Coaching
The conversations you can’t have inside your company.
Two people who have run companies, on call, working whatever is on your mind. No agenda, no evaluation, and it stays between us.
When to call
Every CEO has these weeks.
- The board meeting is Thursday, and the numbers aren’t the story you promised.
- You’re losing confidence in a key executive, and can’t say so out loud.
- The co-founder tension has stopped being productive.
- Raise now, wait, or take the offer on the table.
- The investor update you keep rewriting, because the quarter didn’t go to plan.
- The reorg you know is right, and keep postponing.
The quiet part
Everyone’s improvising.
Some have better material.
Nobody gets full instruction for how to run a board, meet the market, or raise a round. The founders who look natural at it aren’t guessing better than you: they’ve got sharper material and someone to work it through with.
What we work on
We work your list, not ours.
- The decisions with no clean answer
- The board: before the meeting, during it, and after
- Hiring, firing, and the team the next stage needs
- How you come across when it counts: the pitch, the room, the conversation you keep putting off
- Your own development: what you’re good at, what you’re avoiding, and what to do about it
- The parts of the job nobody warned you about
The experience
There’s little you’ll bring us that we haven’t lived.
We’ve founded companies, run them as CEO, taken them public, and sold them. We’ve had your bad weeks. Whatever you’re facing, odds are one of us has met it head-on before, and neither of us will be surprised by it.
The payoff
The job gets lighter.
Calls that were circling for weeks get made. You walk into the board meeting driving it instead of bracing for it. The conversation you’d been avoiding is behind you. And the company gets what it actually needs: a CEO operating at the level the next stage demands.