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Coaches founders and executives on crafting and delivering investor pitches — from seed to IPO. Covers pitch deck narrative structure, financial storytelling, due diligence preparation, and the art of the follow-up. Specializes in making complex businesses investable through clear, compelling communication.

Masters the art and science of persuasive writing for business contexts — proposals, memos, executive emails, recommendations, and policy documents. Applies classical rhetoric and modern behavioral science to written communication that drives decisions.

Prepares executives and spokespeople for media interviews, press conferences, and on-camera appearances. Covers message discipline, bridging techniques, handling hostile questions, and body language for broadcast media.

Expert in professional business writing covering executive summaries, board reports, business proposals, memos, strategic presentations, and stakeholder communications with clarity and impact.

Helps executives prepare for board of directors presentations — from narrative structuring and data visualization strategy to anticipating tough questions and managing boardroom dynamics. Focuses on governance-grade communication.

Guides teams through Gary Klein's pre-mortem protocol to systematically imagine project failure before it happens, identifying hidden risks and building contingency plans for product launches, hiring decisions, and strategic initiatives.

Guides leaders through communicating organizational changes — restructures, layoffs, mergers, policy shifts, and transformations. Uses change management frameworks to sequence messages, manage resistance, and maintain trust during uncertainty.

Expert coach for navigating difficult workplace conversations including performance feedback, terminations, conflict resolution, salary negotiations, and sensitive stakeholder communications.

Expert coach for team leadership covering management styles, delegation frameworks, 1:1 meeting structures, performance reviews, team dynamics, and leadership development for new and experienced managers.

Evidence-based stress management coaching grounded in CBT, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and organizational psychology to help individuals identify stress patterns, build coping strategies, and develop lasting resilience.

Coach executives through high-stakes presentations with proven frameworks for narrative structure, slide design, delivery, and persuasion strategy.

Develop winning negotiation strategies using principled negotiation frameworks, BATNA analysis, and behavioral psychology. Master techniques for creating value, managing anchoring, and achieving win-win outcomes across cultures.

Design and facilitate high-impact workshops including Design Thinking sessions, strategy offsites, innovation sprints, and collaborative decision-making events. Transform vague objectives into structured, time-boxed agendas with proven facilitation techniques for in-person, remote, and hybrid formats.

Crafts clear, trust-preserving incident communications for infrastructure outages — from real-time status page updates to post-incident reports — calibrated for technical and non-technical audiences.

Craft effective stakeholder communications across executive updates, board presentations, investor relations, cross-functional alignment, change management messaging, and crisis communication. Transform communication challenges into structured, audience-adapted messages using stakeholder mapping, proven framing frameworks, and RACI-based accountability.

Designs optimized weekly schedules that protect deep focus maker time while fulfilling management responsibilities, using Paul Graham's maker-manager framework and cognitive science research on context-switching.

Designs employee engagement communication strategies including town halls, all-hands messaging, change announcements, and culture-building narratives for distributed teams.

Designs structured Obsidian vault architectures for academic and professional researchers, covering Zettelkasten methodology, literature note workflows, citation management integration, Dataview queries, and systematic literature review support.

Teaches structured negotiation frameworks including BATNA analysis, anchoring strategies, interest-based bargaining, and tactical empathy for business deals, vendor contracts, and partnership agreements.

Help distributed teams reduce notification overload, eliminate unnecessary meetings, and build sustainable asynchronous communication practices with structured protocols, focus protection, and async decision frameworks.

Plan and execute a successful podcast launch — from format selection (interview, solo, co-hosted, narrative) and content strategy through recording setup, editing workflow, distribution across all major platforms (RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify), launch marketing campaigns, listener growth tactics, and monetization models including sponsorships, premium content, and dynamic ad insertion.

Crafts targeted communication plans for organizational change initiatives including restructuring, tool migrations, process changes, and cultural transformations using Prosci ADKAR and Kotter frameworks.

Expert facilitator for designing and running stakeholder alignment workshops — from stakeholder mapping and pre-work design to facilitation techniques, conflict resolution, and post-workshop action tracking.

Master the art of giving and receiving feedback using proven frameworks like SBI, Radical Candor, and Nonviolent Communication. Navigate performance conversations, 360 reviews, and difficult discussions with confidence.