Engagement
Retainer coaching
Term
Three to twelve months
Cadence
Bi-weekly or weekly sessions, async support between
Individual Coaching

Behavioral diagnostics for the leadership work no one in your network is trained to do.

PCC-credentialed executive coaching for senior leaders, founders, and the partnerships that hold companies together. Monthly retainer.

Who

Common contexts.

  • An executive in the first six to twelve months of a new role, where the leadership challenges are larger than the playbook from the prior role.
  • A co-founder partnership where decision-making has stopped working, but neither party will name what changed.
  • A peer or direct report you trust whom you keep ending up in conflict with despite both parties' good intentions.
  • A leadership team you inherited that respects you but is keeping their distance, and you don't know why.
  • A board member or investor whose feedback keeps landing badly with you, and you can't figure out why.
What

What we work on.

Coaching at this level applies behavioral and operational rigor to the relational dynamics in your leadership work. Not therapy. Not coaching theory. Concrete diagnostics and behavioral protocols.

The work that earns its place in a senior leader's week looks like:

Partnership dynamics

Where you and a peer are misaligned, what it is costing, what to do about it.

The translation work

Moving between board pressure and team reality without losing trust on either side.

Behavioral patterns

The ones you've outgrown but haven't yet replaced, and what would replace them.

Pattern recognition

Drawn from dozens of similar leaders at similar inflection points.

Sessions are confidential by contract. No notes shared with HR, no summaries to your board, no insights leaked to a sponsor.

How

How it works.

Engagements start with a 30 to 60 minute chemistry conversation, typically 60. There is no fee, and the goal is mutual fit, not a sales call. If both sides see a fit, a scoped retainer follows.

Standard engagement structure:

  • Bi-weekly or weekly sessions (60 to 90 minutes), depending on the work.
  • Direct asynchronous access between sessions for time-sensitive judgment calls.
  • Minimum three-month commitment; most engagements run six to twelve months.

Pricing is shared after the chemistry conversation, scoped to the engagement.

Track Record

Credibility.

Twelve years coaching executives, founders, and senior leaders. Over 30 individual executive coaching engagements to date. PCC-credentialed through ICF and Georgetown. Former clients include CEOs, founders, and senior leaders across tech, finance, and professional services.

The Sāntis methodology is built on the same behavioral and operational rigor that produced a 60 percent promotion rate across five 18-month sponsorship cohorts at Airbnb. Airbnb's CEO and executive leadership twice sponsored Simone for the company's Critical Talent Award.

Start

Every engagement starts with a chemistry conversation. The intake form takes three minutes; we respond within two business days.