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Dave's on a mission to support the world’s top venture-backed CEOs, helping them to build emotionally-healthy, high-growth businesses.

Dave's on a mission to support the world’s top venture-backed CEOs, helping them to build emotionally-healthy, high-growth businesses.

 

Great Founders Get Out of Their Own Way

Elevate is a structured coaching program to help scale-up founders drive ownership and performance in their team.

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Great Communication Starts With Clarity

Clarity is a structured coaching program to help scale-up founders clarify and communicate their strategy and vision to all stakeholders.

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Drive Performance With CEO Coaching

Dave supports venture-backed CEOs through the highs and lows of scaling their business.

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Dave Bailey, The Founder Coach

About Dave

Dave Bailey is one of Europe’s top CEO coaches, having worked with over 100 leading scale-up CEOs across the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Australasia and Latin America. 

Previously, Dave co-founded Delivery Hero and two other venture-backed companies. He studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Oxford University, and his writing has been featured in many of the world's top business publications.

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Client Testimonials

Chris Edson CEO Second Nature

Zack Onisko

CEO, Dribbble

Raised from Tiny

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The role of CEO is a complicated one, and can often be a lonely one. Through the roller coaster ride of wins and challenges of running a startup, having the listening ear and wise advice of a seasoned executive coach like Dave helps to clear the fog, squelch the fear, and correct the ship. I'm grateful for the guidance Dave has provided along my journey, often when I've needed it the most. He earns my highest regards and recommendation.

Chris Edson CEO Second Nature

Chris Edson

CEO, Second Nature

Raised $18M from Beringea, Connect Ventures

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Working with someone who is both so knowledgeable on being a CEO and also so empathetic to the strife of building companies is completely game changing for me. My two hours with Dave are the most valuable part of my week. I come out of our sessions invariably energised, with a fresh understanding and clarity on the problems that I brought to the session. I cannot recommend Dave enough.

Ben Stephenson CEO, Impala

Ben Stephenson

CEO, Impala

Raised $32M from Lakestar, Latitude, Stride

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Dave is a truly tremendous coach who really helped me through the numerous ups and downs that come with being a Founder who wants to scale. I highly recommend him for his breadth of knowledge and experience and his ability to dig into even the most unfamiliar problems.

Mikela Druckman CEO, Grey Parrot

Mikela Druckman

CEO, Greyparrot

Raised $16M from SpeedInvest, Force Over Mass

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Being a founder is learning by doing but without reflection there is little to learn. You can learn a lot through reading, listening, etc. but nothing has the impact of reflecting about great questions that are tailored to our everyday challenges. David is exceptionally good at asking pinpointed questions that help you to move forward and grow the company.

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What does it take to lead a scaling tech company in 2021? Scale-up CEOs share practical insights on leadership, management and the founder experience.

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