After the sale
You sold the company. You have options. The problem is finding one worthy of your energy, and not saying yes to another ten years out of habit.
Sorting out what to keep, then choosing the next thing on purpose.
Keep your drive.See what it is costing you.
Don't trade what matters for what's next.
For founders who've sold their company, and for entrepreneurs and executives still building.
We show you what to keep, where you're pushing too hard, and when to move. You still make the move.
CK: startup founder, purpose coach at $1.4B VideoAmp. Built on a traditional Chinese method whose lineage Sophia holds in the 28th generation.
What brings people to Inward.
You can work on yourself for years and still push when you need to wait, hold back when you need to act, or miss how you're coming across.
The call you keep putting off
Sign the contract or walk. Raise or sell. Step up as CEO, or stay the best number two in the building. You've run the numbers. More analysis hasn't settled it.
Knowing whether now is the right time, then making the call.
The same fight, again
Your cofounder pushes back. You go calm and logical. They hear judgment. You both know the pattern by heart, and it still runs. Same with your VP. Same with the team.
Seeing how your intentions land, and doing one thing differently.
Something is off
The quarter closed strong. The next morning you were on Slack at 6 a.m. anyway, and you can't say why.
Naming what it's costing you, then deciding what to do first.
Your strength, from the other side of the table.
The most expensive patterns are the ones that still get results. A founder decides fast. That speed built the company, and it still closes deals. It also closes conversations. His VP sits on a problem for months. His partner stops bringing up the hard stuff. Nobody files a bug report on the feature that's making money.
Most of our clients don't need a new life. They need one pattern to stop running the current one.
Nobody honest can hand you the outcome.
You can set up your next move so it's more likely to work.
Bring something real.
A decision, a conversation, a pattern you keep running into. You don't need to know the cause.
We name your conditions: strength, timing, people.
The strength you push too hard, and the signs it's costing you. Whether the timing is better now or later. How you come across to the people closest to you.
A report, a coach, or both.
Our reports use Zi Wei Dou Shu, a traditional Chinese method based on your birth details. It isn't a prediction. It shows where your strength tends to cost you at work. We don't need you to believe your report. We need you to check it against how you live. A coach goes through it with you and gives you straight answers. A report is one way in. Coaching is another.
Then you act on it.
You can understand exactly why you do something and still do it again on Tuesday. So in coaching, you choose one thing to do differently. You do it. You bring back what happened and adjust. If it goes badly, bring that too. That's usually where the real work is.
Who you work with.
“I've been the executive carrying the decision. The business problem and the people problem are often the same problem.”
CK built his own startup in Silicon Valley and was purpose coach and Head of Culture at VideoAmp as it grew from 15 people to 250. He has coached more than 50 founders and executives one-on-one. PhD in bioengineering, UCLA.
Ross was scaling VideoAmp on talent and ambition, chasing the numbers without a clear reason why. CK coached him as VideoAmp grew from $18 million to $88 million in revenue and on to a $1.4 billion valuation. Ross moved from hustle to leading with purpose and learned to catch his reactions before they became decisions. Together they built a culture around shared purpose. Ross later invested in Inward.
“My time with CK was a journey of profound self-discovery and impactful leadership.”
Ross | Founder of VideoAmp | Prior coaching with CK
Mike is a scientist and a former founder, and today he's an executive at an ad-tech company worth about $1 billion. He worried that doing this work would leave him wanting out of the life he'd built.
“I was real worried... I'll come back with, like, holy, I don't want to be here. But that didn't happen at all. I actually want to be here even more.”
Mike | Ad-tech executive | Prior coaching with CK
Justin co-founded TapIt, which sold for eight figures. He came to CK chasing motivation and productivity hacks, unsure how to build what's next without it costing his family. They worked on how the people closest to him see him, and who he wants to be for them.
“This newfound clarity is going to 10X everything I do.”
Justin | Co-founder of TapIt | Prior coaching with CK
Andrea read this line in her written report: “Being right does not eclipse being received.” She connected it to years of being precise and truthful, and to how that had landed with people. She said:
“...the tension between being right and being received... it evokes like a physical response in me when I even just say those words.”
Andrea | Gifted written report
Two ways to work with us.
Start where you are. Each one stands on its own. You don't need a report to start coaching.
See the strength you trust, and the cost you haven't priced.
For when something keeps happening and you want to see why. A personal written report, sent to you as a PDF. It applies Zi Wei Dou Shu to your birth date, time, and place. It names your strength, what it turns into under pressure, and how it shows up in the way you decide and work. Unhappy with it for any reason? Ask for a refund.
Explore PatternsChange the pattern. Keep the drive.
For when you want to change what you do under pressure, not only understand it. Ninety days of private coaching with CK, who has sat in the seat and works with a small number of founders and executives at a time. You bring real situations from work and home. He asks the hard questions, tells you what he sees, and disagrees with you when he needs to. You choose a response, try it, and bring back what happened.
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