ScalePassion Founder Roundtables
As the Founder Goes, So Goes the CompanyHarness Your Founder Energy
Reconnect with the work only you can do and create more room for you and your company to grow.
With Nick Van Nice, facilitated by Rob Craven
The Founder Roundtable Series
A Place to Work on What Matters
ScalePassion Founder Roundtables bring a small group of founders together to work through the questions that matter most as their companies grow. Each session combines honest conversation, a practical exercise, and perspectives from people who understand the weight of leading a growing business.
You will bring your own situation into the room and leave with a clearer view of what to do next.
This Roundtable
When Your Role Drains the Energy That Built the Company
You started your company with energy, conviction, and a sense that something needed to exist or change. As the business grew, your role may have pulled you away from the work that fueled you in the first place.
Now your days may be filled with people issues, operational problems, numbers, and decisions someone else could own. You are busy, but too little of your time goes toward the work that energizes you or creates the greatest value for the business.
Your energy shapes more than your own experience. It affects where the company focuses, how decisions get made, and whether the people around you feel inspired or depleted. When your role no longer fits your strengths and purpose, growth can begin to feel heavier than it should.
The Work We Will Do Together
Find Your Highest Value Contribution
In this 90-minute roundtable, Nick will help you look closely at the intersection of:
What you are uniquely gifted at doing
What gives you energy and matters most to you
What your company needs most from you now
Where your current role supports or works against that contribution
What someone else could, or should, own
You will work on your own leadership role using a guided exercise, then exchange perspectives with other founders facing similar questions.
What You Will Leave With
Clarity You Can Put to Work
Your Guide
Meet Nick Van Nice
Nick is a ScalePassion Thinking Partner and Head of Personal Leadership. A former president, operator, and founder coach, he has spent more than 22 years helping founders grow themselves as they grow their companies.
His experience includes work with founder-led and family businesses, supporting 10x growth at Engineered Tax Services, 5x growth at MegaFood, and 3x growth at DAVIS Companies. Nick brings that operating perspective to the personal side of scaling: helping founders understand where they create the most value and shape a role they can lead from with energy and purpose.
Make Room for the Work Only You Can Do
Your company benefits most when your time and energy are directed toward the contribution only you can make. Join us to explore what that means for your role now, and identify one change you can begin making immediately.
Thursday, November 12, 2026 | 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. ET | Complimentary
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