ScalePassion Introduces Personal Coach Nick Van Nice to Our Team
Scalepassion’s newest team member Nick Van Nice
Nick is an expert in helping purpose-driven founders discover their unique voice.
You can’t lead others until you can lead yourself. The number one problem I see with founders is not lack of expertise, technical knowledge and passion. And it’s not the lack of a good product or idea. The biggest barriers to success come from not knowing what kind of leader you need to be in order to lead others and successfully scale your passion for your business. What’s more, the biggest hurdle is also the first hurdle you need to clear in order to scale your business.
And that hurdle is learning how to lead yourself.
Self-leadership is all about awareness and leading from a place of authenticity and integrity, of being true to who you are and what you want to accomplish in your work and in your life. Not one or the other, but both. How can you expect to inspire others with your vision and mission if you don’t know what you were put on this Earth to accomplish? How can you lead a team in setting priorities when you haven’t thought deeply about your own personal and professional priorities in detail?
My experience working with dozens of founders has convinced me that you can’t, which is why so many promising ideas and startups never make it out of early corporate infancy.
This is why ScalePassion is proud to announce that we have taken on a new partner, Nick Van Nice, as a personal and professional coach dedicated to helping founders develop the leadership skills they need to scale their business.
A successful founder of two companies himself, Nick brings two essential ingredients to the job of helping founders “find their North Stars,” as Nick likes to put it. First, he has 16 years of experience coaching founders and has developed an impressive, state of the art self-assessment toolkit includes Cloverleaf and other platforms.
Second, and to my way of thinking even more important, Nick has the personal qualities found in only the very best coaches – empathy, intuition, wisdom and a commitment to changing the world. I speak from direct experience having worked with Nick as one of his coaching clients earlier in my career! Nick is exceptional at facilitating you toward your personal vision and then holding you accountable to attaining it with utmost integrity. I can honestly say I would not have attained the success I have (both personally and professionally) without Nick.
Are you ready for liftoff?
Nick plays a crucial role in the ScalePassion methodology that we describe in terms of a rocket ship’s three stages: leading yourself, leading others, and inspiring others. In this system, the first stage doesn’t involve having an idea for a business – we assume you already have that covered. Stage one focuses on preparing yourself to lead your project. And we believe that understanding your strengths, challenges, goals, dreams and leadership style are paramount to getting that rocket off the ground.
After all, you can’t scale a passion or energize others around a purpose until you have clearly articulated your purpose and identified the thing that energizes your work and life the most, right?
We expect that some of those we work with will be ready to lead others right away and may begin with Stage 2. Others will benefit enormously from working with Nick to put more detail around their purpose and align their personal and professional energies to make them stronger leaders of others.
Nick coaches from a holistic mindset that helps founders, entrepreneurs and leaders integrate their personal and professional lives into a single vision. “I believe in the whole person paradigm,” explains Nick. “If I'm healthy and my relationships are healthy, and I'm physically and emotionally healthy, and I'm spiritually connected to my purpose and the thing I’m trying to create, people will resonate with that. It’s a very powerful and attractive quality.”
Nick’s initial offering will consist of a six-month engagement during which Nick will lead you through a number of assessments that help you discover your purpose and energy en route to developing a personal leadership and development playbook. The plan includes your vision for your life and business, your personal mission and purpose, personal OKRs and what you're trying to accomplish personally through your leadership.
In true Nick fashion, the engagement includes a process for making yourself accountable to your plan.
Equipped with your personal playbook, you will be ready to lead your change-the-world rocket ship into the second stage of flight by leading others and scaling your passion in the realization of your mission and vision. This is where you and I go deep on every facet of nailing your strategy. In the final stage of your journey, stage three, your successful business will serve as an inspiration to others – and recent statistics tell us there are some 30 million small business owners – to use their businesses to change the world.
Our vision for founders we work with mirrors our vision for ScalePassion and the world: we want to serve as an example of what it means to grow a purpose-driven company that helps other companies tap into their purposes to change the world. This, it seems to us, really is the best way to create what Malcolm Gladwell has called a “tipping point” where a large enough percent of a group engages in a belief or behavior to effect lasting change.
That’s a lofty vision, for sure, but those of you know me or Nick know that anything worth doing is worth doing with a change-the-world mindset that is bold, makes a difference in the right way and at the right time.
And now is the right time. Welcome aboard Nick.
Sincerely,
Rob Craven, scalepassion
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