Marketing and business consultancy
Yourbusinesshasoutgrowntheroleyou'restillplayinginit.
Private advisory for owners of six to eight figure companies. Training for the people who run them day to day.
- General Assembly
- Broward County Libraries
- Florida Department of Health
- Chevrolet
- Fiverr
- University of Miami
- Pérez Art Museum Miami
- The Miami Foundation
- Capital One
- Dell
- NBCUniversal
- Code.org
- Adrienne Arsht Center
- Capital One
- Dell
- NBCUniversal
- Code.org
- Adrienne Arsht Center
01 Sound familiar
Where owners get stuck
The company is usually fine on paper. What stopped working is the owner's position inside it. Pick the one that's yours and it starts your application.
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Every decision still routes through you, including the ones you hired people to make.
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The managers you promoted can't move their people, so you move them yourself.
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The growth plan you wrote a year ago is still in a drawer, and you can't fully explain why.
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Revenue is fine. Your week isn't.
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The team knows what to do and keeps waiting for you anyway.
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You want out of daily operations without selling the company to get there.
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Proof
02 Proof
The work is measured in owners who got out of the bottleneck, and in numbers that moved.
Thirteen industries. Professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, food import and export, SaaS, e‑commerce, real estate, finance and investing, publishing and media, beauty and skincare, music and entertainment, fashion and apparel, and coaching and info products.
Three recent engagements
- Healthcare
Ready for a second location in four months. Medical center, 20 staff. The owner was the customer service standard, and nothing held when he was off the floor. He installed a manager with the authority to hold it, and the center was ready to open its second location within four months.
- The trades
A $135K month in the slow season. HVAC company, Australia. The owner took over the family business to retire his father and the crew still treated him as the owner's son. We worked on how he sells and how he leads. March, normally a quiet month, closed at $135K AUD across installs, service and the online store, and his crew now takes direction from him.
- Real estate
Three seven-to-eight figure deals in 90 days. Real estate investor, $5M gross, living on fix-and-flips and short-term rentals, one deal at a time. We moved him off chasing deals and onto the relationships that carry the large ones. Within 90 days those relationships brought him three consecutive commercial and industrial deals, each seven to eight figures.
"Same amount of time, but bigger deals. Why spend it on smaller deals? He expanded me."
Real estate investor, $5M gross
"Business-wise I'm a lot more confident. I now realize I'm sitting on a gold mine. Sky's the limit with it."
Owner, HVAC company, Australia
03 Services
Services
Scoped in conversation, priced in writing. One engagement at a time. Open a row for the details.
- Intensives from $15,000
Two-day intensives and three-month engagements for owners who want growth, or want out of daily operations. In person in Crystal River or remote.
Apply for this- Intensive
- Two days, one owner. In person in Crystal River, Florida, or remote. From $15,000.
- Engagement
- Three months of private work after the intensive. The intensive fee is credited toward it within 30 days.
- Produces
- A written diagnosis before the first session and a written record after every one.
Scope, dates and the full fee are set in writing after the diagnosis.
- Priced by scope
Positioning and channel strategy for established businesses, and the public platform an owner builds in front of one. Strategy and build-out; your people run it.
Apply for this- For
- Established companies that need positioning and a channel plan, and owners building an authority platform in front of the business.
- Format
- Strategy and build-out with your team. Your people run it after handover.
- Price
- By scope, in writing, after the diagnosis.
- Priced by scope
Half-day and full-day sessions for owner-led companies and their leadership groups, 20 to 100 people, with the routines that keep the standard in place after the session ends.
Apply for this- Topics
- Leadership influence. Conflict resolution in high-stress teams. Customer service. Sales. Social media marketing.
- Format
- Half-day or full-day, on site. Groups of 20 to 100: owner-led companies, company teams, or the leadership group alone.
- Price
- By scope, in writing.
- Priced by scope
Design and delivery of entrepreneurship and workforce programs for institutions and organizations.
Apply for this- For
- Libraries, foundations, universities and public agencies running entrepreneurship or workforce programs.
- Record
- Built in Broward: a year-long partnership with General Assembly and Broward County Libraries, 1,428 people served in year one.
- Price
- By scope, in writing.
- By request
Talks and panels for companies and universities, and for rooms full of founders.
Request a date- Stages
- Chevrolet, Fiverr, the University of Miami and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, among others.
- Topics
- Leadership influence, owner-led growth, social media and marketing, diversity in technology.
04 Coaching programs
How the owner shows up sets the ceiling.
The way you handle conflict, trust and pressure shows up in every relationship you have. Your team feels it when you avoid a hard conversation. Clients feel it when you over-give or go quiet. Revenue stalls at the level your reactions can carry, and the same pattern follows you home. These programs work on the owner, so the business and the people closest to you stop paying for it.
- 12 weeks, group
Rekindled
A 12-week group program for business owners and high achievers. It centers on your closest relationship and carries over to the team: you learn to regulate under pressure, say what needs saying, and stay present with your partner, your employees and your clients.
Weekly live call, onboarding session with Ryan Hall, the full course and a private community. A smaller semi-private room of operators for closer access.By application - Four months, private
Hypnotic Business and Relationship Mastery
Four months of private, one-to-one work on how you lead and how you relate, treated as one problem. We trace where your reactions are costing you: the hire you won't let go, the client you resent, the delegation that never sticks, the distance at home.
Sessions use hypnosis and nervous-system methods so the change holds when the pressure is on.By application - Three sessions, private
Spell Break
Three private sessions to name the one pattern behind a stuck relationship, at work or at home, ending with an individual roadmap for what to change first.
By application
05 Process
How an engagement runs
Four steps. The first two are the same for everything you can buy here. The third depends on what it is.
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Apply
A few lines about the business and the decision you have been sitting on. Every application is read by me or a member of my team.
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The call
You get our read on where you're stuck and what we would do first. If it isn't a fit, this is where we say so. If one of the programs is the fit, you can enroll on the call; the scope and price are fixed and the enrollment page is your record.
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Engagement letter
For private advisory and intensives, the work is custom, so it goes in writing: scope, price and dates within 48 hours of the call. Nothing custom is sold in the room.
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The work
Intensive, engagement or program, every session ends with a record of what was decided and who owns what.
06 The firm
The firm's work
In 2020 Black Valley Digital launched Built in Broward, a year-long program partnership with General Assembly and the Broward County Library system. It was backed by a $123,000 Google.org grant through the American Library Association, one of 13 programs selected nationally for the Libraries Build Business initiative, and served 1,428 entrepreneurs and career-changers in its first year.
Earlier workshop series ran with Broward County Libraries and Venture Café Miami. Before the firm, programs the principal ran reached more than 4,000 entrepreneurs and students, and a coding game he built with NBCUniversal for Code.org's Hour of Code has reached over 3 million students.
Workshops and stages
07 Principal
Ryan Hall
Founder of the firm.
I work with owners whose business has outrun the way they run it.
Usually the company is fine on paper. Six figures to eight, with a team of twenty or well over a hundred. What has stopped working is the owner's position inside it: the growth plan is written, and a year later it is still in the drawer, and you can't fully explain why.
That last part is what I'm hired for. The plan was never the problem.
Before this firm I spent years inside Miami's startup ecosystem, running programs for NBCUniversal, the Knight Foundation, Capital One and Dell at what is now the Center for Black Innovation, producing Black Tech Week, and sitting across from founders before their exits and after. You learn what separates the ones who get out of their own way from the ones who never do.
Since 2019 I have put that to work for 186 owners and executives, in professional services, the trades, healthcare and digital businesses. Several crossed seven figures during our engagement. I have also trained the leadership teams of owner-led companies, including managers who came up on Fortune 500 floors.
Every engagement is led by me. It starts with a written diagnosis before the first session and produces a written record after every one. Nothing about you or your company appears anywhere without your consent.
Chevrolet, Fiverr, the University of Miami and the Pérez Art Museum have put me on their stages, and The Miami Foundation has funded my work directly. Those are easy to check.
The harder question is whether the thing stopping you is one I've seen before. After seven years of this, it almost always is.
08 Apply
Tell me the decision you've been sitting on.
A few lines about the business and what you want changed. Every application is read by me or a member of my team. If it isn't a fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
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