FOR SOFTWARE FOUNDERS SCALING PAST $5M
Grow the company without giving up more of it.
Growth doesn’t stall from lack of effort. It stalls when every decision still runs through you — and the fix isn’t another round, it’s a leadership team that doesn’t need you. I know. I built two companies that way before I learned better.
When what got you here won’t get you there.
Every company reaches a point when the way it’s been operating stops working. Maybe growth has flattened. Maybe you’re launching a new product, standing up a new division, or integrating new leadership. Maybe the team that got you here has started to fracture under the weight of what’s next. The trigger is different every time — but the underlying need is the same: a pause, an honest reset, and a level of leadership the company hasn’t required before.
That’s the work I do. I help CEOs and their teams navigate these inflection points — realigning the vision, strengthening how the leadership team operates, and building the depth to carry the company through the change and beyond it. Not by adding another initiative. By making the people at the top clearer, more aligned, and more capable of leading what comes next.
Seasoned operator, not academic theorist.
I’ve spent my career building companies - and the leaders who run them. Over three decades I founded, scaled and sold two of my own, learning the hard way that no company grows past the capacity of its own leadership team. Now, I help CEOs build that capacity: leadership teams strong enough to grow the company, so it stops running on the CEO alone.
The Growth Roadmap
Getting unstuck isn't a workshop or a slide deck. It's real work on the company, along a proven route from the grind to full stride — run in stages, where you drive more of it at every step until you don't need me at all.
How I work
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The first step isn't a contract — it's a conversation. Before anything else, we both need to be sure this is right: that you're comfortable with me in the room with your team, and that I’m confident I can actually help. If either answer is no, I’ll tell you. The work is too important, and too personal, to force.
From there, we build in three areas.
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We get clear on where the company is actually going — and sharp enough that every leader on your team can carry that direction, not just you.
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We do the harder work underneath the strategy: building the trust, candor, and accountability that turn a group of capable managers into a real leadership team.
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Change doesn't hold from a single offsite. I stay close — working with your leaders one-on-one and as part of your regular team meetings — until the new way of operating becomes the way you operate.
The goal is a team that runs the business with you — leaders strong enough to carry it themselves.
The Hatch Year
Years from now, your team will point to one year as the turning point — the chapter where everything changed for the better, for good. The year the vision got sharp, the leadership team grew up, and the company stopped depending on any one person to carry it.
That's the change I'm here for. My goal is simple: to make the next chapter yours.