Become the CEO Your Business Needs

Get to the Next Level of Your Business by Learning to Think, Decide and Lead Like a CEO.

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Become the CEO
Your Business Needs

Get to the Next Level of Your Business by Learning to Think, Decide, and Lead Like a CEO

Become the CEO
Your Business Needs
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Get to the Next Level of Your Business by Learning to Think, Decide, and Lead Like a CEO

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Stop Feeling Like You're Carrying Everything Alone

Financial Stress

You don’t know what the numbers are really telling you.

Do You Feel Completely Alone Carrying Your Business?

Maybe you’re wondering:

✓ Why does being the boss feel so lonely?
✓ Why doesn’t my business feel like me anymore?
✓ How do I get to the next level?
✓ Can I make payroll?
✓ What are my financials actually telling me?
✓ How do I get my time back?
✓ Why does success feel heavier than I thought it would?

You don’t need more hustle. You need more clarity.

How We Help

CFO Advisory

Learn to make confident, data-driven decisions that increase profit and create financial clarity.

Bookkeeping

Clean accurate numbers you can trust - delivered to you consistently and on time.

1:1 CEO Advisory

Personalized, one-on-one guidance to help you lead with clarity and confidence.

The Fifth Compass Collective ™

Community, accountability and CEO- development to help you grow with support.

Do You Feel Completely Alone Carrying Your Business?

Do you spend each day silently wondering “Why does being the boss feel so lonely, why doesn’t my business feel like “me”, how do I get to the next level, how do I get my time back, can I make payroll, what do the financials mean, why does my business feel like prison, and how can I grow when I’m about to collapse?” Most entrepreneurs start their businesses because they are talented at what they do, feel it’s their purpose, or have a drive to create something meaningful. But somewhere along the way, that’s just not enough. 

Do you keep telling yourself to just work harder, pushing through confusion, insecurity, cash inconsistency, long hours, decision fatigue, and the constant pressure of trying to hold everything together? Are you carrying the weight of the business on your shoulders while wondering why success feels heavy and dollars don’t grow at the same rate as your exhaustion? 

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Meet Alise Saunders

I’ve sat in both worlds – the corporate boardroom and the entrepreneur’s office. 

How Do You Become Part of the 5% of Businesses That Succeed?

As a business owner, you’re already part of the 4% of people who have the courage to become entrepreneurs. That’s how extraordinary your journey already is. However, only 5% of those business owners will create successful businesses, something more than just a J.O.B. 85% of businesses close within their first five years. This is not a reflection of the owner’s talent, hard work, passion, or potential. It’s because no one taught them how to transition from the business owner, the doer, to the CEO their business needed. How do you know if you’re operating as a business owner instead of a CEO? Business owners aren’t leading; they’re surviving. Most business owners are operating from fear, scarcity, overwhelm, confusion, self-doubt, burnout, self-sabotage, and the need to prove self-worth through achievement. The pressure of running a business magnifies whatever remains unhealed within us. 

There comes a point in business where exhaustion stops feeling temporary and starts feeling like your normal way of life. Ask yourself: “Will I be here 3 or 6 months from now, or even 3 years from now?” Do you keep thinking you just need to apply more pressure, more hustle? You can’t hustle your way out of a business owner mindset. Sustainable growth requires becoming the CEO capable of holding greater visibility, responsibility, profitability, leadership, and freedom.

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Business Owner vs. CEO

The Surviving Business OwnerThe CEO Leader
Reacts to Problems and Focuses on Today’s FiresAnticipates, Plans, and Focuses on Long-Term Vision
Chases OpportunitiesChooses Opportunities
Constantly Feels Behind, Overwhelmed, and Stuck in the Same PlaceFeels Empowered, Aligned, and Focused on Priorities
Stuck in Indecision or Makes Decisions Emotionally and ReactivelyMakes Decisions Confidently and Strategically
Avoids Looking at NumbersUnderstands and Uses Numbers to Make Decisions
Carries Everything AloneBuilds Support, Community, Learning, and Delegation
Believes More Effort Creates Success and Works HarderBelieves Better Leadership Creates Success and Thinks Differently
Needs Certainty Before ActingTrusts Themselves to Navigate Uncertainty
Unconsciously Stays Small to Avoid Fear, Judgement, Failure, or SuccessExpands Their Leadership Capacity to Hold the Growth They Desire
Builds From FearBuilds From Vision
Responsible For Every TaskCreates Systems and Accountability
Trapped By a Business That Consumes Their EnergyBuilds a Business That Grows Without Them

Our Services

We offer a wide range of services to help you take control of your business.

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Community, Support & Connection

Grow alongside entrepreneurs navigating similar challenges through strategic conversations, shared experiences, accountability, networking, collaboration, and meaningful human connection.

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Who We Serve

We serve a variety of small businesses and freelancers that provide services to their customers.

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Event Services

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From Overwhelmed Owner to Confident CEO

Business owners start the company, but CEOs grow the company. Every CEO seeks out wisdom and support because no one is meant to figure it out alone. Fifth Compass is where business owners come to become the CEO of their business so they can achieve the next level of their business, gain confidence in their decisions, make more money, and build a business that supports their life, instead of consuming it.

Fifth Compass provides a container where business owners navigate the operational, mental, and emotional realities of business ownership alongside others walking a similar path, so you can stop carrying the weight of entrepreneurship alone. Inside the Fifth Compass Collective, you’ll learn how to run the business instead of it running you. You’ll create self-trust, aligned leadership, stronger systems, healthier boundaries, and meaningful support through stronger foundations, leading to sustainable profitability, creating the life and business you truly want.

The transformation is not JUST becoming more profitable. It’s becoming the kind of CEO who can hold success, growth, visibility, freedom, and leadership with confidence. 

What Makes Fifth Compass Different

Business Is More Than Operational. It’s Transformational.

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Fifth Compass is where business growth and personal transformation become one journey. We believe the next level of your business begins with the next level of you. The businesses that create lasting profitability, freedom, and fulfillment are not built by doing more, they are built by becoming more

Through personal transformation, financial mastery, strategy, and conscious growth, we help mission-led entrepreneurs expand their capacity to lead, create, and sustain profitable businesses that generate wealth, create freedom, and make a meaningful impact in the world.

At Fifth Compass, we believe true business growth requires more than external strategy. A compass typically points North, South, East, and West, but the fifth direction, the one of going within, is the most important because business ownership has a way of revealing everything that influences how we lead. It exposes fear, burnout, scarcity, self-doubt, over-responsibility, visibility challenges, and survival-based patterns that quietly shape our decisions and limit our growth.

We believe entrepreneurship is the greatest personal growth journey a person can undertake because every new level of growth asks us to think differently, lead differently, trust ourselves more deeply, and expand our capacity to hold greater responsibility, visibility, abundance, and impact. Every challenge, decision, setback, and success becomes an invitation to evolve. 

The more conscious you become, the more intentional your decisions become. The more intentional your decisions become, the stronger your business becomes. And the stronger your business becomes, the greater your capacity to create wealth, freedom, opportunity, and impact for yourself and others. THIS is Fifth Compass. We don’t simply help you build a better business, we help you become the person capable of creating and leading it.

How Fifth Compass Helps You Become the CEO Your Business Needs

Business Support For Every Stage of Business

Entrepreneurship requires different levels of support, strategy, guidance, and community at different moments. Fifth Compass supports every aspect of building your business, all in one place. 

Fifth Compass offers multiple ways to support your journey, from ongoing leadership development and business education to strategic guidance and transformational conversations. Together, we build the financial, strategic, and leadership capacity required to grow a profitable, sustainable business aligned with the life you want to create.

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The Fifth Compass Collective

Where Owners Become CEOs

The Fifth Compass Collective is the heart of the Fifth Compass ecosystem, created for entrepreneurs who are ready to think, decide, and lead like a CEO. Through tools, frameworks, guides, templates, decision support, accountability, implementation sessions, expert-led conversations, and a community that understands the journey, you’ll develop the clarity, confidence, leadership, and strategic thinking needed to grow your business, trust your decisions, and step fully into your role as CEO.

1:1 Business Growth Guidance

Personalized Support for Entrepreneurs Ready To Get To The Next Level

1:1 CEO sessions are designed for business owners who want personalized guidance on their unique journey. These private sessions provide a dedicated space to explore opportunities, navigate challenges, strengthen decision-making, and align your business strategy with your long-term vision. Together, we’ll focus on what matters most so you can move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and leadership.

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Workshops, Events & Experiences

Strategic Conversations for Conscious Business Growth

Throughout the year, Fifth Compass hosts workshops, courses, and transformational business conversations designed to help entrepreneurs strengthen both the tactical and human side of entrepreneurship.

Topics may include:

  • business strategy and planning
  • leadership and communication
  • cash flow and profitability
  • mindset and self-trust
  • burnout and sustainable growth
  • conscious AI integration
  • operations and systems
  • visibility, fear, and CEO identity
  • human-first business development
  • business planning, execution, time management


These experiences are designed to create practical breakthroughs, meaningful conversations, and real-world implementation, not just information consumption.

Why Fifth Compass Believes in Human-First Business Growth

At Fifth Compass, we believe when too much is outsourced to hustle culture, trends, other people, or AI, we risk losing connection, creativity, purpose, and authentic leadership, the very things that make their business meaningful and sustainable. Modern entrepreneurship teaches business owners to disconnect from themselves in the pursuit of success so they can move faster, produce more, automate more, optimize more, and constantly chase what everyone else is doing. Plus, AI-generated agents are quietly pulling people further away from their own voice, instincts, creativity, and authentic leadership.

At Fifth Compass, we teach entrepreneurs how to grow profitably by aligning with who they are and their purpose in life, consciously integrating AI into their business, and putting humans first in their business. 

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