About
Built by an operator.
Time Leverage Group is led by Josh Haegele — Director of Analytics at a global healthcare education company, Lean Six Sigma certified, and a fourth-generation family business operator who has been building systems his entire career.
Joshua Haegele · Director of Analytics, Lean Six Sigma certified, fourth-generation family business operator
The work at scale.
Joshua Haegele runs enterprise data and analytics for a global healthcare education company supporting 13 business units. As Director of Analytics, he has spent seven years architecting the systems that compress how long the business takes to know what it knows.
Recent work includes building an automated client intelligence pipeline that turned a 5-business-day RFP process into a 24-minute one — removing dependence on multiple legacy tools and the multi-team handoff that used to gate every response. Earlier work compressed multi-day reporting cycles to 30 minutes, eliminated 6,000 hours per year of manual reporting effort, redesigned customer targeting in ways that significantly reduced marketing spend while materially expanding customer acquisition, and built advertising models that contributed substantially to revenue growth. None of it required more people. All of it required better systems.
He leads a team of five direct reports and consults weekly across more than fifty people inside the organization. The methodology underneath is the same methodology Time Leverage Group brings to operator-owned businesses: subtract, automate, vest, exit.
Where it came from.
Before the Master's in Business Analytics from Drexel, before the Lean Six Sigma certification, before the analytics career — he was raised inside a four-generation family bakery, the kind of business that survived a hundred years because it ran on discipline and continuous adaptation. Same building, same benches, same machines, optimized through use, not theory. His extended family runs trade businesses across plumbing, carpentry, HVAC, and electrical. He learned what an operating system felt like before he had words for it.
In 2020 his father died suddenly. The loss didn't introduce the idea that time is finite. It confirmed it. That moment is when time stopped being a preference and became a calling.
Time Leverage Group is the synthesis of all of it: enterprise systems discipline, operator instinct from the businesses he was raised in, and the lived understanding that time is the only resource we know is finite but never know how much we have. Most people manage it. We engineer it.
Credentials
What I bring to the work.
- Director of Analytics at a global healthcare education company supporting 13 business units; seven years building the systems underneath.
- Master's in Business Analytics from Drexel University (concentration in statistics).
- Lean Six Sigma Certified.
- Lead a team of five direct reports; consult weekly across 50+ people inside the organization.
- 6,000 hours of recurring reporting effort eliminated annually; 1,000+ monthly deliverables produced in under an hour.
- Reduced marketing spend significantly while materially expanding customer acquisition; systems contributed substantially to revenue growth.
- Fourth-generation family business operator background — a perspective most consultants don't have.
The SAVE framework
Subtract. Automate. Vest. Exit.
How we reclaim time inside a business. Most frameworks add. SAVE subtracts. Before improving anything, we ask whether it should exist. Before automating anything, we ask whether you should still be doing it.
SAVE is the discipline of removing weight before adding power.
Subtract
Remove before you improve.
The highest-leverage decision in any business isn't optimization. It's removal. Most operators try to make a broken process faster before asking whether it needs to exist.
Elon Musk has a useful line about engineering: the most dangerous thing an engineer can do is optimize a thing that should not exist. The same is true of businesses. There are reports nobody reads. Meetings nobody needs. Approvals that exist because someone got burned once a decade ago.
The Subtract step asks: if we stopped doing this tomorrow, what would actually break? Most of the time, nothing. That's the cheapest hour you'll ever recover.
Automate
If it happens twice, design it once.
Automation isn't really about speed. It's about removing thinking from repetition.
If a task requires the same judgment every time, automate the judgment, not just the task. Favor imperfect automation that runs over perfect manual execution that doesn't.
Every task you automate is a fragment of a new employee you just created. Enough fragments and you've manufactured a position — without changing payroll.
Vest
Delegate outcomes, not instructions.
Vesting is ownership transfer. Not task delegation.
You don't tell someone how to do the thing — you tell them what success looks like and step back. Most owner-operators think they're delegating when they're really just becoming a slower bottleneck. That isn't delegation. That's supervision.
Vesting requires trust, clarity, and the willingness to accept that someone else will do it differently than you would. Differently is the point.
Exit
Walk away when returns flatten.
The step most frameworks miss.
Just because something can be improved doesn't mean it should be. Exit is the discipline of leaving a system at good enough — and recognizing when good enough is the highest-leverage decision available.
Success includes walking away.
The math underneath
(Time×Leverage×Focus Quality)→Time Returned
The math of leverage.
SAVE is how you raise Leverage and Focus Quality simultaneously while keeping Time spent constant. The math doesn't care about your effort. It cares about your structure.
What I believe
Seven things I hold to.
- Most businesses don't have a people problem. They have a leverage problem.
- Subtraction beats optimization.
- Outcomes beat technology.
- Time is the only resource we know is finite but never know how much we have.
- Family business roots are an asset, not a limitation.
- The right tool wins. Sometimes that tool is a spreadsheet.
- Done quietly is better than promised loudly.
The ecosystem
Time Leverage Group helps businesses manufacture time. Once you've recovered it, the next question is how you spend it.
That's what Time Operators is for.
Work with me.
15 minutes. No pitch. We'll learn what's actually broken and tell you whether we're the right partner.