We are a bit
Idiosyncratic.

We base our approach on two key ideas that guide everything we do for you.
Leadership involves building relationships. Your main role is to inspire your team, funders, and partners to work towards a distant, uncertain outcome. Building consensus is essential.
Leadership requires making independent decisions. In pivotal moments, you must navigate through differing opinions and make choices under pressure, often with limited options. While you can seek support, the final decision rests with you.

Every decision, action, and word creates opportunity. Always.
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We Offer Lived Experience

We are operators, founders, board leaders, and investors who have been in your seat raising capital, growing revenue and margins in a challenging environment, navigating complex board politics, hiring and firing executives, recruiting board members, scaling through chaos, and steering through mergers and consolidation.

Our counsel is based on lived experience. Each engagement, each session is uniquely tuned to help you build and lead your organization.
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Why CEOs Come to Us

You need a safe place to openly vet your doubts and brainstorm ideas. Your board or management team are rarely the best place for that.
You need a trusted confidant who will listen to understand, consider hard won lessons learned in your role, and help you act with clarity.
You don’t need a consultant peddling best practices from someone else’s organization. You need a partner to help you establish your best practices.

Leadership Requires Practice

Leadership is a learned behavior — not a gift for the lucky few. We help you find your way.

CEOs need unvarnished assessments — not flattery. We help you discern information in chaos.

A seasoned guide brings empathy and edge. We listen deeply while challenging assumptions.

Courage and practice are the crucible in which great leaders are made.  We push you to be your best.

Our Promise to You

We don’t cheer you from the sidelines. We walk with you into the arena.
We don’t quote leadership books. We help you write your own.
We don’t tell you what you want to hear. We tell you what you need to hear.
Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. We help you see the difference.