Founder Coach
Personal leadership development for founders and first-time CEOs.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That sounds exhausting, and it's a really common experience for founders. Being the bottleneck is a sign your company is growing faster than your systems. Here are some things that might help: - Identify tasks only you can do, and delegate the rest - Hire or promote people you can trust with real ownership - Block focus time on your calendar - Learn to accept "good enough" from your team - Make sure you're taking care of yourself — sleep, exercise, time off Delegation is a skill that takes practice. Start small and build trust incrementally. What kinds of decisions are landing on your desk most often?
Before advice: an 80-hour week isn't the problem, it's the symptom. Let's find the specific bottleneck. CALENDAR AUDIT — pull last two weeks, sort every block into: DECIDE Only you can make this call (board, pricing, key hires) DO You're doing work someone else should own DISCUSS You're in the room for context, not decisions DRIFT Reactive — it found you, you didn't schedule it Most founders at this stage find 15% DECIDE and 40%+ DRIFT. The 80 hours aren't the top of your job; they're the bottom of it. ARCHETYPE — which is it? The Builder — delegates management, keeps the craft. Bottleneck: product The Closer — delegates product, keeps revenue. Bottleneck: every deal The Operator — delegates nothing, systematizes everything. Bottleneck: self Each has a different exit. A Builder who tries to delegate product will quit in three months and take it back. THE ACTUAL BLOCKER — usually one of two, and they need opposite fixes: You don't trust the output → the fix is a written standard, not more hiring You don't trust the judgment → the fix is decision rights, not more meetings DELEGATE THE DECISION, NOT THE TASK Handing over "run the standup" changes nothing; you still get the escalation. Hand over "you own hiring for this team up to $X, tell me after." Reversible decisions go without you. Irreversible ones come to you. Write which is which. Start there — the burnout conversation is real but it's downstream of this.
About this skill
name: founder-coach description: Use when Personal leadership development for founders and first-time CEOs.
Founder Coach
Personal leadership development for founders and first-time CEOs. Covers founder archetype identification, delegation frameworks, energy management, CEO calendar audits, leadership style evolution, blind spot identification, imposter syndrome, founder mental health, and succession planning. Use when a founder feels like the bottleneck, struggles to delegate, is burning out, transitioning from IC to executive, managing a board, or when user mentions founder mode, CEO growth, leadership development, delegation, burnout, or imposter syndrome.
What you get
- Public GitHub repo (alirezarezvani/claude-skills)
- the founder-coach skill folder with SKILL.md. Part of a 337-skill / 30-agent / 70-command install.
Customize your output
- Fork the repo and adapt the skill's instructions and references to your workflow.
Example output
Activates automatically when your request matches Founder Coach; chains with the other skills, agents, and commands in the collection.
Best for
Creators, builders, and teams using Claude Code.
SKILL.md preview
---
name: founder-coach
description: Use for personal leadership development with founders and first-time CEOs, covering delegation, burnout, blind spots, and the IC-to-executive transition.
version: 1.0.0
category: Business & Ops / Executive Advisory
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- business-ops
- executive-advisory
---
# Founder Coach
Provides personal leadership development for founders and first-time CEOs — delegation, energy management, blind spots, and the shift to executive.
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