Former founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building, scaling, and successfully exiting a fintech company, now coaching founder-CEOs to scale their businesses, strengthen enterprise value, and create the option for a successful exit.
The operator behind the coach
Craig Coleman is a former founder and CEO who spent 15 years building and leading a fintech company through significant growth and ultimately a successful private equity exit. Having experienced firsthand the challenges that arise as a founder-led company scales, Craig now coaches founder-CEOs through many of those same inflection points – from building a leadership team and reducing dependence on the founder to increasing enterprise value and creating the option for a successful exit. His coaching combines the perspective of an experienced operator with a practical focus on the decisions, priorities, and execution that most directly drive business results and enterprise value.
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Working with Craig
Craig Coleman, Financial Industry Disruptor and Entrepreneur, is especially valuable to CEOs focused on marketing and growth and leadership team build.
Craig Coleman is a highly experienced entrepreneur and chief executive. Over a 15-year period, Craig has built and grown successful companies in both the finance and payment processing industries. Craig believes that the key to success at an individual as well as the organizational level is combining passion with focus and discipline. He is also a true believer in the value of coaching, having been a client for six years before joining CEO Coaching International as a coach himself.
Direct, operator-driven, and rooted in real P&L experience. Craig Coleman coaches CEOs the way a former operator coaches, focused on the decisions that actually move the business, the metrics that expose the truth, and the leadership behaviors that compound over time.
Craig Coleman is based in the United States and works with CEOs across North America and internationally through 1:1 coaching, board observation, and on-site strategic offsites as part of the CEO Coaching International team.
Companies coached by CEO Coaching International for two or more years have averaged 22.8%/yr revenue growth and 37.5%/yr EBITDA growth, roughly 2-3x U.S. benchmarks. Craig Coleman coaches to the same operating standard: measurable growth, real leverage on the CEO's calendar, and a leadership team that can execute without you.
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