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GLENN GOW IS

THE CEO SUCCESS COACH

“I unlock your potential to achieve any goal, using insights from my 25 years as a CEO and 5 years in venture capital.”

CEO COACHING

Are You Dealing with These Challenges?

Every CEO can improve their business in some way. Every business has a bottleneck to growth. It’s time to address the next bottleneck. I have lived through every challenge a CEO can face from raising money to dealing with your board of directors.

Can You Resonate with Any of the Issues Below? If So, You Can Benefit from a CEO Coach:

  • Are you trying to raise money?
  • Do you wish you could scale faster?
  • Are you overwhelmed with the massive responsibilities of a CEO?
  • Do you have someone on your team that’s difficult to manage? 
  • Are you still refining your product-market fit? 
  • Do you report to a board of directors? 
  • Do you ever have to deal with a crisis?

CEO COACHING SERVICES

TESTIMONIALS

Take Their Word For It

I’ve been working with Glenn Gow for about two years now, and I can say without a doubt that Glenn has made a massive impact to who I am today as a CEO. Everything that a CEO could possibly want comes from Glenn.

AJ Bruno

CEO of QuotaPath

I’m learning a lot from Glenn. He’s helped me determine what’s really important so I can make better, more timely decisions to steer my company to where I want it to go.

ROB LEWIS

CEO of Radical Imaging LLC

What Glenn’s Clients are Saying…

Glenn is definitely world-class.

Albert Navarro

CEO, MetricLock

Glenn deeply cares about our success.

Srinivas Akella

Former CEO, Wootcloud

Glenn’s coaching has made a huge difference in how quickly and confidently we’ve been able to grow.

Rick Jones

CEO, Workreels

Every coaching session we had with Glenn was extremely valuable.

Jeff Strnad

CEO, Door USA

His advice helped me raise $3 million.

Darren Marble

Co-CEO, Crush Capital

I have become a better CEO through Glenn’s guidance and counsel.

Liam Nguyen

CEO, Pixel Canvas

I feel I have superpower eyesight with you in my corner.

Michael Kashida

CEO, Treedom

I credit a lot of my success in navigating challenging times to Glenn.

Allan Njoroge

CEO, Actriv Healthcare

It has been very valuable working with you!

Cynthia Tusan

CEO, Idea Lab

Glenn proved his value in every coaching session.

Olin Hyde

former CEO, LeadCrunch

Glenn’s strategic thinking skills and business experience have helped us progress very rapidly. His role on the board has been indispensable.

Aaron Schoenberger

CEO, Soteria Intelligence

As a CEO, I built a board to provide me with guidance and governance on strategy, risk and growth. Glenn was a thoughtful contributor to the board discussions and I appreciated his counsel.

Ian Foley

CEO, acuteIQ

Thank goodness for Glenn — he’s so worth it!

J. Yoon

Director, Public Company Board

Glenn provided me with new insights that have helped me and the company tremendously.

Simon Law

CEO, LoginID

The value per minute you provide is astronomical.

Sameer Ahuja

President, GameChanger

Glenn is an exceptional executive coach. His impact on my professional development has been nothing short of transformative.  

AJ Bruno

CEO, QuotaPath

SUCCESS STORIES

Janice Raises Over $100M for Her Company

Janice Raises Over $100M for Her Company

ALL SUCCESS STORIES

As one of the founders, Janice had created the perfect solution in an exploding market. As her CEO Coach, we worked very hard to create a scalable business model that significantly accelerated revenue growth. This model included geographic expansion, the addition of new product offerings, and stickiness to create repeat business.

This triple revenue-acceleration model not only worked but it attracted the interest of growth investors.

But a growth model wasn't enough. We needed to help Janice become a better CEO. Specifically, we worked on how to manage her board, so their faith in her as the CEO grew as time went on.

For some CEOs, the board can be intimidating. At first, it was for Janice as well. We worked on how to manage the board and get the most out of the board. Ultimately, we turned the board into a strong set of advisors and advocates for Janice as the CEO.

The support and confidence of the existing board was a critical factor in enabling her to raise well over $100M in the next round, increasing the valuation by more than $600M.

Darren Raises His First $3 Million

Darren Raises His First $3 Million

ALL SUCCESS STORIES

My CEO client (Darren) was starting a company in a new category. He was focused on raising capital for his business and wanted help crafting his story. Darren is a brilliant CEO, yet he realized he could produce a better story with help from someone who has created successful fundraising stories many times.

When we started working together, his story was overly complex, difficult for investors to understand, and not as strong as it could have been. Together we built a story about the tremendous value the company was creating. We used historical precedent to bolster the vision and mission. We gave investors confidence in the founders. We proved that the company could scale.

Investors are pattern-matchers. They look for the patterns that tell them this opportunity is like other opportunities they’ve seen, giving them a strong belief in the potential ROI. Together, Darren and I constructed a winning story that helped key investors see the patterns of success.

According to Darren, “Glenn gave me the perspective and confidence I needed to succeed.” Darren raised $3 million for his startup company in his first round. Darren has continued to successfully raise money in later rounds as well.

Meilin Creates A Scaling Organization

Meilin Creates A Scaling Organization

ALL SUCCESS STORIES

Meilin was always asking, "How can I help my company grow faster?" She was successful by most measures but had higher growth ambitions.

As her CEO Coach, I helped focus her efforts and energies on an often-overlooked area for many CEOs. This area enables scaling and enables the CEO to manage their team more effectively -- values.

Most CEOs have corporate values but don't use them as the ultimate way to install a belief system - a way for every employee to focus on the most critical issues for the company.

Meilin and I worked on making the values core to the thinking and speaking of the management team. Once the management team adopted these values and started speaking about them in their regular communications, we knew that we were on our way to ensuring that every employee “lived” the values.

While values are not the only thing a company needs to grow fast, they are critical to its success. Meilin's company is now growing over 100%.

Sean Gets It All Done

Sean Gets It All Done

ALL SUCCESS STORIES

As CEO, Sean had no work-life balance, and he was struggling with the overwhelming responsibilities of being a CEO. One of the biggest challenges of any CEO is to get everything done. The list of critical items seems to grow every day.

As his CEO coach (and as a former CEO), I recognized the stress he was under. That level of stress is no fun. To help Sean become a better CEO, I focused him on delegation, talent development, and balance.

First, we focused on developing Sean's delegation skills. Delegation is the "8th wonder of the world." When you make it work, your workload diminishes, and the company performs at a higher level. As Sean became better at delegating, he also began to see strengths and weaknesses in his leadership team from a different perspective.

The next step was to refresh his leadership team. We created a plan to either develop the ones that could step it up and perform better or find new leadership team members for those that couldn't help the company grow.

Finally, we worked on creating a way of living for Sean that provided him some balance. I tell my CEOs to "put their oxygen mask on first." If a CEO wants to perform at the highest level, they need to take care of themselves first.

Now that Sean has a much better leadership team, he has become a master delegator. By delegating many of the activities he had taken on before, he now has much more time to take care of himself.

Sean's company has now entered a new growth phase. More importantly, he is enjoying his work a lot more and his life a lot more.

Viraj Fires His “Best” Employee

Viraj Fires His “Best” Employee

ALL SUCCESS STORIES

As a CEO, Viraj was focused on employee retention. He recognized the value of keeping high-performing employees and the high cost of turnover.

One of Viraj's direct reports was one of his "best" employees. This person consistently out-performed against their targets. Within their function, they were a rock star.

However, this same person was toxic to the rest of the organization. They constantly argued with others, and they made most others feel bad about themselves. Viraj found he was spending a great deal of time managing around the toxicity created by this employee.

Viraj valued this person's contributions within their function, and he also really hated the idea of employee turnover. As a result, Viraj put up with this person and continued to work around the toxicity issue.

As Viraj's CEO Coach, I helped him understand that team alignment and team cohesion are critical factors to help the company grow. We agreed that preventing employee turnover is a good goal, but not at the expense of creating a well-functioning team.

Viraj wanted to become a better CEO, and he knew what he had to do. While it was difficult, he decided to fire the person he once thought was his "best" employee.

The first thing he heard from the rest of his direct reports was, "What took you so long?"

Olivia Finds Product-Market Fit

Olivia Finds Product-Market Fit

ALL SUCCESS STORIES

Olivia, my CEO client, is a product genius. She is highly creative, an excellent problem-solver, and knows how to get products out the door on time.

Olivia raised a great deal of money based on her product ideas and some early successes. The challenge was that her company wasn't growing fast enough. The pressure from the investors was building, and she was worried.

Raising a lot of money early is a blessing and a curse. The curse is that Olivia delivered her product too quickly. She delivered it, making too many assumptions about the market she was serving. When the product was released, it was a good fit but not a great fit.

Olivia was concerned about the time and dollars it would take to conduct research and test product-market fit in multiple market segments. We created a partnering strategy that enabled us to test multiple new market segments in a short time.

Olivia has found multiple market segments that are a fit for the product. Now that she has achieved product-market fit, the strategy is to "go big" on the go-to-market. And her company is taking off.

Wilson Turns the Board Around

Wilson Turns the Board Around

ALL SUCCESS STORIES

Wilson was a first-time CEO. The company was doing well, but not quite as well as the board had hoped. Wilson found himself uncomfortable as a minority shareholder working with a board that could fire him if he didn't perform.

Wilson wanted to know how to manage a Board of Directors. The first step was to acknowledge that a board has different measures of success than the CEO. That means there will naturally be tension. The second step was to dig in to deeply understand what the key drivers are for each board member.

Based on this information, Wilson can now address his needs, the company's needs, and the board's needs. That was the first breakthrough.

Once he knew how to address the needs of the board, we turned to address his needs. As Wilson's CEO Coach, I helped him realize that the board is an incredible asset to leverage.

Wilson began to build relationships with the board members individually to understand better how they could be of service to him and the company.

When Wilson works with the board, he is fully aware of their needs and addresses them appropriately. More importantly, he now tells the board what he is doing and relies on their insight and experience for feedback on how to help the company perform at a higher level.

Wilson is no longer concerned about the board and now gets more out of them than ever before.

Darius Solved His Crisis

Darius Solved His Crisis

ALL SUCCESS STORIES

I got the call at 10 PM on a Thursday. Darius, a CEO client, reached out to me just as I was about to end the day. "Glenn, my Chief Revenue Officer, just resigned, and I'm not sure what to do."

Darius was running a rapidly-growing business that was highly dependent on a well-run sales organization. He had delegated sales responsibility to his Chief Revenue Officer so Darius could focus on engineering and product.

The good news is that Darius didn't relinquish oversight or reporting of sales, just sales execution. It's also true that Darius wasn't in a panic, and we had worked on a plan for the departure of each of his direct reports.

At the moment, though, Darius and I needed to review that plan to ensure it was our best option. We checked whether or not the interim head of sales could genuinely step into the role. We discussed which accounts Darius should immediately nurture relationships with. We agreed that the recruiter we would need was still the right recruiter.

We quickly put together a communication plan on how to bring this news to the leadership team and the rest of the company. We worked on the exact next steps to interact with the interim head of sales, the director of sales operations, and HR.

Darius felt he didn't know what to do, but in actuality, he did. We had prepared for this, and he just needed to talk it through in the heat of the moment so he could execute against the plan immediately.

WHY HIRE A CEO COACH?

The Benefits of
CEO Coaching

A Great Chief Executive Officer Coach Will:

  • Help you achieve what you never thought possible
  • Enable you to perform at your highest level
  • Significantly improve your odds of success
  • Someone you can talk to about your deepest fears
  • Help you work through your biggest challenges
  • Help you enjoy the journey

They will also help you recognize the challenges in your organization for what they are as well as help you understand how the CEO (and only the CEO) can address them. This will help you create clarity and alignment within your team, removing friction slowing down your progress, and make your job easier.

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QUESTIONS TO ASK

How to Choose the Right CEO Coach

The best CEO coach for you is someone who has been a CEO before — someone who can almost predict what is going to happen should you continue down your current path.

Because I only coach Chief Executive Officers, I learn a great deal from each of them about what it takes to become an even better CEO. I love sharing (confidentially) all the best practices I hear about to help take you to the next level.

Find a Coach Who Can Help You Become Better in All Aspects of Your Life. A Great Coach Will:

  • Help you achieve your ambitious goals
  • Point out your blind spots
  • Push you to be better
  • Help you focus on what is most important
  • Hold you accountable
  • Give you advice when you need it most
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HI, I’M GLENN

Who is CEO Coach Glenn Gow?

  • Harvard MBA
  • Started his work life as a software developer
  • Successful chief executive officer for 25 years
  • Worked with Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more
  • Venture Capital – Coached CEOs of start-up companies
  • The “AI Guy” for Boards of Directors
  • Living a happy, balanced life
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