In this post, l’d like to explore a touchy, but important topic: how to balance leading a high growth company AND a marriage or serious relationship. How do you both be the best possible CEO while also being the best […]

CEOs have an almost impossible job, facing a seemingly endless list of demands from their various stakeholders. To thrive, CEOs must be both selfish & servants. Something that has been coming up in my conversations with CEOs lately has been […]

Most CEOs I know are too busy. This is actually a common reason for them to seek coaching in the first place. They can no longer keep up and are losing effectiveness as CEO. I was speaking with a CEO […]

What are you best at? What do you love to do more than anything else? What work, when you get to do it, doesn’t feel like work? I find myself asking CEOs questions like this a lot. CEOs come in […]

This might seem like a strange question to ask a hard-charging CEO of a high growth company. Perhaps…. But l recently found myself asking this of a few clients as we set goals for the coming year. Startup success is […]

My last operating gig was as CFO at FreshBooks. One of the keys to their success is their obsession with the customer. When l was there (this may still be the case), every employee spent their first month in customer […]