A Founders’ Inner Operating System | Founders Compass















A diverse group of founders collaborating, representing the human connection at the heart of the Founders Compass methodology.

⚡ A New Operating System to Navigating the Entrepreneur Journey

Founder Coaching for Visionary Leaders

Founders Compass provides executive coaching for founders and entrepreneurs, helping you navigate challenges and build a resilient business. The greatest risk isn’t the competition, but the unexamined parts of yourself.


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Developed by Phil Neil, Founder & CEO, Founders Compass Company

The Foundation

What is Entrepreneurial Leadership?

Entrepreneurial leadership is more than just managing a team; it’s the art of seeing what’s possible, inspiring action in the face of uncertainty, and building a resilient organization from the ground up. It requires a unique blend of vision, courage, and strategic clarity. At Founders Compass, we help you cultivate these essential traits.

The Pillars

1

Decision Quality

Quality of decisions determines the outcomes of our business.

2

Emotional Mastery

Emotional reactivity undermines our decision quality.

3

Cognitive Awareness

Unconscious cognitive patterns manipulate our decisions.

4

Identity Foundation

Identity anchors can either fuel or burn our business.

5

Intuitive Leadership

Current culture disempowers the entrepreneurial intuition setting up our businesses for destructive failure.

83%

Entrepreneurs fail on first attempt

61%

Leaders paralyzed by data overwhelm

81%

Correlation: decision quality = performance

59%

Decisions corrupted by unconscious bias

What Founders Say About Our Business Coaching

“That moment wasn’t about scheduling—it was about the stories I told myself under pressure. I wasn’t reacting to the email… I was reacting to old self-doubt. I didn’t need a new pitch deck. I needed emotional clarity.”
Jasmine • Wellness Tech Startup Founder
“I knew from the beginning it wasn’t right. I hadn’t made a clear-headed choice—I’d made a fear-based one. That taught me that quick decisions aren’t always strong decisions—and clarity under pressure is its own kind of courage.”
Sam • Clean Energy Company Co-founder
“It wasn’t logical, wasn’t budgeted, and I almost didn’t go. But something in me said, ‘You need this.’ At that retreat, I met my future COO and realized I’d been solving the wrong problem. The smartest irrational choice I ever made.”
Talia • Ed-Tech Business Founder

The Entrepreneurial Shadow

The Greatest Risk to Founders Isn’t
The Competition or The Market

It’s the unexamined parts of themselves. By shining a light on the entrepreneurial shadow, we empower founders to recognize unconscious triggers and emotional blind spots. Naming and facing the shadow is the first step to breaking its hold.

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Uncertainty

When you postpone or avoid pivotal decisions because you’re worried about choosing the wrong option. Your venture stagnates while opportunities vanish, and competitors capture market share.

“I postpone pivotal decisions because I’m terrified of choosing wrong”
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Fear

Feelings of being an impostor make you question whether you deserve to lead. You become defensive, avoid transparency, and micromanage tasks that could be delegated.

“I become defensive when teammates offer critical feedback”

Unworthiness

You measure your worth by competitors’ milestones, triggering anxiety and envy. You choose safe, incremental goals instead of bold experiments aligned with your vision.

“I measure my worth by competitors’ milestones”

About Founders Compass

Your Executive Coach for Entrepreneurs

As an executive coach for entrepreneurs, Phil Neil helps founders build the systematic clarity and courage needed to lead effectively. His approach, The Founder’s Edge, helps you interrupt and rewire patterns through three stages: See It, Navigate It, Learn From It.

Emotional Mastery

Self-awareness, self-regulation, resilience, and interpersonal effectiveness. The courage to face yourself and lead from purpose rather than reacting from pressure.

Decision Mastery

Bias management, analytical rigor, uncertainty tolerance, and decision stamina. The clarity to choose wisely even when urgency and uncertainty collide.

Intuition Mastery

Recognizing signals, validating hunches, acting on insight, and learning from intuition. Trusting the quieter voice that whispers before it shouts.

Leadership Coaching for Startups

Choose Your Path To Mastery

Whether you’re just starting or scaling, we have the precise intervention to accelerate your success.

Founder’s Hedge: Clarity and Courage

Module 1: Emotional Mastery

Module 2: Decision Mastery

Module 3: Intuition Mastery

Learn More

ERScore™ Assessment

The Entrepreneurial Readiness Score – our proprietary diagnostic that measures your mastery across emotional, decision, and intuition dimensions. Used by top accelerators worldwide.

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Start With The End In Mind

Fear doesn’t mean stop. It means pay attention. Take your ERScore™ to leverage your emotional mastery, decision mastery, and intuition mastery.

✓ Assess your entrepreneurial readiness across three dimensions
✓ Identify areas needing development or mentorship
✓ Complete your Founder Action Sprint Plan
✓ Join the Founders Compass community


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“Life is a cycle of death and renewal; it is and always has been how we grow. Just as seed pods survive while the tree is burned, you too will survive every challenge.”

— Phil Neil, Founder & CEO