Attention 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.
A course for founders serious about
— building a team that outlasts the chaos.
Founding Cohort · Enrolling Now
Get My Team Delivering in 30 Days — $250Founding price: $250 through July 15 — then $350.
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Your goal
Startups that become category leaders are driven by trust and teams that hold under pressure.
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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 annually raised half of a $65+ million 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.
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
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.
The course is live and ready to work through today. The Welcome module and Modules 1–5 are fully in — more than 30 substantive lessons, with downloadable tools, interactive assessments, and curated video in every module. My narrated module overviews are being layered in now, and because this is an early launch, your feedback shapes what comes next — every update free for life.
Live today: Welcome + Modules 1–5 · Modules 6–8 written & in production, included at no extra cost
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 — because they're looking at symptoms, not the system. This module introduces the Symphony 100 Eight Dimensions of Team Effectiveness: a diagnostic model built specifically for startup teams. You'll assess your team across all eight dimensions, learn to read what the pattern reveals, and identify exactly where focused effort will move the most. By the end, you'll know what's actually broken — and why.
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.
Written and in production. Modules 6, 7 & 8 are already written — included in the course and added as each one’s finished, at no extra cost.
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, included for every participant.
Bonus offers are in "Course Founder Bonuses" section below.
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 categories above, unpacked — every specific tool, workbook, and resource you get, and what each one is worth. Most come in two formats: an interactive online version and a downloadable PDF.
Your team's 8-dimension map, priority matrix, and action plan.
A real dollar figure on what dysfunction is costing you.
The model your diagnostic is built on, plus a team handout.
Your focused 30-day plan on the priority that matters most.
One teaching video per module, plus a curated TED Talk library.
Move your team from "me" to "we," with agreements you build.
Workbook, handbook, joins/exits guide, and two reference cards.
From the conversation you're avoiding to a written team agreement.
Founding members 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.
The Welcome module and Modules 1–5 are live now. Modules 6, 7, and 8 get built around what founding members 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 a founding member carries forward into future Symphony 100™ programs.
Live 60-minute working sessions with Frank — not Q&A theater, actual working sessions. Each one previews an upcoming module and then opens the floor to the real situations you're navigating that week.
You bring the situation, the room helps you think it through, and the patterns that surface across the cohort directly shape what ends up in the final modules. Sessions begin once the founding cohort forms, and every one is 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. Booking opens as you near the finish line — once you've completed Module 7 — by design. The session lands hardest when you've done the work and know exactly where your team is still stuck.
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.
The course is available now; the founding-member bonuses roll out across summer 2026. Live working sessions begin once the founding cohort forms. Private 1:1s with Frank open after you're into the course. The bonus mini-course follows later in the summer. Delivery dates and details may shift to keep the priority — Modules 1–8 of the course — on track.
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. The Welcome and Modules 1 are live. Modules 2 through 5 will be delivered on or before June 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
Costs more than this
One bad hire
Costs 2X more
One co-founder implosion
Can end everything
$250
The founding price holds through July 15 — then it rises to $350.
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We're not showing you testimonials we don't have yet. Real ones publish here as the founding cohort completes the program. You're getting in early — and that's exactly the point.
Live working sessions with the founding cohort. Your questions get answered by Frank — not a moderator.
The Welcome module and Modules 1–5 are live now. Modules 6 through 8 get refined based on what the founding cohort actually needs. You vote with your reps.
Lifetime access — including all future updates — at the lowest price this course will ever be. When the founding window closes, the price moves up.
A private space for the founding cohort. Compare notes with founders going through this in real time. When the cohort ends, this circle stays — your founding peer group, locked in.
Founding members' testimonials will publish here as the cohort completes the program. We'd rather show you nothing than show you fake.