Executive Coaching - Houston, Tx
"I can't tell if I'm the problem — or if I'm surrounded by the wrong people."
If you've said that — even quietly, even just to yourself — keep reading.
The answer is almost always both. And the reason no one's told you is because everyone around you has learned not to.
"I feel like I'm the only one who actually gives a damn about this."
What they say
"I give them autonomy — but they always need to check in to validate a decision."
What they notice
"I can't tell if I'm the problem or if I'm surrounded by the wrong people."
What they never say out loud
- The Leadership Problem
The Gap Between Your Strategy and Your Results Doesn't Live in Your People
Your strategy is sound. Your intent is right. But execution keeps falling short — and the harder you push, the more it feels like you're the only one who actually cares.
Ownership is elusive. Decisions keep landing back on your desk. The people you've invested in aren't stepping up the way you need them to.
So you conclude it's a people problem.
| It almost never is.
After 15 years coaching senior leaders — and 13 years before that running a company myself — I've watched the same pattern play out. The leader who cares most quietly builds the very dependency he complains about. His competence becomes the ceiling above everyone else.
The constraint is fixable. But first, you have to see it.
100+
Leaders Coached
- Why Epiphany
Matt Williams, PCC
Founder, Epiphany
My background isn't all academic. I built something real — then learned to see what I couldn't see at the time
Before founding Epiphany, I built and led Reliance Medical Systems for 13 years — P&L, field operations across the western US, Fortune 500 advisory councils.
"I have sat in the chair"
When I identify a decision bottleneck or a dependency pattern in a client's organization, I'm not applying a framework from the outside. I'm recognizing something I've lived — and helped more than 100 organizations navigate since.
I work with a small number of leaders at a time. I'm not the right fit for everyone.
- WHO THIS IS FOR
Anyone Who Carries Weight Others Don't
Not just CEOs. Founders. Business owners. The executive who owns outcomes and can't hand the weight to someone else. Whoever the buck stops with.
You've built something real and it's performing below its potential
Your best people aren't stepping up the way you need them to
Decisions keep returning to your desk that shouldn't
You've tried hiring, restructuring, training — the needle hasn't moved
You're winning on paper and not entirely sure why it feels empty
You're probably not the right fit if:
You're looking for validation, a framework to hand your team, or someone to tell you the problem is somewhere else. I don't work with leaders who aren't ready to be part of the answer.
"If what you just read sounds uncomfortably familiar — keep reading."
- What Clients Say
Most come in thinking they have a people problem.
Here's what they say on the other side of the work.
Clients we have worked with
