HOW WE WORK

Two ways to engage. One standard

Raw Nerve works with founder CEOs and leadership teams who have been performing, yet know the distance between where they are and where they need to be is growing faster than they can close on their own.

We offer advisory engagements with CEOs which can be extended to work with the executive leadership team, and fractional embedded support for periods where a full time executive is either out of reach or you need to extend capabilities for a particular phase.

Flexibility is important and we will tailor an engagement to your needs, reach out to discuss options.

01 / ADVISORY

Executive Advisor Engagement

Dedicated coaching for the CEO and senior leaders.

We partner with you to provide an experienced perspective on the areas that need attention and how to make the change you need.
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We also help identify blind spots. Business health assessments, and leadership capability mapping are a great place to start so you can ensure you have everything you need to achieve your ambitions.
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There are common patterns we've seen that we can quickly address too. E.g. The most common root cause of leadership underperformance is unclear expectations between CEOs and their teams, and between leaders and the business they're being asked to build.
Raw Nerve makes expectations explicit and builds the capability to close any gaps.

Founder development

Exec hiring

Leadership capabilities

Business health

Org design

Managing burnout

Investment strategy

Decision making

Crucial conversations

Situational leadership

Aligned expectations

Leadership effectiveness

FOUNDATION

3 sessions

90 mins

Establish trust, surface what's really happening, create meaningful insight. Address what's top of mind and begin to shift it.

COMMITTED

3 months

12 hrs/month

Go deep on specific challenges. Build the working relationship and create durable change.
The most effective starting point for exec and leadership development.

SUSTAINED

12 months

Sustained coaching across the arc of a growth year.
Deep enough to move with the business as it changes. Quarterly checkpoints to reassess scope and direction.

02 / EMBEDDED

Fractional Engagement

For businesses that need experienced executive leadership without the full-time commitment. The value is immediate. The outcome, a better-positioned business, is permanent.

Contact us for a confidential discussion.

Pattern recognition

Seeing failure before it happens.
Navigated multiple company-threatening events in the COO seat and in the CEO seat.

Full-function breadth

Led every critical function - sales, marketing, partnerships, CX, product, engineering, finance, people, ops. Accountable for the outcome, not advising from the outside.

Leadership accountability

Makes critical, hard conversations unavoidable. Expectations explicit. Performance managed and elevated senior leaders through the process.

Operating clarity

Established rhythms and reporting that make business health legible, and ensure leaders act on what it tells them.

Commercial direction

Held accountability for commercial strategy and product roadmaps across product-led and service-led SaaS.

Board effectiveness

Operated within founder, investor, and external boards. Prepared information that drove productive decisions, not deferred ones.

Operating COO

Operating CEO

Temporary cover

Special projects

Scale-up execution

ENGAGEMENT

What the first steps look like

One discussion. No cost. No obligation. Every conversation delivers value.

60-minute discovery call

No pitch. No agenda. An honest conversation about where you are and whether Raw Nerve is the right fit.
You leave with a clearer picture regardless.

If there's a fit

We outline what an engagement looks like and what it costs.
You decide if you want our help. No pressure, no obligation on your end.

You make change

And lead a company with sharper leadership, better execution, and a team built for the next stage.
That compounds.

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