing on price and effort
- You want a business built around a real reason customers choose you
- You'll commit about 90 minutes a week to working on the business
- You want peers who'll tell you the truth, kindly and directly
It's not for everyone
- You're looking for a quick fix
- You can't carve out 90 minutes a week
- You want someone else to do the work for you
- You compete directly with another member (we keep cohorts non-competing)
Cohorts are 5–12 owners. Every member is vetted before joining.
Meet your co-chairs
Operators, not theorists
Debbie Radish-Respess
Founder & CEO, Invisible Horizons Coaching and Consulting · The Executive Operating Architect™
Certified Executive CoachCertified Predictive Index ConsultantMBA, Trevecca Nazarene University
Debbie has sat in the executive chair. Over 30 years in corporate leadership, including global VP roles across HR, operations and supply chain, she ran the people, processes and systems that growing companies depend on, and she saw firsthand what breaks when the structure underneath doesn’t keep up with the growth.
Since then, Debbie has supported more than 500 leaders across 35+ organizations in 19+ industries. She’s the creator of ArchitEX™, the framework that defines who decides, who owns what, what comes first, and the cadence that keeps it moving, and she’s based in Lebanon, Tennessee.
In the group, Debbie brings the inside-out view: your decisions, your people, and the operating structure that lets the business run without you in every room.
Craig Paxson
Founder & CEO, Visionary Results · Strategy Architect™
Board Certified Executive CoachCertified Strategy Planning ProfessionalAccredited Small Business ConsultantMBA, Belmont University
Craig has sat in the owner’s chair. As President and CEO of an $8M company with operations in 12 states and Puerto Rico, he cut more than $500,000 a year in costs and installed the management system that ran the business. When a hurricane wiped out about 80% of revenue from the company’s largest account, he led the turnaround anyway, taking it from a $500,000 loss to a $300,000 profit in two years and through a successful acquisition.
Before that, Craig spent nearly a decade as a business process and improvement consultant, and he’s been a business advisor and mentor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center since 2014. He’s the creator of the Visionary Velocity™ Method and author of Visionary Velocity and Strategy Is the Menu.
In the group, Craig brings the outside-in view: your market, your competitors, and the defensible position that gives customers a real reason to choose you.
Now forming
Middle Tennessee founding cohort
In person, once a month, for owners across Middle Tennessee, from Franklin and Brentwood to Nashville, Mt. Juliet and Lebanon. We're starting local on purpose, because trust gets built faster around a real table.
Coming 2027
Virtual cohort
Same weekly rhythm, same co-chairs, same structure, built for owners outside Middle Tennessee. Join the waitlist and you'll be first to hear when seats open.
Common questions
Questions owners ask us
What goes in the weekly post?
Three lines, posted to your cohort's board in the Velocity™ app by Monday at noon: what you committed to last week and whether you did it, your top three priorities for this week, and one ask of the group. It takes about five minutes. You reply to two peers, and a co-chair replies within one business day.
Who's in my cohort?
Five to twelve owners of non-competing companies doing $500K to $20M in revenue. Every member is vetted before joining, and everyone signs a confidentiality agreement that covers both the room and the online board.
Where and when do we meet?
The founding cohort meets in person once a month for a half-day here in Middle Tennessee. The exact location, day and time will be announced to founding members.
How do the one-on-ones work?
Every member has a primary co-chair for a 30-minute one-on-one each month, and the other co-chair adds a second view in the room. In the last month of each quarter, that session becomes a 60-minute review of your plan in Velocity™, and you bring your second-in-command. Your first one-on-one includes an extra 15 minutes to debrief your Predictive Index assessment.
Can I pay monthly?
Yes. Membership is billed monthly. If you prepay annually, you get 12 months for the price of 11. Founding-cohort rates are locked for 24 months from your start date.
How does the guarantee work?
Come to your first half-day and your first one-on-one. If it isn't a fit, we refund what you've paid.
Is there a virtual option?
Not yet. We're starting local and in person on purpose. A virtual cohort for owners outside Middle Tennessee is planned for 2027. Join the waitlist and you'll hear first.
Not ready for the group?
Start with Visionary Results' Competitive Advantage Blueprint, a $750 half-day working session. If you join the group afterward, the full $750 is credited toward your membership.
The next step is a conversation.
Grab 20 minutes. We'll talk about where your business is, what the group involves, and whether it's the right fit, with no pressure either way.
Making the invisible visible. So you can build what's possible.