From High Ambition to High Impact
Team <> Market Fit | Turning Grind into Grit
Finding Team <> Market Fit
I help ambitious teams become impact teams. Leaders work with me because I understand their people—their strengths, instincts, and blind spots—often better than they do themselves. My superpower is helping others uncover and harness their own superpowers.
I call this Team ⇔ Market Fit. Just as Product ⇔ Market Fit determines whether your solution resonates, Team ⇔ Market Fit determines whether your people can sustain and scale the journey.
My experience across pre-seed, venture backed startups and Fortune 25 juggernauts has taught me that high-impact teams possess 3 distinct traits: insight, inspiration and instinct. My approach and services are grounded in, and map to these 3 critical characteristics.
I focus on four areas:
Talent Strategy – Defining the deliverables, skills, competencies, and values that make roles succeed—or fail.
Hiring – Building sharp, efficient systems that reveal true fit and bring the right people into the right roles.
Leadership Development – Coaching leaders to inspire more than intimidate, and to create rhythms that align their teams with shared goals.
Team Training – Using tools like Kolbe to uncover instinctive strengths and create a unique team fingerprint for overachievement.
The difference between a high-ambition team and a high-impact team is fit. Without it, you’re stuck in grind. With it, grind turns into grit—and grit creates impact.
The difference isn’t effort — it’s whether the team has the right insight, inspiration and instinct to turn grind into grit.
Transform Grind into Grit
Building a high-impact team within a high-growth organization is hard work. Helping your team execute and deliver consistently is even harder. I’ll help you do both.
Strategic Talent Advisory
Leaders and founding teams need a partner to help them assemble and grow a team. My "teach to fish" hiring system, internal AI sourcing agents and experience with high-impact teams provides you the partner and expertise needed to land and retain top talent.
Team & Leadership Coaching
Every leadership team needs mentoring and coaching. We provide Kolbe and Catipult certified team and 1:1 coaching that maps directly to your top-line objectives and improves execution and team cohesion.
Training
Our repeatable, scalable "Hiring Engine" has been used to build seed and F25 teams. We'll teach you to run and own it. Then we'll do a "health check" with you quarterly as your team evolves.
What’s your superpower?
My superpower is helping you discover your superpower. I’ll partner with you to develop and implement our industry-leading leadership toolset, unlocking your potential as a person and a leader.
Ideal Leader Profile
What differentiates you from other leaders? I work as a Strategic Advisor and Investor. I’ll help you craft your story for investors, customers and candidates.
Kolbe Strengths
What’s your modus operandi when you’re “in the moment?” The Kolbe A Index instincts assessment holds the secret.
Enneagram Coaching
What’s your “why?” Let’s work together to help you understand how your Enneagram affects your impact on the world.
What our clients are saying
Devin Bhushan
CEO & Founder, SquintAI
"Working with Mike since the early stages of building the team here at Squint has been incredibly helpful. He’s helped strategize early team composition and the tools he brings to the table are priceless when your team is growing. Working with Mike has been a total pleasure, and I would definitely recommend it to other founders!"