Coaching for Founders & Start-Up Teams

Launching, growing and working at an early-phase company is exciting, but it can also feel overwhelming and all-consuming. From building the right team, to securing funding rounds, to create a scalable product, to wearing multiple hats -  the path to success is filled with opportunities and challenges. 

How do you sustain your energy so you can perform at your best and make good decisions?

It's essential for founders and early-stage teams to:

  • Build a strong organizational culture from the start

  • Communicate effectively across roles and functions

  • Prevent burnout while sustaining energy and creativity

  • Develop internal energy management skills to lead teams more effectively

  • Clarify vision and align it with day-to-day actions

  • Navigate transitions and make confident decisions

Why Coaching Matters for Start-Ups

In the fast-paced world of start-ups, people and culture are your greatest assets. Most leaders and team members devote the bulk of their energy to external demands, overlooking the benefits of cultivating inner resources. Creating space to pause, reflect, and replenish allows leaders and teams to restore energy, strengthen leadership, foster healthier organizational culture, and build the resilience needed to navigate rapid change.

My Approach

I bring a unique blend of coaching expertise, executive leadership experience, and mindfulness-based practices. Together, we’ll focus on both the big picture and the daily realities, while developing the inner resources needed to grow a thriving business—without burning out your people.

Let’s Start the Conversation

Whether you’re a solo founder looking for clarity or a small team navigating growth, coaching can help you ground and unlock your potential.

For Startup Boston attendees I’m offering Free, 30-minute inner resources development sessions. I’ll help you take stock of how you are currently managing you inner resources and provide a few practical tools you can use.

What Clients Say

  • Having Alex as a coach helped me in ways that are hard to capture in a few sentences, but I will try. From the start, I felt an incredible sense of comfort and ease with him. He helped me reframe how I see myself and to tap into inner strengths I did not know I possessed. Alex guided me through a process of self-discovery and personal growth, and did so in a way that created a natural and authentic connection. He suggested many ideas for helping me to imagine what my life, personal and professional, could be like and provide me with practical tools to bring those to fruition. I would wholeheartedly recommend Alex to anyone considering hiring a coach.

    -Yonah David, Senior Account Manager, Causewatch. Israel

  • My session with Alex opened up a lot of great material to explore. He helped me feel immediately comfortable and seemed to "get" me right off the bat. He has a wonderfully intuitive approach that took me much deeper than I've been able to go with many other therapists and coaches. I recommend Alex for anyone looking for coaching and personalized practices that go beyond the mind to our deeper influences and longings.

    -Nancy Alder, Integrative Clinic Manager. San Rafael, California

  • Alex has a great balance of curiosity, care and engagement. I really appreciated the relational space in sessions and the feeling that we were always having a deep and flexible dialogue. With Alex's guidance, I learned techniques and framings that now make it easier for me to tap into different pieces of myself and bring a greater span of wisdom to questions in my life, both big and small. I now have a daily reflective/meditative practice that is a huge additional support to my more typical analytical approach, and I feel a greater ease and comfort navigating challenges in my life as a result.

    - Jesse Kriss, Head of Security, Infrastructure, and IT at Watershed. San Francisco, CA.

  • I really appreciated that Alex was in it with me and could help me better see what I was doing and what I wasn’t doing. He’s a fantastic lister and asked questions that allowed me to gain better clarity. It was a very practical, experiential approach that enabled me to try different things and I really appreciated that.

    -Jim Schuch Strategy Director, TBWA\Chiat\Day. Los Angeles, California

  • Alex listens closely and asks key questions that point you in the direction of your truth. He has knowledge of, and access to, outside resources that can guide you on your path. (Books, courses, teachers, etc) Just tell him what you want and he will help you re/frame it, and possibly achieve it!

    -Shira Sergant, Professor & Communications Professional. Los Angeles, California

  • I found it was really beneficial to set aside some dedicated time for myself to talk through what I was thinking and feeling on a day-to-day basis. I always uncover a lot during coaching sessions. Having Alex guide the conversation helped me sort through all the noise and get to the root of what I'm feeling.

    -Beth Evans, Event Planner & Business Owner. Ottawa, Canada

  • With his compassionate, open, insightful, and grounding approach, Alex asked so many spot-on, dig-deep questions to help me think about my issue at hand in new ways and immediately gain new perspectives. I loved that he used a variety of techniques with me, from guiding me through coaching questions to reflections, re-framing, and collaborative action planning, as well as a creative guided meditation / visualization exercise that was incredibly powerful and impactful for me. Alex let me go as far as I could on my own, and then offered new ideas of how to move forward to keep my momentum going. Thank you, Alex!

    -Chelsea Fonden, Learning and Development Manager. New York, NY

  • Alex is a great listener and truly tailored the coaching experience to my specific needs and personality. He respectfully pushed me out of my comfort zone to help make positive leaps forward in my progress and always had helpful feedback and suggestions. I enjoyed my coaching experience very much and would recommend Alex to anyone looking to gain more insight into themselves and ways to accomplish your goals.

    -Jared Goldwasser, Sr. Account Executive, Large Enterprise - Public Sector/Sales. Los Angeles, CA

  • Special thanks to Alex for coaching me through this transition and I explored how to leverage my extensive experience as a financial services platform sales executive in my next chapter…I think working with Alex helped me to stay focused on where I wanted to go and on what was important as I was navigating my work transition. I was able to stay aligned to my goals and reduce unnecessary stress of being pulled in different directions. Having a regular time to check in and review progress helped me better evaluate new opportunities and make better decisions.

    -Bill Crouch, Sales Executive & Business Owner. Fortville, Indiana

Contact me

alex@alexrobertholt.com