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For CEOs Running $5M-$1B+ Companies Who Want Them Bigger

Your Next Level Starts With Who's In Your Corner.

The company you built got you here. It won't get you there.

CEO Coaching International at a glance
3,500+
CEOs
94
Countries
160+
Industries
147
Client exits · $29.88B exit value
$86B+
Client revenue
Client Outcomes

What looks like.

Turnaround

Bankrupt to $3 billion.

Client-reported figures for Victra only. Not a firm-wide average.

Rich Balot / Victra

A retail operator rebuilt its store economics and went from cash-tight to the largest independent Verizon retailer in the country.

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Exit

32x EBITDA exit.

Client-reported figures for Under Canvas only. Not a firm-wide average.

Sarah Dusek / Under Canvas

A founder-led hospitality company built a repeatable site model and sold into a category that did not exist a decade earlier.

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Growth

$3B public company.

Client-reported figures for TaskUs only. Not a firm-wide average.

Bryce Maddock & Jaspar Weir / TaskUs

Two founders took an outsourcing shop to a public company by fixing how fast they could hire, train, and hold people accountable.

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David Hauser, Grasshopper
Exit

19 straight quarters over plan

Client-reported figures for Grasshopper only. Not a firm-wide average.

David Hauser / Grasshopper

Rebuilt the team, beat plan for 19 consecutive quarters, and sold to Citrix for over $170M.

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Growth

Revenue doubled to $300M.

Client-reported figures for NewDay USA only. Not a firm-wide average.

Rob Posner / NewDay USA

A veteran-focused mortgage lender set record targets in the middle of a pandemic and hit them with a biweekly accountability rhythm.

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Jan Bednar Shipmonk CEO Coaching International case study
Growth

$355M raised. Revenue doubled.

Client-reported figures for ShipMonk only. Not a firm-wide average.

Jan Bednar / ShipMonk

A fulfillment company on a rocket trajectory raised growth equity at the height of the pandemic without letting operations slip.

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Outcomes achieved by clients while working with CEO Coaching International.

Their coaches are still here. Yours is waiting.

Podcast

The Make BIG Happen Podcast

Weekly conversations with the operators and coaches behind the numbers: how they set targets, how they hit them, and what they got wrong on the way.

275+ episodes, new episodes weekly

What we cover

  • EBITDA growth
  • Exit planning
  • AI for CEOs
  • Sales strategy
  • Leadership
Latest episode

What Six Years Working for Private Equity Taught Jonathan Sherrill About Building a Business Buyers Want

What private equity actually looks for, from someone who spent six years inside it.

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One Coach vs. a Room

The World's Largest Peer Group Still Can't Sit on Your Side of the Table.

Peer Advisory Groups
16
Noncompeting peers in the room
1
Monthly meeting on a shared calendar
1
Facilitator guiding the agenda
1/16
Voices at the table, yours included
CEO Coaching International
1:1
One coach who has built, scaled, and exited a company like yours, on call
$86B+
Combined client revenue, all-time
3x
EBITDA growth vs. the U.S. average, clients engaged two or more years
$29.88B
Combined exit value across 147 client exits facilitated
Combined, all-time client figures. Growth multiples compare clients engaged two or more years against NYU Stern U.S. averages. Outcomes facilitated, never caused. See the methodology and client results.
Meet the Coaches

Coaches who've
sat in your seat.

Every CEO Coaching International coach has been a CEO of a $50M+ company. They've done the scale, the team build, the PE round, the exit. No theory.

Sheldon Harris

Took Cold Stone Creamery to $500M across 1,400 stores in 32 countries; coaches multi-site operators building leadership teams.

Rick Valencia

Founded and led Qualcomm Life as SVP and president; coaches digital health and technology CEOs through commercializing new categories.

Chris Mellon

Former CEO of a $4B wholesale distribution leader; coaches distribution and industrial CEOs through sales transformation and scale.

Cynthia Cleveland

Five-time CEO and President of companies generating over $4B in worldwide sales; coaches consumer and entertainment CEOs through brand growth and licensing.

Lisa Tanzer

Led Life is Good’s $100M+ turnaround to a 14% CAGR; coaches consumer brand CEOs through repositioning and profitable growth.

Greg Coticchia

Six-time CEO who built and exited Sopheon and closed 17+ M&A deals; coaches product-led software CEOs through pricing and acquisitions.

Why CEO Coaching International

The CEOs Who Refuse to Plateau Work With Us.

Peer groups make you feel understood. Consultants make you feel busy. We do neither. We push you into the uncomfortable calls, unpopular hires, and hard trade-offs that unlock the next level, and then we make sure you actually make them.

Operators. Not Theorists.

Every coach has built, scaled, and exited a company. They will tell you what your board won't and what your team can't. No frameworks pulled from a textbook.

The Make BIG Happen System

The operating system that forces you off the treadmill of busy and onto the three moves that actually compound. Battle-tested across 3,500+ CEOs in 94 countries.

$86B+ Created. Not Promised.

Clients have built $86B+ in combined revenue and $29.88B in combined exit value across 147 client exits facilitated. This isn't inspiration. It's what happens when a CEO stops flinching.

By Application. On Purpose.

We don't take every check. We take the CEOs who are done making excuses. A partner personally reviews every application within one business day.

Global Reach. 1:1 Depth.

3,500+ CEOs across 94 countries and 160+ industries. A private coach for the calls that matter. A network for the ones nobody else has answers to.

Clients Stay. Because It Compounds.

Clients renew year after year because the work keeps paying: 22.8%/yr average revenue growth and 37.5%/yr average EBITDA growth for clients of two or more years.

What you actually get

What Working With Us Actually Looks Like.

Two executives working through numbers together across a table

1:1 With an Operator

Two sessions a month with a coach who has run a company at your stage or larger. Virtual, with 1-2 in-person off-sites a year.

A hand marking targets and a roadmap on a glass planning wall

The Make BIG Happen System

The operating framework our coaches ran as CEOs and now run with yours: unreasonable targets, a plan to hit them, and accountability to it in every session.

Two professionals meeting for the first time in a modern office

Matched, Not Assigned

A partner personally recommends 1-2 coaches for your industry and stage. You meet both. Wrong chemistry? We re-match, no questions asked. 3,500+ CEOs have run this cadence.

A signed agreement and pen on a clean desk

Straight Pricing

Engagement pricing depends on scope and cadence. We share exact pricing in the fit conversation, before you commit to anything.

Free CEO assessment

The CEO Score

Twenty questions. Eight minutes. The Business Diagnostic measures the company; the BIG. CEO Score measures you. Get your score, your archetype, and the tools that close your biggest gap.

Free · Instant results · No credit card
8-minute self-assessment, 20 questions
Your 1,000-point BIG. CEO Score
Your archetype and the tools that close your biggest gap
BIG$1M · 2008Today$40MAt our clients' avg · 22.8%/yr$9MAt the U.S. avg · 12.8%/yr
In your corner, every cycle

Recessions. Rate Shocks. Pandemics. Here's How Our Clients Came Through.

A dollar growing at our clients' average rate since 2008 is worth four times one growing at the U.S. average. That is what a coach in your corner compounds into.

1
2008 · Financial crisis

When everyone froze, coaches moved clients to offense.

Cash discipline first, then hire the talent competitors were letting go. The plan got shorter and the cadence got tighter.

2
2020 · Pandemic

Weekly cadence became a war room.

One scoreboard, one set of numbers, decisions in days instead of quarters. Coaches kept the operator out of the weeds.

3
2022 · Rate shock

Held price while cheap capital vanished.

Margin over volume, working capital under a microscope, growth funded from the business instead of the market.

Illustrative compounding of confirmed average growth rates: 22.8%/yr client revenue growth (clients engaged two or more years) vs. 12.77% U.S. average, NYU Stern benchmark. Ratio scale. Not a portfolio track record; outcomes facilitated, never caused.

Among clients engaged two years or longer, average annual revenue growth is 22.8%, versus a 12.77% U.S. average (NYU Stern). Reflects clients who remained engaged 2+ years; not a projection.

The session

Pressure-Test a Decision

30 minutes with a coach who has made it before. No pitch.

Bring one decision you are sitting on. 30 minutes with a coach who has made it before. No pitch.

Name(Required)

A 60-second gut check

What's the thing you keep avoiding?

You already know what it is. Pick it. Answer three questions honestly. See exactly where you're stuck, and the two moves that break it open.

Growing revenue 15%+ / year

Building a self-running team

Preparing for an exit

Scaling to $50M+

PE-backed & under pressure

Find my priorities

Click any challenge to start the 3-question diagnostic

Strategic Partners

A coach helps you decide.
These firms help you execute.

26 vetted specialist firms across M&A, outsourced finance, talent, AI, insurance, and publishing. Your coach makes the introduction.

Diamond Partner
Accounting & Finance

AccountingDepartment.com

Outsourced bookkeeping and accounting since 2004

The books are late, and you are the one closing them.
Partner since 2021 · 5 years
Diamond Partner
Technology & AI

HatchWorks AI

AI strategy, data engineering, and agentic automation

The pilot demoed well. It never shipped.
Partner since 2023 · 3 years
Diamond Partner
Mergers & Acquisitions

Premier M&A Advisors

Buying and selling privately held companies

You want to buy, or you want out, and you only get one shot at the number.
Partner since 2024 · 2 years
Every application read personally by a partner
About half the CEOs we speak with aren't the right fit, and we tell them
No-obligation fit interview. Re-match anytime.
The Ask

A Year From Now, Who Runs Your Company?

The same version of you? Or the one you've been avoiding becoming?

Coaching is by application. A partner reads every one personally, most CEOs hear back within a business day. If you're not ready to be pushed, don't apply.

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