Business Program for Female Owners
You've Been
Running This
Business
Time to Truly Own It.
Female business owners consistently say OMP was one of the most important things they’ve done. Not because OMP was designed for women. Because the self-doubt, the invisible contribution, the competing demands — OMP cuts through all of it.
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Exclusive to private business owners with $5m–$100m revenue | Next intake limited to 20 participants
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Owners who have completed OMP
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Years guiding
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Months to transform
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Focused on practical application — zero academic theory
You know this business inside out.
Does everyone else know that you do?
Sound Familiar?
- "I've been doing the accounts, the compliance, the HR, the special projects - for 15 years. But when someone asks about the business, they turn to my husband."
- "I know what needs to change. I can see it clearly. But I second-guess myself constantly — and then someone else says the same thing and everyone nods."
- "Three days away felt impossible — the kids, the house, the business. I nearly didn't go. It was the best thing I've ever done for myself and the business."
- "I've always felt like I wasn't quite a 'real' business owner — like I stumbled into it rather than chose it. OMP was the first time I stopped feeling that way."
- "I see things in this business that others don't. I just haven't always trusted that what I see is real — or that I have the right to act on it."
of alumni said OMP gave them personal & business clarity and direction
of alumni reported OMP has had a positive impact on their personal wellbeing
of alumni described OMP as a catalyst for change
Kelly Newton (OMP27) is Director at her family business Keppel Eats, founder of Cattleman’s, board director — and mum to a young family.
After more than three years on the Owner Manager Program mailing list, Kelly shares why she finally committed, how she made it work alongside business and family, and why she believes the OMP is a must-do for owners once the time feels achievable.
The Real Challenges Female Business Owners Face
These aren’t small things. They’re structural patterns that shape how female business owners experience — and underperform in — their own businesses. OMP addresses them directly, not by talking about them, but by creating the experiences that dissolve them.
The Visibility Problem
Doing the work but not being seen as the owner. Many female business owners have spent years running critical parts of the business — often the parts that keep it alive — while a spouse, partner, or co-director is the external face. The contribution is real. The title and authority are often not. OMP puts you in the room as the owner. Full stop.
imporsture syndrome
Knowing the answer but not trusting it. Female business owners disproportionately experience the feeling that they’re not quite qualified enough, experienced enough, or legitimately ‘owner’ enough — despite the evidence to the contrary. OMP doesn’t fix this by affirmation. It fixes it by putting you in enough challenging conversations with enough credible peers that the doubt simply doesn’t survive the evidence.
The Competing Demands Problem
Underestimating Your Own Capability
The Different Perspective Problem
No Space for Your Own Development
You already know what you're capable of.
OMP is where you stop doubting it.
What Female Business Owners Say Changes After OMP
OMP is not a program about gender. It’s a program about ownership. But again and again, the female business owners who have been through OMP name the same specific shifts — changes that go beyond strategy and into something more fundamental about how they show up in their business and their life.
01
OWNING THE ROOM
The shift from contributing to the business to leading it — with the authority, presence, and confidence that commands genuine respect from partners, team, and peers. Not performance. Actual ownership.
02
TRUSTING YOUR JUDGEMENT
The ability to see something clearly, say it directly, and back it without waiting for permission or consensus. Female business owners who complete OMP consistently report that they stop second-guessing the things they’ve always known.
03
sEEING THE BUSINESS DIFFERENTLY
OMP exposes you to other private business owners from completely different industries. For female owners who have often only seen their own business, this opens up a perspective that permanently changes how they see their own opportunity — and their own role in it.
04
A Peer Group That Gets It
The confidential cohort of 20 business owners that you work through OMP with becomes one of the most valuable things that comes out of the program. A network of people who understand the real weight of ownership — not career ownership, actual ownership — with real stakes.
05
Strategic Clarity
Many female business owners have been so immersed in the doing of the business — often in roles that support everyone else — that they haven’t had the space to think strategically about where it’s going. OMP creates that space for the first time, with structure and accountability behind it.
06
Permission to Invest in Yourself
Perhaps the most underrated change: female business owners leave OMP having experienced — probably for the first time in a long time — what it feels like when their own development is the priority. And they carry that permission into everything they do next.
About those three days away...
We’re going to say the obvious thing: three days away is hard to organise when you’re the one holding everything together. It requires planning, support, and the willingness to accept that things might not run perfectly while you’re gone. Most female business owners who do OMP have to overcome this barrier — sometimes significantly — to attend each session.
Here’s what they consistently say: the three days away is part of what makes it work. Not just because it creates space to think. Because the act of prioritising your own development — the planning required, the support asked for, the commitment to show up anyway — is itself a significant step in becoming the owner you’re capable of being.
The difficulty of getting there is not a reason not to go. For many women, it’s the most important reason to.
What female OMP alumni say about the decision to go:
- "I nearly talked myself out of every single session. I'm so glad I didn't."
- "My husband managed the kids and the house for those three days. It wasn't perfect. It didn't need to be. And for the first time in ten years I was just me — the business owner."
- "I spent more energy planning those logistics than I did on anything else in the program. And it was completely worth it."
- "By the third session, my family had worked out that this was non-negotiable. That shift alone was worth coming."
How the Program Works
OMP runs across five residential modules, each three days and two nights, over five months. Each module builds on the last — moving from self-awareness and financial clarity through to strategic vision, leadership, and the business that operates without you. Between modules, you’re implementing. You’re working. And you have a cohort of other owners doing exactly the same thing.
Who Should Attend?
OMP is for owners of privately held businesses with $5m–$100m in annual revenue who are serious about developing themselves as the leader their business needs. There are no prerequisites beyond genuine ownership and a willingness to work.
If you’ve been running — or co-running — a business at this scale and have never made your own development the priority, OMP is for exactly this moment. The question is whether you’re ready to stop being last on your own list.
What You'll Leave With
OMP works across six dimensions of a successful private business. For female business owners, each of these dimensions has a specific texture — shaped by the experience of having often operated in the background, carried more than your share, and under-claimed your contribution. OMP addresses all of it.
01
Strategic Vision You Own
Move from executing on someone else’s vision to building your own. Develop a clear, articulated picture of where the business is going — one that you’ve constructed, that you believe in, and that you can lead others toward with conviction.
02
Leadership Presence
The ability to walk into any business conversation — with your team, your partner, your bank, your customers — as the owner of the business. Not hesitant. Not qualified. Fully present, fully credible, and fully in command of your own perspective.
03
Clarity on Your Value
A clear-eyed, evidence-based understanding of what you specifically bring to this business — the perspective, the judgment, the relationships, the thinking — that no one else brings. And the ability to claim it without apology.
04
Financial Fluency
Full command of the numbers in your business — not just what they are, but what they mean and what to do about them. OMP owners leave able to lead financial conversations, hold others accountable to performance, and make capital decisions with confidence.
05
A High-Performance Team
The ability to attract, develop, and hold to account the people who will execute your vision. For female owners who have often defaulted to carrying more than their share, OMP builds the capacity to genuinely lead others — and to let them carry it.
06
A Business That Works Without You
OMP reorients female business owners from operator to owner — building the systems, the people, and the thinking that means the business can perform even when you’re not in it. Which is, ultimately, what ownership means.
Limited Part-Scholarships worth $5000 are available for female business owners.
Apply now.
Hear directly from OMP alumni about how the program changed their business — and their plans for what comes next.
Rob Douglas
Chris Robinson
Why we talk about this directly
Rob Douglas and Chris Robinson have been running OMP for over 15 years. In that time, they’ve worked with hundreds of private business owners across every industry — and they’ve seen, repeatedly, what happens when a female business owner walks into OMP carrying the full weight of running a business while being largely invisible in it.
They’ve watched owners arrive uncertain of their own standing and leave with a clarity about their capability and their right to lead that changes everything. They’ve also watched female owners talk themselves out of coming — because of logistics, because of guilt, because of the sense that everyone else’s needs come first.
This page exists because the pattern is real, it matters, and it deserves to be addressed directly. OMP is not a program designed for women. It’s a program designed for owners — and the female owners who have been through it consistently say it was one of the most important things they’ve done.
You've been running this business. It's time to own it completely.
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