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AI Career Uncertainty: How Tech Leaders Stay Grounded

AI Career Uncertainty: How Tech Leaders Stay Grounded

How to Navigate AI Career Uncertainty When Your Identity Is on the Line AI career uncertainty is hitting tech leaders hardest,  not because they lack skills, but because the identity they built around those skills is suddenly in question. Executive coaching, such as...

Why Your Best Ideas Are Trapped in Your Head [2026 Guide]

Why Your Best Ideas Are Trapped in Your Head [2026 Guide]

Founder coaching reveals a pattern that surprises most entrepreneurs: the smartest people don't struggle because they can't think, they struggle because they can't see their own thinking. After 20 years founding companies and coaching 300+ founders, I've learned that...

🚀 The Evolving Role of the Great CTO: A Startup Founder’s Guide

🚀 The Evolving Role of the Great CTO: A Startup Founder’s Guide

Stepping out of the day-to-day code and into the strategic shoes of a start-up CTO is one of the most challenging, and essential, transitions for a founding executive. This shift, driven by the needs of a scaling company, demands a complete re-evaluation of how time...

Scientific Leadership Coaching: From Lab to Leadership

Scientific Leadership Coaching: From Lab to Leadership

Why Scientists Need Leadership Coaching Transitioning from science to leadership is a leap that many researchers find both exhilarating and overwhelming. The skills that make someone a brilliant scientist, rigor, precision, curiosity, are not always the same ones...

Why passion burns out…and what sustains founders

Why passion burns out…and what sustains founders

Why working with an entrepreneur coach sustains long-term passion   Founders often hit a wall where passion feels like it’s slipping away. An entrepreneur coach sustains long-term energy by aligning purpose with practical steps, turning passion into a renewable...

Fingerlakes and Upstate New York Entrepreneurship Organizations

Fingerlakes and Upstate New York Entrepreneurship Organizations

Upstate New York is home to a thriving startup ecosystem powered by a diverse network of innovation hubs, incubators, accelerators, and entrepreneurship support centers. From Syracuse and Rochester to Buffalo, Albany, Ithaca, and beyond, these organizations provide...

PODCAST: Coaching Founders Through Questions, Not Answers

PODCAST: Coaching Founders Through Questions, Not Answers

Coaching Founders Through Questions, Not Answers I was recently interviewed about my work as a founder coach at Human Interfaces, and the conversation reminded me why I made the shift from building companies to coaching the people behind them. My journey began in...