Your instincts built the company. Leading it asks for something different.

When a business grows, a founder's job changes. Some want to grow into the role the business now needs. Others are asking whether they are still the right person to run it. Neither question is easy to answer alone.

Founder's Legacy distils twenty-five years of coaching founders, CEOs, and leadership teams, including the teams behind two unicorns, into fifty short and practical lessons. Each one combines stories from behind closed doors with research, lessons from experience, and questions to work through. These lessons are designed to be read for ten minutes at a time, then revisited as your challenges evolve.

The book is divided into three parts:

What it takes to lead: your strengths, energy, and resilience.
The job of a leader: purpose, strategy, organisation, culture and talent, and where your business sits on its journey.
The tactical challenges: decisions, honest conversations, hiring, motivation and trust.

"Simon helped me realise what had got us to that moment would not get us to where we needed to be in the future."
-Rob Small, Founder and President, Miniclip

"Successful founders, like successful sports coaches, deliver results through people. This book shows you how to do that, brilliantly. It is a must-read for every founder."
-Sir Clive Woodward, 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning coach

For founders and CEOs whose company has outgrown the way they built it, and for the leadership teams and boards who work alongside them.

Also available as an audiobook narrated by the author and as a course on Coursera.