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.