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Executive Coaching · A venture-backed scale-up

From founder to CEO

One-to-one work with a founder learning to lead the company their company had become.

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senior leaders empowered to own outcomes

2x

founder time on strategy vs. firefighting

100%

leadership team retained through scale

The challenge

A brilliant founder had built something remarkable — and was now the bottleneck. Every decision still routed through them.

Growth demanded a different leader: one who created clarity and let others carry it.

Our approach

Through regular coaching, we worked on the hardest skill of all: restraint — choosing which decisions to hand away, and trusting the outcome.

We built rituals for reflection and delegation, so the founder could lead the company forward instead of holding it together.

From founder to CEO · Ikimira