Hear the Truth
Having hiring/firing power can scare people away from giving you critical feedback. Coaches tell the truth when you need to hear it, help you celebrate when you forget to, and hold you to a higher standard based on potential, not past performance. 

Supportive Relationship
Most leaders feel lonely. (It doesn’t have to be that way, but that’s another story.) A coach can be one of the most supportive relationships you have to help you stay true to your values and make sure you’re leading from courage rather than fear. 

Thought Partnership
A coach is not (just) a consultant who advises based on subject matter expertise. A coach is a thought partner who helps you make better decisions, not just by solving problems with you, but by exposing how you see those problems and exploring alternatives. 

Skill in Critical Moments
A coach helps you navigate difficult conversations, controversial decisions, and the moments that can make or break everything.

Precision Insight For Personal Growth
Some leaders think they don’t have blind spots. (Yikes). Others stay on the lookout for them, not realizing the irony. You can’t see what you don’t have eyes for. A coach points out what you don’t see and identifies your highest impact growth edges, which are often “hidden in plain sight.” 

High Performance
Every Olympic Athlete has a coach. Some have a team of coaches. Top performers know that to reach the highest levels, you need support. 

Holistic Health
A (good) coach attends not just to your performance, but to your life as a whole. How you structure your day, triage emails, manage relationships, treat your body (etc) – these all impact how you show up as a leader. A coach helps you develop systems to keep you healthy and increase leverage without causing burnout.

I coach founders, leaders, and investors out of a deep respect for the impact they can have on the world and the people they touch.

I am especially excited to support leaders tackling the most critical issues facing society, particularly sustainability and psychological maturity at scale.

Founders and Executives 
I hold a special reverence for the gauntlet that is starting and running a company. It’s a crucible of personal growth with real stakes and real responsibility. I tip my hat to anyone entering the arena. It takes courage. 

Investors
There are few more powerful leverage points in the world than deciding where money flows. Making financially sound, values-based investments while supporting founders, dealing with impostor syndrome (especially in VC land), and keeping a level head in fluctuating markets is a crucible of its own. 

I have two typical clients: 

• A mission-driven founder or key executive of a post-series A startup
• Mission-driven VCs focused on supporting mission driven founders

🌱 I am especially excited to support leaders working in sustainability, and I am proud to support many founders/VCs/leaders who are women. 

To start, I do a 360 Feedback Process, an Enneagram Typing Assessment, and an Integral Coaching Assessment. This gives me a fully rounded view. Then, typically, we move to a weekly or bi-weekly rhythm, and I charge a monthly retainer fee. 

I'm interested in the whole you
Not just your work self, but who you "really" are, your life story, hobbies, relationships, passions, guilty pleasures, etc. All of this informs who you are and can be as a leader. 

I’m compassionate and incisive
I balance celebration and tough love to push you past your comfort zone, but not past your breaking point.  

Bespoke, Practical Coaching
Each leader is unique. I do not run you through cookie cutter programs. I custom design your coaching program with an eye toward practical results and long-term development. 

Inner and Outer Game
My goal is to help you be 10x better at tasks and relationships, and I pay as much attention to your attachment style as I do your calendar.  

My Background
I’ve worked for good leaders and bad leaders, and I’ve been a good leader and bad leader in many different contexts, from piano bars, grocery delivery plants, theater and dance troupes, tutoring companies, and executive board rooms. I daresay few executive coaches have both my breadth of human experience and my immersion in personal growth and high performance. 

I Do My Homework
I do a thorough intake (which can include formal 360s to get your complete context), and I actually learn about you before I “coach” you.

I'm Committed to My Own Growth
I have my own inner work practices and continue to deepen along my own journey of development. I'm also always learning about new modalities, productivity tools, etc.

Enneagram Teacher
I teach the Enneagram -- the most powerful self- and other-awareness tool in the game. Learning about the Enneagram has been a game changer for many clients. 

Professional Leadership Maturity Coach
Adult Development is a hugely important, and strangely neglected branch of leadership psychology. Together, we can  use tools like the MAP (Maturity Assessment Profile) to help identify the developmental stage from which you approach life and leadership, the gifts and limitations of your worldview, and steps towards further development.

Writing and Speaking
I was an English/Theater major and a writing tutor. I can help you hone your voice and craft any written communication, speech, or presentation.

Accelerated Learning
In my coaching, I draw on my personal experience with rapid skill acquisition (I became a professional piano player from scratch at age 24) – very useful for leaders adapting within complexity. 

Your personhood and the culture you create have a bigger impact on your employees than your product has on your customers. 

Hiring, onboarding, and training are the most overlooked and highest leverage aspects of creating culture.

Most team building exercises are dumb and pointless. But team building done right is one of the highest impact things you can do as a leader. 

Your inner and outer conditions create each other and deserve equal attention. 

Your work and personal life are parts of an integrated whole.

Leadership is the art of having difficult conversations. 

Leadership development is personal development.

If you worked with steel, you’d want to understand its properties, such as what temperatures it can handle, what conditions it breaks in, what it can and can’t be used for. You work with people. You need to understand people.

Poorly email & calendar management is where leaders’ time goes to die.

• Skillfully have the hard conversations that matter most
• Adapt your leadership style to any situation
• Align your team by communicating a clear, inspiring vision and strategy
• Build a smooth, productive relationship with your most difficult colleague
• Reduce imposter syndrome and feel more confident in your role
• Shift team dynamics from “polite” and political to one based on trust, support, and accountability
• Create a culture that instills both world class performance and well-being
• Delegate effectively, leverage assistants better, and guiltlessly make time for relationships and home life
• Uplevel your reports so you can delegate with peace of mind
• Clean up your calendar, prioritize, and spend time where it really matters
• Triage emails, get to inbox zero, and eliminate the psychological drag of "I'll get to it later"

Yes, including co-founder mediation. It's one of my favorite kinds of work.

Yes, including workshops, offsites, retreats, and other forms of team coaching. 

Yes, but I do them exclusively for clients signing up for, or already in, a longterm engagement with me. (Not as a one-off service.)