An Operating System for Founders

No Great Idea should die for the wrong reasons!
FirstOS is designed to help high-growth, early-stage teams:
  • Focus on the most urgent and important things
  • Align around a shared vision that all stakeholders clearly understand
  • Build high-performance teams
  • Achieve stability, acceleration, and funding with a healthy, reliable process

Practical, Proven approach

Our training is designed to provide the skills in a practical approach. Our students' success is our best asset in showing the quality of our training.

Materials and Support forever

You will take with you the ability to apply these best practices at every stage or your company's growth and for all your future endeavors. 

Community for Success

Connections and community with other like-minded, growth-oriented founders and leaders is built into every stage of the process.
Lesson series

Four Tracks that you can utilize whenever you are ready

All of the tools and workshops have been extensively tested with entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders.  You will quickly have the insights and disciplines applied to help you get more of the right things done with less effort and almost no unforced errors.

Our mission is to make it almost easy to Build a Great Company

The combination of workshops, learning materials, and a community of peers is designed to give the path you need to maximize the chances of success and minimize the chances of failure. 
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The Team

We are all dedicated helping small and medium sized businesses and their employees to become extraordinarily Productive, Humane, and Resilient and apply our efforts to see that no Great Idea dies for the the wrong reasons.

Jim Haviland

FirstOS Founder, Business Coach, CEPA

Lauren Lake

Coordinator

Katelyn Lacor

Research Associate

Learning Styles Crafted to Serve Visionaries and Entrepreneurs

We know you and how to best help you learn and utilize the tools and disciplines of building a truly great company.

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