Scaling Isn’t Just About Revenue. It’s About Becoming the Leader Your Next Level Requires.
I’m Roger Young, global growth strategist, coach, and former executive who’s built billion-dollar businesses across Microsoft, Dell, and 9 startups.
Now, I help founders and executives unlock the clarity, confidence, and systems to lead growth that lasts.
“Every business is a mirror of its leadership.
When you grow the leader, you grow the business.”
ROGER YOUNG | FOUNDERS LEADERSHIP
Most Founders do not fail.
They stall.
The instincts that built the company become the ceiling that caps it. Control, speed, proximity to every decision - those traits create early momentum and then quietly become the problem. Roger works with founders who have hit that stall point and need to become a different kind of leader without losing what made them great.
The business will not outgrow the person at the top until that person decides to grow first.
2 in 5
new CEO’s fail within the first 18 months.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
2-3X
higher failure risk in founder CEO transitions than other leadership handovers.
HBR 2026
65%
of high-growth startup failures trace back to people and team problems, not product.
CB INSIGHTS
ROGER YOUNG | FRANCHISE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Your system scales the business.
Leadership scales the people.
The culture you built at location one doesn't replicate itself. It replicates through leaders. When the system is there but the leaders aren't ready, growth becomes the problem instead of the solution.
60-100%
Annual turnover in food and fitness franchises in some franchise categories.
INDUSTRY DATA
70%
Employees that are disengaged at work right now.
GALLUP 2024
$126K
Cost of one poor leader per year in a growing organization.
DDI
ROGER YOUNG | CULTURE HEALTH
Culture is not a soft metric. It is the operating system everything else runs on.
Leadership development changes one person at a time. Culture changes one person at a time multiplied across an entire organization. The two are inseparable. When leaders develop conviction, it shows up in how people are treated, how decisions get made, and whether the best people stay.
"If we can't measure it, we don't do it."