What we do

An hour a week, a weekend in a room, a year embedded — whatever the work calls for.

Sometimes the work is weekly 1:1 coaching in a multiyear engagement. Sometimes it’s three days in a room with your entire executive team. Sometimes it’s embedded fractional leadership through a transition that takes a year. Often it’s some combination at once. We design the right shape with you. Here’s the surface area.

Executive Coaching

1:1 · Long arc

1:1 coaching for founders, CEOs, and senior executives. Most engagements run a year or more. We work weekly or every other week, with text and email support between sessions.

The work covers what the work 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, 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 twenty 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 together, fight together, recover together, and execute 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, 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

We design and run offsites that actually move the work forward, for executive teams, founders, and invite-only peer groups. We can handle just the programming and facilitation, or we can handle the full package: pre-work, agenda, location selection, in-room facilitation, and follow-through structure. The result: trust, hard conversations, real strategy, actual fun.

We also host our own retreats in beautiful places: contextual, experiential, transformational learning, without the woo or the worksheets that get thrown out 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 room actually does anything together.

Fractional Leadership & Transformation

Embedded · Multi-month

When an organization needs to change at scale — technology, leadership, culture, all of it — we step in.

When we step in, the technology is rarely the hard part. The hard part is the people transition underneath: redesigning the team, redrawing decision rights, keeping people focused while everything shifts around them, and holding the leadership steady through what’s usually eighteen months of work that takes longer than anyone budgeted for. We embed as fractional CxOs and run transformation, technology, and culture as one engagement, because in practice they’re never separable.

For organizations going through once-in-a-generation change in how they use AI, this is especially relevant. We coach the leaders, we build the tools, and we’ve made the technology decisions ourselves.

Assessments & Group Programs

LCP · CLA · Cohorts

For individuals, we offer the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), the world’s most robust, data-driven 360° leadership assessment. 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.

We also run group coaching cohorts — CEO and founder peer groups, themed cohorts, men’s entrepreneurship groups — with regular meetings and a transformative retreat anchoring each cohort.

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