Difficult Leadership Conversations: 6 Steps to Win
Difficult leadership conversations separate founders who build resilient companies from those whose culture erodes. And there are costs associated with avoiding such conversations. For founders, the cost is unresolved tension between co-founders, investors, or teams. Furthermore, in a growing business, this can stall decisions and drain trust exactly when the […]
Misunderstood As A Founder? Here’s Why It Happens
Being misunderstood as a founder is a feeling that arrives early and rarely leaves for good. Jeff Bezos once said that you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you want to innovate, and most founders recognize that as more warning than comfort. Terry, a founder with […]
Performance Under Pressure: Lead With Clarity
Performance under pressure is the trait that your teams, boards, and investors may notice before you do, often before they notice much else. This is something that Ben Horowitz knows this well. Because after taking Loudcloud public just months before the dot-com crash, he had to lay off most of […]
Executive Resilience Under Pressure: Why Pausing Beats Pushing for Success
Executive resilience under pressure is not a trait some founders are born with while others miss out. On the contrary, it is a skill that can be trained, tested, and strengthened over time. A 2016 meta-analysis of stress research found that acute pressure impairs working memory and cognitive flexibility. And […]
Co-founder Conflict Resolution Coaching: The Real Fights Aren’t on Your Cap Table
The Problem: Why Co-founder Conflict Matters Co-founder conflict coach London searches spike every time a founding team hits its first serious rupture, and the pattern rarely changes: two people who once finished each other’s sentences suddenly cannot agree on anything. Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman studied more than ten […]
What is Performance Capacity Coaching? How It’s the Growth Lever Leaders Overlook
Performance Capacity Coaching London exists because the data on founder wellbeing is hard to ignore. Research from Startup Snapshot found that 72% of founders reported that the entrepreneurial journey affected their mental health, with 37% suffering from anxiety and 36% from burnout. Yet only a small fraction sought […]
The Founder Journey: The Truth Behind Endings and Beginnings
Many see the founder journey as being all about beginnings, whether it’s launching a product, raising funding or starting their company. But endings seldom come up. A startup’s life cycle mirror the human lifecycle. It’s full of growth, change and uncertainty. In addition, this is a journey that can end […]