From the team behind 50 years of business transformation across taylor construction, Telus Business solutions, and the City of Calgary
It's Time to
Get Your Shift Together.
You became the engine of your business. This book shows you how to become the architect instead. The difference is everything.
50+
Years of Combined Business Experience
41+
Clients Transformed
10x
Revenue and Employee Count Growth Track Record
Cam and Kristen built this framework inside real businesses: from solopreneurs adding their first five employees to enterprise teams navigating complex operational challenges.
Get Your Shift Together is their playbook, made available for the first time.
Success has a way of creating its own kind of chaos.
Needing to "get your shift together" doesn't mean you're failing.
It means your business has outpaced your old way of doing things.
Identify where your freedom is leaking today:
The
Accidental Prisoner
You built something, and now you can't leave it.
The business stops when you stop.
Every vacation, every sick day, every weekend is borrowed time.
You're not running a company. You're running on a treadmill.
The
Professional Firefighter
You spend 30+ hours a week solving the same problems on repeat.
Every decision depends on you, which means every bottleneck is you.
Your team is capable. They just don't know what "done" looks like without your approval.
The
Clarity
Gap
Your team is busy, but busy doing what?
Nobody is seeing the same picture of success.
Priorities shift daily. Meetings multiply. Output stays flat.
The problem isn't effort. It's alignment.
The
Freedom
Myth
You started this for freedom.
You ended up with a demanding job that follows you home, answers emails at midnight, and cancels plans.
The business owns you.
And you're starting to wonder if it's worth it.
The Framework for a Business That Works Without You.
Get Your Shift Together is built on four interconnected shifts, each one building on the last. Together they move you from operator to architect. The goal was never to work harder. It was to build something that works without you in the room. What follows is how.
Shift 1:
From Doing to Designing
Stop asking "How can I get this done?" and start asking "How can this get done without me?"
This shift installs the owner's mindset and connects your personal vision directly to your daily schedule. The clarity you've been missing isn't out there. It's a design decision.
Shift 2:
From Chaos to Consistency
Install the System Mindset. Systems aren't bureaucracy. They're shared agreements that let your team move without you in the room.
This shift takes you from firefighting to flow by making how we do things here visible, repeatable, and owned by the people doing the work.
Shift 3:
From Guessing to Growth
Use money as feedback. Stop practicing bank account accounting and start reading your numbers like a dashboard.
This shift gives you the profit habits that protect your future, so growth stops feeling like a gamble and starts feeling like a strategy.
Shift 4:
From Operator to Owner
Lead from awareness and choice. Design your Ideal Week so your business serves your life, not the other way around.
This is the shift that makes everything else worth it: the moment the business becomes an asset you own, instead of a job you can't quit.
Don't Just Read. Execute.
Order your copy and unlock the implementation toolkit we built for our private coaching clients, now included free with every purchase.
BONUS 1
The Get Your Shift Together Toolbox
Your implementation kit. Everything you need to stop reading and start shifting.
Includes:
Every Step Up Moment exercise and reflection question, ready to work through chapter by chapter.
Five practical worksheets to help you apply the frameworks to your own business.
Printable and digital-friendly format
BONUS 2
The High Gear Pack: Step Up App Access
A curated set of digital tools our coaching clients use to implement the Shifts. Yours to keep permanently as part of your book purchase.
Includes:
Vision Map Creator: build your 3-year North Star
Ad Spend Calculator: know the exact ROI before you spend
Profit by Design Allocator: pay yourself first and protect your cash flow
This is a subset of the full Step Up app, selected for book readers making their first shifts.
Cam Brown
The Systems Architect
Cam has spent 25+ years turning operational chaos into competitive advantage across public sector agencies, enterprise vendors, and growing private businesses.
At Taylor Construction and Landel Controls, his focus was the same: systemise the operation, then build or implement the technology to support it.
He has lived the challenges this book describes from the inside. The frameworks in Get Your Shift Together are the ones he developed, tested, and refined in businesses he was responsible for building.
He has led teams through the kind of complexity that breaks most operators: multi-stakeholder projects, rapid scaling, and the messy middle of hiring your first five people.
Kristen Brown
The Strategic Voice
Kristen brings 25+ years of expertise in marketing psychology, consumer research, and strategic clarity. Her client work spans dozens of professional services firms navigating growth.
She spent a decade at the City of Calgary focusing on public opinion research, where her work centered on one question: what do the numbers actually tell us about how people experience a service? Before that she held roles at Telus, Air Miles, and Environics Research, building a career grounded in data-driven decision making.
She brings that same discipline to the businesses she works with today: measure what matters, understand why people behave the way they do, and close the gap between where a business is and where it could be.
Get Your Shift Together
Step 1
Order Your Copy of Get Your Shift Together
(Releasing March 31, 2026)
Step 2
Complete This Form For Your Free Bonus Gifts:
Full Step Up Moment Workbook
Downloadable worksheets
Access to the Step Up app High Gear pack
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