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Helping founders and tech leaders lead with clarity, focus, and trust.

Building a company is supposed to be exciting — but too often, it turns into firefighting, fatigue, and confusion. Startup Patterns helps leaders think clearly again, recover their energy, and rebuild alignment across their teams.

Every engagement starts small and practical. We work on the root problems — not just the symptoms.

Regain clarity in a single session.

RESET is a 6-week leadership stabilization program designed to help overloaded founders and tech leaders regain clarity, control, and presence. It stops reactive work patterns, reduces overwhelm, and installs a simple, durable operating rhythm.

Who It’s For


Leaders who are:

  • Drowning in competing priorities

  • Struggling with attention, focus, or structure

  • Feeling behind every week

  • Leading teams who need more clarity and direction

  • Losing calm, confidence, or consistency under pressure
    This is not for toxic environments (that’s DETOX). RESET is for overload, not dysfunction.

What’s Included

1. Clarity Session (90 minutes)

A structured deep dive into:

  • Current workload and attention drains

  • Team dynamics

  • Communication gaps

  • Decision-making bottlenecks

  • Stress points and sources of overwhelm

  • What’s working and what isn’t

Outcome: a clear map of what’s pulling you off course and what needs to change immediately.

2. Leadership Action Plan

A focused, 5–7-item plan built from the Clarity Session.
Covers:

  • Your weekly leadership rhythm

  • How to reclaim time and attention

  • Delegation improvements

  • Key conversations you need to have

  • Areas to stop over-functioning

  • Systems that will stabilize your team

This becomes your operating manual for the next six weeks.

3. Six Weeks of Coaching

Weekly 60-minute sessions focused on installing the plan.
We work on:

  • Leadership rhythm and workload control

  • Communication clarity

  • Delegation habits you can hold

  • Reducing interruptions and chaos

  • Managing up cleanly

  • Team alignment practices

Between sessions, light async support keeps momentum steady.

What You Can Expect by Week Six

  • A calmer, more structured workweek

  • Better boundaries and fewer interruptions

  • Stronger communication with your team and peers

  • Clearer priorities

  • A predictable leadership rhythm

  • Renewed confidence in how you show up

  • More time for strategic work

Most clients stay in RESET because it restores their capacity to lead.

Pricing

$3,000 for six weeks.
Everything included — Clarity Session, Action Plan, and weekly coaching.
($2,500 available for early-stage or financially constrained clients.)

Next Steps

If you'd like to explore whether RESET is the right fit, schedule a call.

RESET — 30-Day Leadership Focus

DETOX — 12-Week Leadership Renewal

Recover your energy and rebuild healthy boundaries.

What you’re dealing with:

You’re in a situation that isn’t just busy — it’s unhealthy.


A difficult boss, political tension, constant conflict, or a system that erodes your confidence.

You’ve tried working harder, being more patient, staying quiet, or pushing through.
It hasn’t helped. It’s wearing you down.

DETOX is built to stop that damage and help you recover your clarity and authority.

What changes after DETOX

By the end of twelve weeks, you will:

  • Feel calmer and more grounded

  • Understand the real dynamics shaping your stress

  • Respond with clarity instead of reactivity

  • Hold boundaries without escalating conflict

  • Communicate in a way that protects you and your team

  • Regain confidence, presence, and decision-making strength

  • Know whether to stay and stabilize — or prepare a clean exit

You get your power and self-respect back.

How DETOX works

1. Clarity Session (90 minutes)

We map the system you’re in. Not the polite version — the real version. You’ll see what’s toxic, what’s political, what’s emotional, and what’s actually influencing your behavior. This gives us the terrain you’re operating in.

2. Stabilization Phase (Weeks 1–4)

We reduce reactivity and get your nervous system out of survival mode. You’ll stop spiraling, stop over-functioning, and stop absorbing the system’s chaos. You regain the ability to think clearly and protect yourself.

3. Survival Action Plan

Delivered around week four. A practical, tailored plan for:

  • Boundaries that won’t blow up

  • Managing up in a difficult environment

  • Scripts for hard conversations

  • Navigating politics safely

  • A weekly rhythm that keeps you steady

  • Protecting your team

  • Preparing for internal changes or a possible exit

This becomes your operating manual for the next eight weeks.

4. Strategic Stabilization + Rebuilding (Weeks 5–12)

We install the plan. You learn how to communicate without fear, rebuild presence, and navigate pressure without losing yourself. You’ll understand the political landscape, make stronger decisions, and regain confidence that lasts.

What clients say

Leaders who complete DETOX report:

  • Dramatic reduction in stress

  • Healthier relationships with bosses and peers

  • Clear boundaries they can actually hold

  • Stronger communication under pressure

  • Renewed confidence and emotional stability

  • A clear plan for the next 90 days, whether they stay or transition out

This work has helped leaders land better roles, recover from toxic situations, and rebuild their sense of agency.

Pricing

DETOX is $6,000 for twelve weeks. For early-stage or financially constrained leaders, I offer a $5,000 option.

Next step

If you’re in a tough environment and want to talk through what’s happening, schedule an introductory call. We’ll look at your situation and see if this is the right level of support.

ALIGNMENT — 16-Week Team Engagement

Rebuild trust and decision clarity across your leadership team.

What you’re dealing with

Your leadership team is talented, but not aligned.

  • Different priorities. Different interpretations of strategy.

  • Too much friction between functions.

  • Decisions that stall or ping-pong.

  • Communication that feels unclear or indirect.

You know the company can move faster — if the leaders can actually operate as a unit.

ALIGNMENT is the program that gets everyone on the same page and keeps them there.

What changes after ALIGNMENT?

By the end of twelve weeks, you will have:

  • A leadership team operating from a shared strategy

  • Clear roles, decision rights, and expectations

  • A communication rhythm that reduces conflict

  • Faster, cleaner execution across functions

  • A real pattern for making and sticking to decisions

  • Leaders who understand how to support each other instead of competing for oxygen

Your company becomes more predictable, more focused, and easier to run.

How ALIGNMENT works (three steps)

1. Leadership Clarity Session (90–120 minutes)

We map the actual sources of misalignment:

  • Conflicting priorities

  • Fuzzy goals or unclear strategy

  • Cross-functional tension

  • Communication gaps

  • Decision-making breakdowns

  • Where leadership behavior is sending mixed signals

You leave with a shared, honest view of what’s off track.

2. Leadership Action Plan

I turn the clarity work into a simple, practical plan:

  • Strategic focus

  • Roles and decision rights

  • Decision-making rules

  • Communication cadence

  • How leaders raise disagreements

  • How cross-functional work flows

  • Behavior shifts needed at the executive level

This plan becomes the operating system for the team.

3. Alignment Coaching (12 weeks)

We install the plan through weekly or bi-weekly sessions focused on:

  • Reinforcing strategic clarity

  • Strengthening communication

  • Reducing friction between product, engineering, sales, and operations

  • Improving how decisions are made and followed

  • Coaching each leader on the behavior changes the team needs

  • Creating a steady rhythm that keeps everyone aligned

Midpoint and closing sessions ensure the whole team is rowing together.

What clients report

Leaders who complete ALIGNMENT see:

  • Less friction and faster cycles

  • Clear ownership and accountability

  • Better cross-functional collaboration

  • Fewer “surprises” from peers

  • A team that sounds and acts unified

  • Stronger execution all the way to the front line

  • Companies move faster because leadership is no longer fighting itself.

Pricing

ALIGNMENT is $10,000 for twelve weeks. (For pre-revenue teams, $8,500 is available.)

Next step

If you want your leadership team working from the same playbook, schedule an introductory call. We’ll walk through what’s happening and see if ALIGNMENT is the right fit.

Fractional Leadership (Referral Only)

Occasionally I work hands-on with founders or CTOs in a fractional leadership capacity: helping stabilize systems, hire, or guide organizational change. These engagements are referral-only and start at $7,500/month.