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Your team got you here. It may not be the team to get you to Series A+.
For VC-backed leadership teams in Europe where execution has slowed because the team hasn't kept pace with the company
Most execution problems in high-growth companies are not strategy problems. They are leadership system problems — misalignment between the founder's mindset, the team's operating culture, and the infrastructure the business now needs. We diagnose and address all four dimensions. Simultaneously.
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Trusted by Start-ups and Fortune 500 companies
This 63-pages eBook Reveals...
The leadership team diagnostic used with EIC-backed scale-ups from Seed to Series B
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By understanding your challenges of growing Productivity and prioritising your Innovation and Market Deployment Action
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63 pages. No fundraising advice. Just leadership readiness
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70% of startups fail at the Valley of Death — not from bad product, but leadership breakdown
7% of scale-ups in mature ecosystems reach $50M+ - 3.5× higher when leadership support is in place
Best-practice team quality can boost scale-up rates by up to 15×
Leadership alignment is the variable most founders underinvest in
What's Inside The eBook How To Unlock Successful Scale Up Growth?
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How to close the gap between what your organisation aspires to do and what it is currently capable of doing. (Business Readiness Level Assessment)
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GTM, Strategy, Hiring, Operating Engine and Infrastructure. (ITS - Systems quadrants)
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Evaluating and expanding the capacity of founders' team, your collaboration, and your culture. (We - Culture quadrant)
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What kind of leadership is your organisation needing from you? (I/IT - Consciousness and Leadership Competencies quadrants)
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What Will You Learn From This Book?
The book is not just an Accelerator check list on how to achieve pre-scaling, we disrupt your thinking patterns and use questions to explore in each chapter as a reflective tool, for example:
How to polish the management readiness or senior team capability as an essential driving force to increase and grow your start-up?
How to overcome internal complex and emerging challenges to increase performance?
How is your strategy translated into clear objectives and how will these be achieved?
What kind of leadership your direct reports need in order for them to perform in their roles?
You will not learn about fundraising strategies if you are seeking to raise funds.
The 63-pages eBook is based on an Integrative and Systemic Approach to Change. This integral framework, when applied to scaling a startup, can help to shed light on the interconnection of all the different aspects of a company, and how they work together to support growth and success – the individual founder (I/IT quadrants); the collective – the founder's team (WE) and the external operational investors' lens (ITS)
Change in any one quadrant or the external context, impacts all quadrants, thereby the efficiency of scaling and crossing the death valley (TRL 4/5 - TRL 7/8)
Therefore, each quadrant represents a different aspect of the startup, and each must be considered and managed effectively for the startup to scale successfully.
Startup Scaling Ireland: AQAL Assessment Scoring System
Series A Growth Readiness Assessment
Rate your confidence in each area from (needs improvement) to 5 (very strong)
Leadership Mindset (I)
How Confident are you in making rapid strategic decisions?
How effectively do you balance innovation with operational demands?
How clear is your scaling vision to your team?
Performance Impact (IT)
How predictable is your sales cycle with enterprise clients?
How efficiently does your team execute on key projects?
How effectively do you measure and improve performance?
Team Culture (WE)
How well do your teams collaborate across functions?
How engaged are your employees during rapid growth?
How strong is your retention during scaling?
Organizational Systems (ITS)
How systematic is your market expansion approach?
How mature are your governance processes?
How successful are your strategic partnerships?
Tomorrow’s managers will need to know how to build a learning organization (where progress is measured by validated learning) and an execution organization (where progress is measured according to traditional value streams). They will need to know how to combine those organizations into one coherent whole. (Eric Ries the Lean Start-up)
What Do Some Of Our Clients Say About Our Systemic Business Coaching Approach?
Client reference comments
We worked with Bernard when our company was rapidly growing which alone is a huge strain but for us it was particularly difficult because we were mostly scientists with no previous business experience. We were a set of effective individuals working together but we were not a proper team. Bernard helped us see our strengths but also identified our weaknesses so we could overcome them effectively.
I can only say thank you, Bernard, for the support and all the learnings.
━ Maria Fátima Lucas Co-founder and CEO at ZYMVOL, EU Prize for Women Innovators 2020 winner.
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Bernard Chanliau, is an award-winning Master Certified Coach (MCC) and Certified Team Coach (ACTC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF). Owner of BC Team Coaching Ltd, with two decades of Executive Leadership Coaching experience (7000+ hrs), his coaching expertise spans F100, CAC40, FTSE 50, and high-growth ventures, delivering tangible results in strategic alignment, market expansion, and organizational readiness.
With a proven methodology that adapts corporate best practices for startups and infuses entrepreneurial spirit into established firms, he enables his clients to navigate complex business landscapes, fostering innovation and sustainable growth in an ever-evolving global market.
He has partnered with over 100 portfolio companies across Europe from pre-seed to IPO. Most were facing challenges of growing productivity crossing the Death Valley from TRL 6-9, by increasing their transfer of learning and their internal capabilities to achieve sustainable growth. His approach integrates value proposition refinement, go-to-market strategy, and leadership team cohesion to accelerate business success.
BC Team Coaching sweet spot is linking senior team performance with firm performance directly enabling the benchmark of the start-up top management team.
Bernard’s background includes 15 years in the high-tech sector with global Fortune 500 firms, reaching board level, where he executed in strategic sales, and operational collaborative leadership roles throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Learn by doing and apply the suggested tools in the eBook with the author using our Business System framework:
Business Coaching Services
Three intervention points. Each mapped to where your scale-up is breaking down. Our learning methodology provides unparalleled structure to simplify the start-up building process
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Individual Leadership Coaching (I/IT - quadrants)
You've gone from founder to executive — and the leadership moves that made you successful are now the thing slowing your team down. We work on the specific behaviours, decision patterns, and blind spots that emerge at scale.
📌Pain Points:
- Decision paralysis from increased stakeholder complexity
- Personal struggle with letting go of early-stage control
- Need to evolve from founder to CEO behaviours
- Time management across increasing stakeholder demands
- Balance between vision and operational execution
Executive Team Coaching (WE -quadrant)
The team performing at Series A is rarely the team that can execute at Series B. Rapid hiring, new governance, and investor pressure fracture culture and slow collective decision-making.
📌Pain Points:
- Culture dilution during rapid team expansion
- Tension between startup speed and enterprise processes
- Misalignment between early employees and new corporate hires
- Trust issues during rapid organizational changes
- Resistance to new governance structures
- Values preservation during rapid scaling
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Investment Readiness Coaching (ITS - quadrant)
Investors fund teams, not decks. We assess your Business Readiness Level across all four dimensions — mindset, behaviour, culture, and systems — and build a structured improvement path before your next raise.
📌Pain Points
- Need for enterprise-grade sales processes
- Scaling challenges in operational infrastructure
- Governance structure implementation struggles
- Cross-functional communication breakdowns
- Quality control during rapid growth
- Execution = Alignment x Mindset x Capability
Three Reasons To Choose BC Team Coaching:
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Not a coaching generalist. A systemic leadership advisor with a twenty-year track record in the growth stage.
EIC-accredited partner. One of a small number of executive coaches embedded in Europe's primary deep-tech innovation ecosystem. We understand the pressures your team is operating under because we have worked inside them.
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MCC and ACTC certified. 7,000+ hours. The Master Certified Coach credential is held by fewer than 4% of ICF coaches globally. It signals diagnostic rigour and professional standard, not a six-month programme.
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100+ portfolio companies. Seed to IPO. We have seen every version of the scaling leadership crisis. We know what is a people problem, what is a culture problem, and what is a systems problem — and we know which of those to address first. See our client start-up references by connecting with the author on LinkedIn
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****Remember, every startup's journey is unique, and personalized coaching can make a significant difference in navigating your path to success.
THE CHEMISTRY CALL IS PERFECT FOR:
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As a reader, it can help you better understand the Systemic Approach to Change concepts in the eBook, apply them effectively, and strategize your next steps.
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As a startup owner, understanding the interconnection of all the different aspects of your company, and how they work together to support growth and success.
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Experiencing laser coaching with the author in one of the AQAL quadrants pending your challenges and make informed decisions leading to successful scaling.
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Reflecting on tailored strategies specific to your startup’s unique challenges and growth stage.
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Increasing the resilience of your organization as our Systemic Business model provides you with the tools and strategies you need to effectively manage risk and respond to challenges.
**** Remember, the goal of this free consultation is to help you turn insights into action and secure your startup’s future.
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