Startup Founders — Seed to Series B
You can't control the funding climate.
You can't control the market.
Transform your team from chaos to alignment in 30 days.
The exact framework I use with founders in $10K+ facilitations — built into a course you take at your own pace.
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Meet your guide
Here's someone who helps founders like you learn how to find yours — when no optometrist has the one you need.
Four minutes. I'll show you how this works.
— Frank
Long before he made it his work, Frank November was the one studying teams — on the field, on staff, in boardrooms — asking why some moved together and some never quite did.
Twenty-five years of practice later, he's done it from every seat: founder, executive, senior leader, advisor, board member. Today, he's the trusted advisor founders and other leaders turn to when the team they have isn't yet the one they need.
What to look for
Most founders recognize at least one of these. Many recognize all three.
Your goal
Startups that become category leaders are driven by trust and teams that hold under pressure.
Your objectives
Eight modules covering the full range of team friction every founder hits — trust, conflict, alignment, accountability, the hard conversations, and the decisions that won't stick.
Designed for founders who know their team better than any consultant ever will — frameworks to think with, not scripts to follow. Brief explanations, adaptable tools, and the work itself. Cookie-cutter solutions don't survive contact with a real startup.
This is an early launch course. Module content and sequencing will be refined based upon our first 50 founders' feedback — all updates are free for life.
Modules 1–5 launching on or before: May 31, 2026
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 Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team model to identify where your team's friction lives — trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and/or results — so you stop treating symptoms and start addressing the 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 genuine 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.
Free for Course Founders. Modules 6, 7, and 8 will be provided at no additional cost to the founding course participants.
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 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.
The course is built to be used, not just consumed. Every piece below is part of what you get when you enroll — designed to move you from chaos to alignment in 30 days.
This is the standard package for every Course Founder. The bonuses for the first 50 founders are below this section.
Eight modules taking you through the full Chaos to Alignment™ framework — from naming the misalignment to building the systems that hold your team together as you scale. Built for founders, not corporate trainers. Each module is short, focused, and ends with something to do, not just something to think about.
Per-module worksheets and ready-to-use team activities. These aren't homework. They're the actual sessions you run with your team — the conversations, exercises, and structured discussions that turn the framework into real alignment.
Templates, frameworks, and reference materials curated for founders building real teams — from one-on-one structures to feedback scripts to alignment check-ins. Pulled from 25+ years of working with leaders across startups, scale-ups, and complex organizations.
A private community of founders working through the same challenges — not a Facebook group, not a Slack chaos pit. A focused space for asking real questions, sharing what's working, and getting unstuck. You're never building this alone.
The first 50 Course Founders get a different kind of relationship with this course.
You shape it. Frank shows up for you.
What's below is what that looks like in practice.
Modules 1-5 ship at launch. Modules 6, 7, and 8 get built around what the first 50 founders are actually working through. The real situations you bring — the team dynamics that aren't in any framework, the conversations you're avoiding, the patterns you can't quite name yet — those shape what gets taught.
You're not just taking a course. You're helping build the course thousands of founders from the startup community will use after you. Recognition as one of the original 50 carries forward into future Symphony 100™ programs.
Four 60-minute working calls with Frank in June 2026. Not Q&A theater — actual working sessions. Each call previews one of the upcoming modules (M6, M7, M8) and then opens the floor to the real situations you're navigating that week.
You bring the situation, the room helps you think through it, and the patterns that surface across the cohort directly shape what ends up in the final modules. The calls will be recorded and posted within 24 hours for anyone who can't make it live.
A private 60-minute strategy session with Frank, just for you and your team's situation. Not a sales call. Not a generic coaching session. A real working conversation about what's specifically happening on your team and what to do about it.
You'll fill out a short situation brief beforehand — what's happening on the team, where you're stuck, what you're hoping to walk away with — so the time gets spent on your actual problem, not on getting Frank up to speed. Scheduling opens at the conclusion of June's 4 Live Working Calls.
A bonus mini-course pulled from the upcoming Investors & Portfolio Company Senior Management program. The most complicated communication problems often resolve when you get back to fundamentals. This is that foundation — the group dynamics every team needs and most never name.
A practical tool that puts a real number on what misalignment is actually costing your startup — in delayed shipping, missed hires, redone work, and team energy. The number is always bigger than you think.
Bonuses begin delivery alongside the course on or before May 31, 2026, and roll out across summer 2026. Live Working Calls run on the four Thursdays of June. Private 1:1s with Frank schedule July onwards. The Misalignment Cost Calculator ships late July (alongside Module 8). The Bonus Mini-Course follows in August–September. Delivery dates and details may shift to keep the priority — Modules 1-8 of the course — on track.
Who built this with you in mind
Everything DiSC®
Authorized Partner & Certified Practitioner
The Five Behaviors®
Authorized Partner & Certified Practitioner
Founder & CEO, Symphony 100
For 17 years, Frank's job was getting more than 1,000 senior professionals — leaders from tech, banking, law, healthcare, entertainment, and countless others — to function as one team. Successful entrepreneurs, notable doctors, senior executives, investors — along with the rising professionals coming up alongside them. They weren't his employees. They didn't report to him. He had ten, maybe twenty hours of their attention a week, on their own time, alongside the demanding careers they'd already built.
His job wasn't to manage them. It was to cultivate and develop their leadership and teamwork abilities, sharpen their fundraising capabilities, and to increase their influence in their communities and nationally. To do so, Frank created the infrastructure, tools, and systems to help the leaders hold each other accountable to their goals.
Together, that group raised half of an $80 million annual operating budget — and many of the rising leaders he mentored along the way went on to senior roles of their own. The volunteer leadership model behind it became one of the most studied in its category.
Frank created, inspired, and never stopped growing that leadership army. The work they fueled moved the needle on some of the most consequential civil rights wins of the past two decades — laws passed by Congress, Supreme Court decisions, state and municipal reforms — and engaged the vast majority of the country's largest corporations in improving workplace conditions for their employees around the globe.
Founders run a harder version of the same problem. Brilliant, driven people, moving fast, with high stakes — and no one ever taught them how to actually work together when pressure hits. Frank has spent his career inside that gap. Not theorizing. Fixing it. In real time. With real people. Under real pressure. The system that worked at that scale is what this course teaches.
Years Leading
Senior Leaders Organized
Communities Built Nationally
Credentials at a glance
25+ Years
Building high-performing teams and coaching leaders across startups, nonprofits, Fortune 500, and high-growth organizations
Startup Founder & Advisor
Founder of Symphony 100; works directly with founders and investors on real team challenges
Talent & Organizational Development
Senior executive overseeing innovative leadership programs, board development, and major donor fundraising
Technology Consulting
Multi-national corporations and high-tech manufacturers — implementation, business-enabling technology, and product development
MBA
Case Western Reserve University · Visiting Student, London Business School
Is this right for you?
If you made it this far and the left column feels more like you than the right — you're exactly who this was built for.
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.
This course is for startup founders with a team of 5–100 people who are past the point of hoping things will sort themselves out. You're Seed through Series B, you're moving fast, and you can feel that something in your team dynamic is costing you — in speed, in decisions, in trust.
If you've ever thought "we're too smart to be struggling this much" — this course was built for you.
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 May 15, 2026.
Modules 6–8 and most of the bonuses 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.
One hour with a startup coach
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One bad hire
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One co-founder implosion
Can end everything
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This price closes when the 50 founding member spots are gone.
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We're not showing you testimonials we don't have yet. Real testimonials publish here as the founding cohort completes the program. Your seat is one of 50.
Live community Q&A every week. Your questions get answered by Frank — not a moderator.
The first five modules launch on or before May 31. Modules 6 through 8 get refined based on what the founding cohort actually needs. You vote with your reps.
$147 lifetime access — including all future updates. When the 50th founder enrolls, the founder rate closes and the price moves up.
A private space for the 50 of you. Compare notes with founders going through this in real-time. When the cohort ends, this circle stays — your founding peer group, locked in.
Course Founders' testimonials will publish here as the first cohort completes the program. We'd rather show you nothing than show you fake.
