WACO COACH tailors solutions to the unique culture, needs and stage of the founders and startup.
HOW IT WORKS
The startup journey is hard! Growing and moving fast means more accelerated and complex people issues. To scale your startup, you need to scale yourself. WACO COACH is a coaching program specifically built for the unique journey of rapid-growth early-stage tech startups. We coach and develop founders, and their teams, to make sure that they stay unstuck and ahead of the challenges (and the chaos). Our method is based on a layered approach that starts with founders.
LAYER 1.
FOUNDER/CEO COACHING
Rapid personal development and effectiveness, from founder to leader, self-awareness
LAYER 2. MANAGEMENT TEAM COACHING
Team dynamics, alignment, expectation setting, decision making, mediation, role modeling
LAYER 3.
CULTURE & ORG STRATEGY
Leadership and awareness, narrative creation, Culture fit, Sourdoughing, onboarding, North Star direction setting
LAYER 4.
MONITORING & EVALUATION
Implementation and use of data/dialogue tools to help drive decision making, monitor engagement, belonging and leadership satisfaction
WHY?
WACO COACHING tailors solutions to the unique culture, needs and stage of the founder and startup. Our methods and processes can range from the practical to the esoteric (we’re good with weird), but are always grounded in a data-driven and pragmatic approach. Having been on the journey ourselves we are also mindful of the pressures, emotions, bandwidth and energy of our clients.
At the org level companies are essentially a mesh of people, relationships and agreements, working together to varying degrees of harmony. That makes most, if not all, “business issues” human issues. Yet startups rarely invest the same time, resource, and process in their people and culture as they do their product. We help startups reduce and manage organizational debt and set foundations for the culture needed to support growth.
WACO COACHING is built on over 25 years of coaching, team development, organizational design, culture strategy and facilitation experience, in both the US and Europe. Plus the collective intelligence, methodologies, and networks of the KaosPilots and Hyper Island.
As experienced coaches and entrepreneurs we enjoy helping founders build stronger, healthier, more creative, successful organizations. As investors ourselves we absolutely believe these services will help improve not only founder performance but ultimately help de-risk portfolio companies. Together we aim to fully realise individual and collective potential.