Tandem Coaching · For Founders & Senior Leaders

3 degrees off — and you can’t see it from the helm.

You’re busy but not moving. You know you should be further ahead than you are. In 6 months you’ll know exactly where you’re going, who you need to become to get there, and the weekly rhythm that makes it happen — without burning out.

25 minutes. Free. 100% opt-in. Dale rebuilt his service offering and hired 2 people in 4 months →

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Sound familiar?

If any of this sounds like you, keep scrolling.

“I’ve got a lot of irons in the fire.”
“I don’t always make space for strategic thinking.”
“I know I should be further ahead than I am.”
“I need to work ON the business, not just IN it.”

Yeah. So that’s the territory most of the founders and leaders I work with are sitting in. Successful by every external measure. Quietly tired. Aware that something’s off but unsure where the drift started.

So here’s what I keep finding: it’s almost never a strategy problem. The strategy is fine. The strategy is even good. The drift is upstream — in who’s running the strategy.

See how I work
Most coaching works on your strategy. This works on you — the leader behind the strategy.

Change the leader, change the results.

The Wayfinder Method

9 steps. 3 phases.

The framework I walk every client through — and the one I had to learn the hard way myself.

Phase 1

CHART

Prepare the voyage.

Ground who you are. Mine what you’ve already lived through. Define what you actually want — not what you should want.

Phase 2

CAST OFF

Set the course.

Map the gap between who you are and who you need to become. Lock the targets that pull you forward. Cut what doesn’t.

Phase 3

NAVIGATE

Sail and adjust.

Sprint. Communicate. Correct course. The path is the next step, walked again, with your eyes open.

What changes

What you walk away with.

After 6 months of Tandem Coaching, most clients have:

  1. A 1-year vision they can describe out loud, in their own words, without thinking about it.
  2. A clear map of who they need to become to reach it.
  3. A Not List — what they’ve committed to stop doing.
  4. 3–5 outcomes that pull them forward instead of more tasks that scatter them.
  5. A weekly execution rhythm that survives the bad weeks.
  6. Their closest people enrolled in where they’re going.
  7. Pattern recognition — they’ll know at least 2–3 ways they get in their own way.

That last one is usually the one nobody promised them. So that’s the work.

In their voyages

Three different starting points.

The story behind the work

I built this out of what I had to learn.

I used to think I wasn’t built for happiness. I’d be in a room full of people and feel completely alone. I told myself it was just who I was.

In 2017, I almost ended it on a one-way road going the wrong way into oncoming traffic. A thought hit me — you can’t leave your son to grow up without a father like you did — and I swerved off.

What followed wasn’t a dramatic fix. It was slow. ADHD diagnosis. Mindfulness. Brian Johnson’s work. The Heroic coach program. Faith. Daily practice. Higher highs and higher lows.

So I built this practice out of what I had to figure out climbing back. The Wayfinder Method is the path I’d give my younger self if I could go back. Now I walk it with the people I work with.

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Work with me

Three ways to start.

Free

$0

The 3 Degrees Off Assessment

10 questions. 4 minutes. You leave with a personalized read on where your drift sits and one move you can make this week.

Group · Founding Waitlist

$250 /month

Open Group Coaching

Drop in / drop out. Group coaching using the Wayfinder Method. Founding members get the lowest price I’ll ever charge.

1:1 · 6 or 12 months

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Tandem Coaching

1:1 coaching for founders and senior leaders who are done drifting. Capacity-limited. Apply by booking a Connect Call.

In their words

Some of what people say after the work.

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Ready when you are

Book a Connect Call.

25 minutes. Free. We get to know each other and see if a deeper conversation makes sense. At no point will you be hard-pitched. Every step is 100% opt-in.

Or take the 3 Degrees Off Assessment first · Read the full story