Join the founding cohort waitlist
Applications open 28 August 2026, the day of The OBM Launchpad. Waitlist members receive the application link, the confirmed schedule, and the full written terms first.
This is not a course you buy and forget.
OBM Pros is built around participation.
You will attend live sessions, complete assignments, practise difficult conversations, receive feedback, and create client-style deliverables. Every module asks you to demonstrate what you can do, not simply repeat what you heard.
The program is demanding on purpose. Operations leaders are trusted with people, priorities, systems, timelines, and business performance. That trust has to be earned through skill and consistent judgment.
Move from dependable support to accountable leadership.
Where most experienced VAs are now
- Waiting for the founder to set every priority
- Becoming the backup plan for everyone
- Doing the work instead of building the system
- Attending meetings without leading decisions
- Accepting unclear scope because you want to be helpful
- Pricing based mostly on time and task volume
What you will practise
- Turning goals into operational priorities
- Defining ownership and decision rights
- Building systems the team can actually follow
- Leading projects and holding people accountable
- Communicating recommendations with authority
- Connecting the work to measurable outcomes
- Packaging and pricing a management-level service
The program gives you the structure and the practice. You are responsible for doing the work and applying it professionally.
Train across the full scope of the role.
Twelve weeks of live cohort, followed by twelve months of membership. Sessions are scheduled for Philippine evenings and weekends so people with day jobs can attend.
Confirm the program matches your experience, then complete your professional setup: tools, operating agreements, and Philippine business-readiness, including registration, BIR, cross-border contracts, and getting paid in USD.
What an OBM owns. The mindset, boundaries, authority, and decision-making habits required to lead outcomes instead of absorbing more tasks.
Assess recurring work, document processes people actually follow, organize the tool stack, and build an operations hub that reduces dependence on the founder.
Weekly operating rhythms, leading projects from scope through delivery, coordinating team ownership, improving follow-through, and supporting onboarding and offboarding.
Plan launch operations, coordinate marketing execution, build dashboards people use, and explain the numbers in a way that helps a founder decide what to do next.
Written updates, difficult messages, founder calls, proposals, money conversations, and objection handling.
Positioning, service structure, pricing logic, the sales conversation, proposals, onboarding, and clean offboarding.
Assess a client-style operation, prepare a findings report, and present your recommendations live. The capstone may use a supervised real-client opportunity where one is appropriate and available, or an intensive simulated engagement.
Good ideas are not enough. You have to be able to say them.
An OBM regularly has to say things that are necessary but not comfortable.
- The deadline is at risk.
- The founder is creating the bottleneck.
- A team member needs clearer accountability.
- The requested scope does not match the agreement.
- The numbers do not support the current plan.
- A better approach will require a different decision.
The Communication Lab gives you repeated practice in writing updates, leading calls, presenting recommendations, discussing money, and holding professional boundaries, with feedback each time.
Clear communication matters more than sounding American. The standard is management-level clarity, judgment, and respect.
Build evidence of your ability.
Subject to completing the required work, you will build:
- A leadership charter and role-definition document
- A systems build for the case business
- A 90-day operations leadership plan
- A launch operations plan
- A client-ready monthly report
- A professional written communication portfolio
- A recorded mock client call
- A positioned and priced offer suite
- A recorded mock sales conversation
- A capstone findings report and presentation
These assignments are designed to demonstrate your thinking, not to decorate a portfolio with generic templates.
Who should apply
- An experienced VA who already coordinates projects, people, systems, or priorities
- A project manager serving online businesses
- An operations professional moving out of corporate employment
- A corporate team leader with relevant management experience
- Someone comfortable receiving direct feedback
- Someone able to attend live sessions and complete assignments
- Someone ready to take responsibility for outcomes, not only tasks
Not a fit
- Beginners still learning basic VA services
- Anyone unable to participate in live practice
- Anyone looking for guaranteed employment, clients, or income
- Anyone expecting templates to replace professional judgment
- Anyone unwilling to complete assignments
- Anyone who wants the title without the responsibility
Admission is based on readiness.
The application is not there to make the program feel exclusive. It protects the learning experience by making sure everyone in the room has enough professional foundation to benefit from the work, and it protects you from paying for something you are not yet ready for.
Places are limited by our capacity to review work properly, not by demand.
How payment works
- Apply with a ₱2,500 deposit. If you are not accepted into OBM Pros, your deposit will be refunded in full.
- Once accepted, you may choose to pay in full at ₱24,997, or take the instalment option: 3 monthly payments of ₱8,499 (total instalment investment ₱25,497).
- If you attended a paid OBM Launchpad class, the amount you paid will be deducted from your first instalment.
- All payments must be completed before the cohort begins.
The founding cohort includes:
- 12 weeks of live cohort training
- Required assignments with rubric-based written feedback
- The Communication Lab, weekly
- Client-style portfolio deliverables
- Supervised capstone and OBM Pro assessment
- 12 months of OBM Pros membership
Applications are now open. Accepted applicants receive the complete written terms, schedule, and payment dates before anything beyond the deposit is due.
Please read our Refund and Transfer Policy before you apply. After the 72-hour window, OBM Pros fees are non-refundable, with one free deferral available.
Apply for OBM ProsThe founding cohort will help establish the Academy's student outcome record. We will publish genuine student experiences only after participants complete the work and approve their stories for use.