For Founders

High-performance development designed for founders who want to lead well while building the future.

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Founder to CEO Jumpstart

For founders shaping the future, who want to grow and scale without losing themselves.

Building a business can be exhilarating as well as exhausting and isolating. With growth and scale comes complexity: building teams, managing investors, making high stakes decisions, and holding it all together.

Founder to CEO is your way of becoming the executive your business needs. Helping you to sustain yourself, and develop the skills and make the mindset shifts required in your leader journey, from pre-seed leader through Series C and beyond—intentional growth, not accidental and so you don’t burn out and can scale with your business.

  • Format: 3-6 months, 60-min weekly sessions 1:1 (can be scoped for founding teams)

  • Includes: High-touch, evidence-based assessment to deepen awareness, leader development centered on foundational skills for success and what’s required for later transitions

  • Who it’s for: Seed to Series C founders

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Leader Lab for the Portfolio

For VCs, Incubators and Accelerators—because the hardest thing about building a startup isn’t the product, it’s the people. Leadership is your most scalable asset.

Facts: 65% of startups fail due to people problems. 75% of female founders have experience burnout. High-performance development improves founder resilience, accelerates company growth, and reduces burnout.

Signature leader development designed to prepare your portfolio leaders for long-term success from founder to Series C CEO and beyond.

  • Format: Flexible options - structured development cohorts, 1:1 founder coaching, workshops on specific topics, blended approaches

  • Includes: Founder to CEO program as the basis; High-touch, evidence-based assessment to deepen awareness (available)

  • Who it’s for: Venture capital, Incubator, and Accelerator firms wanting to de-risk their investments by having more resilient founders, with stronger teams and culture.

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Founder Power Hours

Fast, focused, game changing. These are laser-focused coaching sessions for founders ready to tackle a pressing leader challenge — from co-founder conflict to scaling your first team to managing stress before it burns you out. Walk away with clarity, actionable strategies, and the confidence to move forward.

  • Format: 90-minute virtual sessions

  • Includes: 1:1 coaching on the specific leader challenge, with practical guidance

  • Who it’s for: Founders looking for a “quick win” to a leader challenge

Example Topics:

  • “From Doer to People Leader: Expanding your EQ & Managing Yourself”

  • “Dealing With Conflict to Get to the Right Innovation”

  • “From Peer to Leader: Navigating the Transition”

Leadership is your most scalable asset

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What people are saying

Liz brings a rare combination of deep, applied organizational psychology expertise, rigorous measurement chops, and sharp product intuition to our advisory board. As a founder pioneering in developer experience, I’ve leaned on her as a thought partner to pressure-test ideas, challenge assumptions, and connect the dots between employee insights and product-market fit. Her background in organizational science and extensive experience in the employee experience and survey space, gave us a credible edge in designing meaningful, actionable measurement tools—and her ability to toggle between strategic direction and human nuance has been invaluable. Be it conversation or text, conversations with Liz creates space for both grounded brainstorming and bold thinking, and her impact shows up not just in our product, but in how I lead.

— Abi Noda, CEO & Founder, DX

Before working with Liz, I was challenged with limiting beliefs and gremlins that dictated my inner monologue that played on repeat, "You don't deserve to have a seat at the table, nobody will take you seriously, and your voice isn't strong enough to be heard."

Immediately, Liz guided me to identify that I was holding a lot of catabolic energy in my life that was stunting my growth in discovering what possibilities I had in me all along. She helped me realize some of the rules I had for myself were outdated and I needed to write new ones…

— Zoe Shields, Founder & CEO, Meraki Coaching, LLC