Go from code to strategy, basements to boardrooms, and tech guru to visionary leader with heart. Let me guide you to who you need to become as you lay the foundation and lead forward. It's time.
You may be over complicating things trying to add weight through too much context. This could be as a result of feeling a bit of impostor syndrome, which is very common. Let's first see if that's the case along with the various communication styles of people and, quite simply, walking a mile in their shoes.
Sounds like you need to go from code to strategy. Let me show you ways to build systems that can scale your time with SOPs, playbooks with quality checks that can help you delegate. That's how you make the time to focus on what CTOs need to invest in right now!
Need help bridging the gap between the vision and execution? Having a big vision is one thing, but connecting your team's day-to-day with the roadmap to company goals is a challenge. Did you know the best way to for your team to get on board is if they already are becuase they helped craft it? Oh the wonders we'll unfold together.
Here are tactics and mechanics I wish I had when I started out as a first-time CTO.
You are at the beginning of your journey, at a cross roads of many roads, I'm coming back to get you to help light the way to where you need to go. My approach is coaching your through mindset, mechanics and momentum to help you own your role, and make the time to focus on what the CTO needs to be focusing on. If you don't lay down the railway for your company's train, who's doing it and where are you heading?
Mindset: Health-Check đź“Š TM From unravelling impostor syndrome, unlocking C-level communication to unleashing your tech vision, knowing where you are is step number one! After all, you need to become the next level version of yourself, knowing who you are today will guide you to where you need to go!
Mechanics: Quantum Time Generator đź•“TM Go from busy to productive. We'll do a calendar audit and transform your calendar and go through tactics and mechanics to help delegate and free your time to focus on the vision. Vision casting, team leading, driving innovation and laying down the tracks for sustainable future company growth, and much more!
Momentum: CTO 90-day checklist 🚀TM As we work on your mindset of genuine ownership and the mechanics to help deal with the everyday, momentum comes from building in a repeatable framework that gets you to your goal. We'll design a calendar of success using my 90-day checklist to create an event with a work back plan and meet weekly for accountability to reach your goal!
As a guest speaker
For leadership groups, accelerators and podcasts, book me to provide your audience with stories from the trenches, guidance for mindset, mechanics and momentum to inspire and propel forward.
CTO are robots, you make them human…
My approach, and reason for my sidecar branding, focuses on relationship. That's the most human thing we have. As a deep technical thinker, it's defacto to isolate. You can go faster alone, but to go farther, you need to go together, bringing others into your world and being in theirs. That breaks way from the hardskills and into heartskills. To a strongly technical person can be very foreign. That's why I want to spend time with these leaders who are literally building our future.
Adri Van Rooyen
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Sylvie Desjardins
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Mark Smyth
CEO of AMP'T
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Consulting and Software Provider
First time CTOs and Tech Founders and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and Non-Tech Founders that need Tech Leadership guidance ro fractional CTO help while they find a technical co-founder or CTO/VP Eng/Head of Tech.
In 2 words? Getting unstuck. In one word? Direction.
Going in where they are and helping them through the muck and out of the weeds. Could be in their mind, or in their daily grind. It could be communicating with their CEO/C-level peers or their team. Until I have a strategy session with them, it's impractical to predict.
Wholistically, I provide them with a map of what's to come, a mindset of who to become, mechanics of what to do and the momentum on how to move forward.
Practically, once I know where they are and where they need to go next, I help them come up with a strategy based on my own experience and insights and those I've gathered in my coaching years.
Mostly first-time tech founders and CTOs located in Canada and the US. Startups like Stay22.com, B-Temia.com, Funnelytics.io among others. Also, first time non-tech founders and their teams like HappyBean.ca, and even solopreneurs of industry small businesses like AIM-BI.com.
It varies from client to client. Without getting into private conversations and contract specifics, here are some highlights:
1) Providing a roadmap for the work ahead in phases, and who to hire to do the work to help them pull back to focus on strategy and sales. This allowed one particular client to hire a lead dev, lead them into the work needed, and gain the time to pre-sell new clients for the new module being developed. None of which was possible when they were stuck coding the solution themselves. They were stuck in the weeds.
2) Helping them prepare for pitching to investors, applying for funding and providing guidance for co-founder agreements and responsibilities. This allowed a particular client to take over certain responsibilities they had delegated that caused confusion roles and the vision was splintered. Now the CEO does the pitching and the CTO is roadmapping the product with a clear market to validate instead of debating who does what and who the market target is.
3) Helping them prepare a go-to-market and working through difficult objectives from the CEO as the market had changed. They were able to ask clarifying questions on what was required and accelerate prototyping to get to market on time by removing features. That provided confidence to the CTO's engineering team who stopped debating and started building.
It starts with a conversation in which I can learn more about where you are, where you need to go and who you need to become.
You'll gain a plan of action to forge ahead with confidence. It's a no brainer.
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