Leadership Coaching for Entrepreneurs and Executives.
My early entrepreneurial career was defined by my desire to build a significant business in the world.
I was hustling and trying to prove to myself (and if I’m honest, everyone else) that I could do it.
Along the way, I made all of the common founder mistakes. I worked too much, sacrificed my health, failed to prioritize relationships and frequently felt like an imposter leading my company.
When I look back at the moment things truly shifted for me, the answer was obvious: hiring a coach.
My life and business transformed the moment I stopped trying to do it all alone. Within a few months my coach helped me to clean up the fractured relationships in my life and reclaim a deep sense of personal integrity.
I was different and so were my results. Over the next two years I 20x’ed my business, raised more than $4,000,000 from top VC’s, built a 100+ person team, got listed at #256 in the INC500 and racked up features in publications like The New Yorker and Today Show.
After working as her client for two years, my coach became my mentor and trained me in her life-changing Handel Method. While I love entrepreneurship and creating companies, she helped me to realize my calling as a teacher and coach. As much as anything I do, I love helping exceptional people to come alive and actualize their full potential.
Since 2017, I have coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives, including founders that have amassed more than $4B in collective valuations.
Today, I work with a small number of clients who are hungry for personal growth, professionally ambitious and committed to something much bigger than themselves.
My secret sauce?
I’m not just here to help you navigate the issues you are dealing with in your day to day work life. I’m here to help you fundamentally transform the way you lead at work, relate with yourself and communicate with others.
While I am a lifelong student of leadership and personal development, there are three core practices that drive my approach to coaching:
Gestalt Awareness Practice - For emotional mastery and “deep work.”
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership - A transformational framework for leadership and sustainable success.
Handel method - For holistic life alignment and personal integrity.
I empower you to articulate exactly what you want to create in the world and provide the the tools, strategies and strategic accountability to keep you focused on what matters most.
I will help you to know exactly who you are and how show up powerfully for the people who depend on you.
If you’re ready to learn more about my personal coaching, please fill out this short form to book a free coaching consultation - https://form.typeform.com/to/EHQNags6
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Andrew transformed how I lead and empowered me to change the way that our team communicates and connects with each other.
Justin Mcleod - Founder and CEO of Hinge
“Andrew is a brilliant, compassionate, and remarkably effective facilitator of personal transformation - I feel fortunate to have been given the gift of more deeply connecting to myself and others through his guidance.”
Ben Rattray - Founder and Former CEO, Change.org
It’s simple, my life is better for working with Andrew. I feel more connected to my emotions and the people in my life. I feel clearer about who I am and what I need to move my life forward.
Neil Parikh - Co-Founder, Casper
Relational Leadership Coaching
Imagine what it would feel like to create harmony in your important relationships.
Imagine what it would feel like to confidently engage conflict and turn it into collaboration.
Imagine what it would feel like to empower the people around you to create these types of conscious relationships too.
This is the promise of Relational Leadership: getting what we want, while supporting the people that matter most to us.
Whether you are stuck in the same fight with your partner, walking on eggshells in the office, or struggling to communicate powerfully in front of groups, Relational Leadership will help you to unlock your true power with people. It will show you how to transform conflict into productive collaboration and connection.
I have been coaching individuals and training organizations on the best practices of effective communication and relational dynamics for over 10 years. Relational Leadership is based around my proprietary Social Flow methodology and incorporates elements of non-violent communication and conscious leadership to present an easy to understand and practical to use framework for leading people and teams.
The Five Pillars of Relational Leadership
RESPONSIBILITY
We take responsibility for the status of each relationship in our life.
We don’t blame others for the way things are. We don’t talk about people behind their backs.
We are quick to own our part and take action when a relationship is out of integrity.
INTENTIONALITY
We do not react to people that need our attention, we respond consciously.
We are clear on our values and know how we want to show up in each and every conversation.
We are the thermostat in the conversation, not the thermometer.
CURIOSITY
We seek to understand the people around us fully.
When we are unclear, we don’t make up stories, we ask questions.
We embrace curiosity as our most important tool for effective collaboration and meaningful connection.
AUTHENTICITY
We embrace authenticity as an act of service. We speak our truth fully and create space for others to share theirs too.
We share from our experience, avoid complaining and refrain from judging others.
We share our needs and clearly ask for what we want.
PRESENCE
We lead from the present moment and what’s happening right now.
We don’t make up stories about the past, or predictions about the future.
We listen deeply, remember names and make eye contact.
Strategic Communication
Coaching
Do you want to synthesize your ideas for a book proposal or signature keynote presentation?
Do you need help creating an irresistible pitch deck for your company?
Do you need help articulating a sales pitch that draws people in?
If you need to say a lot with only a few words…you’re in the right place.
What is Intrigue Communication Coaching?
I Co-founded the Intrigue Agency in 2004 to help entrepreneurs and organizations find the right words when it matters most. We supported our clients with everything from investor decks, to TED talks and brand positioning. We partnered with Fortune 500’s like Cisco, startups like Healthbox and world-renowned entrepreneurs.
I also spent two years building certification programs for coaches and consultants who wanted to help their clients with these types of strategic communications.
The Intrigue Methodology centers around our belief that all strategic communication should follow the “3 C’s” - It should be - Clear, Concise and Compelling.
I specialize in pitching, presenting, persuading and promoting. If you find yourself in need of someone who can help you to synthesize the value of your project in a way that earns buy-in from the right people, I’d love to hear from you.