Sage Advice · Business coaching and strategic advisory

A clearer view of your business.
A practical way forward.

When you’re close to everything, it can be hard to see what needs your attention. I help founders and leaders work through the questions, make informed decisions, and put those decisions to work.

Independent perspective. Practical experience. Better questions.

Clarity & perspective.

Choose your support

What kind of help would
make the difference?

You may need an ongoing thinking partner, expertise for a specific project, or a clear assessment of where things stand. Start with the question you’re trying to answer.

01 / ONGOING SUPPORT

Business coaching

An experienced outside perspective, room to think, and support turning your priorities into follow-through.

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02 / A SPECIFIC PROJECT

Strategic advisory

Practical support for founders, retailers, municipalities, and organizations navigating growth, operations, or change.

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03 / A CLEAR STARTING POINT

Business Clarity Audit

A focused look at your business, a written outside perspective, and recommendations you can use.

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Meet Elizabeth Sage

Curiosity is useful.
Experience gives it context.

My work brings together experience across sales, marketing, finance, retail, education, and operations. I ask questions, notice patterns, and help make complicated things easier to understand.

I bring that same approach to a founder’s next decision, a retail team’s training, or a conversation about an emerging industry.

Advisor. Educator. Entrepreneur. Professionally opinionated.

Elizabeth Sage speaking into a podcast microphone
Elizabeth in conversation.

The Business Clarity Audit

Busy isn’t a
business strategy.

Step back from the daily demands and look at what’s helping your business move forward—and what’s getting in the way.

$350 · Two conversations with written assessment between them

Find your next step
1

A 60-minute conversationWe explore your business, your goals, and the questions you’re carrying.

2

A written assessmentYou receive an outside perspective and practical recommendations.

3

A 30-minute follow-upWe discuss the findings and what to prioritize next.

Business coaching

You don’t have to think
through all of it alone.

Bring the decisions, competing priorities, and ideas that need a second perspective. Coaching creates space to think clearly, challenge assumptions, and stay connected to what you intend to do.

A conversation before a commitment.

Start by talking about what you need and whether working together makes sense. We’ll establish the scope, meeting rhythm, and support before you enroll.

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Strategic advisory

A useful perspective.
A plan you can put to work.

Advisory

Support for a business decision, launch, operational challenge, or organizational change. The engagement starts with the problem and a clearly defined scope.

Operational Sprint

A focused engagement for moving priorities into action. We define the work, responsibilities, and intended outcomes together.

Ask Elizabeth

Have one defined question? A focused session can give it the attention it needs without creating a larger engagement.

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Education and team training

Understand more.
Ask better questions.

Self-paced education

Cannabasics

A practical foundation for understanding the plant, products, consumption methods, and your experience.

5 modules60–75 minutes$97

Self-paced · Lifetime access

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Knowledge your team
can use on the floor.

Retail staff training that connects foundational knowledge with thoughtful customer conversations. Programs are scoped around your team, experience level, and operational needs.

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Letters and observations by Elizabeth Sage

Sage Against
the Machine.

Business, culture, favorite finds, and an occasional raised eyebrow.

A place for the ideas and observations that don’t fit neatly into a service description. Perspective, personality, and room for a little mischief.

Business & LeadershipThe Plant & Its PeopleLife & CultureFavorite Finds
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Speaking and media

Make room for a
better conversation.

Keynotes, panels, workshops, interviews, and facilitation informed by real-world experience and a willingness to ask the next question.

Invite Elizabeth.

Share your audience, topic, timing, and format so we can explore the right contribution.

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Your next step

What are you working through?

Tell me what’s happening in your business, the decision in front of you, or what you want your team to understand. That’s a useful place to begin.

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Sage Against the Machine

A little perspective
in your inbox.

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