“I've worked with a lot of leadership coaches over my last 9 years as a startup founder, and Dave & Christy are without question the best. They'd be an asset to any team that wants to turbocharge their results.
Dave & Christy worked with my co-founder and I on big topics like future org chart planning, division of labor, and supporting our leadership team. They were so effective that we quickly expanded their scope to include the whole leadership team.
Christy helped me and my co-founder dig deep into how we work together and where we could be more effective together. We collaborated on future org chart planning, division of labor, supporting our leadership team, and many other actionable items that we put into practice immediately. As we were putting these ideas / learnings into practice, Christy was a great regular sounding board for questions that came up. She’s the model of a coach who can both work on high level topics but also get into the details with you when needed. I’d work with her again in a heartbeat.
Dave is pretty unique among coaches I’ve worked with. He has the empathy and EQ to rival the best of them, but pairs it with a career’s worth of experience as a senior operator across many high performing companies. Look no further, he and Christy are the real deal.“
- Joe Fraiman, Co-Founder, Lyric
“Dave and Christy have been really great to work with. We were originally referred to them through a close friend and we started working with just a couple of months before COVID. It has been invaluable having their advice and support through some pretty dramatically different and difficult situations. I would recommend them to any founders or executives looking for coaching.“
- Mike Teng, CEO & Founder, Swing Education
“I've worked with Christy and Dave, at NLL, on a variety of topics over the last 9 months, including my co-founder relationship, strategic planning, and growing and evolving our executive team.
In addition, after spending time with Christy, I asked if she would be interested in coaching multiple members of our executive team. Her ability to connect deeply & authentically with people, to ask the tough questions in the best ways, and to invite real growth is exceptional. Both myself, and other leaders, have left our conversations with Christy feeling heard, and therefore are well positioned to make progress.
If you are ready to become a better leader and transform your leadership team - I’d highly recommend working with Christy!“
- Andrew Kitchell, CEO & Founder @ Lyric & Wheelhouse
“Christy Brandt is an executive coach who can help you, your team and your company deliver dramatic results, overcome career obstacles, attain maximum effectiveness, and develop the skills needed to achieve sustainable success. Christy a masterful executive coach and a known authority on leadership. I personally have worked with Christy for the past year. Her coaching was instrumental in enabling me to mature as an executive leader for a cutting edge technology company. Christy helped me excel in that capacity and supported my transition from that startup to a position at a world class technology company. Christy possesses a unique ability to promote career development and leadership capabilities in those she supports. She is a powerful tool and a trusted advisor who routinely helps others to reach their full potential.“
- Jessie Councilman, SVP, Goldman Sachs
“Dave has been instrumental in accelerating my growth and my impact. In fact, I was promoted -- twice -- during our coaching! Dave is a powerful partner to me, always asking questions that help me to come to my own conclusions. He stands shoulder to shoulder with me as I unpack and tackle challenges and inflection points, creating a collaborative space to draw from my own knowledge and supplement it with his experience.
I highly recommend working with Dave and Christy, especially if you are looking to accelerate growth in the following areas: your career, org design and hiring, making your management team more effective, collaborating with other departments (especially between Product and Engineering), enhancing development practices, and developing people underneath you.”
- Sarah King, COO, Molecula
“As my executive coach, Christy has been my superpower. She's gone deep enough with me into all aspects of my job to give her all the context when helping coach me through difficult situations and conversations. This, combined with her veteran leadership experience and extremely high competence in coaching skills and frameworks, have led to us always having valuable, actionable work sessions that moved the needle for myself and my team. To top it off, she's a wonderful human being and I consider myself lucky to have met and worked so closely with her. She's changed what an "executive coach" means to me, and I cannot recommend her highly enough!“
- Kevin Harald, Finance & Talent @ Stride
“Couldn't recommend Dave more highly. Dave is an engineer by background, a leader by experience, and a coach by nature. Dave was able to understand my problems and help me both work through extremely difficult tactical situations and grow my broader understanding of my leadership and growth points. I and my team said my management style improved notably with Dave's help. Some highlights:
- Most crucially, I trust Dave's judgement and character. His suggestions worked and helped me tremendously in improving my management style, making hard conversations productive, and crafting a leadership style that felt authentic and effective
- He has the right mixture of warmth, humor, and zero bullshit. He'll give you hard feedback in a way that is genuine and helpful
- He's got a number of systematic thought frameworks that I found helpful in reordering how I think about the world
- He's just done it before. Dave doesn't talk in b-school generalities, he gets very specific on how things play out. I came away with a much more useful abilities to apply beliefs and concepts I already had
Extremely happy to have worked with Dave and can't wait to work with him again at my next company.”
- Dwight Crow, CEO / Chairman of the Board, Whisper.ai
“I wholeheartedly recommend Christy's coaching to others seeking to get to the next level. She is someone you can and should depend on for demanding leadership development, as she is there to guide you through the hardest parts, and there to celebrate with you on successes.
Christy has provided me with coaching over several months, including a valuable 360 review, consistent follow-through on identified gaps, and more. She has been a tremendous source of actionable advice, insights, and context-relevant support in developing myself further as a leader. It has been easy to verify the value of her coaching not only for myself personally, but based on the compounding results so far, also to the whole leadership of our organization.“
- Mikko Kerseinen, Head of Product Marketing, ICEYE
“I was incredibly fortunate to have Dave as my executive coach for a year at Glossier as I took on the role of CTO. It has been a phenomenal experience working with Dave as he helped me become a better person, manager and leader. Having been an operator himself, he brings a very unique perspective to executive coaching by sharing relevant examples from his own experiences which I found very relatable. He introduced me to models and frameworks that I continue to use in building trust, applying decision styles etc. Ultimately, he inspired me in bringing about transformational change in culture, people and processes.
In addition to having extensive knowledge and experience to do his job, what sets Dave apart is that he comes from a place of wanting to truly help make a difference to people; he sees it as his calling! I have huge respect for Dave and really hope to work with him again in the future. I highly recommend him to executives and leaders looking to transform themselves and their organizations.“ - Pawan Uppuluri, CTO, Glossier