Matt Mochary & Faith Meyer on Culture Building, Leadership and Growth

“You must succeed. This company cannot take care of its people, unless the company itself is succeeding. So you can't have bloat, you can't have dead-weight. You need everybody to be at the tip, top shape, tip, top form, really pushing like superstars do.”

— Faith Meyer

This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with Matt Mochary (@mattmochary), CEO and Coach and Faith Meyer (@FaithKMeyer), certified Executive and CEO coach at Mochary Method — A company that provides the practical tools that a CEO needs to be an effective leader.

Matt coaches the heads of Silicon Valley tech investment firms and companies on how to be the best leaders and build the best organizations possible. His philosophy and method are captured in both Mochary Coaching Methodology (CEO) as well as his book The Great CEO Within (on Amazon, or online). Matt specializes in helping a CEO and company (or investment firm) transition from free-wheeling startup to dominant enterprise.

Faith is a certified CEO and Executive Coach with Mochary Method. She is a prior COO, CEO and VP, has over two decades of experience in leadership, building high performing teams, managing hundreds of direct reports, and scaling companies.

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0:00 - Introduction

02:40 - How to prepare before you start coaching other people

05:35 - The boundaries between coaching & becoming friends with your clients

07:40 - How to create a strong culture 

25:55 - Examples of companies that have taken their advice on culture + how it created a ripple effect

31:20 - How to upgrade the behavior of your teammates

36:45 - How to create a culture of transparency and candor in a company

42:15 - How to go about creating a culture based on joy?

57:20 - Can a person actually be trained in a year and then run a business for you?

01:10:00 - How shadowing can help run great businesses

01:12:11 - How you can bring your own perspective into coaching curriculum 

01:17:50 - What aspects of coaching bring Faith and Matt joy?

01:24:10 - Some of the hard coaching sessions that Faith and Matt have had

01:26:30 - Some of the most common complaints + funny moments that they’ve had

01:28:22 - What you can do with your free time as a leader

01:32:20 - Growth spirals

01:35:00 - Why seeing a business as a force for good is so important 

01:38:45 - Closing Remarks

Resources

Heard:  how to make people feel it (2 min)

Motivating your team (3 min)

Brainstorming written (2 min)

Loudest voice in the room (1 min)

Energy Audit (3 min)

CEO role (2 min)

Onboarding a new hire (3 min)