01 / ONGOING SUPPORT
Business coaching
An experienced outside perspective, room to think, and support turning your priorities into follow-through.
Explore coaching →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.
02 / A SPECIFIC PROJECT
Strategic advisory
Practical support for founders, retailers, municipalities, and organizations navigating growth, operations, or change.
Explore advisory →03 / A CLEAR STARTING POINT
Business Clarity Audit
A focused look at your business, a written outside perspective, and recommendations you can use.
See the audit →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.
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 step1
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.
Explore working together →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.
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.
Self-paced · Lifetime access
Explore Cannabasics →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.
Discuss team training →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
Stay in the conversation →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.
Start a speaking or media inquiry →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.
Book a discovery conversationSage Against the Machine
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