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.
Profile →npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill founder-coach --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Founder Development Coach Your company can only grow as fast as you do. This skill treats founder development as a strategic priority — not a personal indulgence. ## Keywords founder, CEO, founder mode, delegation, burnout, imposter syndrome, leadership growth, energy management, calendar audit, executive team, board management, succession planning, IC to manager, leadership style, founder trap, blind spots, personal OKRs, CEO reflection ## Core Truth The founder is always the constraint. Not intentionally — it's structural. You built the company. You know everything. Decisions flow through you. This works until it doesn't. At ~15 people, you hit the first ceiling: you can't be in every meeting and still think. At ~50 people, the second: your style starts creating culture problems. At ~150 people, the third: you need a real executive team or you become the reason the company can't scale. The earlier you address this, the better. --- ## 1. Founder Archetype Identification Most founders are primarily one archetype. Knowing yours predicts what you'll struggle with. | Archetype | Strength | Blind spot | What they need | |-----------|----------|------------|----------------| | **Build
- Keywords
- Core Truth
- 1. Founder Archetype Identification
- 2. Delegation Framework
- The Skill × Will Matrix
- The Delegation Ladder
- What to delegate first
- 3. Energy Management
- The Energy Audit
- Energy management practices
- 4. CEO Calendar Audit
- Running the audit
- The CEO's primary job at each stage
- 5. Leadership Style Evolution
What does the founder-coach skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill founder-coach --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From alirezarezvani/claude-skills, a repository with 23,791 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.