Kristin Darga, executive coach, seated on a blue sofa in a hotel lobby

Executive coaching for founders and CEOs

The biggest threat to your strategy may not be the market. It may be how your leadership team operates.

In most companies I walk into, the strategy is fine. The problem is how the leadership team works together. I measure how your team actually operates, then help your leaders change it.

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Executive coaching + Cultural analysis + Crisis leadership + M&A integration + Executive coaching + Cultural analysis + Crisis leadership + M&A integration +

500+

Founders and executives coached

Companies founded

2013

Coaching executives since

The price of getting it wrong

Coaching is a line item. Getting the transition wrong can cost you the deal, the team, or your seat.

Where I come in.

Coaching for founders, CEOs, and C suite leaders when the stakes are highest and the margin for error is smallest.

After the deal.

The deal didn't make your company bigger. It made a new one. Most leaders keep running it like the old one.

92%

of executives say their past mergers would have substantially benefited from understanding the culture first. (McKinsey & Company, 2010)

The Cultural Readiness Assessment →

Before the system goes live.

Your leaders say they're aligned on the rollout. Five honest conversations usually say otherwise.

55 to 75%

of ERP projects fail to meet their objectives. (Gartner)

The Cultural Readiness Assessment →

Before AI changes how your team works.

The tools are ready. Your people may not be, and no one is saying so out loud.

70%

About 70% of the challenges in implementing AI come from people and process. Only 10% come from the algorithms. (Boston Consulting Group, 2024)

The Cultural Readiness Assessment →

When it breaks.

A key leader leaves, the board loses patience, or the team stops following. You need someone who has seen it before.

The Cultural Readiness Assessment →

Sample readoutIllustrative

Readiness call

Proceed, with conditions

Ranked risks

Leaders disagree on what the goal requires

High

Decisions stall above the project team

High

Concerns raised in the field never reach the top

Medium

Cultural Readiness Assessment

Know how your team works before you ask it to change.

A team culture baseline, interviews with your executives, and a written readout with a ranked risk register and a readiness call. Built for ERP rollouts, post merger integration, and new leadership teams.

See how it works

In their words

Your coaching transformed our company at a time we needed it most.

Your support to navigate our team accountability, track goal setting and the more difficult ‘unseen’ parts of business that got lost for us as a start up and then a fast growing company was integral to where we are today.

Susan Maclachlan DimsonCo Founder, Doctor D's Sparkling Probiotic Beverages

Needs your input. Jason Gorley (Founder & CEO, CiferNoise): his full quote, built around the line about practical strategies to handle the pressures of entrepreneurship. It sits beside Susan's once it arrives. Hidden on the live site until filled in.

The founder

I've been in rooms like yours.

I'm Kristin Darga. I've founded six companies and coached more than 500 executives since 2013. I'll tell you the truth.

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Find your edge.

The first step isn't reading about it. It's a conversation.

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