




Here's how it happens in scaling startups — and where you probably are right now.
The Silent Tension
You can feel it but nobody names it. The topics you both avoid. The decisions that take 5 meetings instead of 5 minutes. Everyone says they're fine — but the tension in the room tells a different story, and it's getting harder to ignore.
The Scaling Breakdown
What worked with 10 people is breaking at 30. Departments are becoming silos. Your early employees feel like strangers in a company they helped build. The culture you were proud of is slipping away — and you're not sure how to get it back.
The Investor Reckoning
Your investors aren't just watching the metrics anymore. They're watching how your team handles pressure. One public blowup, one key departure, one board meeting where the cracks show — and the conversation shifts from 'How do we scale?' to 'Do we have the right team?' to 'Do we even continue?'

Most founders know something's wrong but can't name it. That ambiguity is expensive. After week one you'll have a precise picture of exactly what's driving the tension — not a gut feeling, a map. Named, visible, fixable.

The conversations you've been avoiding don't get easier with time — they get more expensive. You'll develop the judgment to know when to address conflict, how to read the room before you walk in, and how to approach it in a way that builds trust instead of breaking it. No more hoping it resolves itself.

By week four you won't have solved everything — but you'll have something most founding teams never get: a shared language, a clear picture of how your team operates, and a repeatable way to address problems before they escalate. The work continues. But you'll finally know how to do it.
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Module content and sequencing may be refined based on founder feedback.
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You know something's off — but you've never calculated what it's actually costing you. This module makes the invisible visible. You'll name the specific symptoms on your team, understand the real financial impact of misalignment, and identify exactly where to focus for the next 30 days.

Most founders try to fix the wrong thing. This module uses Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions framework to diagnose precisely where your team's friction lives — trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, or results — so you stop treating symptoms and start fixing causes.

The shift from individual contributor to team player doesn't happen automatically — especially in startups where everyone was hired for individual brilliance. This module addresses the mindset barrier that underlies most team dysfunction, and how to start closing the gap.

You can't have real conflict, real commitment, or real accountability without trust underneath it. This module builds the kind of trust that actually holds under startup pressure — not team-building exercises, but the vulnerability-based foundation that high-performing teams are built on.

Every founder has one. The talk with the co-founder. The feedback to the early hire. The role conflict nobody's named yet. This module gives you the judgment to know when to have it, how to read the room before you walk in, and how to approach it in a way that builds the relationship instead of breaking it.

When teams can't commit to decisions, everything slows down. This module gives your leadership team a repeatable framework for making decisions that stick — and stops the same issues from resurfacing every sprint.

The word "accountability" makes most a teams flinch. This module reframes it — and gives you a system for holding people to commitments in a way that builds ownership rather than resentment.

The capstone module. Everything from the previous seven modules becomes a repeatable operating rhythm your team runs without you needing to hold it together. This is where the work you've done becomes a system that scales with you.
This is a curated list of bonus list exclusively only for our Course Founders (the first 50 founders who enroll). and is available only for a limited time. Those who enroll following the pre-launch will be offered a more limited set of bonuses.
A private community exclusively for Course Founders.
Get direct daily access to Frank throughout your 30 days.
Ask questions, share wins, and get unstuck fast — never feel like you're navigating this alone.
Value:
$97
See the hidden cost of team dysfunction — the number is always bigger than you think.
Use it to build the case for change with your co-founder, board, or leadership team.
Turn a gut feeling into a dollar figure no one can ignore.
Value:
$47
As a Course Founder you get something no future student will ever experience — direct influence over how this course develops.
Your real situations, questions, and gaps shape the content of Modules 6–8 before they're built.
You're not beta testing a finished product. You're helping build the one that thousands of founders will use after you.
Value:
Priceless
The final three modules — Stop Spinning Start Deciding, Accountability Without Micromanagement, and The Aligned Team Operating System — will be delivered automatically to your account at no extra cost the moment they're released.
Free When Released
Value:
$97
A private one-hour call with Frank, scheduled around week three of your 30 days.
Frank's full attention on your specific situation — where you are, what's surfacing on your team, and what your clearest next steps look like.
This is the same conversation founders pay $350/hour for in direct consulting engagements.
To book your session, you'll complete a short intake survey so every minute of the call is focused on what matters most to you.
Value:
$350






Meet Frank — a startup founder, single father, and team alignment specialist with more than 25 years helping organizations build teams that actually work.
He started in high-tech and telecom consulting, then spent 17 years leading programs at one of America's most prominent civil rights organizations — mobilizing board members and senior leaders from finance, law, healthcare, technology, media, entertainment, fashion, education, real estate, and government to collectively raise half of an $80 million annual operating budget. Getting that many high-achieving, time-pressed people pulling in the same direction — without a salary to offer or formal authority to lean on — turned out to be the greatest leadership education imaginable.
25+ years — Leading and advising teams across startups, nonprofits, and high-growth organizations
Startup Founder — Built from scratch, knows the pressure firsthand
Founder & Investor Advisor — Worked directly with founders and investment leaders on real team challenges
MBA — Case Western Reserve University
London Business School
You're a startup founder with a team of 5–100 people
You can feel the tension — even if you can't name it yet
You're willing to look at your own role in the dynamic honestly
You want a system, not a motivational speech
You're ready to have the conversations you've been avoiding
You believe your team is capable of more than they're currently delivering
You're hoping the team problems will fix themselves
You believe culture work is HR's job, not the founder's
You want someone to blame rather than something to fix
You're not willing to have one uncomfortable conversation
You think 30 days is too long to invest in the team you'll spend the next 5 years with
Two options — choose what fits your life right now.
🏃 Sprint Mode: 1–2 hours per week. Move fast, implement as you go, finish in 2–3 weeks.
🚶 Steady Mode: 30–45 minutes per week. Integrate gradually, finish in 4–5 weeks.
Either way, you'll see results from Week 1. And you have lifetime access — so go at whatever pace works.
No. Start alone. The course is designed for the founder first — you'll bring frameworks and tools back to your team module by module.
Some exercises are built specifically for team sessions. Others are for you to work through privately first.
This course was built for exactly that feeling. Most founders who enroll are past the point of a little tension — they're dealing with real dysfunction, real conflict, or a team that's quietly falling apart. The framework works precisely because it doesn't require everything to be fine before you start.
These frameworks were built for high-pressure situations — including teams that are months away from a split. Some of the most meaningful transformations happen when things feel most stuck.
No prior experience with team development or leadership training required. If you have a team and you can feel that something isn't working — you're ready.
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Complete the course and do the work. If your team isn't measurably more aligned within 30 days, email us for a full refund. No questions. No hoops.
Lifetime access, including all future updates. Modules 1-5 will be delivered on or before March 31, 2026.
Modules 6–8 will be added at no extra cost for Course Founders.
Log in whenever, as many times as you want, on any device.
You can find pieces of this on YouTube. What you won't find is a system — a structured, sequenced framework built specifically for startup teams, with exercises designed to use directly with your actual team.
The same framework I deliver in $10,000+ facilitation engagements, structured for 30 days and a fraction of the cost. Information isn't the problem. Application is.
Not required, but recommended. Many founders start alone and then bring in their co-founder after seeing the frameworks. The biggest transformations will happen when founding teams go through it together.
This is the Course Founder price. And it is the lowest price this course will ever be. It exists because the first 50 founders who enroll will help shape the final three modules and fine tune the first five.
After the founding cohort closes, the price will increase. Currently, the full price is expected to be $297. Lock it in now
Absolutely! The Transform Chaos to Alignment for Startups has a 7-Day Satisfaction Guarantee. If you're not completely satisfied, email us within 7 days for a full refund. No questions asked.



