Executive coaching in Boston.

Executive coaching, on a standing cadence

A standing cadence on video, weekly, every other week or monthly, with access between calls, on the same terms as all my executive coaching: a practical, candid thought partner who has held the seat you sit in. Executive coaching in Boston for CEOs, founders and senior executives, and leadership team coaching when the team is the unit.

Offsites, in your room

Executive offsites, strategic planning sessions, retreats and leadership alignment workshops, run by an operator, not a moderator. See facilitation for how the room works. Executive offsite facilitation in Boston: strategic planning sessions, leadership retreats and executive team alignment, in your room or the venue your team chooses.

Consulting, on your site

Operational work happens where the work is: your floor, your standups, your board meeting. From strategy consulting to AI consulting, on site when the engagement calls for it. Strategy consulting for Boston companies: transformation leadership, a stalled transformation restarted, board counsel and work with private equity and venture portfolio companies.

Success, defined up front

Before the work starts we agree what success looks like and how we will both know, and we check the work against that measure at set points along the way, not only at the end.

A thinking partner who has held the seat

Standing calls weekly, every other week or monthly, in person or on video, and access between calls, because the hard things do not wait for the calendar.

A sharper view of your own patterns

Blind spots named early, and a clear view of how you lead under pressure. We can work on the board meeting and the person walking into it in the same hour.

Executive presence and stakeholder management

Presence with a board, investors, PE operating partners and the peers who wanted your job, and a plan for the transition into a bigger seat before it arrives.

Progress on the problems that do not fit on a slide

The team that worked at the last size and does not at this one. The difficult conversation you have been putting off. Accountability that does not backfire. Alignment across a leadership team.

Habits that outlast the coaching

The right formula, the right tactics, and repeatable actions: the rhythm that keeps the change alive after we finish. Insight alone does not survive a real quarter.

Technology founders and CEOs

CEO coaching for founders and first-time CEOs: scaling past the team you started with, investor expectations, and the move from founder-led to a real leadership team. I have made that move myself, and I was EVP at New Relic while it grew from $300M to $500M.

Leaders of PE- and VC-backed companies

A sponsor with a playbook and a clock, and a board that wants the plan delivered. I spent a decade as a managing partner at a venture firm, and I was COO in a VC-backed turnaround.

Executives inside Boston’s financial institutions

Fidelity Investments helped make Boston one of the top financial centers in the country, and State Street, one of the world’s largest asset managers and custodians, is headquartered here. As a VP at Unqork I led implementations for Goldman Sachs, Marsh and State Street.

Leadership teams

Leadership team coaching: the team as a unit, not only its leader. Executive team alignment, clear decision rights, and an offsite that turns into follow-through. More on facilitation.

COOs, presidents and product leaders

The second in command, whether the title is chief operating officer or president, and the most senior product leader. I have held the COO seat and the product seat. More on coaching for COOs and coaching for Chief Product Officers.

Founders and venture-backed CEOs

Greater Boston and the Route 128 corridor remain a major center for venture capital, with nearly 5,000 startup companies. I founded the company that became Web.com and took it to a Nasdaq IPO, and spent a decade as a managing partner at a venture firm. See coaching for startup CEOs.

Boston is one of the top financial centers in the country. Boston-based Fidelity Investments helped popularize the mutual fund, and State Street, headquartered here, is one of the world’s largest asset managers and custodians. Change inside institutions like those moves at the pace of the regulators and the risk function as much as the plan. As a VP at Unqork I led implementations for Goldman Sachs, Marsh and State Street, and as EVP at New Relic, while it grew from $300M to $500M, I sold to 15,000-plus enterprise accounts.

Boston is also one of the largest biotechnology hubs in the world, rated the top life sciences cluster in the country by the Milken Institute, and Greater Boston and the Route 128 corridor remain a major center for venture capital, with nearly 5,000 startup companies; General Electric moved its headquarters to the Seaport District. I founded Interland, the company that became Web.com, took it to 650 people and a Nasdaq IPO, spent a decade as a managing partner at a venture firm and board member across 35 deals and 18 exits, and sat in the COO seat of a VC-backed turnaround. When we talk about your Boston company, the seats are the ones I have held.

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