Services

VC Portfolio Support

Uncover challenges.

Bridge the gap.

Accelerate results.

Founders have many strengths but they also have gaps. Some they are aware of, and some often fall to investors to uncover and fix. This can make the investor-founder relationship more complex and fraught with miscommunication. This only slows things down at a time when you need to speed up. 

Founders and investors work with me to bridge those gaps — unlocking critical leadership skills and optimizing investment. I partner with some of the world’s best VC firms to do this in a few ways.

Services designed for our VC partners

VC Portfolio Retainer
Sometimes, a founder or their team fires off an “SOS!” When this happens, VC firms need to deploy targeted resources as quickly as possible and avoid the delay of onboarding a new coach. With this offering, a coach is available on-demand to support any individual across the portfolio for as many or as few sessions as needed. Firms can commit to an hourly package that fits the portfolio’s ongoing needs. This model allows:
- Founders and their teams to tackle urgent challenges in real time, reducing lag in decision-making, increasing productivity, and seizing opportunities.
- More team members across the portfolio to be exposed to coaching in a “low commitment” setting
Leadership Alignment Method (1-1)
The investor-founder relationship is complex and can be fraught with miscommunication. Investors struggle to get the information they need to impact change with their founders. And, It can be difficult for founders to know how to communicate with investors in a way that serves the relationship and the business.
At its core, the leadership alignment method is a 1-1 coaching engagement. What makes it unique is that this work focuses on insights derived from our proprietary leadership scorecard. The scorecard allows both the coachee and the sponsoring investor to assess the coachee across several leadership dimensions. This approach:
- Acts like a real-time feedback loop, quickly and systematically giving coachees a clearer understanding of how they are perceived in core leadership areas.
- Identifies founder-investor pain points and quickly deploys tactics to alleviate them
- Provides the coach with greater insight into the founder-investor relationship’s strengths and tension areas
- Accelerates founders’ ability to close the gap between intention and action rapidly.
Founder Group Coaching
The life of a founder is unique, high-stress, and understood by few. And, finding valuable support that feels worth a founder’s time can feel equally as challenging. But without it, it’s like wandering without a compass. With a coach’s guidance, founder-CEOs are invited into a monthly, confidential space, in which they tackle their biggest challenges – both personally and professionally. This allows them to:
- Validate, commiserate, connect, and support each other on the founder journey.
- Unpack mission-critical challenges with peers and take proactive actions
- Practice consistent personal accountability to reach their goals.
- Unlock key lessons from their peers – fostering deeper emotional intelligence, team alignment, and organizational efficiency
Team Coaching + Workshops
- How do you reduce the stress of certain team member interactions?
- How do you create a culture of open, effective communication and ongoing feedback?
- How do you ensure that your team has repeatable tactics to develop and strengthen their “communication” muscles as the business grows?
  Our team coaching and multi-part workshops offer sticky, straightforward approaches that are the foundations of high-performing teams.
Organizational Assessments

Leverage an organizational assessment to comprehensively evaluate your people, processes, and systems and unearth mission-critical opportunities for up-leveling performance and process.
This multi-phase approach leverages stakeholder interviews, surveys, and assessments to
provide valuable insights to drive your business forward in today's shifting landscape. It's a powerful tool for organizations looking to optimize performance, adapt to change, and achieve long-term success.