ROGER YOUNG | FOUNDERS LEADERSHIP
Most Founders do not fail.
They stall.
The instincts that built the company become the ceiling that caps it. Control,
speed, proximity to every decision - those traits create early momentum and then quietly become the problem. Roger works with founders who have hit that stall point and need to become a different kind of leader without losing what made them great.
2 in 5
New CEO’s fail within the first 18 months.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
2-3X
Higher failure risk in founder CEO transitions than other leadership handovers.
HBR 2026
$126K
Of high-growth startup failures trace back to people and team problems, not product.
CB INSIGHTS
The business will not outgrow the person at the top until that person decides to grow first.
Ready to stop feeling stalled?
Roger works with a limited number of founders at a time. The engagement begins with one direct conversation about where the leadership gap is costing you growth.
ROGER YOUNG | CULTURE HEALTH
Culture is not a soft metric. It is the operating system everything else runs on.
Leadership development changes one person at a time. Culture changes one person at a time multiplied across an entire organization. The two are inseparable. When leaders develop conviction, it shows up in how people are treated, how decisions get made, and whether the best people stay.
"If we can't measure it, we don't do it."