The First Skill Cofounders Need For More Productive Conflict Management
Why cofounder coaching focuses on adding skills to improve difficult conversations.
The difference between the highest performing founding teams and everyone else is not an absence of conflict — it’s that the top-performing teams have learned to navigate conflicts more effectively.
This statement is not speculation — it’s based on five-plus years of experience I have coaching hundreds of founding teams to master their communication, teamwork, and decision-making.
I have worked with bootstrapped social media influencers, advertising agencies, and supported founders backed by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and many others in the tech space. This experience has provided me with a unique perspective on cofounder coaching — an emerging field of coaching aiming to improve cofounder conflict navigation — and helped me develop core competencies cofounders need to enhance teamwork and build resilience.
The problem
Many successful founders operate at a high level for months and years at a time. Like you, their ambition and work ethic fuels them to think quickly, speak quickly, and make fast decisions.