Your Company’s Next Stage Requires Something New From You

As your company grows, the stakes rise—and more of the company’s success depends on how you lead. You’re making bigger decisions. Carrying more responsibility. Leading more people. And often, doing it without anyone you can speak to openly.

The next stage of growth doesn’t simply require a better business.

It requires a different version of you.

The Work We Do Together

This is executive coaching for founders navigating growth, pressure, and leadership.

Founders often come to me with an operational problem: decisions are bottlenecked, execution is inconsistent, conflict is going unresolved, or too much still depends on them.

Those problems are real. But they are rarely solved by systems and strategy alone. Lasting change often requires a shift in how you lead, communicate, build trust, and make decisions under pressure.

Together, we work across three interconnected dimensions.

Operational. Build the systems, decision-making practices, communication, and operating rhythms that allow the company to grow without everything depending on you.

Leadership. Strengthen your ability to build trust, develop people, navigate conflict, and lead with clarity through uncertainty.

Identity. Examine the beliefs, fears, assumptions, and patterns quietly shaping how you lead and become more deliberate about the leader you are choosing to be.

What Changes

Through altering your leadership and your approach, your situation moves from exhaustion and over-involvement to clarity, trust, and sustainable momentum.

Instead of…

Carrying every important decision yourself
Stepping in again because you don’t trust that it will get done without you
Running into the same leadership and team challenges without finding a way to change them
Constantly questioning whether you’re getting it right
Bringing the pressure of work home every evening

You begin to experience…

Greater clarity under pressure
More ownership and stronger execution throughout your team
Lasting movement in places where you had felt stuck
Better decisions with less second-guessing
More energy and presence for the people and life outside the business

Is This Right For You?

This is for founders who…

Are building something meaningful and feel the weight of getting it right.
Have reached a point where working harder or stepping in more is no longer the answer.
Keep encountering leadership or team challenges they have not been able to resolve on their own.
Want the business to grow without sacrificing their health, relationships, or sense of themselves.
Care as much about who they are becoming as what they are building.
Are willing to examine not only what is happening around them, but how they may be contributing to it.

Through the coaching process, I feel like I've been motivated and empowered to be a better coach and leader for my team.  I would recommend executive coaching to anyone who owns a business because time is so precious.  Coaching helps to shorten the learning curve and ideas and practices can be fleshed out and put into place quicker. 

George Brown, Founder & CEO, Baltimore, MD

I would absolutely recommend Andrew to others because his ability to help me be vulnerable, understand my emotions, my view point and then have me see from a different perspective while making me feel like a champion to see that I do have the ability and desire to overcome my obstacles and succeed in the manner in which I want.  He makes me feel comfortable, confident and whole with myself.

Joseph Perry, Founder & CEO, Lansdale, PA

I would absolutely recommend executive his coaching to other executives or emerging leaders of their own companies!! Andrew is a critical asset as you navigate people, relationships, and challenging situations. No matter where you are at in your career or how small/big a company is, building connection to/with people is paramount for success, whether it’s selling, managing, or collaborating.

Jennifer Kyle, Co-Founder & CEO, San Diego, CA

Leadership doesn't have
to feel this heavy.

If you’re navigating a season of growth and looking for a trusted thinking partner,
I’d be glad to meet you.

Andrew Poles

FOUNDER + EXECUTIVE Coach

For more than 20 years, Andrew has worked alongside founders, executives, and leaders navigating the complexity of building companies and becoming the people capable of leading them well.

Having coached more than 10,000 people—and spent his own career building companies, leading teams, and turning around struggling business divisions—Andrew brings something uncommon to coaching: deep experience in both the practical realities of running a business and the human dynamics underneath them.

His work moves fluidly between the operational, leadership, and identity layers of growth—from hiring, fundraising, team dynamics, and difficult decisions to trust, relationships, self-awareness, and the patterns that quietly shape how a founder leads.

Because building a successful company is only part of the work. Andrew helps founders become the leaders their companies need without sacrificing themselves or the people and life that matter along the way.