Case Studies

A sample of our work.

CEO of a fast-growing, successful tech startup

The CEO and co-founder of a fast-growing direct-to-consumer technology platform hired Mindful Warrior to:

• Provide executive coaching services with a focus on enhancing communication and public speaking skills;

• Provide holistic performance coaching services in order to establish a healthy work-life balance, pursue purpose-driven goals, and cultivate wellness.

Top-10 private wealth management firm in Silicon Valley

In 2016, the head of a private wealth management team hired Mindful Warrior to deliver executive coaching, performance consulting, thought leadership, and team off-site services. Three years later he launched a new private wealth management firm with two co-CEOs. Cornelia Cannon Holden was named an equity partner in this new firm and Mindful Warrior’s scope of work expanded. The new firm hired Mindful Warrior to:

• Coach all three founding CEOs;

• Coach ten partners and two senior members of the new firm;

• Provide firm-wide culture design services; and

• Teach workshops on communication, coaching, leadership, and cultures of belonging to the firm’s sixty employees.

Local chapter of a large, national, not-for-profit afterschool program

In 2020, the local chapter of a large, national, not-for-profit afterschool program received a foundation grant to fund ten months of racial equity work. The executive director hired Mindful Warrior to:

• Deliver executive coaching services

• Facilitate quarterly workshops for his eight-member senior team

World #1 United States women’s national athletics team

At the end of our first year coaching the U.S. women’s national ice hockey team, the women achieved their first-ever world number one ranking and were able to retain their world dominance for the remaining three years of our engagement. Mindful Warrior worked with the national and Olympic teams over four years. The engagement included national and international travel to coach players and to design their high trust, high performance culture while they competed in three World Championships and the Olympic games. The manager of the national team hired Mindful Warrior to:

• Provide mental skills training;

• Build a high trust, high performance 26-member team;

• Train the team captains and senior leaders to lead the team to breakthrough success;

• Communicate with skill and discretion among players, coaches, trainers, and management while retaining player confidentiality.

Selective, coeducational, independent PK-12 day and boarding school

Over five years, the school’s president and board chairman hired Mindful Warrior to:

• Facilitate leadership development and team building retreats and workshops for the members of the senior leadership team which includes the president, the chief financial officer, the heads of the upper and lower divisions, the director of admissions, the director of advancement, and the dean of students;

• Facilitate workshops with the director of advancement and her eight-member team and the dean of students’ and his five-member team;

• Consult on student leadership curricula with the dean and assistant dean of student life for all student leaders and their advisors; and

• Develop and lead a pre-season mental skills and team building training program with the athletic director and assistant athletic director for 150 high school student-athletes.