Trust without clarity doesn't scale

My work with Startups

You started out with a dream to make a difference

You wanted to create something special, maybe to change the world one more tiny step for a mankind in the direction you envisioned.

Your vision and purpose is what keeps you going, even as times get tougher. Market seems not quite ready. Investors get wary and give you contradicting feedback. Your relationships in the founder team get strained. When did it all become like this? 

You have hard decisions to make with no easy answers. You work relentlessly and still feel, you don’t have time for what you know is most important. Does the success require sacrificing everything else?

Sounds familiar?

Hear from a founder team

I highly recommend working with Natalia. As an early-stage startup founding team, we had been moving quickly but found ourselves reopening the same strategic question too often, which was starting to slow us down. Natalia helped us peel back the layers of assumptions we had each been making, get to the root of how we were making decisions, and surface the things we had not quite managed to say clearly to one another. Within a couple of hours, she helped us unlock a new level of understanding and decision-making as a team, something we had been trying to reach for over a month.

Natalia listens deeply, prompts thoughtfully, helps you question your assumptions, and then supports you in turning the insight into a practical framework for everyday decision-making. We are very grateful for her support and would highly recommend her.

Julia, Co-founder and CEO of Vayla Health

Pre-Board Governance Partner

It is the intentional work founders do to create clarity about how they lead, decide, disagree and hold each other accountable. It starts with conversations and relationships, not policies, structures or beaurocracy.

Founders may work well together, trust each other, and assume they are aligned. Some of the most consequential founder disagreements start as assumptions nobody thought to discuss. Governance is what helps trust survive growth.

My legal background and coporate leadership experience is the foundation of my credibility in governance, but I’m not a governance consultant! My super power lies in the ability to translate governance into natural, human language. And to see intentional founder relationships as the foundation for the governance and culture of the organisation they build.

 

Clarity of shared direction

Do we actually agree where we’re going?

Who owns what?

What matters most?

Trust and relationships

How do we disagree?

Can we challenge each other?

Can we admit mistakes?

Can we repair trust?

Decisions

Who decides?

Who contributes? Who needs to know?

How do we decide?

How to keep pace and alignment?

Rhythm and habits

Which conversations happen regularly?

What do we review?

How do we learn?

What do we never skip?

Coaching Programs

Founder Navigator

Founder Team Compass

Venture Portfolio Compass

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1:1 Executive Coaching for founders

Coaching for Founder and Leadership Teams

Group Coaching for Founders across a VC Portfolio

For Investors and VC's

An investor can advise, challenge and govern. But the investor is not always the right person for the founders to explore difficult leadership and relationship issues with.


I offer Independent support for the leadership conditions behind portfolio performance and I help you increase the probability that your portfolio companies successfully scale.


My corporate governance background does not mean bringing corporate processes into startups. It helps me recognise when clarity, accountability and decision making matter, and how to introduce them without losing entrepreneurial speed.

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Let's talk

         Let’s figure out if this is the right fit.

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1060 Brussels, Belgium

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Natalia Ombach

Rotkaeppchenstr. 88, 81739 Munich, Germany

+49(0)17646552344

contact@navigators-edge.com

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