Fractional VP of Operations for growing businesses
I find the bottlenecks, broken handoffs, and disconnected systems slowing your company down—then rebuild the operation so your team can execute without everything running through you.
Start with a focused operational review. Every request comes directly to Maggie.
What I fix
When growth outpaces the way your business runs, the symptoms show up everywhere: missed follow-up, unclear ownership, inconsistent execution, and an owner trapped in every decision. Develop U finds the breakdown and rebuilds the system.
A direct review of how work actually moves through your business—where it stalls, where ownership breaks down, and why the same problems keep returning.
I replace scattered workarounds with clear workflows, ownership, handoffs, and management rhythms your team can actually follow.
Your CRM should tell the team what happens next—not become another place where work disappears. I clean it up, connect it, and make it useful.
I turn expectations that live in the owner’s head into SOPs, onboarding, training, and leadership tools the team can execute consistently.
Senior operational leadership for owners who need a second brain, an honest operator, and someone accountable for turning decisions into execution.
I build clear, conversion-focused websites that explain what you do, guide visitors toward action, and connect cleanly to the systems running behind the scenes.
Lead capture, routing, messaging, and follow-up work best when they operate as one connected customer journey—not separate marketing tasks.
Operational control
If the owner has to personally track every invoice, payment, report, and administrative loose end, the operation is not under control. Develop U creates the visibility and follow-through that keeps essential work from becoming another owner emergency.
Fix the follow-through →Maggie Stokien · Founder
Every client strategy, recommendation, and final decision is led by Maggie Stokien. You always know who owns the work and who is accountable for moving it forward.
FOUNDERMaggie fixes the operational mess growth exposes. For 15+ years, she has stepped into businesses where the owner is carrying too much, the team is working around broken systems, and nobody can agree on what needs to happen next.
She gets beneath the symptoms to find where time, money, customers, and accountability are leaking. Then she rebuilds the operation—from processes, leadership rhythms, and SOPs to Zoho CRM, customer journeys, and AI automation. She is equally comfortable challenging the owner, training the team, and getting inside the tools to build what is missing.
No pretty deck. No disappearing act. Maggie tells the truth, stays close to the work, and leaves the business clearer, stronger, and far less dependent on the owner to hold everything together.
How Maggie works
Tools don’t fix broken operations. The right systems do. I use Zoho, AI, and automation only when they eliminate friction, protect your team’s time, and help the business run without constant rescue.
I will tell you what is broken, what is distracting you, and what needs to happen next. Then I stay close enough to make sure the fix works in real life.
No vague assessment, corporate filler, or ten-page report that avoids the real issue.
Strategy matters, but only when it becomes a system your team can execute.
Clear ownership, practical workflows, and documentation built around the real operation.
A healthier business should not require you to personally rescue every process and decision.
The uncomfortable truth
Request an operations review
Tell me where the business feels heavier than it should. I’ll review the pressure points and tell you the smartest place to start.
Coming soon · Preorders open
Preorder the five-book No Permission Needed series—an honest journey through ambition, uncertainty, reinvention, and building anyway. Release updates will go directly to the email used at checkout.
Phase I — The Hustle YearsThe unfiltered story of building while life is still happening.
Phase II — The LeapFor the moment the plan is not perfect, but you move anyway.
Phase III — Controlled ChaosHow to own the middle without pretending it is polished.
Phase IV — The TransformationA different way to see the parts of you that never fit the mold.
Phase V — MasteryThe confidence that comes from building your own playbook.
Practical downloads
Workbooks, planners, templates, and operator-built resources you can put to work today.
01Companion workbookExercises, prompts, and action steps for the hustle years.
02Companion workbookMap your leap and get clear on what you are building.
03Companion workbookExercises for navigating the messy middle with intention.
04Companion workbookDeep-dive prompts for transformation and identity work.
05Companion workbookReflection and planning exercises for your next chapter.
Reflection prompts, affirmations, and weekly check-ins.
Plug-and-play captions for Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
A no-BS goal system with weekly reviews built in.
09TemplatesHonest self-assessment tools for coaches and clients.
10OperationsChecklists, day-one guides, and role cards that are ready to use.
11ComplianceServSafe-aligned quizzes, reference sheets, and trainer guide.
12ProductivityWeekly planner, priority matrix, and 90-day tracker.
All 13 digital downloads in one practical toolkit.
Before we talk
Maggie looks at where work stalls, where ownership is unclear, which systems are disconnected, and what keeps pulling the owner back into day-to-day rescue mode.
No. Develop U can diagnose the issue, build the system, document the process, support implementation, and help leadership keep it running.
Focused operational reviews, project-based system builds, CRM and automation work, SOP and training development, and ongoing fractional operations leadership.
Maggie Stokien leads every client strategy, recommendation, and final decision. Supporting work is assigned and supervised based on the needs of the engagement.
Operations review requests receive a reply within two business days so Maggie can understand the pressure points and recommend the right starting place.
The five-book No Permission Needed series is coming soon. Preorder customers will receive release updates at the email used at checkout, followed by digital delivery details as each title becomes available.