Your Start-Up Strategist
Welcome to LaunchPad Coach, your go-to destination for all things start-up. We understand that starting a business is challenging, and the process can be overwhelming, especially if you lack experience. That’s why we’re here to offer our expertise as your start-up strategist to help guide you through the process.
Why Engage a Strategist?
The average start-up fails not because the Founder is not brilliant;
click below to find out why many don’t make it!
Cash Poor
Often founders run out of cash due to lack of prioritization and poor planning
Proactive Discovery
They often don’t take the time to get product-market fit early enough
Market Adaptation
They often don’t have the tools to adapt to unexpected market conditions
Costly Mistakes
| “The key to entrepreneurial success is being guided by those who have learned from decades of missteps that don’t have to be repeated. Critical decisions have to be made every day, sometimes with only a few hours notice. A start-up coach or fractional CXO needs to be on call around the clock because stellar advice that is delayed is very simply too little, too late.” Denise Hummel Isaacson, J.D. |
Launch Pad Purpose
To empower founders with the tools and support to execute on their entrepreneurial vision by:
- Co-creating the roadmap to success
- Removing barriers
- Connecting them to economic and impactful resources.
- Leveraging decades of experience to avoid pitfalls and
- Reducing or eliminating delays
- Accelerating growth and/or exit
Contact Denise for an introductory call
Denise Hummel Isaacson, J.D. has a speciality is in Growth Strategy and Exit Strategy
Meet your Start-Up Strategist, Denise Hummel Isaacson, J.D. With a specialty in growth strategy and exit strategy, Denise has a proven track record of success as a serial entrepreneur, with three successful exits as Founder, CEO, CMO, COO and GC. Denise has experience across a range of industries, from SaaS start-ups to leadership and human capital consultancies to enterprise. She has led companies from founding team through acquisition and IPO, and is skilled in making tough decisions, creating new strategies, and finding funding and sales where others could not.
Denise has a Bachelor’s Degree from Columbia University in organizational and behavioral psychology, and a law degree from American University, with accomplishments in employment law, business law and M&A. As a well-known coach on Marshall Goldsmith’s legacy team of 100 Coaches, Denise is best known for her “roll-up the sleeves” and get things done persona. Whether you need a strategic consultant or a fractional C-Suite member, Denise is here to help you execute on your vision and achieve success.
How She Works
The foundation our engagement with you is critical because executing on a faulty growth strategy is a recipe for disaster. For that reason, the engagement begins with a discovery period in which the Founder and CEO shares the vision and the stage of execution of that vision.
The result of that assessment drives the engagement but most often includes:
Improving processes
Establishing or improving repeatable processes from sales to operations
Leveraging resources
Acting on the impact of economic resources, with constant preparation for the next stage of the business, including additional fund-raising
Closing legal gaps
Shoring up legal gaps from internal employees through vendors and customers
Tracking progress
Establishing or detailing success metrics and executing on a measurable growth strategy
Who We’ve Helped
