Founders Council

Amplify Founder Potential, Simplify Ops

Elevate your platform's founder support capabilities - it's like implementing a high-powered leadership development system that scales with your portfolio, without overwhelming your ops team.

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Designed for founders, by First Round Capital Platform Team alum

How Founders Benefit

Expand the Toolkit

Access proven tools, frameworks, and resources to always stay sharp.

Master the Art of Influence

Master persuasion, inspiration, and motivation to maintain a competitive edge

Strengthen the Leader Within

Reflect, grow, and develop resilience with a personal advisory board for leadership insight

How It Works

Give your founders a personal board of advisors facilitated by one of our top executive coaches

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Select 6-10 Founders for a Cohort

Bring founders from your portfolio together for interactive group sessions designed to foster clarity, connection, and vulnerability.

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Founders Meet Weekly for Twelve 75-minute Sessions

Sessions are supported by our platform and alternate between research-based topical content and opportunities to apply learnings.

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Get Visibility Into Milestones With Reporting Tools

Receive session-level reports with session engagement, attendance, satisfaction data, and more. The Grand’s quarterly updates also let you track founders' progress over time.

Founders master these core competencies and more

Self-Knowledge
Leadership Confidence
Emotional Intelligence
Delegation
Conflict Resolution
It's so hard for founders to talk about the things they're trying to solve when they don't have previous experience or when they don't have a strong network of founders. We are not in the position to be able to create that for them, so we came to The Grand. The experience with The Grand has been transformative for many of the founders in my portfolio.
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Charles Hudson
Precursor Ventures
My confidence in my ability to lead a team are a direct outcome of the coaching I have received from The Grand. It’s a privilege to have a group of peers share a space to self-reflect, be vulnerable, and grow as leaders. Founders need financial capital, but they also need emotional capital. Being surrounded by peers and phenomenal coaches at The Grand has been an incredible source of emotional capital for me.
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Sari Azout
CEO & Founder at Sublime

FAQ

Can I add fewer than 6 or more than 10 founders?

Based on over 900 sessions, we’ve found 6-10 is the sweet spot for optimal learning in a group setting with one coach. If you’re looking for something more custom, contact us!

How are your coaches vetted?

Our executive coaches are all certified through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and International Coaching Federation (ICF) or equivalent. As seasoned operators, their backgrounds span across organizational development, product and technical leadership, entrepreneurship, mediation and law, and more. Our coaches are experts at what they do and bring years of coaching experience and a wealth of training hours to any challenge your team may face.

How customizable are the learning objectives?

We partner with you to understand your leaders’ development priorities and create an experience that best supports them. We offer different levels of customizability, depending on your needs.

How do founders communicate with their group?

Each cohort has a Slack group that members of the cohort use to keep in touch outside of sessions.

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