You don't need another coach.
You need someone who's been in the seat.
Kaizen Catalyst Partners matches CEOs of $25M to $500M companies with a former operator whose real history fits what you're facing. Not theory. Scar tissue.
Nobody here is coaching from memory.
Rafe has built and sold multiple companies, then kept going: he's an active investor today, and he still sits on boards. His network is the same kind of person, former CEOs of public and private companies, several still on boards, several active investors right now, and together they've coached well over 150 CEOs. You start with Rafe. You may end up with someone else, deliberately.
“Rafe was a great coach.”
A former client, rating the engagement 9 out of 10 on exit. One real data point, not an average, he'll tell you exactly where it fell short too.One coach has one set of scars.
Matched, not assigned
Every relationship starts with Rafe. If someone in his network is a sharper fit for what you're facing, a founder who's actually run what you're running, that's who you work with instead. Not a roster. A judgment call, made by someone who's sat in the seat himself.
A real bottleneck question, every time
Every conversation opens with the same question: what's the actual constraint right now, the one thing that, if removed, lets the business move. Not a status update.
Board-level pressure, peer-level respect
You're not managed. You're challenged the way a fellow operator challenges another operator, directly, with the standing to say the hard thing.
- You're past the founder-does-everything stage, and the gap between what got you here and what the next stage requires is starting to show.
- You're building or rebuilding a leadership team, and you're not fully sure which decisions should still be yours.
- You have a real board, real investors, or a real succession question, and you want someone in your corner who's sat on the other side of that table.
- You're not looking for therapy. You're looking for someone who will tell you the thing your own team won't.
Direct, recurring, accountable.
First, a real fit conversation
Bring the real constraint. We find the intervention that actually moves it. You leave with your next move, whether or not you ever book a second call.
Then, a standing cadence
Recurring conversations, not one-off sessions. Real commitments get named, dated, and followed up on next time, every time.
Ongoing, held to it
What you said you'd do gets revisited before anything new gets added. Insight without follow-through isn't the product here.
We take on fewer of these than we could. That's what makes the rest of this page true.
Bring us the real bottleneck.
Fifteen minutes, no pitch, no obligation. If it's not a fit, we'll tell you that too.