Kit Lisle · Founder, TheOperators.pe · 30 years in the private equity ecosystem
Running a PE-backed company is a job nobody trains you for. There is a table where operators figure it out together.
Thirty minutes with Kit and a small group of PE-backed operators. Bring what is on your desk to a table of people who have probably lived it.
No pitch. No demo. No prep.
Tuesday 9:30am, Wednesday 4pm, Friday 10:30am Eastern. Eight seats at each table, first come.
How the table works
1. Save a seat and bring one thing.
The form asks one line when you book: what you are working out right now. Kit reads every answer before you sit down.
2. The table takes it on.
You and a small group of PE-backed operators, with Kit moderating. The real questions come first, and someone at the table has usually solved yours.
3. You get more than you brought.
Other operators put their situations on the table too, and their questions are often the ones you did not know to ask.
4. You leave with a sharper read.
A clearer view of whatever you brought to the table, and usually a name or two worth knowing. What happens next is your call.
This is for you if
The only one in the building
You are the only one in the building who has sat in this seat. Your team reports to you, your board evaluates you, and nobody is in it with you.
Second or third time in the seat
You are in your second or third PE-backed company. You know the playbook by now. What you do not have is a bench of peers who operate at your level.
Still running on founder instinct
The company still runs on founder instinct. You are installing PE discipline mid-flight, and there is no manual for changing the culture with it.
If one of these is you, that is the table. A peer problem, not a performance problem. Never a pitch.
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Pull up a chair.
Kit runs every table himself, and keeps it small on purpose.
Built on the peer-advisory method behind TheOperators.pe.