Diagnose the bottleneck
We map where your time goes, what only you can do, and what's quietly costing you the most. No template, no guesswork.
Strategic consulting for founders
From overwhelmed solopreneur
to a business that can grow without you.
Level 14 helps small-business founders design the systems, structure, and strategy that make a first hire — and every hire after — succeed.
Anne Light
Founder & Principal
Operations◆Finance◆Human Resources◆Academic Advising◆Strategic Planning
The approach
Strategy you can actually execute on Monday.
Design the systems
Operations, finance rhythms, and people processes built around how your business actually works — not how textbooks say it should.
Hire with confidence
A clear role, a real onboarding plan, and the structure that lets your first hire produce results in weeks, not quarters.
Services
Choose the level of support that fits where you are.
Strategic Systems Design
A 90-day engagement to map your operational bottlenecks, design repeatable processes, and build the infrastructure that lets your business scale beyond you.
- Operations audit
- Process mapping
- Hiring roadmap
- 30-day check-in
Insight Coaching Sessions
One-on-one sessions for founders who need clarity on a specific decision, transition, or stuck point — without a long-term commitment.
- 60-minute sessions
- Pre-session intake
- Actionable takeaways
- Flexible scheduling
First Hire Readiness
Everything you need to make your first hire successful: role definition, onboarding structure, and the management habits that turn a new employee into a confident contributor.
- Role design
- Onboarding plan
- Manager toolkit
- 90-day review framework
- 30+
- Years experience
- 200+
- Students advised
- $100M
- Budget gap closed
- 4
- Teamwork awards
About Anne
Three decades of building the unglamorous infrastructure that lets businesses scale.
Anne Light spent more than three decades inside Duke University administration — managing people and processes, building programs from scratch, owning budgeting and financial management, as well as advising students and leaders. She listens actively, identifies patterns, thinks strategically, and navigates through change.
That's a rare combination: someone who understands the spreadsheet, the org chart, and the human conversation that has to happen before either of them works. Now, she brings that lens to founders who are ready to stop being the bottleneck in their own business.
Education & credentials
- MA, Liberal Studies — Duke University
- BA, History — Duke University
- Certificate, Institute for Management & Leadership in Education — Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Certified Insight Coaching Practitioner (CICP)
- AI Mastery Certificate — Coursiv
Who this is for
If any of this sounds like you, we should talk.
- ✓You're the founder, and also the bottleneck.
- ✓Revenue is real, but the business doesn't run without you.
- ✓You're ready to hire — and terrified of getting it wrong.
- ✓You want structure without losing what makes the work yours.
“Most founders don't need more hustle. They need the quiet, repeatable systems that let other people do excellent work on their behalf.”
— Anne Light, Founder
Let's begin
Your next level starts with a conversation.
A 30-minute discovery call. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest read on whether Level 14 is the right partner for what comes next.
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Level14consulting@gmail.com
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