How To Turn Your Startup Instincts Into Scalabe Impact

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How To Turn Your Startup Instincts Into Scalabe Impact

Hosted by Sarah Robb O'Hagan and Michael Horvath

207 students

What you'll learn

Upgrade Your Leadership Operating System

Understand the key mindset shifts required to move from doing to leading — and how to make them stick.

Build a Team That Doesn’t Need You in Every Meeting

Learn how to delegate effectively by designing roles, rituals, and decision rights that free you up to focus on growth.

Create Processes Without Killing Your Culture

Discover how to codify your founder magic into scalable systems that support creativity, not crush it.

Stop Bottlenecking, Start Multiplying

Identify where you’re unintentionally slowing things down — and learn strategies to become an amplifier for your team

Lead with Vision, Not Just Urgency

Shift from reactive firefighting to proactive alignment, using tools to communicate clarity and keep the team focused

Why this topic matters

As your company grows, the mindset that built it can start to break it. This lesson helps founders and early team members shift from doing it all to building systems, trust, and scale. You'll learn how to lead with clarity, delegate like a boss, and grow from scrappy startup mode into a high-performing machine.

You'll learn from

Sarah Robb O'Hagan

Former CEO Exos and Former Global President Gatorade, and Equinox

Sarah Robb O’Hagan has been named among Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business.” and Forbes "Most Powerful Women in Sports". She was most recently CEO of EXOS the Human Performance company. Prior to this she led the reinvention and turnaround of the $5Bn Gatorade business as its global president, before leading the digital transformation of Equinox Fitness Clubs as president. Sarah has also held leadership positions at Nike and Virgin and currently sits on the boards of Jet Blue, and formerly Strava. In 2017, her first book was published by Harper Collins - ExtremeYou - Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat. Sarah is a sought-after expert on business innovation, and inspiring human performance.

Michael Horvath

Co-Founder and Former CEO and Former Chairman of STRAVA

Michael Horvath is the cofounder of STRAVA a company he cofounded in 2007. He is also the cofounder of Kana Software, an enterprise-level software company that provides businesses with easier communication methods. From 1994 to 2000, Horvath worked as an assistant professor of economics at Standford. Following that, he was an assistant professor at the Tuck Schoo of Business at Dartmouth. Horvath served as a board member of The Family Place from 2007 to 2012 and of Sanibel Sea School from 2008 to 2013

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