Make clearer decisions.
Cut through noise, weigh tradeoffs honestly, and commit without second-guessing.
Lead with clarity.Operate with intent.
Executive coaching and leadership advisory for founders, operators, and senior leaders, including those who lead in classified environments.
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Twenty-four years of service and leadership
What changes
The shifts leaders tend to feel within the first few months of the work.
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What sharper leadership feels like
Not abstractions — the day-to-day difference clients describe.
Make clearer decisions.
Lead with conviction.
Build the steadiness your team needs from you, especially when the path forward isn’t obvious.
Lead with conviction.
Grow self-awareness.
See your patterns, your blind spots, and your default reactions, then choose differently when it matters.
Grow self-awareness.
The evidence
Does the work actually work?
Independent research on whether coaching, training, and team work move the needle — not our claims. The strongest evidence is for capability, behavior, and performance, not universal ROI.
- 50th → 72nd
- where coaching moves a typical leader (percentile)
- 37 randomized trials · 2,528 participants · one-to-one coaching
- 50th → 79th
- where leadership training moves them (percentile)
- review of 335 training samples · workshops
- ≈ 2 in 3
- odds a trained team outperforms an untrained one
- 51 controlled studies · 8,439 participants · team work
- 20–25%
- performance lift from structured debriefs
- across 46 research samples · facilitated reviews
Percentile and “2 in 3” figures are approximate translations of standardized research effects. The science does not support universal 5× or 8× ROI claims. The full research, with citations →
For teams
When the problem is the team
Unclear roles, low trust, conflict that stalls delivery, deadlines that keep slipping. That’s not a failure of effort — it’s how the team is operating, and it can be diagnosed and fixed.
What clients say
“Collaborating with Mike over the past several months has given me the confidence to tackle decisions I had been postponing for far too long.
From addressing one of my biggest professional challenges to developing greater self-awareness as both a leader and an individual, each session offers fresh perspectives, a sharper sense of direction and renewed motivation to progress. His exceptional skill in asking insightful, focused, and thought-provoking questions unlocks breakthroughs that might have otherwise taken years to achieve. I highly recommend partnering with him if you're looking for someone to help you see what you might be missing.”
“Mike brought the perfect blend of true leadership experience and coaching expertise to facilitate a full day offsite with our team.
He combines practical strategy with an approachable style and genuine humility, creating an environment where leaders can openly work through complex organizational and personal challenges. I have no doubt Mike could walk into any room, in any industry, quickly build trust, and help teams solve meaningful problems. If you're looking to invest in your leaders, I highly recommend trusting Mike with your team. We look forward to working with him again.”
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Drawn from real engagements — the problem underneath the problem, and what changed.
The trust problem that was really a structure problem
A CEO and most of his direct reports had the friction everyone could feel — stalled decisions, commitments that evaporated, a working theory that the trouble was trust and personalities. Brought in to work with the full leadership team, I had them sort every friction point into four buckets: goals, roles, processes, relationships. Almost everything landed in the first three; the relationship bucket was nearly empty. So we worked the structure — mapped each stuck decision to an owner and an escalation point, pinned down what “accountability” actually meant when no two of them had been using the word the same way, and rebuilt their commitments so each one left the room with a name, a date, and a way to know it happened.
The relationship repair they thought they needed mostly wasn’t needed. The CEO’s team still runs on those tools — they’ve cascaded them to develop their next layer of managers.
The open door nobody walked through
A leader told his whole company his calendar was open. Nobody booked. One question got to it: when you were the one in the trenches, did you ever drop in on your boss just to report how things were going? He laughed — “Never.” In a hierarchy, access to the top isn’t an invitation; it’s a risk, and his people were reading the room exactly right. So he stopped waiting and built a system to go to them: structured, low-stakes, clear intent.
Ground truth started flowing within two weeks. He’d had the right intention — he just never looked at it from where his team was standing.
The decisions that kept waiting
A founder several years into building the business was sitting on a set of consequential decisions — the kind without clean answers, which is exactly why they kept getting deferred. Over several months of one-to-one work, we stopped treating them as a to-do list and started working the live decisions in session — surfacing the patterns behind the deferrals, and putting words to the blind spots that kept the hardest options out of focus.
The deferred decisions got made, including the heaviest one on his list — and with them came clearer direction and a sharper read of himself as a leader.
The work, in four steps
Simple by design. Most of the value lives in the third step.
Discover.
A free 30-minute conversation. We figure out what you’re actually trying to change, and whether I’m the right person to help.
Discover.
Strategize.
If we move forward, we design the engagement together. The cadence, the focus areas, the outcomes you want to be accountable to.
Strategize.
Clear the way.
Most of the value isn’t new information. It’s identifying what’s in the way of the leader you already know how to be, then removing it.
Clear the way.
Perform.
We work the plan, measure what’s changing, and adjust. You stay accountable to the version of yourself you came here to become.
Perform.
About Mike
Who you’d actually be working with.
Mike Mobbs has spent twenty-four years building and leading high-performing teams in environments where the cost of poor judgment was measured in lives. He served as a Ranger in the 75th Ranger Regiment, and as an Infantry officer in the 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, then went on to lead complex staffs inside some of the Department of Defense’s most consequential organizations.
He holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, a master’s in history from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s from West Point.
Today he works with founders, solopreneurs, and senior executives navigating the dilemmas that don’t have textbook answers.
Latest thinking
Notes on leadership, judgment, and operating under uncertainty.
The Line Between Good and Evil
We've all heard that leadership matters, but one person endeavored to demonstrate and measure the effect. His findings shook the world and upended decades of assumptions. The bad news - all humans carried the capacity for great evil. But the good? The good news was that leadership could also bring out our best.
July 28, 2026
The Wisdom of the Fool
When everyone in the room agrees, when no one will speak up to say what others will not or cannot, when consensus masks the fear of speaking truth to power, the Fool can cut across convention to deliver the wisdom that every leader needs to hear.
July 22, 2026
The Power of Stories
Stories are a defining aspect of human culture. Stories preserve heritage and history, educate and teach values, preserve cultural identity and language, and support community cohesion and rituals. Stories are also a powerful leadership tool that can change an organization and influence an individual in ways nothing else can.
July 14, 2026
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