Hands-on guidance for founders and leadership teams

We work directly with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams in energy, mobility, and smart-building ventures. Our engagements blend executive coaching and strategic advisory, tailored to your stage, goals, and bandwidth.

Executive Coaching

We understand the unique challenges of scaling early-stage and growing businesses. Whether it’s managing your board, handling difficult employees, evaluating critical business decisions, or charting a growth path, Harkador Partners is here to help.

Being the CEO of a growth or early-stage company comes with both high stakes and isolation. From personal experience, Brad knows that CEOs often face business or personnel challenges but don’t always have a trusted place to turn. Harkador Partners provides thoughtful, brutally honest assessments of your business, paired with actionable strategies to overcome your toughest challenges.

We also believe in solutions that actually work for your business. Some companies are built to scale fast, while others are better suited for slower, steadier growth with lower risk. Our role is to help you find the path that fits your business—and make it work.

Strategic Advisory

There’s a reason startup incubators focus on 5-minute pitches: nailing your strategy is hard work, but it’s critical to growing your business successfully. Most businesses fail because they try to serve too many masters.

Harkador Partners works with your company to sharpen your growth strategy, helping you focus on the strongest levers for your business and avoid getting distracted by shiny objects along the way.

Our past engagements include product strategy, growth strategy, go-to-market planning, business plan refinement, fundraising, sales management, and business development strategy and execution.

Some companies are built to go big fast; others win through capital-efficient, steady growth. Our job is to help you know which game you’re playing and win it.