You’ve been successful so far—and that’s exactly why doing more of the same won’t get you to the next level.Through my work with first-time founders like you, I’ve noticed three key traits that help the most driven founders gain the clarity and confidence to grow their startups faster.☝🏼 Scaling yourself by scaling your teams Growth—more product, more customers, more revenue—that’s the heartbeat of any venture-backed startup. But you can’t do it alone. The best founders don’t just grow their company; they grow their people. They commit to mastering the leadership skills that inspire their teams to move fast and deliver results that actually stick.✌🏼 Managing your energy Startups never let up. Hired your dream employee? Cool, time to hire another. Hit your sales target? Awesome, now rebuild your pipeline. Launched a new feature? Great, customers already want more. The constant grind takes its toll. The founders who succeed long-term invest in the work, routines, and experiences that recharge them so they can keep their vision alive—and make it happen.👌🏼 Building resilience Setbacks are part of the game. An investor says no. A customer churns. Your to-do list never ends. The best founders pause to face reality and then keep pushing forward with the right mindset. They shift from being reactive to being resilient, so they can keep moving toward their goals—no matter what gets in the way.WHY COACHING MATTERS💰 Fundraising impact: My clients have hit key product and growth milestones, raising over $85M from top-tier investors like Y Combinator, First Round Capital, GV, A16Z, and Redpoint. 📈 Personal growth: I’ve helped founders achieve powerful personal breakthroughs in leadership, energy, and mindset—with a 94 NPS to prove it.

Professional growth and personal success always go together, and NLP Marin trainings are always about both. We provide Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) education and experience that support the conscious growth of everyone in our community and beyond. The purpose of all NLP Marin classes is for everyone to have as much fun as possible while transforming their relationship with themselves, with other-selves, and with Life itself, and to prepare all of us for the experience of enduring happiness.

Coaching Atlassian leaders and teams to be truly team-first by embedding the core ways of working that turn thousands of Atlassians into the most effective, fully distributed teams in the world.Key Initiatives- Facilitate VP/Director level team off-sites and workshops to define goals, strategy, operating plans, and build human connection for high performance teamwork in a distributed world - Design distributed teamwork practices, tools and processes that are accessible and easy for teams to adopt at scale, enabling better and faster decision making and delivery. https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook- Lead the design and launch of "Intentional Togetherness" scalable resources https://youtu.be/2x2mbb9KfTg?t=480Impact- Enable business outcomes: 93% "exceeded workshop expectations" rating for leadership offsites and workshops- Improve operational efficiencies: deflect hundreds of internal support requests by launching self service planning guide that enables leaders to self organize team events more efficiently and effectively

Beginning the career pivot from business leader to coaching.As a member of the People team, I had an amazing opportunity to develop and lead the talent development programs that accelerated the leadership capabilities of Optimizely's high potential managers from sales, customer success, marketing, and engineering.Key Initiatives - Collaborated with exec team to define people manager core competencies- Designed and led 3 month leadership development program including curriculum, guest speakers, study groups, certificationImpact- 100 NPS survey response "How likely would you recommend this program?" - 87% of program participants improved from “meet” to “exceed” expectations in performance reviews

Joined seed stage (employee #30) and scaled business to $90M+ ARR.As a member of the executive team, responsible for recruiting, leading and scaling a global 100+ employee customer success team that enabled marketing team customers to conceive and run experiments that helped them make better data-driven decisions.Key Initiatives- Scaled team from 5 to 100+ employees across NA, EMEA, ANZ- Built net new teams: pre-sales, support, implementation, account management, community, training, professional services- Launched and operationalized external customer programs including onboarding and upsell/x-sell, and internal programs including company wide "Voice of the Customer"Impact- Customer NPS: improved from 33 to 87- Net revenue retention: improved from 88% to >103%- Customer Success Employee NPS: highest rated team (>84) for 4 quarters in a row

Joined pre product launch as employee #12 and scaled to IPO. Responsible for recruiting, leading and scaling global presales and customer success teams that enabled marketing team customers to generate, nurture and qualify more high quality sales leads with less effort.Key Initiatives- Scaled team from 0 to 30+ employees across NA, EMEA- Built net new teams: pre-sales, support, implementation, training, customer success- Launched and operationalized external customers programs including implementations and training, and internal company programs including sales demo trainings and certificationsImpact- Win rates: 90+% for sales deals with pre-sales solutions consultant- Time to value: reduced new customer onboarding timeline from months to weeks- Customer NPS: improved from 52 to 86

Joined as employee #108 and scaled to $830M acquisition by Cisco Systems.Responsible for defining and leading technical selling strategies for newly created sales team targeting State, Local, Education and Defense accounts. Key Initiatives - Partnered with sales leadership to close government agencies and higher education accounts- Developed and deliver technical sales trainings and certifications- Assessed and certified technical capabilities of prospective channel partnersImpact- Closed major beachhead accounts: US Navy, California DMV, Stanford, UC Berkeley- Revenue: over 200% y/y for state, local, education and defense accounts- Recognized as top performer in sales 2x, invited to annual Presidents club