Leave your company (and legacy) in great shape.

I help retiring founders of small, mature companies improve systems for strategy and leadership development. In 6 months or less, clients will install a proven process for setting strategy and systems for developing future leaders from within. I help clients achieve these results using methods I learned while managing leadership development at companies like Procter & Gamble and Constellation Software.

My tools are actionable, not conceptual. No corporate-speak, trends, or quick fixes. Over the past 17 years, I’ve built this system while managing people, budgets, and projects in the hospitality, CPG, and software industries. While the focus is on strategy and talent, you and your team may also learn tools for personal productivity, writing, presenting, and decision-making.

While each coaching engagement is unique, the standard process begins with a review of your current priorities (your role & corporate). Over the course of 6 months, we’ll diagnose what made your company successful under your watch. We’ll assess what leadership is needed to carry it into the future. Finally, we will put into practice a coherent set of leadership tools that will solidify your legacy as a future-focused founder. Working with you (hands-on, at times) I will share detailed guidance combined with personal support every step of the way–from initial consult to implementation and follow through.

How May I help you?

If you’re serious about the future, let’s go:

Interested, but want to learn more? Send me a message.

I recommend David as a coach for any small business who values personal, open, and professional communication along with high-quality work. David quickly learned about our business needs to deliver expert coaching and professional updates to our written documents, all with speed and at a great value. Having worked with bigger consulting firms, I really appreciated his uniquely warm and sincere style, as well.

Sumiao Chen, owner of Sumiao Hunan Kitchen, Boston, MA, USA

Thank you for all the help. Specifically, with the strategy piece and productivity ideas. Long way to go, but it really helped me start to put some structure around what I’m trying to do.

Amalan Loganathan, CFO, CORA Group

Other ways I can help:

Problem/Opportunity : confusion, misalignment, slow or sloppy communication and action, complex decision-making,

Solution: Improve communication with my Strategic Communication Toolkit to help you:

  • -Clarify and cascade your strategy
  • -Speak “their” language using DISC
  • -Make principled strategic decisions
  • -Create and deliver presentations
  • -Write effectively and professionally

Problem/Opportunity : doing the urgent vs important, email overload, inefficient meetings, mistakes due to rushing, missed deadlines

Solution: Improve your productivity with Productivity Coaching. You will learn how to:

  1. -Prioritize based on purpose
  2. -Say “no” without losing trust *
  3. -Finish & get home on-time with the “ABCDeadline” method
  4. -Turn email into a help instead of a headache
  5. -Run meetings that people want to attend

Problem/Opportunity : new leadership, attrition, low trust between staff & managers, low engagement, insufficient talent pipeline, need to improve results

Solution: Improve staff & managers with the Manager Toolkit. A coherent, “what to do” system on how to:

  1. -Earn trust with effective “one on ones”
  2. -Set & track clear & inspiring goals
  3. -Give feedback and prove it works
  4. -Coach using ad hoc & skill-based models
  5. -Delegate with purpose and efficiency

Problem/Opportunity : training is ineffective, too long, too expensive, or you’re not sure it’s working

Solution: Improve training with my Design for Performance Workshop. You will learn how to:

  1. -Design training for job performance
  2. -Train exceptional trainers

Let’s talk.

I’d love to learn about what you do and what’s keeping you up at night.

If I can’t help, I’ll connect you with someone who can.

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