Founder coaching
It’s scary out there right now.
It's always been hard to be a startup founder. The job requires facing your own gaps, navigating ambiguity, and learning to do a new job every six months. But at least in the past, the playbook was mostly known. Now we're operating in an entirely new system. Some things are easier—speed, doing more with less—but a lot is tougher, and the path is much less clear. It's noisy. Competition is fiercer. You might feel like you have no margin for error. That's a lot of pressure.
It's tempting to just work faster in all directions. But don't fool yourself: to excel right now, you actually need to invest in your own development. The leaders who succeed have the discernment to know what signals to pay attention to and what to tune out. They can intuit where to invest and when to cut their losses, what's urgent and what's hype. They get their heads out of the weeds enough to lead, not follow, and manage the stress and existential anxiety so they can ride the wave rather than be consumed by it.
I'm a former therapist and operator, and I've been coaching founders for nearly a decade. I've worked with scores of founders and CEOs from Series A through public companies. I understand what's actually happening: both the psychological patterns that show up under pressure and the operational realities you're navigating. Most people who do this work understand one or the other. I do both.
I offer:
Individual coaching for founders
Co-founder coaching and mediation
Founder transitions/handoffs