Navigating Your
First Time as a
Early Stage
Founder
You secured additional funding to scale your team.
Congrats! Now what?
Regardless if you’re bootstrapping or taking outside investments, the experience is similar:
You want to optimize your investments when hiring.
You feel pressure to accelerate growth, but want to hire wisely.
You need a sounding board as you implement your vision for company culture.
You’re managing interpersonal conflict on the team and need guidance.
You feel alone and need a confidante to share what you’re experiencing.
You wish you had practical resources and expertise to guide you.
This is where you and I meet.
Your next challenge as a first-time founder
From coaching many first-time founders, I learned that this is the point in the journey where your leadership skills and problem solving skills will be tested.
You’re faced with the challenge of finding and selecting the right people to hire. You’re trying to figure out how to prioritize the hiring needs to maximize your investments. You’re trying to divide and manage your time for the people aspect of your role, but don’t feel like you know what you’re doing. You need someone to talk to. Give you feedback. Advise you. Coach you through all this.
There's a solution available
This is the point where you realize that an outsider’s perspective is beneficial. Someone who has expertise on people & culture, an understanding of what a people operations infrastructure should look like, and how to design an organization that will enable the startups success.
It’s personalized, one-on-one coaching for early stage founders.
Testimonials
Nehoray Ofri
CEO & Co-Founder, Skillsup
First-time Founder
Building a comprehensive people & culture foundation, strategy, and enhancing business opportunities is essential to HURC’s success.
Through collaboration and analysis, Leang's extensive knowledge and exceptional coaching skills helped us make a cultural shift and create a systemic work environment.
Amy Tang
CEO & Founder, Folio
First-time Founder
My biggest challenge was managing the attention and time between leading the company as a CEO and managing employees. The first thing Leang did was understand the challenge I was facing.
She helped me break the problem down into smaller challenges, offered different strategies to work through them, and how to manage my time effectively.
Leang is the best! She has a gentle but effective approach that lets you build your confidence so you can feel like an expert in whatever you need to tackle next.
She helped me structure my thoughts around WHY I needed to hire, which was extremely helpful when it came to writing a job description and evaluating potential candidates. I often approach things in an exclusively analytical way and working with Leang helped me include my "gut feelings" in the process.
Ricardo Espinosa
Chief People Officer, HURC
First-time People & Culture Leader
Common Coaching Topics
for First-Time
Early Stage Founder
Organization design, development, and change.
Interviewing and selecting the right people for your startup.
Recruiting operations infrastructure and why it matters.
People operations infrastructure and why it matters.
How to lead and manage people effectively.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB).
How to lead and manage change effectively.
How to manage team dynamics and interpersonal conflict.
How to be a coach and give effective feedback.
How to align and lead a newly formed team.
Downloadable resource
Free eBook
Designing Your Community
Becoming an entrepreneur and building your own business can feel overwhelming and lonely. Surrounding yourself with the right people will help you gain the emotional support, advice, and resources you need to build your dream business with confidence. Include these 5 people in your community.
