Founders Coaching
Founders Coaching is a bespoke service designed for founders and co-founders to enhance collaboration, align personal and professional goals, and navigate their entrepreneurial journey with clarity and purpose.
The entrepreneurial journey can test relationships, values, and leadership capabilities. Founders Coaching provides tailored support to help you and your business partner(s) align on a deeper level—both personally and professionally. Through this process, you’ll ensure your collective vision is realized with integrity, shared purpose, and a commitment to sustainable growth.
⇨ Alignment and Vision: Establish a shared vision that reflects both individual and collective goals. Ensure each founder is aligned on the core values that drive the business.
Core Areas of Focus
⇨ Enhanced Communication: Develop clear, authentic communication channels between founders, fostering trust, transparency, and effective decision-making.
⇨ Leadership Development: Cultivate authentic leadership practices that empower you and your team to innovate and navigate challenges with resilience.
⇨ Strategic Growth: Align your business strategies with your personal and collective purpose, ensuring that growth is sustainable, meaningful, and aligned with your values.
⇨ Conflict Resolution: Navigate conflicts and disagreements with tools that foster understanding, collaboration, and long-term harmony.
⇨ Personal and Professional Balance: Support founders in balancing their entrepreneurial responsibilities with their personal well-being, ensuring they lead from a place of strength and authenticity.
Founders Coaching is Ideal for:
Startup Founders: New entrepreneurs looking to establish a strong foundation for their business and leadership.
Co-Founders: Teams of two or more founders who want to ensure alignment and effective collaboration as they grow their business.
Scaling Entrepreneurs: Founders of growing companies who are facing the challenges of scaling while maintaining alignment with their original vision and values.
Family Businesses: Sibling or family-owned businesses where personal dynamics and business goals need to be harmonized for long-term success.
Starting Package:
Founders' Alignment
The Founders' Alignment package sets the stage for a long-lasting partnership and business success. Through personalized coaching, you and your co-founders will:
Strengthen the bond between founders, fostering mutual respect and deep understanding.
Realign both individual and shared ambitions, ensuring a clear, unified vision for your business.
Establish open, effective communication methods that suit each founder’s working style and preferences.
Build trust, foster creativity, and ensure each founder feels fully supported in their respective roles.
How we will work together:
30-Minute Intro Session:
Kick off the process by setting clear expectations and providing space for both founders to express their individual and collective goals for the coaching journey.
Establish a shared understanding of the process and align on the desired outcomes, ensuring everyone is on the same page from the start.
Self-Assessment Questionnaire:
Each founder completes a self-assessment (shared only with Sebastian). This reflective process uncovers insights into personal values, leadership styles, operational preferences, and areas of misalignment or tension, ensuring a foundation for honest and constructive dialogue.
1-Hour Individual Sessions:
Each founder engages in a one-on-one session with Sebastian to explore their self-assessment in depth. These sessions highlight key areas of growth, challenges, alignment versus misalignment, and individual preferences, providing essential insights to form the foundation for the joint sessions.
2-Hour Founders Alignment Session
Reconnect: A guided session to re-establish a deeper connection between founders through open, moderated feedback.
Clear the Air: Create a neutral space to ask each other key questions, gain a deeper understanding of each other’s experience, and address any underlying tensions or misalignments.
Align on Vision and Purpose: Clean the canvas and align on your shared purpose, ambitions, and strategy for moving the business forward with clarity and mutual respect.
1.5-Hour Collaborative Growth Session
Practical Strategies: Focus on tools and frameworks to foster and nourish your ongoing founder relationship.
Feedback Contract: Create a tailored feedback and communication system that ensures both founders feel heard, respected, and empowered in their roles.
Plan for the Future: Assess future coaching needs, individually and as a team, to support your continued alignment and growth as co-founders.
Meet Your Guide
For the past 20 years, I’ve dedicated myself to personal development, leadership, and coaching—not just as a guide but as someone who has personally walked the entrepreneurial path. Like you, I’ve experienced the highs and challenges of building a business—navigating the delicate balance between ambition, collaboration, and staying true to one’s core values.
Through my work with founders, co-founders, and leadership teams, I’ve developed a unique ability to help leaders break through surface-level challenges to reach deeper alignment. My approach blends practical leadership tools with personal growth practices like embodiment, ensuring both professional success and personal fulfillment.
I understand the complex dynamics between founders, especially when personalities and work styles differ. My mission is to help you and your co-founders create a shared vision, foster authentic communication, and build a foundation of trust, enabling your team to thrive.
Why Founders Coaching?
☑ Achieve True Alignment: Many businesses struggle because founders aren’t truly aligned on their vision, values, or goals. Misalignment can lead to conflict, inefficiency, and ultimately, failure. Founders Coaching ensures you and your partner(s) are working from a shared foundation, with a clear understanding of what you each want to achieve—and how to get there together.
☑ Enhance Communication: Effective communication is the cornerstone of successful leadership. Founders Coaching helps you develop the skills to communicate openly, honestly, and effectively, even in challenging situations, ensuring you and your partners remain on the same page.
☑ Lead with Authenticity: In a world where leadership is often associated with control, Founders Coaching emphasizes the power of authentic leadership. By staying true to your values and leading with integrity, you’ll inspire your team, attract the right opportunities, and build a business that reflects who you truly are.
☑ Navigate Challenges Together: The entrepreneurial journey is filled with unexpected challenges and tough decisions. Founders Coaching provides you with the tools and guidance to navigate these moments with confidence, ensuring that you and your co-founders move forward as a unified team.
☑ Grow Sustainably: Growth for the sake of growth can lead to burnout and a loss of direction. Founders Coaching helps you align your growth strategies with your deeper purpose, ensuring that your business scales in a way that is both sustainable and fulfilling.
Your First Step: The Discovery Call
The Discovery Call is a 30-minute, no-pressure conversation to explore whether Founders Coaching is the right fit for you and your business partners. It’s an opportunity for us to connect, discuss your current challenges, and see how this coaching journey can support your alignment as co-founders.
Here’s what to expect:
A Genuine Conversation: We’ll talk through your current situation, your goals, and the dynamics within your team. No sales pitch—just an honest exploration of how this coaching can help strengthen your collaboration and leadership.
Clarity on Alignment: By the end of the call, you’ll have a clear understanding of whether this coaching process aligns with your needs as a team and whether it can provide the tools and strategies to move you forward.
Honest Feedback: I only work with founders and teams who are truly ready to engage in this process and make the changes needed to achieve greater alignment and success. I’ll let you know honestly if I believe this is the right path for you.