Executive Coaching, Advisory & Facilitation
Clarity. Purpose. Progress.
I work one to one with founders and senior leaders as a candid thinking partner, helping them see further, decide sharper, and lead at their next level.
Executive Coaching, Advisory & Facilitation
I work one to one with founders and senior leaders as a candid thinking partner, helping them see further, decide sharper, and lead at their next level.
Where I help
The strongest leaders are not the ones with all the answers. They are the ones who surround themselves with people who push their thinking and tell them the truth.
Over more than five years working alongside leaders in very different companies, I have seen the same pressures show up again and again. Here is where I tend to be most useful.
The calendar fills wall to wall and the important work keeps getting pushed aside for the urgent. You sense you are reacting more than leading.
Together we carve out real thinking time and protect it, so you can get back ahead of things.
One high stakes call after another, with no one to test your thinking against. Over time that wears down even the most confident leader.
Together we build a clearer way to weigh the big calls, so you can make them and move on without second guessing.
You are putting in the effort, but the group is quietly pulling in different directions and progress keeps stalling just short of where it should be.
Together we get everyone honest, on the same page, and actually moving the same way.
What worked at the last size is starting to strain. The role keeps shifting under your feet and you are figuring out who you need to become next.
Together we grow your leadership to match where the business is heading, not just where it has been.
You can talk strategy with the board and tactics with the team, but there are few places to be fully candid about how the role actually feels.
Together we make a steady, confidential space where you can be straight about all of it.
A reorg, a difficult exit, a tense offsite. Some conversations are too important, or too charged, to walk into without a plan.
Together we prepare for it, or I step in to facilitate, so the room lands where it needs to.
What I offer
Which one fits really comes down to who holds the answer and who is in the room. We can figure that out together on a first call.
Most leaders already know more than they give themselves credit for. What they are missing is the room to hear themselves think. Coaching is that room. We meet regularly, you talk through what is really on your mind, and I ask the questions that help you get to your own clear answer. No agenda of mine, just steady attention on you and the calls in front of you.
A good fit when you mainly need clarity, a bit of accountability, and someone honest to think with.
Sometimes you do not need more questions. You need a grounded perspective from someone who has been there. Before coaching, I spent my career as an executive and operator inside a number of companies big and small, so when you are facing a decision or conversation you cannot afford to mishandle, I will help you think it through clearly. I will tell you what I would do, why I would do it, and where I would be careful.
A good fit when you want experience-based guidance on something specific in front of you.
Some conversations are too important to leave to chance, and too charged to run from inside the team. The offsite that has to land. The strategy day that keeps drifting. The decision where everyone is talking past each other. I step in as a neutral hand, hold the room, and keep things honest and moving, so your people do their best thinking and walk out genuinely aligned rather than just worn out.
A good fit when a discussion feels too important, or a little too charged, to lead from inside the team.
How it works
A free thirty minute call to walk through what is going on and see if we are a good fit. No pressure, no pitch.
Together we pick coaching, advisory, or facilitation, and settle on a rhythm that works for you.
Focused sessions aimed squarely at the decisions and shifts that actually move things for you.
In their words
"Travis has a way of cutting through the noise and getting to the real issue quickly. He challenges my thinking without telling me what to do, and I almost always leave our conversations with greater clarity about what matters and what I need to do next."
One free call is the easiest way to tell if this is right for you. No cost, and no obligation to go further.
The book
A field guide for navigating time, teams, and technology.
Most business books take sixty thousand words to say what fits in a chapter. This one does not. It is built like the field manual I was handed in the Navy: short, practical, and meant to be used in the moment, not read once on a plane and forgotten.
Everything hangs on one idea. Time is the only resource you cannot get back, so the whole book is a framework for spending it on what actually matters. It is organized around an approach I call R.O.D.E.O.
Open it to the chapter you need that week, build your plan, and get back to work. Practical strategies, durable ideas, and no filler.