FOR PRACTICE OWNERS WHO ARE DONE GUESSING

One Problem. One Day. One Clear Plan for the Next Twelve Months.

The CEO Freedom Roadmap Day is a five-hour private strategy intensive with Diana Lidstone that produces a written 12-month strategic plan for your practice. No program. No twelve-month commitment. One day, and you walk away knowing exactly what you’re building and what you’re doing next.
Starting at $2,500. Virtual or in person. Limited days each quarter.

CEO Freedom Roadmap Day at a glance

The facts, before the story.
What it is A private one-day strategy intensive with Diana Lidstone
Length Five hours, plus pre-session intake
Format Virtual or in person
Investment Starting at $2,500
Who it's for Owners of law, bookkeeping, accounting, and professional service practices, both under $100,000 and scaling beyond it
Outcome A written 12-month strategic plan, plus a full session recording
Method The Work Less, PROFIT More™ framework, five pillars
Ongoing commitment None. This is a standalone engagement.

Why do practice owners stay stuck even when they’re working hard?

Most practice owners aren’t stuck because of effort. They’re stuck because they’ve never had one uninterrupted day to think. Every decision gets made in the gaps. Between client calls. At 9pm. In your head, alone, again. And because there’s no plan behind the decisions, they don’t compound. You end the year busier than you started it and not much further ahead.

Different revenue. Same root cause.

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You're good at the work and guessing at the business

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You're saying yes to clients you shouldn't take because revenue feels fragile

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You can't articulate what makes you different, so you compete on price

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You've got ten ideas and no way to rank them

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Revenue is up and profit isn't following

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You know you should raise prices, hire, or drop a service line, and you keep not deciding

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You're the bottleneck in a practice you built to give you freedom

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Growth feels heavier every year instead of easier

What is drift in a small business?

Drift is what happens when a business runs on unmade decisions.

Not one big mistake. A hundred small deferrals. The pricing conversation you keep postponing. The client type you know isn’t right. The service line you’ve outgrown. The hire you haven’t defined.

Each deferral is survivable on its own
Together they become the thing everyone calls being busy
Real revenue, real hours, nothing meaningful left over
Eventually they become entrepreneurial poverty
Drift doesn’t get fixed in the gaps between client calls. It gets fixed by stopping, thinking properly, and deciding. That’s what this day is.
YOUR GUIDE

Who leads the CEO Freedom Roadmap Day?

The CEO Freedom Roadmap Day is led by Diana Lidstone, a business strategist who has spent over 20 years helping lawyers, bookkeepers, accountants, and professional service practice owners increase profit while working fewer hours.

She is the founder of the CEO Freedom Academy, best-selling author of Shift Into Rich, and creator of the Work Less, PROFIT More™ framework.

“Here’s what I’ve learned in those twenty years: most owners don’t have an information problem. You already know most of what you should do. What you don’t have is a clear, ranked, written plan that tells you what to do first, what to stop doing, and what to ignore for now. You can’t build that in stolen twenty-minute blocks. You build it in one focused day with someone who has done this hundreds of times and can see the constraint you’re too close to see.”

Proof

None of it started with more effort. It started with a decision.

Results from practice owners who stopped deciding in the gaps.

Zero profit to $500,000 in profit.

“Both my life and my business have changed drastically since I started working with Diana. I’ve taken control of my health, and my business has seen exponential growth and profits.”

Milena Cardinal · Lawyer, Cardinal Law

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Grew her business 70% while traveling for seven months.

“I can’t believe how much Diana has helped us simplify and systematize our business.”

Lara Autio, Consultant, Experience AI Solutions

Raised prices and took a full 5-day unplugged vacation.

“I had a business doing mid-six figures but every decision relied on me. I was able to take a full five-day unplugged vacation without my business collapsing.”

Katie Pomeroy · Bookkeeper with Contractors, KP Solutions

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Revenue grew 60% in 6 months.

“Niching down was one of the most uncomfortable decisions I’ve ever made; but it was the very best decision. My revenue grew 60% in 6 months.”

Solo Bookkeeper, Diana’s Client

What happens during a CEO Freedom Roadmap Day?

A CEO Freedom Roadmap Day has three stages: a pre-session intake, a five-hour working session structured in five moves, and a written 12-month plan delivered afterward.

STAGE 1 — Intake

You complete a detailed intake before the day. Diana reviews your numbers, your offers, your client mix, and where you think the problem is. By the time you sit down, the homework is done. You don’t spend paid hours on background.

STAGE 2 — The day, in five moves

MOVE 1 — Vision

Where is this actually going? Not a vague someday. A specific, stated destination with a number and a date attached. Most owners have never written this down, which is exactly why every decision feels hard.

MOVE 2 — Differentiation and Ideal Client

What makes you genuinely different, and who is this practice for? We get specific enough that your marketing writes itself and your pricing stops being a negotiation.

MOVE 3 — Marketing and Sales

Review your current ‘Revenue Growth Engine’ and then identify how you will generate leads for the next 90-180 days and beyond. We will review your sales system to increase sales conversion.

What you’re building has to fit the life you want, not compete with it. We define the non-negotiables before we build the plan, so the plan doesn’t quietly cost you your weekends.

MOVE 4 — Reality Check

We name the real issues, review the numbers where it matters, and identify what has actually stopped you until now. This is the uncomfortable hour. It’s also the one that changes things.

MOVE 5 — The 12-Month Plan

We turn all of it into a sequenced, prioritized plan across four quarters. What you do, what you stop, what comes first, what waits.

STAGE 3 — Your deliverable

The full session is recorded and yours to keep. Within days you receive your written 12-Month CEO Freedom Plan: your stated goals, your positioning, the issues surfaced during the day, and the specific action steps in the order you should take them.

You don’t leave with notes and good intentions. You leave with a document.

Five hours of focused work, one written plan, and no twelve-month commitment attached to it.

What framework does the Freedom Roadmap Day use?

The CEO Freedom Roadmap Day runs on the Work Less, PROFIT More™ framework, Diana Lidstone’s five-pillar method for building a profitable, owner-independent professional practice.

In a single day we work the pillars where your constraint actually lives, rather than spreading thin across all five.

Pillar 1 — Vision, Values & Mission: align your business with your bigger life goals.
Pillar 2 — Revenue Growth Engine: create a simple, powerful system to attract ideal clients consistently.
Pillar 3 — 90-Day Planning System: replace reactive chaos with focused, proactive execution.
Pillar 4 — Lead Like a CEO: make high-level decisions that drive profit, not just busyness.
Pillar 5 — Support Growth Engine: build a lean, effective team and systems that scale without you.

One-day intensive, group coaching, or private coaching?

Three ways to work with Diana. Here is the honest comparison.
OFFER CEO Freedom Momentum CEO Freedom Mastery CEO Roadmap Day
Format Group coaching Private one to one coaching One-day private intensive
Length 12 months 12 months Five hours
Investment From $797/month From $2500/month $2500
Best when Growth feels heavier than it should You are the bottleneck and need the practice to run without you You need clarity and a plan, fast
You leave with An installed CEO Operating System An owner-independent business A written 12-month plan
Learn More Learn About Momentum Learn About Mastery Learn About Roadmap

Who is the CEO Freedom Roadmap Day for?

The CEO Freedom Roadmap Day is for owners of law, bookkeeping, accounting, and professional service practices at two stages: those building toward their first $100,000, and those past it who want to scale without adding hours.

This is for you if

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You own a professional service practice

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You're building toward your first $100K and want to do it deliberately rather than by trial and error

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Or you're past $100K and growth has started to feel heavier than it should

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You want clarity and a written plan more than ongoing hand-holding

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You're prepared to make real decisions in a single day

This is not for you if

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You want someone to hand you a script and tell you exactly what to say

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You're looking for motivation rather than decisions

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You want to keep the plan flexible enough that nothing has to change

This is a working day. Come ready to decide.

THE COST OF WAITING

What another year of drift actually costs.

You already know what the next twelve months look like if nothing changes. You’ve watched it happen before.

Revenue moves a little. Profit doesn’t. You take on two clients you shouldn’t have. You mean to fix the pricing in the spring and it’s suddenly October. Next January you sit down to plan and you’re writing down the same three goals you wrote down this year.

That’s not a $2,500 problem. That’s a whole year.

 

INVESTMENT

How much does the CEO Freedom Roadmap Day cost?

The CEO Freedom Roadmap Day is $2,500 and includes the pre-session intake, five hours of private strategy work with Diana Lidstone, a full session recording, and a written 12-month strategic plan. It can be delivered virtually or in person.

For context: reaching the same clarity through ongoing coaching takes months and costs considerably more. This is the fastest path available, and for a lot of owners it’s the right one. Some people take the plan and run with it alone. Others use the day to figure out whether ongoing support makes sense. Both are fine outcomes.

What isn’t fine is spending another year deciding in the gaps.
$2,500 ALL IN
✓ Pre-session intake and review
✓ Five hours of private strategy work
✓ Full session recording, yours to keep
✓ Written 12-Month CEO Freedom Plan

No ongoing commitment. Virtual or in person. Days are limited each quarter because they take real preparation.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be at $100K in revenue to do this?
No. Owners under $100,000 often get the most from a Freedom Roadmap Day, because it’s far cheaper to build the right structure early than to unwind the wrong one later.
Is the CEO Freedom Roadmap Day coaching?
No. It’s a strategy day. The work is decisions and planning, not motivation or mindset.
What if I need help implementing the plan?
The plan is written so you can implement it yourself, and many people do. If you decide you want support afterward, CEO Freedom Momentum and CEO Freedom Mastery are available. There is no obligation and no pitch during the day.
Can the CEO Freedom Roadmap Day be done virtually?
Yes. The CEO Freedom Roadmap Day is offered both virtually and in person.
Do I need to be in Canada?
No. Diana Lidstone is based in North Augusta, Ontario, and works with practice owners across Canada and the United States.
How many CEO Freedom Roadmap Days are available?
Availability is limited each quarter because each day requires significant preparation and review before the session.

You already know something has to change.

You’ve known for a while. The only question is whether you’ll spend another twelve months deciding in the gaps, or one day deciding properly.

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