YOUR COMPANY HAS OUTGROWN THE WAY YOU LEAD
I help CEOs from Series B through public turn a group of strong executives into one team.
For CEOs and leadership teams of scaling companies.
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Two ways to start
As the company grows, both the CEO’s role and the way the leadership team works together have to evolve.
Lead a bigger company without doing it all on your own
As the company grows, your job changes. What got you here won’t get you there.
You can’t stay close to every decision, person and problem.
We’ll work together on your tough issues: crucial decisions, key relationships, difficult conversations.
Learn where to step in, and where to let go.
Turn strong executives into one strong team
You can hire excellent executives and still not have an excellent executive team.
We work on the issues slowing the team down so you can make better decisions, take ownership and lead the whole company together.
Team coaching is always delivered with an expert partner: two coaches see more of the room than one.
WHAT CEOS AND BOARDS SAY ABOUT THE WORK
“Celine is hands down the best CEO coach I’ve ever had, and I’ve worked with many”
Ophelia Snyder
Co-founder, 21.co (Fintech unicorn, exited)
"Celine is a phenomenal coach, one of the best coaches I know at helping leaders who are building massive businesses."
Matt Mochary
CEO Coach, Mochary Method
"Celine has created tremendous impact in my focus and approach as a leader."
Mary Yang
Board of Directors, Sunnova (NYSE: NOVA)
Aileen Lee
Investor, Cowboy Ventures
"Celine coaches the best to be the best!"
CEOs typically reach out when the old way of working stops scaling.
Conflict between senior leaders slows momentum
Decisions stall, resurface, or keep getting reopened
Teams optimize for their own function instead of the enterprise
Meetings are frequent but unproductive
Leaders aren’t clear on what they need from one another
Too many issues still come back to the CEO
These are usually signs that the way the leadership team works together hasn’t caught up with the company’s growth.
What I believe
Business is about people working with people
Most teams fail at the systems level, not the individual level
Replacing leaders or coaching them in isolation doesn’t fix broken dynamics (it takes two or more to tango)
Teams mirror the CEO’s patterns
What leaders avoid talking about sets the culture
The “soft stuff” is the hard stuff
Why Celine
I understand teams
I study and teach how leadership teams work. I facilitate Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy Feely”) and teach Leading Effective Teams at Stanford. My team coaching is grounded in the research on what makes leadership teams effective.
I understand leaders
I’ve spent hundreds of hours coaching the leaders of unicorns and public companies through hard decisions, hard conversations, and the shift from being the hub of the team to the person who makes the team successful.
I understand business
Before coaching, I had a career as a strategy consultant and operator: an Inc 5000 company, a $1B apparel business, McKinsey. I know the team has a company to run, and results matter.
Ready to realign your executive team?
Let's start with a conversation about where you are vs. where you want to be.