Essays and stories on the leadership work behind Compass Coaching — for founders, CEOs and senior leaders navigating the moments that matter.
Your strategy is clear. Your team is busy. The ship still isn't moving. Four gaps between founder and team — and how executive coaching closes them.
Read the essay →The greatest risk isn't the storm outside — it's the hole in the hull you refuse to look at.
Read the essay →That gap — between the operator who built the boat and the leader who now has to captain it — is where most growing companies stall. Not for lack of a market, or product, or ambition. They stall because the founder is still rowing when the job has become setting the heading.
Read the essay →A £50k lunch. A businessman who's forgotten what it feels like to be lost. The moment every leader hits when the shoreline disappears — and how the four points of a compass answer the questions the sea keeps asking.
Read the essay →The N pillar of Compass Coaching. Healthy revenue, a team that delivers, and no shore to row towards — why the first thing a coach does is help a founder pick one, and what changes the moment he does.
Read the essay →Nine months in. Strategy set. Team strong. Everyone rowing hard. And still miles behind. Why execution isn't harder work — it's a system. Rhythm, ownership, accountability. Get the three right and the boat moves.
Read the essay →Different quarter, different decision, different team member — but underneath, the same shape he can't quite name. The S pillar of Compass Coaching: why the rudder underwater matters more than the rowing on deck.
Read the essay →A founder sat opposite me last month and said: 'I've been told I need a coach. I've been told I need a mentor. Someone at my board said I need an advisor. I don't know the difference.' Here's how to hear the difference — and hire the one you actually need.
Read the essay →A founder who has, by every external measure, won — and can't work out why the winning feels like sinking. The transition nobody puts in the calendar, and the four points of the compass that get founders through the crossing.
Read the essay →Six honest signals it's time — and the wrong reasons most founders wait for. Plus the honesty check on whether what you actually need is a coach, a mentor, an advisor, or a combination.
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