Leadership coach: founder-to-CEO transitions, team building, exec presence.
I've spent 15+ years in executive seats and operator roles at startups. I cofounded Omni, raising $35MM from top VCs, exited in 2019, where I scaled the organization from 3 to 80+ people, hired and managed executives, and set the operating cadence that let the company run beyond what I could touch personally. I was first VP of Product at a Series A construction tech startup, growing the product and engineering team from 3 to 18; Head of Brand and Design at a Series C hospitality operator. I've sat in the rooms my clients sit in, made the leadership calls they're making, and felt what holds teams together (and what cracks them) under real pressure. That lived operator experience is the foundation of how I coach.
For the last 8 years I've coached 100+ founders, CEOs, executive team members, and senior leaders at early-stage and growth-stage companies backed by Y Combinator, Techstars, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, and others. The leadership challenges I most often work on: the transition from scrappy do-everything founder to scalable CEO, executive presence and communication, hiring and performance management, running effective one-on-ones, managing direct reports, designing org structure, building team culture, and repairing trust when it breaks. Beyond coaching them through these challenges, I also help leaders learn to lead with coaching themselves — taking a coaching and mentoring mindset into one-on-ones, feedback, and people development, so they develop their teams faster and spend less of their own energy doing it. My approach blends two practices most coaches keep separate: operator-informed tactical advisory on the hard skills of leading people, and the inner work of self-awareness, somatic practice, and the slow development of self-mastery that determines whether a leader can hold the role over time. The leaders who build both muscles scale further and stay healthier doing it.

Works at TheStartupFounderCoach.com
$750/hr
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