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You have a clear vision and know how to rally people around it. You give your team direction and trust them to make decisions along the way. But when you already have a plan in mind, you may unintentionally leave little room for your team to contribute their own ideas or challenge your thinking.
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Learn the Founder Types
The way you lead your team has a pattern. A specific way you make decisions, communicate expectations, and approach the people side of your business. The Founder Type Assessment helps you uncover which of the six founder types best describes how you naturally lead.
Discover your founder type and what it means for building a team that takes ownership, solves problems, and helps you grow your business without everything running through you.
You’re resourceful, calm under pressure, and great at finding solutions when things go sideways. You trust your team with the work, but when they hit a roadblock, you’re quick to jump in and solve it. Without realizing it, you may be teaching your team to bring you problems instead of learning how to work through them themselves.
You genuinely care about your people and work hard to make sure they feel supported and valued. But sometimes, that care can make it harder to address a tough issue directly or hold the line on expectations. Your team feels safe with you, but they may not always know where the standard is or when it’s time to step up.
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Your business doesn't need you to become a different kind of leader. It needs you to understand the leader you already are, recognize what's working and what's not, and learn how to develop the people around you.
Building a team that doesn't depend on you can feel like guesswork. Here's why.
Most founders assume the problem is their employees, their systems, or their ability to manage people. It's not always.
The strategies that work for another founder might not work for you because they were built for someone with different instincts, different strengths, and a different natural approach to leading.
When you understand how you naturally lead:
-You stop trying to lead like someone else and start building on the strengths you already have.
-You recognize the habits that might be keeping your team dependent on you, even when you're trying to empower them.
-You learn where to bring more clarity, where to give your team more ownership, and where to have the conversations you've been avoiding.
-You stop feeling like everything has to run through you and start building a team that can think, solve problems, and take ownership without you in the middle of everything.
For nearly a decade, I led people and teams in a national nonprofit. Before that, I was a music teacher and choir director. I've spent my career developing people, helping them work together, and figuring out what makes teams thrive.
And here's what I've learned: being good at your work and knowing how to develop people to do that work with you are two very different things.
When you started your business, you probably didn't set out to become a leader. You were good at what you did, business was growing, and eventually you brought on a team to help you keep up. But somewhere along the way, you became the person everyone turns to. You're answering questions, solving problems, following up, and wondering why things still seem to depend on you, even with a whole team of people in place.
I've seen how easy it is to assume you need better employees, more systems, or better management skills. But often, the real opportunity is learning how to develop the people you already have.
That's why I do this work. As a coach, Working Genius certified practitioner, and host of The Better Conversations Podcast, I help founders figure out the people side of scaling their business.
Because you didn't build a business to become the bottleneck. You built it to do work that matters.
The Founder Type Assessment is where we start. Discover how you naturally lead, where your strengths might be getting in the way, and what could help your team become more capable, confident, and independent.
You've built a business that is thriving. Let's build a team that helps you scale it!
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And I think your team should help your business scale, not make it harder to run.
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