What we do

Some clients book a standing weekly call. Others hand us the whole transition.

One client has us in weekly 1:1 coaching across a multiyear arc. Another has us embedded as fractional leadership through a year-long transition. Most engagements combine several modalities at once, and we design the right shape with you. Below is the full range.

Executive Coaching

1:1 · Long arc

We coach founders, CEOs, and senior executives one-on-one. Most engagements run a year or more. We work weekly or every other week, with text and email support between sessions.

We don’t draw a line around what’s coachable. It covers vision, strategy, hard decisions, hiring, firing, board relationships, conflict, communication, the marriage you’re half-ignoring, the health you’ve been meaning to deal with, and the next chapter you can’t quite see yet. We bring training in multiple modalities (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Co-Active Leadership, Accelerating Coach Excellence (ACE), Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), Collective Leadership Assessment (CLA), Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)) and thirty years of running companies.

Leadership Team Coaching

Whole exec team · Group dynamics

We work the team on two layers at once: each leader individually, and the team as a unit. The unit of work is how you decide, argue, recover, execute, and celebrate together.

Engagements typically combine team-level facilitation with 1:1 coaching for each leader, and use assessments like the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) and Collective Leadership Assessment (CLA) to surface what the team can’t yet see about itself.

Workshops

Breakthrough · Custom

Breakthrough is our marquee workshop, a three-day immersion that has been delivered for decades to leadership teams at some of the largest companies in the world (Maersk, Adidas, Deutsche Bahn, Disney/ESPN, HP, Flextronics, GoPro). We learned it from our friend and mentor Elan, who built it. It’s a complete framework (Breakthrough Thinking, Breakthrough in Action, and Breakthrough Clearings) for getting an entire organization unstuck and aligned around results that previously seemed impossible.

Custom workshops get built fresh for the team and the moment they’re called for: creating a feedback culture, sharpening decision-making, navigating founder / co-founder dynamics, improving communication, aligning on values, upgrading mental models, building wellness habits, growing AI literacy for leaders. We design and deliver, virtual or in-person.

Offsites & Retreats

Designed end-to-end

Most offsites are endured. Ours are the rare ones people are glad they came to. We design and run offsites that move the work forward, for executive teams, founders, and invite-only peer groups. You can hand us just the programming and facilitation, or the whole thing: pre-work, agenda, location, facilitation on the day, and the follow-through that makes it stick. What comes out of it is trust, hard conversations, and sharper strategy.

We also host our own retreats in beautiful places: immersive, built around the work that brought everyone there, and free of the woo and the worksheets that get left at the airport.

Conference Design & Facilitation

Programming · Emcee · Stage

We help founders, funds, and organizations build and run conferences and summits, from intimate invite-only gatherings to multi-day industry events. We do the programming, the speaker curation, the on-stage interviewing, the emceeing, and the group facilitation, plus the connective tissue between sessions that decides whether the whole thing adds up to anything.

Fractional Leadership

Embedded · Multi-month

Sometimes a company needs more than a coach or an advisor. It needs someone to step in and run the change. We embed as fractional CxOs and lead it directly, across leadership, culture, and operations.

The strategy is rarely the hard part. The hard part is the people underneath it: redesigning the team, redrawing who decides what, and keeping everyone steady and productive through what’s usually eighteen months that runs longer than anyone budgeted. We run it as one engagement, because the pieces are never separable in practice.

When the change is mostly about technology and AI, we go deeper on that on the Tech & Transformation page.

Assessments

LCP · CLA · Debriefs

For individuals, we offer the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), the most rigorous, data-driven 360° leadership assessment we know of. For entire teams, we offer the Collective Leadership Assessment (CLA), which measures how your company thinks your leadership team is doing as a combined unit. We follow with custom coaching, debriefs, and a working plan for what to do with what you find.

Group Coaching Cohorts

Peer groups · Cohorts · Retreats

These bring together leaders who get as much from their peers as from a coach: CEO and founder peer groups, themed cohorts, and men’s entrepreneurship groups. Each meets regularly, with a retreat anchoring it.

Most of our engagements combine several of the above. We’ll figure out the right shape with you on a call.