Elevate Leaders, Transform Results
Empowering Your Portfolio: The Investor’s Guide to Leadership Coaching
In the high-stakes VC world, portfolio companies battle market shifts, talent shortages, and execution challenges. Founders and execs lead the charge, but mid-level managers—often inexperienced in scaling—struggle without support, creating leadership gaps that stall growth, erode value, and threaten returns.
Data highlights the risks: Globally, only 23% of employees are engaged, with 77% disengaged or worse. In startups' intense environments, this drives poor productivity, sales, satisfaction, and retention—hiking burn rates and missing milestones. Conversely, high engagement yields better results, lower costs, and competitive advantages, letting founders prioritize innovation and exits.
Senior leaders, bogged down by fundraising, pivots, and crises, neglect mentoring, worsening disengagement. Without development, failure looms: 90% of startups flop, with people issues (relationships, roles, management) behind 65% of collapses. Bad management erodes teams and execution, amplifying investor risks like delayed scaling, missed KPIs, and reduced returns.
The fix? Embed professional leadership coaching in your portfolio strategy. I collaborate with growth-stage firms to upskill mid-level managers, building transformative leaders who enhance performance and draw more funding. Key benefits: Increased productivity, fewer obstacles, better oversight, reduced turnover, and scalable, engaged teams.
ROI in focus: Startup turnover hits 25% (double mature companies), with replacements costing 100-150% of salary (up to $312,500 for a $125k role). Disengagement drains $1.8 trillion in global productivity yearly. Retaining one top talent via stronger management can cover coaching for several managers annually—self-funding while boosting enterprise value, speeding exits, and lifting portfolio performance.
Ready to safeguard your investments? I provide free intro sessions to evaluate fit, build trust, and show real impact—no sales pitch. Connect now to explore strengthening your portfolio's leadership benches.
What You Can Expect
Whether strengthening your portfolio companies' cultures or guiding them through rapid change, we’ll elevate their managers to lead with precision, influence, and lasting impact—safeguarding enterprise value and accelerating returns.
For Emerging and Junior Managers: They’ll gain essential skills to build engaged, high-performing teams that drive operational results and support scalable growth.
For Mid-Tier Managers: They’ll accelerate toward senior roles by addressing blind spots, honing leadership intelligence, and building executive presence—reducing execution risks and enhancing portfolio stability.
For All Coaching Participants: They’ll benefit from strategic, experience-based mentorship to overcome challenges proactively—preventing leadership pitfalls that could delay milestones or dilute investment outcomes.
What Happens Next?
We’ll schedule a one-hour consultation to assess leadership challenges within your portfolio.
We’ll explore whether a coaching partnership with any portfolio company is the right fit.
You’ll help make introductions to the decision makers within any portfolio company selected.
I’ll work with the portfolio company to develop trust, assess needs, and demonstrate value through several free sessions.