Suzanne Taylor-King
Founder Development · A Private Engagement
A year of 1:1 founder development for established founders whose next level requires a different operator, not a different plan.
Start With a Conversation →The Pattern
You have read the books. You have the strategy. Revenue is real.
And still: the pricing you have not raised. The team conversation you keep rescheduling. The offer that has been ninety percent done for six months. The calendar that fills with everything except the work only you can do.
The Shift
Founder energy is where your attention, decision capacity, emotional bandwidth, and personal power actually go. It behaves like margin. It can be gained, spent, leaked, or invested, and most founders have never once measured it.
Most founders past the early stage do not have a strategy leak. They have an energy leak: decisions deferred, boundaries unheld, work done because it feels safe rather than because it is correct.
Gained
Work that increases vitality.
Spent
Worthwhile effort that costs capacity.
Leaked
Avoidable loss: indecision, unheld boundaries, wrong clients, unfinished decisions.
Invested
Effort today that creates future capacity: systems, team, health, IP.
The goal is not to conserve your energy. It is to stop wasting it so you can spend it on bigger problems.
The Engagement
The work runs on a six phase cycle. We run the full cycle four times over the year, each pass at higher stakes, because every new level of business exposes a new constraint.
01
A full diagnostic pass at your current scale. The leaks close first, and this quarter produces the most visible wins.
02
The cycle runs against the biggest choice on your table. You stop tolerating it and choose.
03
The organizing question becomes what the next version of your business requires you to hold without contracting.
04
You run the operating system yourself. The scaffolding comes down, and the diagnostics become habits you own.
How We Work
Each quarter closes with my written analysis of your own data: leaks closed, capacity gained, and my read on your next constraint. For the largest decisions of the year, you get a one page memo running the decision through the full diagnostic before you commit.
The Philosophy
Founder development sits at an intersection no single discipline covers. Business strategy without the human behind it produces plans that never ship. Personal development without the business produces insight that never earns. This work holds both, deliberately, drawing on four sources.
i
Everything here stays anchored to your numbers: pricing, offers, pipeline, team, margin. Energy work that cannot be traced to a business outcome is not part of this engagement. The measure of a closed leak is a decision made, a price raised, an offer shipped.
ii
The patterns that run founders, over-control, caretaking, difficulty receiving, saying yes and resenting it, are behavior, not character. Behavior can be seen, named, and changed. Confidence here is built the way psychology says it actually forms: through evidence collected from your own record, not affirmations repeated at a mirror.
iii
The oldest operating manual for people carrying weight. What can I change, what must I accept, what do I need to leave: the Choice Audit at the center of this work is Stoicism translated into founder behavior. The goal is not eliminating fear or doubt. It is making sure difficult emotions no longer get an executive vote.
iv
Recovered energy needs somewhere to go, and technology is how it compounds. Your entire engagement lives in a working system you keep, and along the way we build the AI and automation leverage that lets the business grow without consuming more of you. Capacity you free is capacity you reinvest.
Fit
This is for you if
This is not for you if
Investment
Engagements begin at $50,000.
Every engagement is designed from what we find, not from a package menu. And every engagement starts with the same first step.
The Strategy Session · Ninety Minutes · $1,000
We run a working session on where your energy is actually going, and I give you my read on the two or three leaks costing you the most. You leave with that read whether or not we go further.
$1,000, credited in full toward the engagement if we work together.
Questions
Because the engagement is designed from your strategy session findings, not assembled from packages. Engagements begin at $50,000 for the year. Anything above that reflects work we specifically agree to add.
That is fine. The session is a complete piece of work on its own, and the read is yours either way.
The work between sessions is planned uniquely for you, built from what your diagnostics surface. The one fixed commitment is the intake: plan on 3 to 4 hours for the full Energy Leak Audit before we begin. This engagement does not work as something you attend.
A thinking partnership. You get direct analysis, named patterns, and written recommendations, and you make the decisions. The business gets better because you do.
I work with three to five 1:1 founders at a time. If those seats are full when we speak, we will talk timing on the call.
The Close
Every quarter this stays unaddressed: the price not raised, the hire not made, the offer not shipped. You already know yours.
The founders who do this work do not become fearless. They stop letting fear vote.