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Coach.me discovered that a checkmark needs company
The habit app began with points and became a marketplace for human encouragement. Its wager: a small daily action gets easier when someone notices.
ExecOnline puts business school to work
A prestigious lecture is a pleasant afternoon. ExecOnline wants the assignment that follows to solve a problem on your desk - and give your employer a reason to pay for the next one.
Sohyoung Ward Took the Safe Road Until It Stopped Feeling True
Physics, Wall Street and bankruptcy law supplied the respectable answers. Founding True Level Leaders began with a more difficult question: what if the life that looks safest is the one asking to be left?
The Speechwriters Who Gave the Company to Their Colleagues
West Wing Writers built a business by putting powerful words in other people’s mouths. Then it made a more revealing statement: the founders handed ownership to the people doing the work.
Eight Clients Walked Out the Door With Him
Laurel Strategies started with no staff, no infrastructure and eight CEOs willing to follow its founder. A decade later, that origin still explains the product: judgment, access and attention when the script has stopped working.
Oak Lane and the Four-Letter Test for Strategy
Most strategy firms sell answers. Oak Lane sells the harder thing: a way for leaders, staff, funders, and communities to arrive at the same answer - then do something with it.
Mission Minded Sells the Sentence Before It Sells the Logo
For nonprofits and schools, the expensive problem is rarely an ugly logo. It is the fuzzy sentence underneath it. Mission Minded built a business finding that sentence - then making donors, families, boards, and staff act on it.
Mary MacIsaac Moves at the Speed of the Shopping Cart
Inside Loblaw's marketing machine, Mary MacIsaac turns cupboard curiosity, live customer signals and local store voices into brands built for everyday Canadian life.
Christa Hull Is Building the Marketing Channel You Cannot Buy
After two decades inside purpose-led lifestyle brands, the Vancouver fractional CMO is turning an old operating truth into a modern growth practice: belonging is built person by person.
Scale Yourself
Scale Yourself is a coaching and content platform for venture-backed startup founders, built by Amy Buechler - a licensed psychotherapist who spent nearly five years as Y Combinator's first in-house founder coach. It combines one-on-one coaching, a vetted network of ex-founder coaches, and a free framework library called The User Manual for Founder Psychology to help founders scale their psychology, relationships, and leadership alongside their companies.
Jennifer Rankin Byrne
Jennifer Rankin Byrne is the founder and principal of MERIT Coaching Communications Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she coaches leaders and communicators to sharpen their voice, build executive presence, and lead with authenticity. She brings more than two decades of communications leadership, including years as Vice President of Corporate Communications at PBS and earlier roles at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, AOL, and Turner Broadcasting/CNN. Her practice blends real-world corporate experience with a curiosity-led, customized coaching approach summed up in her tagline: 'Communicate with purpose. Grow with confidence.'
WorkBoard
WorkBoard is a Redwood City-based enterprise SaaS company that builds an AI-native strategy execution and OKR platform. It helps large organizations set objectives and key results, align teams around them, automate business reviews, and track progress in real time so strategy turns into a repeatable 'operating rhythm.' Co-founded in 2014 by CEO Deidre Paknad and Daryoush Paknad, the company serves major enterprises including Boeing, 3M, Cisco, Capital One and Workday, and in 2025 acquired rival Quantive to consolidate the enterprise OKR market.
EdConnective
EdConnective is a Richmond, Virginia edtech company that delivers virtual-first, one-to-one instructional coaching for teachers, coaches, and school leaders. Founded by Will Morris, it records classroom instruction, has expert coaches analyze the footage, and returns bite-sized, actionable video feedback within about 48 hours - turning district priorities into everyday classroom practice. The company reports roughly 35-40% gains in student engagement, rigor, and content mastery, and pairs its coaching with interactive workshops and PLC facilitation for educator teams.
Dane Holewinski
Dane Holewinski is a San Francisco-based executive coach and former venture-backed founder who runs Decode Coaching, where he works one-on-one with startup CEOs and founders at companies like Tonal, Zendrive and RealBlocks. Before coaching, he spent more than a decade building and operating technology companies, including co-founding the mobile deep-linking startup Yozio. He now also serves as CEO & Founding Team Coach at Seen Health, a culturally focused senior-care company. His coaching blends Silicon Valley operating experience with formal training from Harvard's Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey, and a practice grounded in meditation, exercise and breathwork.
AceUp
AceUp is a Boston-based leadership development company that pairs human coaches with AI-powered people analytics to make executive and team coaching measurable and scalable. Through a network of thousands of ICF-certified coaches and a data platform it calls Ally, AceUp helps enterprises like IBM, L'Oreal and LVMH turn coaching - long treated as a perk for the C-suite - into a quantifiable driver of engagement, alignment and performance.
Jonathan Correia
Jonathan Correia is a co-founder of Torch, a San Francisco-based leadership development and coaching platform that has raised over $85 million in funding and generates $71.8 million in annual revenue. With a mechanical engineering background from Northeastern University and prior experience as an R&D engineer at Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Correia brings a product and engineering lens to Torch's mission of scaling human-centered coaching through behavioral science, AI, and data-driven insights. Torch connects organizations with professional coaches and mentors to develop managers, executives, and high-potential employees at scale.
Ravi Swaminathan
Ravi Swaminathan is the co-founder and CEO of TaskHuman, a real-time 1:1 digital coaching platform that connects employees with live human coaches via video call across 1,000+ topics - from fitness and financial planning to leadership and emotional well-being. A seasoned technology executive with roots in semiconductor and enterprise storage, he built TaskHuman in 2017 after recognizing that no generic article or pre-recorded video could replace the power of an expert human conversation. The company has raised $35M+ in funding, grown ARR 700% between its Series A and B rounds, and now operates across nearly 50 countries with a network of 1,000+ coaches.
Torch
Torch is a San Francisco-based people development platform that combines executive coaching, mentoring, and collaborative learning to help enterprises grow leaders at scale. Founded in 2017 by two psychologists, Cameron Yarbrough and Keegan Walden, Torch pairs human coaches with software, data, and (increasingly) AI to make leadership development measurable for companies like Reddit, Zendesk, Twitch, and FICO.