Building Resilience in People
Let’s explore the next phase together, and build resilience in you → team → business.
Common CHallenges:
Unsure of how to bring your vision into today’s uncertain reality, while motivating your team?
Struggling to lead with authenticity and confidence, especially during pivots or periods of increased uncertainty?
Feeling the weight of the founder’s lonely journey, with or without co-founders?
Evolving from manager to leader, or transitioning from engineer into business leader?
How I work:
Free 30min discovery session
1 x 50min intro & contracting call
5 x 50min coaching sessions
1 x 50min reflection session
My Foundations:
Empathy and relational contact
Bracketing assumptions
Creativity
Pragmatism
Case
Studies
Steve is CEO and Founder of a climate startup aiming to solve a huge problem with a very ambitious solution. He is very aware of his biases and shortcomings—for example, a lack of prior business and startup experience. His challenge, which we worked through with a combination of coaching and strategic advisory work, was to confidently get the solution in the hands of the first design partners (huge corporations). Visualising desirable long- and mid-term outcomes, and then every milestone from there to here, resulted in a clear plan of action informed by his vision, the market reality, and my deep context in commercialising technology.
Lucas, co-founder of a successful boutique consulting firm, found himself moving gradually away from the main revenue stream due to her niche expertise. His co-founder, who had an equal share of equity but more operational power as CEO, used this dynamic to reduce Lucas’s formal authority and drive him out of the business. Beyond the legal-commercial aspects of what happened, a process of reflection on the very strong emotions this generated vis-à-vis how he envisioned his life in the next several years, helped Lucas focus. With less attachment (but with scars and operational lessons to show for it), he’s now busy setting up a new business, much more aligned with his goals.
Georgina was brought in as caretaker GM by a growth-stage investor, into a company where she was (1) significantly older than the average age of the team, (2) an immigrant in a British company, (3) out of her sectorial comfort zone. As a result, she felt ineffective and a bit stuck, with an unclear managerial runway. Over a few months we focused on the value of “here & now leadership”, trying to balance the company’s need for a sustainable future with what’s alive in the moment and can be done now. This helped Georgina strengthen both the business and team foundations—and started her thinking that she may want to stay for the long term.
James, a senior commercial exec in an AI startup and a former founder, was at a career crossroads. Several years after the failure of his previous venture, he managed to build a functional expertise in his new niche. Just when he was looking to get promoted into a C-Level role at the company, organisational turmoil led to a shaking of his confidence. By combining my deep experience as a commercial exec with my skills as a transformative coach, I helped him become aware of his perception of the “desired” traits of a C-level leader. We reframed this discovery as an exploration of his own authentic leadership style, and how his assumptions may have slowed him down in the past.