Advisor to founders & startups
Build the company and the team that can carry it.
I've led and advised companies from early-stage startup through IPO. I help founders get people, leadership and culture right — before they become the bottleneck.
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How I help
People strategy
Org design, hiring plans and the first people hires that set your culture's foundation.
Leadership coaching
One-on-one guidance for founders becoming the CEOs their companies need at each stage.
Scaling sales teams
Lessons from building a 2,200-person sales organization — hiring, ramping and keeping reps.
Hard moments
Layoffs, reorgs, crises and executive transitions, handled with clarity and humanity.
An operator, not a theorist.
Before I became a leader in the People function, I spent 11 years building the sales team at Yelp — taking it from a team of 2 people to over 2,200. I also founded and ran my own apparel company. I know what it means to be a founder and an operator.
I have invested in more than 20 startups and have advised numerous startups including Faire, Sonder and Sword Health. My perspectives on leadership have been published in Fortune and Fast Company.
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I take on a small number of advisory engagements each year.
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