Your Business Can't Scale Past You If Everything Still Runs Through You
You built something real. Revenue is growing. The team is in place.
But everything still routes through you.
Every decision. Every exception. Every "quick question" that eats an hour. The strategic work that could double your business keeps getting pushed.
You're not disorganized. You're trapped inside a business that was never designed to run without you.
I've built 7 companies over 20 years. Three to over $200M.
Each taught me the same lesson: the CEO's job isn't to be the best employee. It's to build the machine that runs without them.
That's what we build in The 20 Hour CEO.
Over 3 weeks and 6 live sessions, you'll redesign how your business operates — who decides what, how work moves without you, where AI and automation create leverage, and how to protect your time for the work only you can do.
This isn't theory.
You bring your actual business, your actual bottlenecks, your actual team. By the end, you'll have systems already in motion — not notes about what you should do someday.
Alumni have reclaimed 20–30 hours per week. Some doubled revenue in months — not by working harder, but by getting out of the way.
What you’ll learn
Master the AI-First CEO frameworks to scale yourself and your business
Most CEOs don't have a time problem. They have a dependency problem.
We'll map exactly where your business still routes through you and build the plan to change it.
Most students find 20–30 hours per week of work that shouldn't require them.
Delegation fails when ownership is ambiguous.
You'll design decision rights for your specific business: who decides what, when to escalate, how accountability works.
So the business stops defaulting to you.
If your team pings you all day for answers, the communication system is broken.
We'll design how information flows, where decisions live, and what actually needs a meeting.
So the business stays aligned without you in every loop.
With the operational noise gone, you'll design Strategic Focus Zones.
The high-leverage CEO work only you can do — and build time protection mechanisms to keep it that way.
Once the structure is right, AI becomes rocket fuel.
You'll identify what needs humans, what should be automated, and where AI agents can run entire functions.
You'll use the same approach I used to build a $200M company with 96% profit margins.
You'll implement a CEO Decision Architecture that removes analysis paralysis.
You'll make confident calls with incomplete information, while your systems handle execution.
And you'll implement my framework to help your team make decisions without you, freeing up your time for CEO work.
Who this course is for
You're the bottleneck and you know it. Every decision, approval, and fire still routes through you — and growth has stalled.
You've tried EOS, coaches, even a fractional COO. None of it stuck — because no one fixed the founder. You're ready to.
You're done learning and ready to implement. You'll bring your real business and rebuild how it operates — live.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Christine Carrillo in a real-time, interactive format.
Unlimited access to future cohorts
We have a high % of alumni who return to continue scaling themselves as their business changes. As part of The 20 Hour CEO community, you are welcome back to all future cohorts at no additional cost.
Lifetime access to all recordings & materials
Revisit the materials and lectures anytime. Recordings and slides are made available to all students.
Access to Christine's Coaching Bot
You'll get access to a private bot to access 24/7. The Christine Coaching Bot has been trained on everything Christine has ever taught in cohorts, keynotes, MBA workshops, as well as every playbook, system and framework she's used across all seven businesses.
Private community of CEOs & founders
You'll gain access to a private community of CEOs and founders that you can lean on for questions, staying accountable, and support beyond the cohort.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
6 live sessions • 29 lessons • 10 projects
Week 1
Mar
13
The 20 Hour CEO Session 1 with Christine Carrillo
Fri 3/135:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
The AI-First CEO Mindset Shift
Week 2
Mar
16
The 20 Hour CEO Session 2 with Christine Carrillo
Mon 3/165:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)Mar
17
The 20 Hour CEO Session 3 with Christine Carrillo
Tue 3/175:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)Mar
20
The 20 Hour CEO Session 4 with Christine Carrillo
Fri 3/205:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
AI-First Delegation Mastery
Create Systems That Run Your Business For You
Build a Business Machine: Workflow Automation, AI and AI Agents
Free resource
This simple habit helped me grow 3 businesses to $200M in revenue.
Here’s how it works:
Each week I send a team memo outlining exactly what we need to move the company forward, with or without me.
By reading this memo, my team knows:
- what to work on
- what's a priority and why
- how to make decisions without my input
So here's a secret... my team memos take me 15 min to write.
Instead of asking for updates or looking for data, I use a Notion template that writes 75% of the memo for me.
It pulls in the important data automatically.
So I can focus on providing insights on the data.
Hope it's helpful!
Schedule
Live sessions
2 hrs / week
3 weeks, 6 live sessions, 90 minutes each
Fri, Mar 13
5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Mon, Mar 16
5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Mar 17
5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Testimonials
- Fantastic course. In a short amount of time, Christine not only coached through mindset shifts and behavior changes required, but also provided very practical tools to help get you there. I found the combination of "why", "what", and "how" in such a compact package to be very, very helpful. Going through the training in an interactive format where
Tim Harms
CEO at Enliven - I've been around the block a few times, so this isn't coming from a newb with shiny object syndrome. ;) I wish I'd had this course 10 years ago. I would have a much more successful company with much less stress. Christine just tells it like it is. I think I've been training with people that are more hype than practical advice for too many years.
Becky DeGrossa
CEO at CounselingWise - The 20 Hour CEO was an amazing experience. It armed me with the insights, tools and resources I needed to make a great hire as it relates to an EA. But more than anything.. It gave me the ability to create a system that allowed my EA to thrive. I had read all the books, all the blog posts and listened to all the podcasts but it was The 20 Hour CEO
Ross Simmonds
CEO at Foundation - As a British guy, I'm not one for strong emotions and flowery words. But this course has undoubtedly been the most useful course I've ever been on. Christine helps with a really practical mind shift that has helped me free up time for the important stuff. It's changed how I see work. Best of all - my team love that I'm out of their way.
Greg Sanderson
Co-Founder & CEO at Smart School Councils - Time is the most valuable resource we have. This course will help you figure out where you want to invest it and how to get as much leverage as possible from those investments. I thought I was pretty efficient & effective, but this course has helped take it to the next level.
Sean Ammirati
Venture Capitalist, Carnegie Mellon Professor and Author - Christine has the keys to running your business with less effort! She breaks it down so simply. Her frameworks were (and still!) so critical in operating my early-stage start up. Sign up, I wouldn’t think twice!
Paulin Byusa
Co-Founder & CEO at Avenir
Live Zoom Comments & Reactions from CEOs & Founders
How the CEO of a fast-growing $150M business leveraged The 20 Hour CEO course
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Frequently asked questions
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$4,000
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