Founder & Leadership Coaching for Venture-Backed Growth

Helping founders lead with clarity, resilience and purpose — from Pre-Seed to Series C+

At Evolve Impact, we coach founders and leadership teams through the personal and professional challenges of startup growth — especially in the creative and built environments, where complexity, vision and velocity collide. We specialize in leadership development, team effectiveness and strategic HR advisory — supporting the people behind the product.

Whether you're transitioning from founder to CEO, scaling your executive team or navigating tough calls under pressure, our coaching helps you grow in step with your company.

Why Leadership Development Matters in Startups

Founding a company is bold — and deeply personal. As startups scale, leadership demands evolve:

• Identity shifts from operator to executive

• Pressure increases across teams, investors and markets

• Complexity rises, and decisions carry more weight

• Culture needs to scale with people and product

Without support, even exceptional founders can burn out or stall. We help you build the leadership capacity, emotional resilience and relational clarity to lead powerfully through uncertainty.

Coaching Aligned to the Startup Journey

We tailor our coaching to your company’s stage of growth:

Pre-Seed / Seed

Co-founder alignment, early hires, founder identity, culture seeding

Series A–B

Building executive teams, first-time CEO transitions, communication, values alignment

Series C+

Organizational design, executive transitions, scale readiness, succession planning

What gets you to Seed won’t get you through Series B. Our coaching evolves with you — so you don’t have to figure it all out alone.

Core Focus Areas

Founder Coaching

• Executive presence and high-stakes decision-making

• Energy management, resilience and boundary setting

• Navigating identity shifts from founder to CEO

• Leading across stakeholders—teams, boards, investors

Team Coaching

• Building psychological safety and trust

• Facilitating hard conversations with confidence

• Aligning on vision, values and decision rights

• Scaling culture through complexity and change

Leadership Development

• Strengthening leadership competencies

• Growing self-awareness and systems thinking

• Expanding emotional intelligence and executive range

• Coaching others and leading through influence

We don’t just support individuals — we strengthen the system around them.

How We Work

We offer practical, high-touch formats for founders, teams and VC portfolios:

• 1:1 Founder Coaching (6–18 months)
  Deep, personalized coaching focused on leadership growth, identity and impact
  Includes specialized tracks such as Impact Coaching® for mission-driven founders

• Team Coaching Pods
  Ongoing group coaching for executive and cross-functional teams

• Startup Cohorts
  Cross-company leadership programs for founders within VC portfolios

• Executive Workshops
  Custom facilitation for strategy, alignment and scale readiness

• Portfolio Retainers
  Fractional embedded support to strengthen leadership across your portfolio

• Founders-on-Demand
  Flexible coaching access for founders and executives as needed

Tools & Frameworks That Accelerate Growth

Our engagements often include diagnostic tools and development frameworks that increase self-awareness, build alignment and guide teams through complexity and change. Depending on your goals, we may integrate:

• The Leadership Circle Profile™ (LCP)

• Enneagram for Founders and Leaders

• EQ-i 2.0 (Emotional Intelligence Assessment)

• CliftonStrengths

• Immunity to Change™ (ITC)

• Polarity Mapping for Strategic Tradeoffs

• Co-Founder Health Assessments

• Values Alignment Tools (Barrett, VIA)

• Conscious Business and Cultural Assessment Tools

These tools are not one-size-fits-all — they’re selected based on your stage, goals and leadership context. They bring structure to insight, and clarity to complexity.

Impact Coaching® for Purpose-Driven Founders

We offer Impact Coaching® as a dedicated track within our executive coaching practice — for founders building businesses with social or environmental missions.

This unique approach integrates leadership development with impact strategy, supporting values-driven founders in:

• Staying rooted in purpose while scaling

• Navigating tension between growth and mission

• Aligning teams, decisions and culture with core values

• Leading authentically through complexity and trade-offs

Whether you're building in climate tech, equitable development, sustainable construction or creative placemaking, Impact Coaching® helps you scale what matters — without compromise.

For Venture Capital Partners

We partner with forward-thinking VCs who understand that leadership is a critical lever for scaling companies. Our coaching:

• Reduces founder burnout and misalignment

• Strengthens executive collaboration and team health

• Builds leadership capacity across your portfolio

Whether you're backing three startups or thirty, we help your companies grow fast — without growing apart.

Let’s Align on What Your Portfolio Needs Most

Founder support. Team strength. Leadership growth.