Greater profit margins, more free time, and a sustainable plan for growth.

That’s what Clockwork does for your business.

Run Like Clockwork was founded by two business experts who care about making complex ideas simple and doable for small business owners.

Mike Michalowicz

co-founder & author

"I know entrepreneurs are superheroes, 'cause they support the world."

Mike Michalowicz is the founder of multiple multi-million dollar businesses and the author of numerous business bestsellers including Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, and our own namesake: Clockwork: Design Your Business To Run Itself.

Before writing Clockwork, Mike reached out to the best operational efficiency expert he knew – Adrienne Dorison – to create the Clockwork process as he crafted the content of the book. While Mike wrote the book, it was Adrienne Dorison who invented the process and built the Clockwork company.

Adrienne Dorison

co-founder and CEO

“We’re not creating oxygen.”

An operational efficiency expert, Adrienne has helped thousands of entrepreneurs run their business more efficiently so they can do less and achieve even more. She developed the Clockwork program and its proven process through her 10+ years of experience in partnering with small to medium sized business owners and effectively modifying her corporate expertise and certifications to suit their size and scale of business. She is LEAN Six Sigma certified and her superpower is finding more efficient ways to do things to save resources (like time and money).

At Clockwork, we aim to deliver approachable solutions that small to medium businesses can quickly utilize and implement for greater sanity, sustainability and success.

Not only that, but we really get it.

Adrienne is also a wife and mother of two, and has been on the other side of the equation.

From corporate ladder climber to burnt-out CEO to everything in between — Adrienne has been the person wearing every one of the hats with the weight of it all on her back. So she understands, intimately.

We know what it’s like when you’re up at all hours of the night because you suddenly remember a “to-do” that fell through the cracks, or can’t remember if a team member or contractor handled “that thing” or not…

And, back, 2020, in preparation for her own maternity leave, Adrienne had to implement her very own process – and clockwork herself out of the business!

For six weeks, Adrienne fully unplugged to welcome her first daughter Kit into the world, then slowly came back over the next four months. The Clockwork team continued to make sales, serve clients, and pay the bills. Because we don’t just SELL our proven process. We live it ourselves.

We know it’s simply not sustainable to continue to be the ONE person holding your business together, double checking everything your team is doing, juggling crisis after crisis, and never having the time you need to work ON your business as a visionary and CEO.

We truly believe the most responsible thing you can do – for your family, clients, and team – is to ensure nothing is solely dependent on you.

And you do that by Clockworking.

So you can step away… for a day, a week, or a month, while your business keeps running, your clients are served, your team is paid, and all is well in the world. If this sounds like a dream, it doesn’t have to be.

The Clockwork company exists to make this dream your reality.

Because, quite frankly, “fancy” business tactics mean nothing if you’re not able to apply them and see the results for yourself.

And? You’ve likely done enough all by yourself already.

There’s a big gap between reading a book and actually digging into the concepts to put them to work for your business.

That’s the gap we’re here to fill.

We work with small business owners to help them implement the Clockwork System™️, offload inefficient tasks, reduce their work hours, take time off, simplify their operations, and grow their revenue with our proven process, expertise, and support in their pocket.

We do that by certifying entrepreneurs in our Clockwork Certifed Partner™️ program so they can use our proven system to help small business owners increase their profits, free up time, and and grow!

Meet the Run Like Clockwork team

This group of incredible humans help keep our clients successful and our operation running smoothly. We’re proud of our team, the systems we’ve built to make their lives and jobs easy, and the culture we’ve set that has them happily loving their roles.

The Run Like Clockwork Team is disciplined, generous, loyal, dedicated, curious, eclectic, bold, ambitious, loving, eccentric, and dependable.

  • Emily Doyle

    Director of Sales & Marketing + RLC Mentor

    “The most important thing you can do if you want to grow your business is take care of your team.”

    Emily has worked closely with Adrienne and the RLC team and clients for 5 years and grew the business while Adrienne was on maternity leave. She’s a wife and mom of 2, fiercely loyal, was a pastry chef in a past life, and loves to watch the sun rise and set. Her favorite books are romance… and she’ll never reveal how many hours of Real Housewives on Bravo she’s actually watched.

  • Gabrielle Immediato

    Project Manager

    “All my logic goes out the window when it comes to spiders.”


    Gabrielle was hired while Adrienne was out on maternity leave and it really opened her eyes to how a company can trust their team members and give them the autonomy that will allow them to grow. She has a diverse background from working in various industries (sports/health, restaurants, education) that allows her to provide new perspectives to the Clockwork team. She’s a proud single mom of an adorable 3-year-old, and also an avid gardener who believes in growing her own food.

  • Sandy Miller

    Support

    “Each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal. Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.”


    Sandy is a wife, mother, friend, and educator who marches to the beat of her own drum and finds beauty and comfort in things that others find strange and unusual. She enjoys spending time with her peeps, gardening, reading (especially YA fiction), and listening to the ocean. Before joining Run Like Clockwork, she spent over 20 years as a classroom teacher. She can also quote The Breakfast Club like a champion.

  • Giovanni Merrin

    RLC Ambassador

    “My love language is FUN.”


    Giovanni loves life, his wife, and his children and considers himself a living rolodex. He’s a master connector, with an ability to link people up with valuable resources that benefit everyone. That’s why he’s the first person you’ll meet when you consider joining our Clockwork Accelerator.

  • Danielia Barron

    RLC Mentor

    “I want you to add play to your workplace.”


    Danielia is especially skilled at building strong teams and workplace cultures, both of which she prefers to have an element of fun. She brings her extensive experience with non-profits along with her skill of team building to the Clockwork Accelerator clients. Her fun facts include that she’s constantly wanting another dog, lives for a full calendar, is happiest around a campfire with friends, and definitely listening to a true crime podcast right now.

  • Tyler Brannon

    Co-Founder & RLC Mentor

    "I'll ask the right questions to help you get to the resolution on your own."


    Tyler brings an eclectic background that includes management in both large corporations and small businesses. As a mentor for Run Like Clockwork, Tyler knows how to ask the right questions to support clients in finding their own best solutions. He has a special skill for poking holes and finding gems in any situation. In a former life, he was the dog handler for the University of Tennessee’s mascot, “Smokey.”

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What They Say About The Run Like Clockwork Process

  • “If you are in stage two [of business], where the business is just you or a handful of employees – if you can’t leave the business because it is constantly needing you, if a four-week vacation seems like a pipe dream – then read Clockwork. In these pages, you will find the missing link that will prepare your business and your mind for the next stage of growth. You will make the transition from serving your business to it serving you. You are about to own a business that runs itself.”

    Gino Wickman, author of Traction and Entrepreneurial Leap

  • "When your business runs like clockwork, you can finally go off the clock! [Clockwork] shows how you, too, can achieve the dream of an enterprise that thrives while you enjoy all life has to offer."

    Laura Vanderkam, author of Off the Clock and What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

  • "Are you drowning in work? Many -- if not most -- entrepreneurs are barely keeping their heads above the rising tide of tasks demanding their attention. What if you could design your business so that you could climb above the grind and focus on just the work you really want to do? In Clockwork, Mike sets out a seven-point plan for doing just that."

    Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive

  • "Clockwork teaches you to own your business rather than run your business. It will give you more free time, more automated cash, and more freedom to be yourself. I'm grateful for this easy-to-implement system."

    Donald Miller, author of Building a Storybrand