Individual, ongoing support for someone already running a company and with no one to test the decisions that actually matter against.
Regular one-to-one sessions with the founder or the chief executive. It is not training and it is not therapy: it is having someone in front of you who has made those decisions before and is not paid to agree with you.
A founder ends up surrounded by people who depend on them. The management team has incentives, the shareholders have interests and the family is afraid. None of the three is a good sounding board for deciding whether to close a business line, let go of a trusted executive or turn down a funding round.
Mentoring fills that gap: someone with no agenda inside the company, who knows the operation in enough detail to have an informed view and does not depend on the decision you make.
Whatever is on the table that month. In practice four subjects keep coming back: decisions about structure and shareholders, what to do about the people in the management team, what to stop spending time on, and how to stop being the bottleneck in your own company.
It also covers what nobody else will tell you: when the company has outgrown your capacity to run it, and what has to change before it shows up in the margin.
It is not motivational coaching. There are no exercises, no group dynamics, no life goals. There are no recommendations on where to invest your assets: that falls to registered advisers and is not what I do.
And it is not an emergency service. If your company needs an intervention on the operation, that is consulting and it is contracted separately.
A fixed rhythm, with no closed blocks of hours and no credits that expire.
One-to-one sessions, remote or in person depending on the case, in Spanish or English. Mentoring is contracted in closed periods, with an agreed number of sessions, on the reference rate. The first fit conversation is not billed.
Same reference rate. Mentoring is contracted in closed periods, with an agreed number of sessions set in advance.
The initial fit conversation is not billed.