FORTNIGHTLY·BY SOPHIE SWINN
The things CEOs don’t say out loud.
A short letter every other Friday. Written for the first-time CEOs I work with, and the ones who think nobody else is feeling what they’re feeling.
You’re not alone in any of it. Every CEO I work with has carried some version of the same conversation. It comes with the role.
What lands in your inbox.
- The conversations I’m having in coaching sessions that nobody else is publishing about: the internal cost of the role, the 11pm thoughts, the patterns nobody warned you about.
- Specific reframes I’m using with CEOs scaling 100-to-200-person businesses past themselves.
- Honest, occasionally uncomfortable, and never the things you’ve already read on LinkedIn.
“Most CEOs aren’t overloaded because they have too much to do. They’re overloaded because they’re protecting themselves from a feeling they haven’t named yet.”
from issue #11
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Sophie Swinn.
Executive coach. Works only with first-time CEOs of 100-200-person scale-up businesses on the internal game of scaling. Fifteen years in commercial leadership before this, ending at Gartner. Lives in London with a husband, three kids, and an opinion on most things.
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