Accelerate Your Leadership

Everyone needs a coach. – Bill Gates
The best business advice I got was to get a coach. – Eric Schmidt
 
Coaching works by unpacking your context, decision-making lenses, and core values to find solutions that work for you. It unleashes your true, authentic self and helps you become who you were always meant to be.

Start the Journey.

Executive Coaching

What would it feel like to be the leader you were always meant to be? Imagine yourself leading from your strengths, centered in your authentic leadership style, and benefiting from stronger relationships with those around you.

Our leadership development model uses two complementary approaches. First, we help clients look inward to unlock new insights in their unique leadership style. Second, we help clients look outward to incorporate pragmatic feedback from key stakeholders. 

We always drive towards action and accountability, asking, “what concrete steps will strengthen your leadership today?”

Focus Areas

We typically start leadership coaching with a 360º evaluation, using it to clarify your key goals or focus areas. These might include how to do the following:

  • Strengthen day-to-day leadershipmanagement, or team health
  • Manage time, energy, and increase productivity
  • Improve relationships with co-founders or co-workers
  • Define your authentic leadership model (this is mine)
  • Manage a big transition
  • Clarify your “why”– design your purpose
  • Uncover and live your core values
  • Understand and work with blind spots

Testimonials

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Much Needed Investment

Alexei guided me to find my own answers rather than telling me what to do. Each session was a much needed investment in long term introspection away from the daily fire drills of running a startup.

Vera Makarov

Founder & CEO - Apli

Focusing on Action

My engagement with Alexei was my first experience with a professional coach. Alexei does an excellent job guiding the conversation, allowing you to identify personal as well as professional impediments and, most importantly, focusing on actionable ways to change your behavior for the better.

Peter Ostroske

Founder & CEO - OFI

Focus on What Really Matters

Alexei’s coaching forced me to look deep into my core beliefs, and resulted in me being able to manage my time better so as to be able to focus on what really matters.

Vikram Deswal

Co-Founder - UnDosTres

Our Business is Accelerating

Alexei has been my executive coach for the past few months and it has been a fantastic experience! As a startup founder, it can be hard to get feedback as quickly and easily as you can in larger organizations. I can feel my performance improving in working with Alexei and our business is accelerating as a result. Can’t recommend Alexei enough!

Matt Pru

Co-Founder - Stackmatix

I Should Have Done This Sooner

As soon as I started the program with Alexei, I realized I should have done this sooner instead of waiting for the right time to arrive. His approach towards coaching was different than most other discussions I have had with mentors and professional coaches in the past. His biggest superpower was to SIMPLIFY & ask the right questions. It was refreshing to see that he kept ME at the center of the program construction and execution instead of rushing through pre-planned modules that had to be driven by his agenda. If I have to sum up the outcome from these coaching sessions, in 2 words, I would say that I have gained CLARITY and BALANCE. I would highly recommend a coaching program with Alexei to any senior leader who’s seeking answers to conflicting priorities in their lives.

Mridvika Raisinghani

Managing Director - Global Search - Shortlist

Clarify Objectives and Boundaries

The engagement with Alexei was a valuable exercise in learning how to step back from a situation and coach myself. I successfully worked with Alexei on ways to clarify objectives and boundaries to improve my approach both to individual interpersonal conversations and longer term decisions. I appreciated learning from his example of conversational techniques, posing questions, and listening deeply to feedback.

Rand Carpenter

Chief Epidemiologist (during COVID) - City of Nashville

Highly Recommended

Alexei is exceedingly warm, organized, and brilliant; he’s a fantastic listener and always has thoughtful questions and resources that spark further discovery. I enjoyed his process of identifying key areas for improvement through a key-group survey and personal reflection. We covered topics such as implementing a new company structure and hiring, along with how to better give feedback and lower anxiety during stressful work encounters. He also facilitated a strategic conversation between all company owners; he helped us make more decisions in one hour than we had made in half a year on one particular topic. Through pinpointing action items, I feel more prepared to move my company forward, and I’m much more calm and aware of my emotional response in general, which is amazing! Highly recommend Alexei to anyone!

Rachel Pru

Co-Owner & Principal - Curate Art Group

Our Business Has Doubled in Size

After working with Alexei, I now have much greater control over my schedule, prioritize and delegate more effectively, and have put routines in place to strengthen our company culture. Our business has doubled in size in the span of a few months, and I expect our growth to continue to accelerate. Alexei is a great listener and also is skilled at asking tough questions that push his clients to grow. I feel more calm and confident than ever after working with Alexei, and I would recommend him to anyone who wants to take their business or life to the next level.

James Critelli

Co-Founder - Stackmatix

Arrived At The Perfect Time

Alexei’s coaching arrived at the perfect time in my career. I was in a nasty vortex of work weariness and self doubt. He helped me work through some serious roadblocks and helped me look at problems in a new light while boosting my confidence. He knows I hate using the word “executive” but I can honestly say I’ve never felt more so than after working with him.

Brooke Nelson

Co-Owner & Principal - Curate Art Group

Lograr Cambios Tangibles

Trabajar con Alexei me ayudó a ser más consciente de mis áreas de mejora, pero sobretodo a tomar acciones para mejorar dichas áreas, y nuevos hábitos para mejorar de manera continua. Desde la primera sesión, Alexei, a través de preguntas profundas, logra entrar a un entendimiento profundo de las razones que están afectando el liderazgo, las relaciones con el equipo y el desempeño individual, y te ayuda a hacerte dueño de tu proceso. En mi caso particular, trabajamos con especial énfasis en áreas de comunicación, manejo de tiempo, retroalimentación y seguimiento del equipo. El mayor valor para mí del proceso fue lograr cambios tangibles en mi día a día y la dinámica con mi equipo, teniendo un espacio y una metodología para la autoreflexión. El respeto, expertise, seriedad y profundidad de Alexei fueron claves para lograr el objetivo.

Juan Felipe Uribe

Co-Founder, COO, & CFO - Alameda
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Much Needed Investment

Alexei guided me to find my own answers rather than telling me what to do. Each session was a much needed investment in long term introspection away from the daily fire drills of running a startup.

Vera Makarov

Founder & CEO - Apli

Focusing on Action

My engagement with Alexei was my first experience with a professional coach. Alexei does an excellent job guiding the conversation, allowing you to identify personal as well as professional impediments and, most importantly, focusing on actionable ways to change your behavior for the better.

Peter Ostroske

Founder & CEO - OFI

Focus on What Really Matters

Alexei’s coaching forced me to look deep into my core beliefs, and resulted in me being able to manage my time better so as to be able to focus on what really matters.

Vikram Deswal

Co-Founder - UnDosTres

Our Business is Accelerating

Alexei has been my executive coach for the past few months and it has been a fantastic experience! As a startup founder, it can be hard to get feedback as quickly and easily as you can in larger organizations. I can feel my performance improving in working with Alexei and our business is accelerating as a result. Can’t recommend Alexei enough!

Matt Pru

Co-Founder - Stackmatix

I Should Have Done This Sooner

As soon as I started the program with Alexei, I realized I should have done this sooner instead of waiting for the right time to arrive. His approach towards coaching was different than most other discussions I have had with mentors and professional coaches in the past. His biggest superpower was to SIMPLIFY & ask the right questions. It was refreshing to see that he kept ME at the center of the program construction and execution instead of rushing through pre-planned modules that had to be driven by his agenda. If I have to sum up the outcome from these coaching sessions, in 2 words, I would say that I have gained CLARITY and BALANCE. I would highly recommend a coaching program with Alexei to any senior leader who’s seeking answers to conflicting priorities in their lives.

Mridvika Raisinghani

Managing Director - Global Search - Shortlist

Clarify Objectives and Boundaries

The engagement with Alexei was a valuable exercise in learning how to step back from a situation and coach myself. I successfully worked with Alexei on ways to clarify objectives and boundaries to improve my approach both to individual interpersonal conversations and longer term decisions. I appreciated learning from his example of conversational techniques, posing questions, and listening deeply to feedback.

Rand Carpenter

Chief Epidemiologist (during COVID) - City of Nashville

Highly Recommended

Alexei is exceedingly warm, organized, and brilliant; he’s a fantastic listener and always has thoughtful questions and resources that spark further discovery. I enjoyed his process of identifying key areas for improvement through a key-group survey and personal reflection. We covered topics such as implementing a new company structure and hiring, along with how to better give feedback and lower anxiety during stressful work encounters. He also facilitated a strategic conversation between all company owners; he helped us make more decisions in one hour than we had made in half a year on one particular topic. Through pinpointing action items, I feel more prepared to move my company forward, and I’m much more calm and aware of my emotional response in general, which is amazing! Highly recommend Alexei to anyone!

Rachel Pru

Co-Owner & Principal - Curate Art Group

Our Business Has Doubled in Size

After working with Alexei, I now have much greater control over my schedule, prioritize and delegate more effectively, and have put routines in place to strengthen our company culture. Our business has doubled in size in the span of a few months, and I expect our growth to continue to accelerate. Alexei is a great listener and also is skilled at asking tough questions that push his clients to grow. I feel more calm and confident than ever after working with Alexei, and I would recommend him to anyone who wants to take their business or life to the next level.

James Critelli

Co-Founder - Stackmatix

What is Coaching?

The word “coach” has many meanings, so it’s important that we clarify our definition. First, here is what coaching is not. Coaching is not “advising”, “mentoring”, or “consulting.” Advisors and mentors share suggestions based on their past experience. Consultants diagnose problems and prescribe or implement solutions. Though they will all play an important role in your success, each lack the essential context of your unique business, your unique team, and you.

Coaching is about helping you unlock the best way for you to lead by enhancing your personal leadership style within the subtle but important nuances of your context. Coaching helps unpack the set of mental models you are using to make decisions. It brings awareness to your unconscious and helps you shift from reacting to external events to responding with intention. Coaching is about getting better outcomes with less effort. 

How Coaching Works

We start by identifying some of your personal and professional goals and refining the scope of the coaching engagement. Where appropriate, we conduct a 360 or additional behavioral interviews to focus even more where you want to grow. We bring in your key stakeholders, and then we kickstart the journey.
Coaching engagements generally last for at least three months, with one-on-one coaching twice per month for an hour. We can also schedule a half or full-day customized retreat to deepen our work together or tackle a particular issue.

Our Services

Executive Coaching

Team Development

Leadership Councils

Growth Consulting

Executive Coaching

Team Development

Leadership Councils

Growth Consulting