Leadership Coaching for Entrepreneurs and CEOs.
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 leadership potential.
Since 2017, I have coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives, including founders and CEO’s 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 have developed a systematic approach to leadership coaching that goes much deeper than strategies and tactics. I help my clients to transform how they connect to themselves and communicate with others. I help my clients to build habits that engineer self-respect, so they naturally earn the respect of peers. I help my clients to overcome the fear-based motivation that destroys culture, for inspired leadership that drives sustainable success and impact.
While I am a lifelong student of leadership and personal development, there are three core practices that drive my coaching method:
Emotional mastery
Emotions turn into thoughts, which turn into behaviors. If we are unwilling, or incapable of feeling our feelings fully, our leadership will be inhibited by unconscious and counterproductive impulses. I help my clients to transform the wisdom of their emotions into aligned action and clear decision making.
Personal Integrity
I define integrity as the practice of telling the truth, honoring our agreements and living our values. I help my clients develop clarity about who they are and how they want to lead. I challenge my clients and provide accountability for them to take radical ownership for their relationships, results and personal integrity at all times.
Relational Leadership
I equip my clients and their teams with a systematic, 5-step approach to communicate clearly, navigate difficult conversations and build thriving teams. The Relational Leadership framework teaches people how to replace reactivity with a constructive response, no matter the circumstances. My clients master the people-centric leadership skills necessary to embrace conflict, foster collaboration and win buy-in for their priority projects when it matters most.
If you’re ready to learn more about my personal coaching, fill out this short form to book a free coaching session - we’ll connect as though you are already one of my clients and work on something important and pressing for you. 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 clarity and trust in all of your important relationships…
Imagine what it would feel to like to remove drama and pointless arguing at work…
Imagine what it would feel like to confidently give feedback and transform it into collaboration…
Imagine the time you would save if your team shared a common language for conflict resolution and asking for what they need…
This is the promise of Relational Leadership Framework: 5-steps to master difficult conversations, build strong relationships and lead thriving teams.
Whether you are stuck in the same fight with your co-founder, walking on eggshells in the office, or struggling to communicate powerfully in front of an audience, Relational Leadership will help you to communicate with confidence and unlock your true power with people. It will show you how to transform unconscious reactivity into conscious response.
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 my proprietary framework for personal growth and relational mastery. This practice incorporates the best elements of Non-Violent Communication and Conscious Leadership and lays out a practical, easy to use framework that helps people to communicate clearly and constructively with each other.
The Five-Step Relational Leadership Framework
Relational Leaders respond to life, instead of reacting. Use these steps to navigate difficult conversations, build strong relationships and lead thriving teams.
1.
CONTEXT
What am I feeling and thinking about this situation? is it true?
Our context refers to what we are feeling and thinking about the thing we’re dealing with. Most of the issues we experience in our relationships stem from our context, not the content of what someone else said or did.
Relational Leaders address and integrate their context, so they can deal with the content from an intentional and constructive place.
2. INTENTIONALITY
How do I want to respond?
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.
3.
CURIOSITY
What do I want to know?
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.
4.
AUTHENTICITY
(with positive intent and objectivity)
What is real for me? Thoughts, feelings, needs and desires.
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.
5.
NOW
How can I be more present?
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.