Founders Keepers

Coaching Methodolgy

8-Step Methodology to Transform Founders into High-Performance Executives.

Through our structured yet highly personalized approach, leaders experience transformative growth, enhance their effectiveness, and achieve measurable improvements in leadership performance and organizational success.

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Leverages decades of experience and research

Based on hundreds of assessments and coaching of startup CEOs and their teams and financial performance metrics of success. The systems used by dozens of founders who have gone from early stage to IPO/billion dollar exits

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Unveiling Leadership Potential: Deep Personality

Utilizing our comprehensive personality assessments, we identify natural leadership strengths and pinpoint critical blind spots. Our detailed personality analysis clarifies each leader’s motivations, drivers, and tendencies to provide a clear path for growth.

3

360-Degree Leadership Feedback

Our validated 360 assessments deliver insights from multiple sources on 46 core leadership competencies, enabling leaders to understand their true organizational impact, amplify their strengths, and systematically address areas for growth.

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Tailored Development Strategy

Based on each leader’s unique assessment profile, we create a customized, actionable development plan aligned with personal leadership goals and organizational objectives, grounded in the proven Hagberg Founders Keepers research, best practices, and practical, real-world solutions.

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Evolution from Founder Mode to Scalable Leadership

Specializing in guiding founders beyond their initial startup phase, we help leaders embrace new behaviors and strategic mindsets required to successfully scale their organizations to 10X exits and beyond

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Real-Time, Solution-Oriented Coaching

Regular coaching sessions are adaptive, addressing ongoing real-world challenges and strategic issues leaders face. Our coaches provide immediate, actionable insights, promoting tangible progress and sustainable behavioral change.

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Continuous Behavioral Tracking and Feedback

Utilizing our comprehensive personality assessments, we identify natural leadership strengths and pinpoint critical blind spots. Our detailed personality analysis clarifies each leader’s motivations, drivers, and tendencies to provide a clear path for growth.

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Proven Expertise and Resources

Our coaches draw on the extensive Hagberg intellectual property, research library, and leadership methodologies to enhance their insights, judgment, and effectiveness, delivering highly impactful coaching tailored specifically to each client’s needs. Our coaches also draw upon their own experience as coaches or CEOs.

Founders Dilemma

DO ANY OF THESE RESONATE WITH YOU?

  • “How do I manage the expectations of my investors, employees, and customers without over-promising and under-delivering?”
  • “How do I grow into the leader my company needs me to be as we scale?”
  • “Is it possible to achieve a balance between my startup and personal life, and if so, how?”
  • “How can I build and maintain a strong company culture amid rapid growth?”
  • “How do I attract top talent and ensure they're a fit for our startup culture?”
  • “How can I prepare for and navigate through unforeseen business crises?”
  • “How can I continue to innovate without derailing our current execution and focus?”
  • “How do I encourage and utilize constructive criticism without getting overwhelmed?”
  • “How can I hold people accountable without micromanaging?”
  • “What should I do about my co-founder who isn’t adding much value?”
  • “Do I have what it takes to take my company public?”
  • “I’ve never done this before. Is it normal to feel like an imposter?”
  • “I don’t have the experienced talent to delegate to but how can I avoid burnout?
  • "I feel confident and optimistic but how can I be sure we have product/market fit?”

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Avoid the typical Founder Failure traps

Why is it that so many founders fail?

We know, and this is how...

  • Rich has developed a profile of SUCCESSFUL founders based on 122 founders (CEO and Leadership Teams)
  • Validated personality test measuring over 50 traits
  • 360 ratings from an average of 12 stakeholders (Investors, team members, advisors) on 46 dimensions of problem solving, leadership, management, social skills and behaviors)
  • Thousands of pages of comments from raters


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