Founder Coach · Strategic Advisor
A thinking/challenge/doing partner who has actually been in your seat. I combine ~25 years as a proven startup leader with the depth of transformative coaching, to help founders and exec teams lead with clarity and agency.
There is a wealth of advisors, coaches, and leaders—but it's very hard to find someone who combines all three:
For founders wishing to uncover their authentic leadership styles and drive lasting, measurable change. Navigate founder loneliness and co-founder friction, thrive through pivots, and evolve from operator to leader. Depth work grounded in lived startup experience.
Explore coaching →For Seed through Series-C teams looking to build infrastructure that scales. Early-stage GTM infrastructure, multi-dimensional strategic alliances, and monetisation models for data and open source.
Explore advisory →“A hopeful monster is what happens when a macro-mutation creates a radically new organism. These divergent creatures really try to make it, against the odds.”
Whether for hopeful monsters or tech startups, I embrace radical change.
Learning a nuanced approach to leadership motivation from a basketball superstar.
Most ISV partnerships die quietly. A candid look at why software alliances underperform — and what actually makes them compound.
The second half: hiring profiles, workflows, and the human judgement that AI still can't replace in early-stage BD.