FOUNDER PERFORMANCE SYSTEM
The business reflects the builder.
FFC is the premium Founder Performance System for entrepreneurs building the health, discipline, and community to sustain what they are creating.
Body. Business. Community. — built into one operating system for founders.
For founders, operators, creators, and self-led professionals building at a high level. Build well.
THE FOUNDER PATTERN
Ambitious people build companies — and quietly disconnect from themselves.
There's a pattern among founders and high performers: you build something real while slowly drifting from your health, your routines, your relationships, and your community. Not because you stopped caring — because everything you have goes into the build.
FFC is the alternative — where Body, Business, and Community support each other instead of competing for what's left.
— Health that quietly declines
— Routines that slip
— Relationships that wait
— Community that thins out
— Standards you'd never let your company drop
THE FOUNDER PERFORMANCE SYSTEM
Body. Business. Community.
FFC integrates the three things founders need to sustain ambition — not hustle culture, but capacity culture.
01 - BODY
Body
The physical capacity to build, lead, and sustain the work — strength, energy, mobility, and recovery.
02 - BUSINESS
Business
The discipline, strategy, and execution rhythm that move the company forward.
03 - COMMUNITY
Community
The relationships, accountability, and shared standards that make the work sustainable.
This is not hustle culture.This is capacity culture.
THE CORE BELIEF
Your business cannot outgrow the body running it.
The founder's body, discipline, community, and standards show up in the company every day — in the decision they make, the launch they ship, the room they walk into, and the standard they hold. FFC helps founders build the physical and operational capacity to keep going — without doing it alone.
CHOOSE YOUR ENTRY POINT
Ways to enter FFC
TRAIN
Founder Strength Sessions
Founder-focused training built for real schedules, real stress, and long-term capacity. Led by Dalton.
LEARN
Founder Performance Talks
Founder-focused training built for real schedules, real stress, and long-term capacity. Led by Dalton.
BELONG
Brag Club
The signature FFC ritual that makes the invisible work visible — the wins, losses, and next moves that usually stay trapped in your head.
COACH
1:1 Founder Strength Coaching
Personalized coaching with Dalton — strength programming, accountability, and a system that adapts to your life.
PARTNER
Workspace & Team Programming
FFC adds the founder performance layer to the spaces where entrepreneurs already gather — coworking spaces, founder communities, and teams. Additive, supportive, premium.
THE FFC WORLD
Come as you are. Leave stronger.
TRAIN
Train
Strength sessions, movement, coaching.
CALIBRATE
Calibrate
Decision rhythm, weekly planning, accountability.
GATHER
Gather
Brag Club, speaker series, founder dinners.
RECOVER
Recover
Walking, protein, mobility, stress recovery.
BUILD
Build
Community, partnerships, future retreats.
THE MISSION
To build the world's leading Founder Performance System around Body, Business, and Community.
Together, Jill and Dalton are building FFC so founders can build well — and stay connected to what they are creating.
PROOF OF MOTION
Currently piloting in founder workspaces.
FFC is testing its first Founder Performance Programming through live talks, strength sessions, community rituals, and workspace partnerships — the first local proof point for the system.
Founder Performance Speaker Series
Brag Club
1:1 coaching with Dalton
- Founder Strength Sessions
Founder Performance Scorecard
Workspace & team partnerships
BUILT BY FOUNDERS, FOR FOUNDERS
Built by Jill & Dalton Higginbottom
Co-founders bringing nearly 18 years inside Nike Inc., CrossFit Level 1 certified coaches, and entrepreneurs building multiple businesses — while raising their young daughter.
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Dalton Higginbottom, M.Ed.
CO-FOUNDER & HEAD OF FOUNDER PERFORMANCE
Personal trainer, CrossFit Level 1 coach, and founder strength coach with a master's in education (M.Ed., adult learning) — bringing adult learning, behavior change, accountability, and habit formation to the body pillar of FFC. Dalton spent 5 years at Nike across Global Sales and Nike Digital, supporting partnership launches including Nike x LEGO, Hyperice, and NikeSKIMS.
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Jill Higginbottom
CO-FOUNDER & HEAD OF FOUNDER EXPERIENCE
12 years at Nike leading portfolio and program management within Nike Supply Chain Logistics, helping drive large-scale operational initiatives inside one of the world's most recognized performance brands. Jill translates high-performance systems into founder-friendly operating rhythms. CrossFit Level 1 certified.
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