Testimonials
“Mike's coaching work with startup founders is effective, energetic and empathetic. Having worked with 100s of founders across Europe and the US, he knows how to work his magic, even in a short period of time, in helping founders improve their pitch, gain confidence and build lifelong communication skills. Whether in-person or over video, Mike knows how to get founders into a zone where they can represent themselves and their companies in a compelling and memorable manner.”
Kartik Varma, Founder at Prop Tiger
“Mike’s pitch coaching was an incredible asset to our program. He helped instill confidence in our founders and supported them with structuring their storytelling and delivery. Mike's sessions focused on a critical component of pitching: helping the founders believe in themselves first. This component made a noticeable difference in our founder's pitches which helped them earn global LOIs, partner with multinationals, and receive additional investments.”
Yvenique Lovinsky, Investment Associate at Techstars Detroit powered by J.P. Morgan
Mike is one of the most highly rated Mentors & Coaches going by the feedback received from SaaS Africa Batch startups. They were really impressed by his personalized approach during training, and gentle way of giving critical feedback. For me as MD, I would say they were only one of two mentors, among the almost 40 mentors we had in the program that proactively reached out before his sessions with a keen interest to understand the dynamics of each team, and what their most pressing needs are from my perspective. This enabled the high impact coaching that he achieved.
Eliud (Njathi) Mungai, Investor and MD at SWG Africa
Mike's coaching work with startup founders is effective, energetic and empathetic. Having worked with 100s of founders across Europe and the US, he knows how to work his magic, even in a short period of time, in helping founders improve their pitch, gain confidence and build lifelong communication skills. Whether in-person or over video, Mike knows how to get founders into a zone where they can represent themselves and their companies in a compelling and memorable manner.
Kartik Varma, Ex MD for London Barclays & ABO Amro Techstars Programmes
From our first session Mike took the time to learn my individual personality and to understand the unique challenges that I face as women, I needed to establish creditably immediately and through the presentation and we were able to do that with a solid powerful pitch that left the audience saying "You killed it and your business is great, let's talk next week".
Sheena D. Franklin, CEO at K’ept Health