Find the Flow State for your business
Are you finding it hard to navigate the complexity of business growth?
Start charting a path for your dream future.
Getting from where you are…
to where you want to be. Many midsize businesses reach a plateau due to increasing complexity, resulting in challenges such as low sales/revenue, productivity, cash flow, valuation, and people issues.
At Plan4flow, we understand these struggles and offer proven solutions to break through these barriers and achieve exceptional growth.
How healthy is your business? Take this assessment. Based on Verne Harnish’s bestseller, Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), this four-minute questionnaire identifies your company’s development phase and key focus areas for the next growth stage.
Revenue plateau. Low productivity. Low inventory turns. People issues. Low cash flow. Low profit.
The Freedom to Focus
Free time to focus on activities necessary to grow your business while getting everyone to know and aligned to execute your plan.
Our holistic (whole organization) approach ensures that your business scales and you enjoy the journey to success.
Finding the Hidden Cash
You need 10 to 15 numbers to gain instant insight into your business’s code and the critical relationships between your numbers.
Once you have identified fundamental problems and found areas that need improvement, you can apply this knowledge to your seven critical levers directly linked to your business’s Profit, Cash Flow, and Value to drive significant improvement.
Discover your hidden cash and receive a comprehensive financial report, all for free. This valuable resource is our way of showing how much we value your business and its financial health. Contact us to request this insightful free report.
Accelerated Improvement
Identifying the root cause
WHAT TO CHANGE?
Building the Solution
WHAT TO CHANGE TO?
Developing the implementation plan
HOW TO CAUSE THE CHANGE?
A focused process that promotes the Agile Scaling Up. Learn more about this process by contacting us here.
Our Solutions
Scaling Up
Unlock the power of scaling up to grow your business. We focus on driving significant cash flow, profit, and valuation improvements, aiming for 2X cash flow, 3X profit, and 10X valuation growth.
Our methodology helps you navigate the complexities of expansion while maintaining control and focus. A proven Platform used for over 80,000 companies.
Leadership Alignment
Achieve alignment at all levels of your organization by pinpointing and addressing the most critical bottlenecks, and we ensure that your leadership team is united and working towards common goals, facilitating smoother operations and better decision-making.
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)
Improve project performance and delivery with Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). Our approach enhances project efficiency and reliability, ensuring you meet your strategic objectives and deliver value to your customers on time.
Why plan4flow?
We believe it is always possible to improve.
We strive to find a win-win solution to any perceived “no solution situation.”
We guide you through the process of thinking.
We connect logic with emotions.
We challenge assumptions to create breakthroughs.
Are you ready to scale?
Find out by answering just eight questions.
Our Team
Gustavo Valente is a Scaling-Up Certified Coach, a TOC (Theory of Constraints) practitioner, and an engineer. With an extensive background in the aerospace industry, Gustavo has led continuous improvement initiatives utilizing Lean, TOC, Six Sigma, and Total Quality methodologies.
As a development team leader, he has successfully managed complex projects, including the launch of new airplanes, establishing himself as a project management expert.
Rick Drumm, with more than 35 years of leadership experience in helping companies achieve success and fulfill the visions of their owners, knows what it takes for an organization to reach its goals.
He has facilitated hundreds of sessions, helping clients achieve the results they want. In the past year, his clients’ year-over-year revenue growth averaged 20%, and profitability growth ranged from 15% to 300%.
Certifications: Certified Scaling Up Coach, Certified Trainer of Wiley’s Everything DiSC, Five Cohesive Behaviors of a Team, and Wiley PXT-Select
Full Satisfaction Guarantee
President at Omini Surfaces
We were looking for ways to faster grow the company and working with Gustavo helped us to find untapped opportunities. Through his insights and the Cash Flow Story analysis revealed key areas for improvement. Gustavo’s guidance provided clarity and inspiration, significantly impacting our business. I highly recommend him for his strategic vision and ability to focus on what truly matters.
Marble & Grant Wholesale
President, CEO
I have worked with Gustavo in two different “turn-around” companies. In each, Gustavo has brought training, insights, mentorship, and coaching, but above all, clarification and critical thinking have generated top-line and bottom-line results.
As President of these ventures, I need to quickly assess and execute a “step-changing” transformation. In a sense, Gustavo has been my partner in helping achieve the vision and mission. Most impressive are Gustavo’s approaches to project management, Win-Win solutions, and alternative ways to assess a business’s potential for profitability and growth.
Gustavo was also instrumental in assisting another company in driving sales – “digging” deep with the Team to determine why customers were apprehensive about giving the company a chance/or a second chance. Gustavo administered this brainstorming and open-forum conversations through workshops and follow-up sessions that brought forward SOPs (standard operating procedures) and proposal offers that customers could not refuse …and were not based on lowering price!
Lastly, Gustavo works with me one-on-one as a business coach, helping me with “stepping back” and continuously evaluating the big picture.
Multiple Industries
Sales and Demand Analyst
I had the privilege of working with Gustavo Valente over a period of time on several projects. His guidance and knowledge in the use of Theory of Constraints was very helpful in learning how to organize workflows. Pinpointing the areas in the process that could possibly lead to a bottle neck allowed for proactive problem solving on the front end instead of waiting for the problem to occur. He is a true professional and his insight were always useful and actionable.
Commercial Vehicles Installation
Director of Contract Manufacture
Learning TOC has been instrumental in driving rapid results with increased productivity and throughput. I can now see new possibilities and develop solutions for our business in a way that wasn’t available before. We applied CCPM managing projects involving Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality and we were able to reduce the cycle time by almost 300% delivering 100% on time.
Metal Fabrication
Head of Project Management
… I began to work with Gustavo, and he guided me to think outside the box and helped me understand the critical path. I completed my first project two days early. His knowledge of managing projects was astounding. He helped me to be a better project manager, additionally gave me wonderful guidance on growth through my company.
Recycle Plastic Injection
Director of Fleet Engineering
I had the pleasure of working with Gustavo on several projects while our company was mapping out all our processes to find opportunities for continuous improvement. He does an outstanding job of bringing teams together in discussions, deconflicting issues, and has a fantastic visual approach that is easy to understand and implement. Gustavo’s expertise and workshops on theory of constraints (TOC) and critical chain project management (CCPM) helped us to properly plan and execute projects on time and to customer expectation.
Commercial Vehicles Installation
Director of Material Management - Fleet Processes
Our Company has worked with Gustavo Valente for a few years. I had the opportunity to worked directly with Gustave in his CCPM Workshop, Streamline Project, Material Management and Fleet Project.
Gustavo Valente listened and learned our business. He has a Win-Win-Win approach and is very passionate and driven. Gustavo brings clarity and simplification to find the solution for the problem. He believes it is always possible to do it better.
I’m extremely impressed by the knowledge I have gained working with Gustavo and would highly recommend his services.
It’s a WIN-WIN!
Commercial Vehicles Installation
Director, Program Management
Gustavo is an expert in Critical Chain Project Management and Theory of Constraints, and as such, has a wealth of knowledge and experience leading teams and organizing and managing projects. He’s also extremely knowledgeable regarding how best to use ProChain – providing customizations that support that effort. He’s an amazing teacher and resource, and we’re very fortunate to be able to work with him.
Solar Renewable Energy
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