You have built and led a company
You understand the commercial and personal responsibility of running a business. You can discuss the choices you made, what worked and what you would do differently.
Become a ScaleUp coachYour experience could shape
Your experience could shape
someone else’s next chapter.
You have built a business, led a team and made decisions with real consequences. Bring that experience to founders who are navigating their own growth challenges.
The workHelp a leadership team
Help a leadership team
move forward.
Our clients lead established South African companies. They may be growing quickly, facing a ceiling, or building a business that can carry more responsibility beyond the founder.
As a ScaleUp coach, you work with the founder and the leadership team. You facilitate difficult choices, challenge assumptions and help the team turn its priorities into progress.
The work draws on Scaling Up and your own operating experience. It asks for careful listening, sound judgement and the patience to stay with a team as change takes hold.
Who we are looking forExperience matters.
Experience matters.
How you use it matters too.
You can help others think
You ask useful questions, listen without rushing to your own answer and create room for a leadership team to reach a better decision.
You can challenge with respect
You are comfortable addressing difficult issues without making the conversation about yourself. You can hold a room and build trust over time.
You want to do the work
You are based in South Africa and able to work with leadership teams in person. You are willing to learn the approach and contribute to a team of experienced peers.
A team of peersBring your judgement.
Bring your judgement.
Keep learning.
You join coaches who bring different industries, experiences and perspectives. The shared foundation gives the work consistency; your judgement helps make it relevant to each client.
We will talk openly about how the relationship works, the commitment involved and the commercial arrangement. The first step is understanding what you have built and why coaching interests you.
Start a conversationTell us what you have built.
Tell us what you have built.
And what comes next.
Email us with a little about your experience, the businesses you have led, where you are based and why you want to coach. A LinkedIn profile is useful too.