May 31, 2024 - The 7-Figure Life Noah St. John and Coach for CTOs & VPE Francis Lacoste Sutton 8

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Noah St. John, PhD – Founder of St. John Executive Coaching and the Author of the Book Afformations®: The Miracle of Positive Self-Talk and The 7-Figure Life: How to Leverage The 4 Focus Factors for More Wealth and Happiness

So many entrepreneurs are living for their business and that is backwards.
You want your business to be serving you! I want a life!

Noah St John is a communication expert, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of ten books. He is famous for inventing Afformations®, a positive self-talk tool that helps busy people remove mental barriers, build confidence, and make more money. Noah St. John, PhD is recognized as “The Mental Health Coach to the Stars.” Working with Hollywood celebrities, seven- and eight-figure company CEOs, professional athletes, top executives, and elite entrepreneurs, Noah is famous for helping his coaching clients make more in twelve weeks than they did in the previous twelve months, while winning back 1–3 hours per day and 4–8 weeks a year. Noah’s clients are the 0.1% rock stars who love to take action and get amazing results! Noah is also the only author in history to have works published by HarperCollins, Hay House, Simon & Schuster, Mindvalley, Nightingale-Conant, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher. Noah’s mission is to eliminate not-enoughness from the world and he is internationally recognized for his signature coaching services; facilitating workshops at companies and institutions across the globe; and appearing on over 1,000 media outlets including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, The Hallmark Channel, NPR, Entrepreneur, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Selling Power and SUCCESS Magazine.
Francis Lacoste – Leadership Coach for CTOs and VPEs

Soft skills are the hard skills!

Francis Lacoste is an Engineering Leadership Coach who helps CTOs and VPs of Engineering at scaling tech startups nurture amazing work cultures and high-performance teams that build products and services that delight their customers. Until early 2023, Francis was the Senior Director of Software Engineering, Culture, and Engagement at Salesforce, where he coached top engineering managers to be better leaders as they helped grow the company and build a culture of collaboration and innovation across the Salesforce Platform engineering division with 1200 people. He has spent 25+ years working from home in the open-source and cloud developer tools industry and also previously worked at Heroku and Canonical, where he built successful high-performance remote engineering teams. On the podcast, Francis would love to talk about: ● The importance of the “inner game” for CTOs and VPEs at scaling startups. ● The critical impact of culture when you’re scaling your team fast. ● Psychological safety and mutual accountability as the pillars of a high-performance team. ● Francis shares his best tips to stay effective and make an impact at every stage of being a startup CTO or VPE. To get a sense of Francis, here’s an interview he did with the CTO Craft, where he explains why even the most experienced tech leaders can benefit from a coach.