Negotiating for Startups
Because Building a Company Comes With Some Difficult Conversations
Startups move fast. Teams change. Roles evolve. Priorities compete. And sometimes the conversation everyone would rather avoid is exactly the one that needs to happen.
Mindful Negotiating helps founders, executives, and startup teams navigate the human side of building a business. Through practical training, coaching, and workplace mediation, we help teams address conflict, make difficult decisions, and have more productive conversations when the stakes are high.
For the Conversations That Come With Growth
Our programs are built around the situations startup leaders actually face, with practical tools that can be put to work immediately.
Managing Difficult Conversations
Learn how to approach high-stakes conversations with co-founders, investors, employees, and partners. We work through real startup challenges including performance issues, equity disputes, pivots, tough feedback, and competing priorities.
Negotiating With the Board
Board conversations come with their own mix of power, pressure, and competing interests. We help founders and senior leaders prepare for negotiations around strategy, funding, compensation, governance, and leadership transitions.
Executive Team Retreat Programming
Alignment doesn’t just happen because everyone is in the same room. We design interactive retreat programming that helps leadership teams surface disagreements, clarify roles, negotiate trade-offs, and leave with clearer decisions and commitments.
Questions are Kind of Our Thing
Have a Conversation You’ve Been Avoiding?
Good. It’s what we do best.
Whether your team is navigating growth, disagreement, change, or one particularly awkward conversation, we can help make it a little less difficult.