With executive coaches becoming a norm for scale level startups, the question often comes up of how much you should be paying for one. Here’s the ‘value model’ to coach pricing. — While many coaches charge an hourly rate or contract, the most useful way to consider a coach’s pricing is often by assessing what value a coach might be able to deliver. For example, if bringing on a coach will help you improve your team performance (by setting up better systems…

You’ve found a great candidate, are they the right coach for you? — Letting a coach into your life and business is an intimate, important decision. If chosen correctly, it will be one of the most high leverage moves you make for your business because it has the power to multiply your effectiveness and performance, which as a leader impacts your entire team…

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a magical company where everyone did everything they said they were going to do. And if they couldn’t do something they committed to, they were quick to note it, take responsibility for it, update their projected timeline or…

Our vision is a world where every executive that wants to be their best self can easily find the coach to help them in their journey. We do this by saving our executives time, money and mistaken hires by running a superior search, vetting, and ROI measurement process. …

Your mindset, habits and effectiveness are what stands between your company living or dying. Between you being a top CEO and a failing one. Between your team benefiting from happy, effective jobs and not. …

An Actionable Case Study. — This is part of a series of anonymous case studies of problems young, scaling startup founders face. This (and all) case studies are shared at the request of the person involved, out of a desire to share their experiences. If you have a case study to share or a problem…

An implementation ready guide to WHO Method Hiring — “…you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that’s a tough bar.” — Sam Altman, President of YC We’re bad at recruiting because we’re good humans. We want to see the best in others. We’re pack…

“The optimal point to get a coach is the day you’re no longer being primarily measured by your personal output, but by the collective output of other people.” An interview with Jd Ross, Co-founder of the Billion-Dollar Startup Opendoor, on his process for finding the right executive coach.

How to get more, give more, and be more by setting up a feedback culture at your org. — This guide is for you if any of the following are true: Your team is… Consistently missing realistic goals Telling you/showing you that you don’t give enough positive feedback, they feel under-appreciated, undervalued etc Telling you/showing you that your negative feedback is too critical/harsh Scared to give you or each other feedback