Directory

LEANSTACK Coaches

A subset of some of our LEANSTACK certified coaches currently enrolled in continuous training
with the skills to deliver innovative breakthroughs for your business or project.

Level 3 Certification

Andrew Constable MBA
Expert in Innovation and Strategy
Leicester , GB
When I first entered the world of business strategy and Innovation, I quickly saw the disconnect. Strategy was often a tick-box exercise—grand plans that stayed on paper, disconnected from real impact. Business innovation? Just another buzzword without substance. I knew there had to be a better w...
Brian Gladden, DBA
Startup Coach - Expert in helping you find unmet demand & create uncontested market space
Rocklin, US
I help startups use the Lean Canvas/Lean Startup methods to create their business model and business plan. Services: Pitch deck creation, Problem-Solution Fit, validate assumptions and design experiments, Product-Market Fit, MVP, create Blue Oceans. I currently am the Entrepreneur in Reside...
Cristian Miranda Lavarello
👋 Latam & Italy
Italy & Latam from, CL
Italian - Chilean (Dual Nationality and Trilingual)[🇨🇱 Spanish - 🇬🇧 English - 🇮🇹 Italian]HIGHLIGHTs:✅Industrial Civil Engineer✅Two (2) Master Degrees (Innovation & Data Science)✅Two (2) PMI® Certifications (PMP® & DASSM®)✅Three (3) LEANSTACK® Coaching Certifications ✅21+ Years of Verifiab...
James Shoemark
I'm like Morpheus Looking for NEO's - CoFounder and CEO at The Startup Race
Edinburgh, GB
Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor in Scotland / UK / USABeen coaching and mentoring Entrepreneurs since 2010Started my first business (of 7) importing classic Japanese motorcycles from Los Angeles in 1991 - after working there as a motorcycle courier.1999 - Degree in Community Education from...
Jim Mosquera
Strategic leader who simplifies complexity
St. Charles, US
Problem solver. An avowed polymath. Synthesizes ideas from extensive knowledge pool. World traveler. Inquiring mind. Strategic leader with capability to get tactical. Unique mixture of engineering academic background, experience in technology, self-developed acumen of financial markets/economics/...
Mark Channon
Mindset & Startup Coach
Sevenoaks, GB
Connect if you are ready to: 🧠 Uncover hidden challenges. ⚡️ Learn faster than your competition. 😁 Go to market with a product your customers can't live without. Hi, I'm Mark. Like many entrepreneurs, my background is eclectic. From creating a prime-time game show for the BBC that aired to 8 mil...
MIchael Thomas
Product Development Navigator | Mapping Your Path to Product Success
Seattle, WA, US
👋 Hi, I’m Michael. I specialize in guiding large companies through the intricate landscape of product development to create world-class products that resonate with users and deliver tangible business results. TL;DR - I turn product challenges into lucrative opportunities by meticulously mapp...
Mohammed Al Rasbi
Mohammed Al Rasbi
Muscat, OM
Mohammed Al Rasbi is an Omani serial entrepreneur, startup mentor and technical director. Mohammed started his first business in 2003 and has since been working in the information technology industry. With a comprehensive understanding of market evolution and online technologies, Mr. Al Rasbi is ...
Peter Vogopoulos
Business Strategist ● Coach to Founders & CEOs ● Investor ● Startup Mentor ● Educator/Facilitator
Montreal, CA
Bonjour, hi! We need you to succeed. We all need you to succeed. There is too much unnecessary "non-success" out there. I didn't say "failure". Failure is an inalienable part of the startup process. Non-success is where you spin your wheels and never get anywhere. And it's tragic. I've seen it re...
Rick Benavidez
Product-Minded Engineer
Austin, US
Rick is a Co-founder at LEANSTACK, working closely with Ash in support of their mission to help entrepreneurs everywhere succeed.
Roland Ringgenberg
Create Continuous Impact on the Digital Business Platform
Suhr, CH
Web 3.0 Digital Business Designer and Architect, Coach for Continuous Innovation empowering leading edge entrepreneurs to build digital trust and shape our hyper-connected world. I enable you to create and deliver continuous impact on the digital business platform, as digital ecosystems provide a...
Ryo Kaneko
Palo Alto, California, US
Director of Innovations at NEC X, which is a hybrid of incubator, startup studio, and acceleratorBuilding early-stage startups with entrepreneurs in the U.S. and CanadaExpert on Business Model Design, Customer Discovery, User Flow Analysis, Product Design, AI/ML, MVP DevelopmentLearning about Mar...
Sophie Besitka
Entrepreneur | Growth Hacker | Helping founders think, launch, and scale lean! 🇶🇦🇺🇸🇵🇭
Doha, QA
My personal mission is to awaken the entrepreneur in everyone. I believe in creating a world where opportunities for the entrepreneur exist regardless of where they come from or where they are in their journey. I help early-stage founders and teams develop the right mindsets, establish stronger f...
Vlad Ovsyanikov
3x Founder & Certified LEANSTACK mentor | Feel free to connect in Linkedin
Wroclaw, PL
With 15+ years in tech - from web development to product management to founding 2 companies -I understand the startup journey.B2B SaaS founders often struggle to turn ideas into viable businesses efficiently.After investing more then €30k in an unvalidated MVP that failed, I learned the hard way....

Level 2 Certification

Ada Ryland
Earlystage Founder Trainer and Coach
Austin, US
Ada is an award-winning founder trainer and coach who has been practicing Ash Maurya’s advanced lean approaches since 2014. She has guided 200+ entrepreneurs through their early stage and works as an instructor and resource for several startup pre-accelerators and accelerators. In her private pra...
Desiana Miranti
Etrepreneurship Coach | Maximize Revenue X Maximize Speed
My name is desia and Im an entrepreneurship coach, Well, The reality today is that customers have more options of product and service than ever before.Leveraging my years of hands-on experience in small medium enterprises, along with formal training in tech startup mentoring, I offer a uniqu...
Jonas Van Poucke
I help you and your team maximise customer and business value
Ghent, BE
I help teams succeed with testing new business ideas, talk to your customer and launch products to the market.★ Let your digital product grow your company.★ Create shared understanding of what “awesome” means★ Apply Design Thinking to your idea and business model.★ Know your customers better than...
Ljubisa Petrovic
Strategy. Sales. Execution. Coaching.
Belgrade, RS
In summary I am working with SME's and startups on creation of their overall strategy and sales strategy. Working with founders on value creation and execution. Along the way coach founders to become better leaders and to lead teams more effectively. My background is in FMCG and retail, and wor...
Marielien Titeux
Resourcefully forward-thinking Go To Market expert. Launch offers that convert thanks to qualitative research and a lean strategy-to-execution process. ENG/FR/DU
Brussels, BE
I support companies that want to launch new business, explore new channels or markets, in clarifying and raising the visibility of their offer by strategic guidance. Through qualitative research and analysis, I help define target audiences, identify unique value propositions, optimize channels, c...
Ricardo Cidale
move with certainty & play to win
Austin, Texas, US
No-nonsense, sales and operations player/coach executive with years of experience disrupting tech and service organizations of all sizes, leading mergers and acquisitions, building teams, innovating, cutting costs, and scaling revenue, with full P&L responsibilities. Excels at strategizing an...
Zakir Jaafar
CEO FlashJobsapp.com and Startup Coach & Mentor
Shah Alam, MY
Leanstack Certified Level 3 CoachCurrently the lead coach for 3 University AcceleratorUniversity Malay - UMDT AcceleratorUniversity Putra Malaysia - InnoHubUniversity Kebangsaan Malaysia - InnoXcelerateStarted coaching and mentoring startups since 2018. More than 200 startups went through my stru...

Level 1 Certification

Aaron D. Bare
Complex Adaptive Problem Solver
Tempe, US
I am founder of the Arizona Accelerator and CEO of Innovative Circus. I currently work with organizations such as Mercedes Benz, Coca Cola, & the Arizona Commerce Authority on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I have exited 12 companies. As former Creative Director, I was winner of Webby, Te...
Alan Zettelmann
"Innovation, People and Technology"
Graz, AT
Among the lines "Innovation, People and Technology" I strive to develop and connect the Strategy, Management, Marketing, R&D of new Business & Innovation opportunities in Europe and Latin America. I am a cross domain international business professional with strong technical background and...
Alejandra Gonzalez
I help innovators manifest their vision. From ideas to desirable products and viable businesses.
Madrid, ES
Do you know how you decide what you decide? More than ever we need clarity to make evidence-based decisions. Your sales&marketing strategies won't work if your services are not continually adapted. These are VUCA times (volatile,uncertain, complex and ambiguous) and now i's time to become a "...
Christophe Makni
Lean Coach & Leader in Financial Services
Zürich, CH
Christophe is a passionate Lean Coach & Digital Leader. He has a passion both for innovation as well as efficiency. He leverages his experience on the field (10 years manufacturing, 10 years services) of the different best practice frameworks to apply them in the best possible & pragmatic...
Dan Collins
Always thinking different | Startup Coach | MBA | Early-Stage VC
Manchester, UK, GB
I'm Dan, an early-stage startup coach with an MBA based in England, UK. I have over 2 years experience working with 1000s of Founders in evaluating and validating early-stage startups for Venture Capital investment; Particularly in Tech - HealthTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, ECommerce, LawTech and...
David Jackson
Coaching startups and innovation in the Hudson Valley and Capital Region, NY
Hudson, NY, US
I combine a love of leadership development and innovation to coach founders bringing their passion to life as a business. Connectedness | Ideation | Intellection | Strategic | Maximizer…
Derek Latham
Startup Coach with Atlantic Canada's Startup Accelerator
Halifax, CA
Derek began his career in Toronto working for Nestlé Canada on the PowerBar energy bar portfolio before moving to Ottawa to lead the development of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic program for the Royal Canadian Mint. Derek held various senior sales with Starbucks Coffee Company roles in Ottawa and Atl...
Eduardo Muñoz Luna
Digital Business Model Mentor
Ciudad de México, MX
We are a consulting firm specialized in Digital Business Models with more than 20 years of experience. MH Services is a Business Consultancy company created by a group of experienced and conscious individuals focused on Scaling Digital Revenues through enabling transformation capabilites to topl...
Frank Mendoza
"Data-driven approach to Change"
Austin, TX, US
I help my clients inject the latest emerging technologies (AI/ Machine Learning/ Advanced Analytics) by applying proven entrepreneurial approaches to problem-solving (Lean Startup/ Continuous Innovation). Recent certifications include: - Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science - Deep Lea...
Frederik Vosberg
Software Engineer and IT-Consultant with focus on lean innovation
Bonn, DE
I have a strong background in software engineering, but what thrives me the most is working with people in other roles. I love being part of a team, which gets great work done and is responsible for a successful product. Since I've worked for a startup, I'm fascinated with enabling the product d...
George Bandarian
7-figure Exit in ’18, Now Coaching & Investing in Promising Tech Startup Founders
Los Angeles, US
George is an angel investor, startup founder coach, and the founder and managing director at ValueScaler, a startup accelerator with virtual cohorts (and plans for a physical office in Glendale in the near future). George helps promising founders of venture-backed startups land their first dozen...
Hannah Castle
Program Manager
Regina, CA
Hannah here! I made the leap into startups + technology in summer of 2019 and I haven't looked back. Here at Cultivator we are fired up about the growing tech sector in Saskatchewan. I work closely with all of our founders to build programs that can help them take their idea to scale. My backgrou...
Harsh Daharwal
Startup and High Performance Coach, IT Executive
Boise , US
As a certified Leanstack coach, I help aspiring entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs build the next generation of products using the Continuous Innovation Framework. Before starting my entrepreneurial journey, I spent 25+ years in high-tech businesses. I was fortunate to have a varied experience ...
James Rector
"Hoping for success is not a strategy"
Denver, US
James is a practicing entrepreneur as well as innovation coach for founders, accelerators, universities, and corporations. Innovative thinking is difficult; it does not come naturally to most people and requires the right kind of environment and structure, which most teams and organizations don't...
Jason Les Newmark
Architecting & Pioneering the Lean Approach for Startups in Africa
Cape Town, ZA
Starting a business is naturally viewed as being chaotic - but there is a framework you can follow. Using the Lean methodology startups can increase their chances of success in a better, faster and less riskier way.
Jerry Everett
Entrepreneur. Engineer. Executive.
Utrecht, NL
I'm a long-time student of Ash Maurya, first encountering Leanstack in 2017. Certified as a coach in 2019. Prior to that I had bootstrapped, built a telecommunications startup into one of the largest virtual network operators in North America. In between building new ventures, I'm available for c...
Jonathan Boase
Startup coach, sports and wellness tech entrepreneur
Leeds, GB
Startup founder, creator and advisor focused on 'bringing bright ideas to life. Love sport as an agent for significantly changing lives for the better!Former IBM Executive Consulting Partner leading data analytics consulting practices around the world.30 + years corporate experience and 6 years i...
Julien Marchand
Startup coach helping you future proof you and your business
Sydney, AU
I am a dad, a coach for startup founders and a Lecturer/Ass. Professor in Entrepreneurship.I help entrepreneurs succeed by getting their first customers and then finding ways to repeat and scale up their business model.I run group and individual coaching programs at Startup accelerators (Green Li...
Louis McNeil
Virtual Tech Incubator for SaaS Startups.
Atlanta, US
Louis McNeil is the founder of Lean Tech Institute, a virtual tech incubator that provides continuous innovation playbooks and coaching to help aspiring innovators build SaaS startups faster, better and cheaper. Our coaches are subject matter experts in auditing complex business model processes ...
Marco Parillo
Develop and implement your Strategy for Innovation in Healthcare
Zürich, CH
I am a professional in the field of Business Development & Innovation in Healthcare. Disruption in healthcare has started with many new services that are being developed and offered to improve the customer experience, reduce costs and increase quality for consumers. In this environment your...
marc steren
Proven Startup coach
Gaithersburg, US
Marc has coached over 150 student startups. Co-Director of Georgetown University's Summer Launch Incubator, teams have gone on to be worth over $225 million. Marc has started 5 companies, from RFID ticketing, restaurants to real estate.
Miralem Gazibegović
Helping innovators to build better products
Cologne, DE
Digital business and technology are my focus. Currently, I’m immersed in establishing corporate entrepreneurship and new methods of collaboration to foster customer-centric product development and business transformation at Deutsche Telekom.
Nick Casares
Product Strategy and Design
San Diego, US
Nick is the product director at Polyient Labs, a blockchain focused incubator where he coaches early-stage founders through the product development process. During nights and weekends, he leads product management courses and workshops at General Assembly and hosts a podcast about product strateg...
Ole Petter Fjellstad
Startup Coach
Ballangen, NO
Fjellstad is a practicing entrepreneur, who in addition to working on his own projects, also is running a local incubator and accelerator. Fjellstad has an MSc. degree from the University of Odense in strategic planning and international marketing. He has worked as a university teacher in the sam...
Phillip Smith
Media Startup Coach
San Francisco, US
My passion is helping:💰 1. Newsrooms make more money; 📈 2. News startups grow their audience; 🔥 3. Journalists succeed as entrepreneurs. Let's talk 📩
Quentin Ortega
Coach for those looking to grow their business and remain sane while doing so!
Saint Louis, US
I am a serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience serving as a coach to growth focused teams. I have experience in a wide range of industries, including mobile technologies, health technologies, GIS enabled technologies, music/entertainment and more. I will help you: ✅ validate you...
Ross McKay - Consulting COO
Hustle Smarter Not Harder
Canberra, Sydney, AU
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?Transform your business with continuous customer discoveryOvercome risk and uncertainty in your startupTransform your engineers into customer-driven innovation teamsDIY In-house innovation labs & commercialisation systemsOn demand tools, strategy and capital fundingOv...
Saif Al Maamari
Mentor
Muscat, OM
A Participant, Mentor and Analyst in multiple of cohorts in Pre-seed and Seed accelerator programs and also experienced in evaluation the good investment in the very early stages and the growth stage, I involved in more than 100 investment decisions in Pre-seed, Seed and growth stages. Couple of ...
Sheow Vern Chan
Entrepreneur | Startup Certified and Awarded Coach | Marketer | Media Planner | Researcher |
Sydney, AU
A jack in marketing, research, media planning, innovation and business planning, this combo allows Vern's holistic and versatile approach in untangling challenges faced by founders and corporate teams. Passionate about changing mindsets and behaviours, Vern aims to unleash people's full potential...
Sim
Customer-centred product growth coach
NZ
Entrepreneurial startup mentality at enterprise scale. Run workshops and coach product execs and cross-functional delivery teams, to support, customise and scale practices for innovation. Her upbeat style cultivates an engaged learning culture. Results speak for themselves with a net promoter sco...
Thomas Davenport
We help companies build successful products
Sydney, AU
At T4 Consulting, we specialise in helping companies understand their customers better, so the right decisions can be made about which products and services should be brought to market (and which ones shouldn't). We do this through in-depth studies of a company's target customers and what they a...
Timo Hahn
From Idea to Startup
Zurich, CH
Timo is the President of Startup Weekend Switzerland and has helped over 500 wanna-preneurs to validate their ideas. He started his own startup wydr and pitched on most big stages in Europe; in front of "Die Höhle der Löwen" and 2500 people in the Silicon Valley. As a Venture Architect at Stryber...