Starter & Maintenance Kits for Founders
If you're a founder outside the AI boom, you're likely feeling the current funding crunch. Recent data shows 49% of founders report increased workloads, 75% deal with anxiety, and 56% feel unsupported by investors (Sifted, 2025). Meanwhile, 65% of startup failures stem from "people issues" - co-founder conflicts, ego clashes, and team inefficiencies (Harvard Business School, 2012).
The question is: Are you equipped to handle both the internal challenges (e.g. imposter syndrome, funding stress) and team dynamics (e.g. conflict resolution, culture building) when the pressure is highest? Having experienced product-related challenges firsthand in startup journeys, we now specialize in the coaching and change management that most founders never learn but desperately need.
Solutions for (Co)Founders
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Personal Catalyst
Audience: Founders and Team Leaders
Duration: 6 Months+
Our 1:1 founder coaching tackles the hidden psychological barriers that derail even the most capable entrepreneurs - from micromanagement tendencies and imposter syndrome to decision fatigue and founder isolation. Using proven tools like the Leadership Circle and Enneagram, we create a personalized coaching plan that addresses your specific challenges, whether that's breaking free from perfectionist paralysis, managing the anxiety of uncertainty, or learning to delegate without losing control. You'll receive targeted workbooks and materials designed for issues like founder burnout, pivot paralysis, or the exhausting cycle of seeking investor validation. The result is a founder who leads with clarity, makes better decisions under pressure, and creates the kind of company culture that scales without burning out.
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Founder Flex Bootcamp
Audience: Founders/Co-Founders
Duration: 1 Full Day
Our half-day Founder Flex Bootcamp addresses the three critical layers where startups actually break: individual founder psychology, co-founder partnership dynamics, and early team culture formation. You'll map your stress patterns, create conflict protocols with your co-founder, and design scalable culture systems before your team grows. You'll leave with practical deliverables - from your Personal Leadership Foundation Map to a Systems Health Dashboard - that immediately improve decision-making, prevent partnership blow-ups, and establish the cultural operating system your company needs. This intensive workshop gives you both immediate insights and a clear roadmap for deeper leadership development.
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Co-Founder Lab
Audience: Co-Founders
Duration: 6 Months+
Our 6-month Co-Founder Lab addresses the reality that co-founders need to operate in lockstep while leveraging different skillsets - which requires deep honesty and trust. Meeting bi-weekly, we mainly use tools from systems coaching to prevent common friction: unspoken resentments from unilateral decisions, cultural blind spots creating unnecessary conflict, communication mismatches that breed micromanagement or abandonment, and mismatched risk tolerances. You'll learn to identify personal boundaries and growth edges, clarify decision ownership, recognize when one person carries too much emotional load, and give direct feedback without triggering defensiveness - building a partnership that can navigate high-stakes decisions at startup speed. This complements the work of startup mentors who focus on product-market fit and operational excellence by addressing the interpersonal dynamics that either accelerate or sabotage everything else.
Solutions for Startup teams
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TeamGeist Programs
Audience: Functional & Leader Teams
Duration: variable
Most startup programs excel at customer discovery and go-to-market strategies but miss the interpersonal dynamics that have been shown to have high probability of derailing companies - communication breakdowns, trust erosion, role conflicts, and toxic stress responses that damage investor confidence. Just because people are smart and talented doesn’t mean that they can be part of a high-performing team. We address this gap.
Teamgeist Incubator: Targeted intervention when you hit 5+ team members, new hires join en masse, or team constellations shift
Teamgeist Accelerator: Regular pulse checks on team dynamics - like sprint retros, but for human systems
Teams under stress become reactive, falling into blame and defensiveness. They become less efficient, more focused on emotions than critical tasks, and prone to burnout - exactly when peak performance is most needed. Using systems coaching frameworks, proven assessments of leadership effectiveness and collaboration readiness, conflict resolution techniques, and mindfulness practices, we help teams establish trust-based operating agreements, identify working styles, and create healthy ways to lean on each other under pressure. The result: Teams that handle stressful pivots and scaling challenges without the relationship failures that end promising startups.