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Scale your company. Grow as a Leader. Stay in the CEO seat for the long run
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Building a VC-backed company is demanding, but it’s also an extraordinary opportunity to become a stronger, steadier version of yourself as a leader.
The role evolves quickly and expectations rise. New decisions and challenges appear at a steady rhythm.
When founders grow with the company, everything around them becomes more manageable: the team, the investors and the pace.
This work gives you the support and clarity to lead with more confidence and less strain.
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Understanding the Founder Journey
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As a company scales, the founder role naturally shifts. What worked in the early stage doesn’t always support the next chapter. This is simply part of the growth curve.
Many VC-backed companies change CEOs during scale, especially when the demands of the company begin to outpace the founder’s capacity. Research varies, but it consistently shows that founder-CEO transitions become common as startups grow and take on more investment.
The encouraging part is this: founders who intentionally develop themselves as the company grows often stay in the role longer, communicate with more clarity, and navigate complexity with far more ease.
Scaling reveals a lot: strengths, limits, patterns, blind spots. With the right support, these moments become catalysts for genuine leadership growth.
The Founder - to - CEO Guide
7 Shifts Every VC-Backed Founder Should Make
A short and practical guide that helps you understand what the next stage of leadership asks from you, and how to step into it with steadiness and confidence.
When Founders Outgrow the Early Stage
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In my years in executive search, I sat in the rooms where boards discussed the future of a company and the leadership needed for its next stage. I met founders who had built incredible momentum, yet struggled with the growing complexity and expectations around them.
What I saw again and again was not a lack of intelligence or drive, but simply a lack of support for the inner growth required by scale.
As companies expand, founders are asked to:
• Make decisions faster with less certainty
• Lead bigger teams with more diverse needs
• Communicate more clearly with investors
• Manage conflict with more awareness
• Hold more responsibility, pressure and visibility
These are learnable skills.
They become far easier when you’re not navigating them alone.
Founders who invest in their own development grow into the next version of the role with far more clarity and grounded confidence. They lead with more presence, communicate more effectively, and stay connected to their vision even as the organisation becomes more complex.
What happens when we work together?
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The work we do together is steady, practical and deeply supportive. It creates space for you to build the skills and inner stability that help you lead at scale.
We focus on:
• Emotional intelligence that strengthens communication and decision-making
• Resilience that helps you stay steady during intense phases
• A leadership presence that investors, boards and teams can rely on
• Navigating conflict in healthier, more productive ways
• Growing your capacity as the role evolves every few months
• Staying grounded in high-stakes, high-speed environments
This is development that fits into a full founder schedule. It supports you in leading with greater ease without losing your sense of self in the process.
Ways We Can Work Together
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Founder CEO Coaching (6–12 months)
A long-term, structured coaching partnership focused on clarity, emotional intelligence, leadership presence and decision-making. This is the core work most founders choose. Read about Founder's Experiences in the About page.
Co-Founder & Leadership Team Alignment
Facilitated sessions and offsites that strengthen communication, repair friction and support trust inside the team. Essential for any company growing fast.
Leadership Presence & Investor Communication
Support in preparing for key conversations, board meetings and moments of higher stakes, helping you show up with clarity and confidence.
Nervous-System Support for High-Stakes Leadership
Tools that help you steady how to embody clarity and stay grounded under pressure. This strengthens resilience and prevents burnout as the company accelerates.
Your Role is Evolving.
You Can Evolve With It
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Your company is growing. Your responsibilities are expanding. This is a good moment to develop the internal and external skills that make leadership feel more stable, clear and sustainable.
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
A conversation is often enough to understand what kind of support you need for the next stage.
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