Working with Pete the last two years has changed me and Mainstay. Through ups and downs, Pete has been a reliable source of support and guidance, always prioritizing my well-being, supporting my decision-making process, and helping me grow through my mistakes.  Together we’ve turned barriers into milestones and tapped into resilience during challenging times.  I am grateful for Pete’s commitment to my development and Mainstay’s success.

Pete is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of executive coaching and team development. He is one of the few leaders I’ve met who is fluent in both short term tactics and bigger picture vision-setting. He has been absolutely invaluable in bringing our teams together, helping us set (and stay focused on) our longer term vision, and guiding us in how best to manage our own personal energy along the way. We are so grateful that he’s been with us on this journey.

Pete has been an unbelievable partner in helping me, and our leadership team, navigate the hairy inflection point of scaling from a true start-up to a more mature organization.  As an operator who has himself lived through many of these challenges himself, Pete approaches every conversation with empathy, focus, and pragmatism — all while still centering big picture goals related to building a leadership team that will deliver the needed results over time.  Most importantly, Pete genuinely cares, and his ability to build rapport and connect is perhaps his greatest skill.  Pete has been an invaluable strategic resource, and has been a big part of facilitating my own professional development and enabling our ability to get to a Series A milestone.

Mike Tyson said ‘everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.’ Founding, leading and growing a venture-backed company is a hard and lonely journey; and one that is harder and lonelier when you get ‘punched in the mouth!’ Pete has been my consigliere through the most difficult period of my professional career and helped me navigate through high stakes situations with grace, humility, confidence, curiosity and the calmness that I admire in his leadership style. His insights informed by his executive experiences within this industry, combined with the rigor he’s applied to his coaching practice, provided me with a unique perspective that helped me reach critical milestones while enhancing my own foundation for executive leadership. Thank you Pete for not only serving as a guide, but also as a witness to my efforts in this less hard and less lonelier journey of leadership and entrepreneurship.

The coaching with Pete has been really rewarding! I have learned how to communicate clearly with my team and to reflect on my leadership skills. Pete is very flexible and helpful in every way. He has a great sense of humor, and some of the phrases he uses to help my understanding will stay with me forever. I have grown more confident in my role being able to look at different approaches, and then to focus on taking action.