Founder Leadership Series: Scaling Yourself: Building the Leadership Team That Runs the Company
Founder Leadership Series
Six Months. Six Frameworks. Zero Fluff. Real tools for the hardest parts of leading.
Series Philosophy
Founders face unique leadership challenges that traditional executive development doesn't address. This series tackles the real issues: managing your own psychology while scaling fast, making high-stakes decisions with incomplete data, transitioning from doer to leader, and sustaining energy for the long game.
What makes this different:
Zero fluff, 100% applicable to founder life
Attend any session, any order—no prerequisites
Frameworks you'll use the same week
From someone who's coached 100+ founders through these exact challenges
Scaling Yourself: Building the Leadership Team That Runs the Company
For founders who know they're the bottleneck and need to build their executive layer.
Core Question
How do you build an executive team that can run the company—so you can focus on what only you can do?
Stop being the bottleneck. Build leaders who can lead without you.
Key Promise
Create the leadership infrastructure to scale yourself and your company.
What You'll Learn
Identifying what only you can do vs. what others should own
Hiring for leadership roles: assessing beyond résumé and interview performance
Setting up your executive team for success (structure, cadence, decision rights)
Coaching and developing your leaders (without micromanaging)
When to replace someone on your leadership team (and how to do it well)
Founder-Specific Application
Making your first executive hires (VP/C-level roles)
Transitioning from "team of doers" to "team of leaders"
Building effective exec team rituals (staff meetings, offsites, 1:1s)
Delegating strategic decisions, not just tactical execution
Managing the founder-CEO relationship with your executive team
Immediate Takeaway
Leadership Team Operating System—complete framework for how your exec team works together, makes decisions, and runs the business.
Why This Works Standalone
Combines hiring best practices with team development and organizational design; immediate tools for building your leadership layer.
Sources
Zone of Genius + delegation (docs 21, 43, 61)
Leadership development frameworks (doc 88)
Team trust and psychological safety (docs 8, 34)
Intentional Conversations for hard talks (docs 51, 52)
Drop-In Note: 100% standalone. Perfect for founders making their first exec hires or rebuilding their leadership team.
Your Facilitators
● Meg Wolf, Co-founder, Hazel; executive coach with 15+ years in alignment for scaling startups and Fortune 100s.
● Erik Schreter, Co-founder, Hazel; Founder & CEO, Venwise. Expert in founder peer networks and business intimacy for high-growth leaders.
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