Managing Director, Founder Advisory

About the Role

Our client is seeking a senior practice leader to partner with founder-led organizations as they scale. This role focuses on executive coaching, leadership advisory, and practice leadership to help founders and senior teams enhance decision-making quality, improve governance, and boost execution coherence in growing companies. This position is not a general Managing Director role for the whole company; it specializes in leading high-value coaching and advisory engagements within a founder advisory practice.

Key Challenges You Will Address

Founder-led businesses often face new complexities during growth phases, including slowed decision-making, uneven accountability, leadership misalignment, and fragmented execution across teams or locations. Your role will be to guide clients through these challenges with clarity, strong governance, and cohesive leadership systems that support sustainable growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead executive coaching and advisory sessions for founders, CEOs, and senior leaders.
• Assist founder-led businesses in managing growth, organizational change, and rising operational complexity.
• Strengthen governance frameworks, clarify decision-making authority, and improve leadership team alignment.
• Coach leaders to enhance judgment, effectiveness, and consistency in critical decisions.
• Design advisory initiatives that foster coherent execution across leadership, business units, and distributed teams.
• Contribute to refining coaching and advisory methodologies, especially regarding scale, governance, decision quality, and leadership performance.
• Collaborate internally to maintain engagement quality and build the firm’s executive coaching and founder advisory capabilities.
• When appropriate, integrate AI-driven leadership systems, decision-support tools, or operating practices into client solutions in practical, commercially viable ways.

Desired Background and Skills

• Extensive experience in executive coaching, leadership advisory, organizational consulting, business transformation, or senior operational roles with coaching expertise.
• Credibility working with founders, CEOs, and executive teams in dynamic, founder-led environments.
• Understanding of scaling organizations where leadership maturity, governance, and operational rhythms evolve simultaneously.
• Proven ability to deliver improved organizational outcomes such as defined decision rights, accountability, consistent execution, and coordination across dispersed teams.
• Strong commercial acumen and capability to structure high-value advisory engagements.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• A practical, methodical approach to aligning strategy with execution.

Valuable Experience

• Work within founder-led, entrepreneurial, or high-growth companies.
• Exposure to leadership across distributed or multi-market environments.
• Expertise in governance design, operating models, and executive decision frameworks.
• Background in organizational consulting or transformation advisory.
• Experience leveraging AI-informed leadership systems and decision-support mechanisms responsibly.

Success Indicators

• Founders and leadership teams making faster, clearer, and better-aligned decisions.
• Governance practices becoming practical and effective.
• Enhanced accountability within leadership structures.
• Improved execution coherence across teams, markets, or units.
• Growth in quality, credibility, and impact of coaching and founder advisory practices.

Opportunity Highlights

This high-trust role offers the chance to create meaningful impact by working closely with founders and senior leaders at pivotal growth stages. The position enables direct influence over client outcomes while contributing to the development of a unique advisory and coaching practice that integrates leadership challenges involving governance, execution, and coaching.

Equal Opportunity

The client is committed to inclusive hiring and encourages applications from diverse backgrounds. Employment decisions will be based on skills, experience, and role requirements.