I'm Nick, a founder-turned-coach. I help mission-driven leaders navigate inner and outer transformation.
I combine executive coaching, technology leadership, and AI strategy to guide organizations through change while connecting leaders to their deeper wisdom.
Drawing from my experience as a founder and product executive in the social sector, I help people create meaningful impact while uncovering more freedom, clarity, and balance.
1:1 Leadership Coaching
This time in human history is characterized by volatility, complexity, and constant demands on our attention. In such a noisy climate, it can be difficult to listen for our calling, to hear our own wisdom.
This is why I coach: to help more people pursue a full life – one suffused with energy and meaning, and unburdened by limiting beliefs and what-ifs.
As a coach, my job is pretty simple. I help you uncover what it is you really want and who it is you are becoming. Then I help you recognize what's getting in the way. And then I help you get whatever's in the way out of the way. This process repeats in an upward spiral toward clarity, freedom, and balance.
What you will get from working with me is an enduring capacity to connect with your inner wisdom – the calling inside you, the guide that knows the way.
Clients who work with me say that I bring emotional depth, a capacity for holding complexity, and an open presence that creates safety and room to maneuver. I love working with startup founders, senior leaders looking for their zone of genius, retirees, spiritual teachers, and people in transition.
Filip Stollár
Co-founder at Deepnote
Nick has played a key role in my personal and career development over the last year. He is excellent at understanding both founder/startup challenges and personal challenges, and he is able to connect the dots between these two worlds. Thanks to Nick, I have discovered some deep realizations about myself that have helped me push the boundaries of what I am capable of doing and craft a sustainable lifestyle that I have always dreamed of.
Annetta Seecharran
Executive Director of Chhaya
Nick has the uncanny ability to create a safe, solid ground for digging and exploration of what's possible whilst gently pushing you to peak over the edge and see beyond the confines of your current circumstances. In my coaching sessions with him, I could feel his belief in me, which is critical when you are seeking change. My work with Nick has been truly transformational for me as a leader and a mom!
How it works
All coaching relationships start the same way: with an informal chat where we can get to know each other better and discover if there's a fit.
From there, here's a sketch of how the work unfolds:
- We kick things off with a 90-minute Discovery session. where we talk about what you would like to get out of coaching, and what you need to make it a powerful experience. We make agreements about our relationship so that you leave feeling excited about the journey ahead.
- We do 60-minute coaching sessions at least 2x per month. Our conversations center around whatever is most relevant for you. Sometimes you might come with an agenda, other times you might come with nothing more than a feeling. Together, we’ll dig into understanding what’s important, how it relates to your goals, and how to take action. I wrap up a session with takeaways, next steps, and accountability.
- Some of our coaching sessions will be structured. Sometimes, we’ll come across topics that I have expertise guiding. These might include visualization exercises, parts work, Enneagram, strategic planning, or visioning. When this happens, I’ll offer a more structured approach.
- I’m available between sessions if you need more support. I want to be as helpful as I can be to you. You can text me or email any time. You can ask for my eyes on an important email or document. I love exchanging voice notes.
This goal here is to offer a steadfast yet flexible level of support to accommodate life’s rhythms, while making consistent progress towards your goals.
What's calling you?
I offer a variety of plans for founders & leaders at different stages of development. If you’re curious to learn more, reach out to me at [email protected], or book an intro call:
For Organizations
I partner with startup executives to operationalize product excellence, provide fractional leadership, and unlock the full potential of product teams.
The social sector faces a critical moment: AI tools are transforming how organizations achieve their mission, but few teams have the in-house expertise to navigate this transition effectively.
The purpose of my consulting work is to help organizations in the social sector build their internal capacity to effectively use AI to scale their impact. As your technology thought partner, I help you clarify your vision with impactful deliverables:
- 0-1 generation of AI-enabled vision
- Strategic roadmapping and vision alignment
- Research and development
- Product requirements and design
- Implementation partner vetting
- Safety, ethics, and risk mitigation
- Coaching and capacity building
Matt Conlen
Our World in Data
I cannot recommend Nick highly enough as a product thinker. He helped our team gain clarity and direction for our product like a true pro. Nick's mentorship and facilitation skills were vital in guiding our strategic planning and earned high praise from every member of our leadership team.
You can trust Nick to provide invaluable insights and direction for your team's product development efforts.
Laura Lewis
Schmidt Futures, Rise
Nick has the full range of skills – he was able to take us from blue sky thinking about what might be possible, to then real-time translating that into tangible mock-ups that we could respond to and refine, he then oversaw the building of the resulting technology which was game-changing, novel and functional...
On top of all of that, the design sprint was fun and interactive. Generating ideas, voting on them, discussing – I enjoyed the process as well as the results.
Shaping our work together
While every engagement is unique, I have a process for efficiently defining even the most ambiguous projects. Here's what you can expect, from our first intro call to the conclusion of our work together.
Selected Writing & Recordings
The best way to keep up-to-date with my writing is over on Substack, where I write regularly about the Enneagram and other topics.
Some recent highlights:
Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI
Most therapeutic modalities don’t come with a user manual — Internal Family Systems (IFS) is different. This makes it a promising candidate for AI-powered practice, and I document my own findings.
27 Personalities In Search of Being
My translation and commentary of Claudio Naranjo’s 27 Personajes en Busca de Ser. Produced with the assistance of ChatGPT, this is the first time Naranjo's seminal work on the 27 subtypes of the Enneagram has been presented in English.
Building complex reasoning skills online through open-ended activities
At Khan Academy, we worked closely with teachers to prototype a new kind of learning platform that delivered rapid feedback on open-ended learning activities.
About me
Prior to starting my coaching practice in 2023, I had a 15-year career as a founder and product leader at venture-backed and non-profit startups. My last company helped unlock $100 million in funding for young people tackling the world's wicked problems. Prior, I led classroom initiatives at Khan Academy. I have advised and mentored startups within the Union Square Ventures, Betaworks, and Techstars ecosystems.
I received my coaching certification from Upbuild in 2024. As a coach, I make use of the methodologies that have served me well in my own development – those include the Enneagram, Internal Family Systems, and a nondual meditation practice rooted in the Tibetan tradition. I sit on the board of Unfettered Mind, a non-profit that provides instruction, training programs, and guidance in Buddhist methods for being awake and present in your life.
I live in Brooklyn, NY with my wife and daughter – my latest hobby is dreaming up big ideas for our small backyard.
Curious? Let's connect
If you have more questions, or would like to explore working together, I would love to hear from you. You can book an intro call with me, or reach me at [email protected].
