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title: Formula L4 | Organizations That Deliver the Growth Plan
description: Formula L4 builds organizations that deliver the growth plan, for logistics, supply chain and distribution companies. Strategy, systems, leaders and teams, pulling the same way.
image: https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/fl4-og-card.jpg
---

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    - [The Operating System](https://www.formulal4.com/os)
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# Formula L⁴ builds organizations that *deliver the growth plan.*

Revenue flat against a plan that said otherwise. Volume you can't add without adding heads. Margin giving up a point at a time.

None of that is bad luck.

[Book a Growth Review](https://www.formulal4.com/call)

[Not ready to talk? Take the Alignment Check.](https://www.formulal4.com/alignment)

## Your growth plan outgrew *the company you built.*

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Your organization is built to produce the results you have now. The plan is asking for different ones.

Sometimes there's something behind it. A new financial target, a market shift, new investors, a leader with a different view. All of those change the plan, and the plan is usually right.

Just as often nothing dramatic happened at all. The business grew, the market moved underneath it, and the organization never got rebuilt on purpose. Nobody schedules that.

## Every shift has to connect all the way through *your strategy, systems, leaders and teams.*

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Where the company decided to go. How deals and accounts actually get run, and how people get paid for it. The leaders who carry the plan into every branch and every week. The teams in front of your customers.

It gets underestimated, because the first fixes you reach for are reasonable ones, and each one moves a single piece.

What the number did

What the plan needed

All four, together

A sharper plan

It never made it past the leadership team.

A better CRM

The process it ran on never changed.

A senior hire

Hired into the old system, they end up doing what it pays for.

Training for the team

No rhythm to hold it once the room emptied.

All four, together

The system moved, so the gain stayed.

Swipe the panels sideways.

## On its own, every fix fades. *Growth holds when all four move together.*

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None of what you tried was wrong. One piece moved, the other three pulled it back, and that is fixable.

Move all four in the same direction and the growth stops depending on who shows up.

It isn't fast, and it's the only version of this I've seen hold.

Growth is decided in the boardroom. *It's earned in the field.*

![](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/TMSA%20Exec%20Summit%2024%20DiSC.jpg)

Holly LaBoda  ·  Founder & Chief Growth Officer

## Four things I see *over and over.*

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**The plan is clear in the boardroom and fuzzy by the time it reaches the branch.** Nobody turned the target into choices a branch manager can run on a Tuesday.

**Margin gets given away quietly.** A seller squeezed between what the operation needs and what the customer will accept, with no authority to move either one, takes the hit rather than escalate it. Nobody decided that account should run that thin. It just ended up there.

**Your best people learned to sell by watching.** They came up through operations, they're good at it, and none of it was ever written down. When they leave, it leaves.

**The relationships are real, and they belong to individuals.** Fine until someone retires, or a buyer changes, or a competitor hires them.

## Everything on the market is one layer. *Formula L⁴ is the assembled version.*

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A training company sells curriculum. A tech vendor sells tooling. A strategy firm sells the plan. Someone who ran an organization before sells growth judgement.

All of those are real. Every one of them is a layer. Nobody sells them assembled.

So you buy a layer, it works where it touches, and the layers you didn't buy pull it back. What you bought did its job. That's what one layer does.

AN ADVISORWHO'S DONE IT A STRATEGYFIRM A NEW CRM TRAINING A STRONGERSELLER FORMULA L⁴ Keeping it running Seller skills Managers coaching to it How deals get run The strategy Knowing what's wrong

Scroll the diagram sideways on a narrow screen.

The diagnostic, the operating model, the leaders and the sellers, on a platform built for this industry so it keeps running after we're gone.

### Built from the inside of this industry, *over and over.*

The instruments are ours. So is the competency model underneath them, the curriculum, and the operating model itself. None of it is licensed or adapted from another industry. It was built hand to hand with logistics companies and revised every time one of them taught us something.

Formula L⁴ was founded by Holly LaBoda. She spent 18 years inside logistics, ten of them at C.H. Robinson building the enterprise sales system.

## Built with every kind of logistics business. *You'd be in good company.*

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Brokerage, asset-based, warehousing, rail, freight-tech, distribution. A sample of who, and two of the results.

![BNSF](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/bnsf%20-%20Edited.png) ![C.H. Robinson](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/chr%20-%20Edited.png) ![Landstar](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/800px-Landstar_System_logo.svg.png) ![TMC Transportation](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/TMC20Official-Color_Black_EO.png) ![RDO Equipment](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/RDO-Equipment-logo_black-1200x675px-002-768x432%20-%20Edited.png) ![Emirates](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/Emirates-Logo.png) ![Transfix](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/Transfix%20Logo%20-%20Edited.png) ![Stonearch Logistics](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/stonearch-logistics-logo.png) ![TLI](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/TLI-LOGO.png) ![TCW](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/tcw-logo-300%20-%20Edited.png) ![RLS](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/RLS.webp) ![Sonwil](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/sonwil%20-%20Edited.png) ![McKinney](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/mckinney%20-%20Edited.png) ![WSI](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/logos-logo-wsi-gold-2x.png) ![OIP](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/OIP%20-%20Edited.png) ![Olimp](https://www.formulal4.com/hubfs/Client%20logos/olimp.png)

Every account in the program grew at least 30%, in nine months.

Participants attributed 72% of that growth to the program. All nine competency areas improved.

[Read the full story →](https://www.formulal4.com/case-studies/tmc-transportation)

TMC Transportation  ·  Asset-based flatbed carrier  ·  Des Moines, IA  ·  12 account managers

Inside 60 days, before anything had formally launched.

Leaders were already using a shared definition of the sales process to reset expectations, guide CRM decisions, and have sharper development conversations. Defining it was the intervention.

Mohawk Global Logistics  ·  Freight forwarding and customs brokerage

## The issues are complicated. *Getting started isn't.*

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Three steps toward more predictable growth. Each one is useful on its own.

Growth Review

Free  ·  30 minutes

You'll leave with a clearer read whether or not we work together.

Momentum 60

Sixty days

We take the one shift that matters most and move the whole system around it, so you can see how the rest would work before you commit to it.

Partnership

Six-month minimum

The full build, run alongside your team until it runs without either of us.

## Where is the business going, and *what has to be true for your team to get it there?*

That's the whole conversation. Thirty minutes, no prep, no pitch.

[Book a Growth Review](https://www.formulal4.com/call)

[Take the Alignment Check.](https://www.formulal4.com/alignment) Seven minutes, no email needed to see your result.

Logistics  ·  Supply chain  ·  Distribution

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Formula L⁴ builds organizations that deliver the growth plan. For logistics, supply chain and distribution companies.

#### Explore

- [The Operating System](https://www.formulal4.com/os)
- [The Growth Platform](https://www.formulal4.com/growth-platform)
- [How We Work](https://www.formulal4.com/how-we-work)
- [About](https://www.formulal4.com/team)

#### More

- [Insights](https://www.formulal4.com/insights)
- [Speaking](https://www.formulal4.com/speaking)
- [TMC case study](https://www.formulal4.com/case-studies/tmc-transportation)
- [Take the Alignment Check](https://www.formulal4.com/alignment)

#### Connect

- [Client Login](https://formulal4.learnupon.com/)
- [holly@formulal4.com](mailto:holly@formulal4.com)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/formula-l)

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