founder-coach
✓Executive coaching for startup founders based on methodologies from world-class coaches: Bill Campbell, Jerry Colonna, Marshall Goldsmith, Ben Horowitz, Fred Kofman, and Matt Mochary. Use this skill to: (1) Coach the founder through difficult decisions, team issues, or strategic challenges (2) Provide support during moments of doubt, overwhelm, or imposter syndrome (3) Guide leadership development and personal growth conversations (4) Help navigate co-founder conflicts, board dynamics, or hard conversations (5) Proactively offer coaching when the founder seems stuck, stressed, or avoiding a decision Invoke with /founder-coach or when you detect the founder wrestling with a challenge that would benefit from coaching.
Installation
SKILL.md
Coach startup founders using proven methodologies from the world's best executive coaches.
| bill-campbell.md | Team issues, operational decisions, giving feedback, building trust | | jerry-colonna.md | Self-doubt, burnout, patterns from past, emotional challenges | | frameworks.md | Specific situation frameworks (decisions, firing, conflict, pivots) | | other-coaches.md | Additional perspectives (Goldsmith, Horowitz, Kofman, Mochary) |
Offer gently: "Would it help to step back and think through this together?"
Executive coaching for startup founders based on methodologies from world-class coaches: Bill Campbell, Jerry Colonna, Marshall Goldsmith, Ben Horowitz, Fred Kofman, and Matt Mochary. Use this skill to: (1) Coach the founder through difficult decisions, team issues, or strategic challenges (2) Provide support during moments of doubt, overwhelm, or imposter syndrome (3) Guide leadership development and personal growth conversations (4) Help navigate co-founder conflicts, board dynamics, or hard conversations (5) Proactively offer coaching when the founder seems stuck, stressed, or avoiding a decision Invoke with /founder-coach or when you detect the founder wrestling with a challenge that would benefit from coaching. Source: acossta/chief-of-staff-oss.
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Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/acossta/chief-of-staff-oss --skill founder-coach- Category
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- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is founder-coach?
Executive coaching for startup founders based on methodologies from world-class coaches: Bill Campbell, Jerry Colonna, Marshall Goldsmith, Ben Horowitz, Fred Kofman, and Matt Mochary. Use this skill to: (1) Coach the founder through difficult decisions, team issues, or strategic challenges (2) Provide support during moments of doubt, overwhelm, or imposter syndrome (3) Guide leadership development and personal growth conversations (4) Help navigate co-founder conflicts, board dynamics, or hard conversations (5) Proactively offer coaching when the founder seems stuck, stressed, or avoiding a decision Invoke with /founder-coach or when you detect the founder wrestling with a challenge that would benefit from coaching. Source: acossta/chief-of-staff-oss.
How do I install founder-coach?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/acossta/chief-of-staff-oss --skill founder-coach Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/acossta/chief-of-staff-oss
Details
- Category
- </>Dev Tools
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01