How We Help Founders + CEOs
Performance Matters
A founder’s or CEO’s effectiveness directly shapes company outcomes—strategic missteps, talent gaps, and poor execution often stem from leadership blind spots. Research from Harvard Business School shows that CEO quality accounts for up to 30% of the variance in firm performance (Bloom & Van Reenen, 2007). More recently, a 2023 Harvard Kennedy School study analyzing over 1,100 CEOs found that firms led by “leader-style” CEOs—those who engage across functions and stakeholders—achieved a 7% increase in sales per standard deviation shift in behavior, while mismatched leadership styles reduced productivity by as much as 13%. In high-stakes environments like private equity or venture-backed companies, even small misalignments in leadership can cascade into costly failures.