Accelerating Alignment Workshop
Training early-stage cofounders to
turn conflicts into catalysts for innovation
In my work with 3,000+ leaders
I’ve seen a handful of challenges over and over that block their path to success
Delegation
They get stuck in “doing” because they are uncomfortable handing off tasks to others
Feedback
They can’t drive high performance because they hold back critical feedback or deliver it ineffectively
Communication
Their communications have diminished impact because they are not tailored to needs
Alignment
They have trouble getting their or other teams on the same page or maintaining momentum
Confidence
Learning new skills in a visible leader role creates self-doubt and impostor syndrome
Influence
They want to have greater say in decisions across the org that affect them and their team
Clarity
Volatility and ambiguity makes decisiveness difficult while the need to defend their reasoning increases
Impact
They’re unclear how to best allocate time and resources among many competing priorities
Overwhelm
High demands on their time leave them little space for strategic thinking or healthy habits
And here’s my radical idea
There is a single mindset shift that effectively addresses all of these leadership challenges…
The Coach Mindset
It’s a simple set of shifts
❔ Asking rather than telling
🤔 Wondering rather than assuming
💪🏼 Trusting rather than saving
💡 Understanding rather than fixing
🧘 Pausing rather than pushing
🤝 Relating rather than transacting
But like so many simple things, that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
These ways of operating are trained in us by business as usual and outdated modes of leadership. Often, they’re also things we learned as children in our families and at school. So even when our conscious mind knows they’re the best way to operate, our habitual tendencies take over, especially in stressful situations. It’s a muscle like any other, and therefore can only be built up by practice. That’s what I’m offering.
Accelerating Alignment Workshop
Training early-stage cofounders to turn conflicts into catalysts for innovation
Dates: November 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, or 16*
Time: 4 hours*
Location: Online (Zoom)
Price: $950 per founder pair
*Specific date and time depending on participant availability
📝 If you’re interested, please fill out this 2-minute survey
Or schedule a quick call with Miki to talk more
Key tools and frameworks you’ll learn in this workshop
🫙 Creating a conversation container
📈 Locating yourself on The Line
👑 Finding superpowers in Kryptonite
🗣️ Sharing the needs beneath strategies
🥐 Following emotional breadcrumbs
🌊 Noticing and recovering from flooding
⚖️ Integrating The Gottman Ratio at work
🗒️ Designing a weekly debrief structure
What this workshop is
A skills-based workshop where cofounder teams practice skills in real-time
A highly facilitated experience with clear boundaries and expectations
Space to reflect on deeper patterns driving your conflict
An opportunity to learn from and connect with other founders
What this workshop is not
Opening a Pandora’s box of feelings that distracts from important work
Yet another experience of an exhausting fight that goes nowhere
A complaining session without clear next steps
Couples therapy for founders who are in true crisis
Meet your Facilitators
We have extensive expertise training and coaching cofounders and are excited to be collaborating to provide a thoughtful, engaging workshop experience around this important skillset.
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The first company I founded with another person was a startup with my now-husband — at the time we’d been dating for all of three months. We also had a third cofounder and were conscious of not wanting him to regret agreeing to work with a couple. So we developed something we called “Fast Fights,” getting to the heart of a disagreement as fast as possible so we wouldn’t bring any weird relationship energy into the office. Some days we would literally stand on the sidewalk outside our coworking space, insisting we find a resolution before we went inside.
Although we closed that company after a year (and got engaged), this tool for reaching alignment quickly, along with others like conversation containers and weekly debriefs, became foundational elements of the culture we built at our second company, where we grew to a team of 20 over 8 years and worked with 100+ venture-backed startups. I’m now a coach who hears about the challenges facing founders and leaders daily, I’m excited to share the most successful of these practices (plus more from Mo), to help supercharge the impact of today’s visionary founders.
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Hi, folks call me "Mo." I'm a leadership coach and interpersonal dynamics facilitator. I often work with tech founders and leaders, including founding teams, on increasing interpersonal attunement and strengthening interpersonal relationships and communication.
I hold two engineering degrees from Stanford and have worked for both large tech companies and start ups, such as Google and Palantir. Before becoming a coach, I was a curriculum designer at Stanford’s d.school where I learned to craft intentional and effective learning experiences around creative risk-taking and teamwork. I’m also currently a facilitator for Stanford GSB’s Interpersonal Dynamics course where I hold space for business school students to explore their interpersonal influence. Finally, I’m a Meisner-trained actor. The combination of these experiences allow me to create an effective learning container for various types of people, cross-pollinating ideas from different practices and schools of thought.