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Last year, Charlie Gunningham and I began hosting a series of small founder roundtables called Performance@Scale, bringing together founders and senior leaders navigating the pressures of growth. The intention behind Performance@Scale is simple: to create a confidential space where leaders can step out of the day-to-day and think more strategically about leadership, decision-making, and execution. As companies grow, the challenges leaders face begin to shift. What worked in t

Reflections from five years mentoring early-stage founders For the last five years, I’ve supported early-stage founders across a mix of programs and advisory roles and for the past three years I’ve returned to Curtin Ignition as a mentor. I work with founders at different points in their journey, and I stay actively engaged in early-stage work because the habits, structures and leadership foundations formed here shape everything that comes later. No matter the cohort, industr

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of leading a high-performance leadership session for Fund WA and their portfolio of ambitious founders and senior executives. Thank you to Glenn Butcher and Pia Turcinov for bringing together a room of leaders building companies where execution matters as much as vision. Scaling Exposes Leadership Capacity, Not Just Strategy We often talk about strategy, capital, product and markets, but in every scaling business there is a consistent tr