Our process leads to advanced results delivered consistently, including:
Embodying your value proposition
Astounding your stakeholders
Deepening relationships and dynamics
Leading the talent race
Honing your self-mastery
Enjoying the chaos
About you
echo "I’m admittedly obsessed with evolving our product, sometimes to the detriment of my leadership at scale."
echo "I know my team need X, Y and Z from me - but I’m trying to create a whole new alphabet too"
echo "I wish I could shut out the world for a few days and get back to designing and getting stuff done."
echo "I wish our product marketing spoke even more deeply to our clients, in a way I’m still puzzling through."
echo "I value direct and honest feedback. I give it, too."
Services
Upgrading the state of organizations includes individual work and team facilitation. Each builds upon the other. Below are the most popular ways of engaging with us, from individual to enterprise-wide.
Development
Two Senior Leaders
Development & Execution
Between Two Teams
Development & Solutions
We're primarily referred to clients to:
- assist CEOs in rapidly evolving areas for their own and their business’ critical growth;
- teach a straightforward model to scale organizations;
- uncover hidden obstacles to a high-potential company’s growth;
- help successfully launch effective innovations;
- guide swift, respectful and inspiring resolution to prickly mission-critical relationships; and
- help senior leadership teams generate exponential results
And hear what our clients have to say:
About the founder: Leslie Simone

Leslie Simone is a sought-after executive coach who has been maximizing the results of CEOs, founders and executive teams at Fortune 100, Fortune Global 500 companies, and technology start-ups. She has advised organizations including Medallia, GE, BASF, Standard and Poors, BNP Paribas, BigPanda, Talend, Dell EMC, VMware and Apple.
Leslie has co-developed and taught for-credit courses at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Stanford’s Medical school, and she is an advisor to for-profit and not-for-profit start-up incubators across the country.
Leslie has also co-created a coach training program, whose philosophy and method is utilized by 40+ colleges and universities, including MIT, Columbia, Yale, Rutgers, NYU. In this capacity, she trained dozens of business professionals to live extraordinary lives and become certified business coaches.
Leslie draws on 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur in organizational design, an award-winning enterprise sales executive, a student of high performance, and an advisor to technology start-ups. She swiftly identify key obstacles and provide the shift in thinking and processes that unleash leaders and companies to achieve immediate increases in ROI.
After 10+ years building a corporate coaching practice for a well-regarded national firm in the high-performance coaching industry, and expanding its West Coast presence, Leslie founded Climb 10 to help venture-backed technology start-ups build exceptional cultures and execute with speed, clarity, and focus.
Leslie lives in the Bay area of California with her husband and son.
There’s a time where every leader needs perspective, persistence, and an executive strategy session about what’s working and what isn’t.
With humane dedication, a sense of humor, and a rigorous process, we’ll have you maximizing your transformational leadership in no time.