As a founder, every time your business grows, your role changes too.
That’s part of the fun and challenge of the journey. Especially, if you love continually learning like we do.
We’ve run 500+ workshops and guided 70+ founders through making changes to sustain their business growth, we’ve made a powerful observation:
It’s not you showing up as chief fire-fighting officer that’s most valuable to your business. It’s when you’re in a role that aligns with your strengths, interests, and the skills you want to develop—that your business gets stronger too.
The catch: your business needs to support you getting into this role in the first place. So let’s make that happen.
We’re here to work with you personally through shaping your business, your role, and your teams’ roles in new phases of growth. Then, guide you to set the tone for a great workplace and lead your team successfully.
It’s time to go from being all over the place to everything clicking into place.
We’ll work well together if you align with the following:
Service-based businesses
Social enterprises
Online and digital businesses
Subscription, retainer, or membership businesses
1 to 30 team members (usually a mix of freelancers, vendors and/or employees)
Has active buyers (clients/members/subscribers)
You working in it, as the founder, as your main professional focus right now
Usually remote or hybrid workplace
We’re here to help you grow and/or evolve what you already have. So we aren’t the right fit if you’re just starting out.
UX, Technology, and Software Engineering
Health, Nutrition, Wellness, and Counselling
Landscape and Interior Design
Travel and Leisure
Finance and Bookkeeping
Marketing and Design
Climate Action and Environmental Sciences
Violence Prevention and Response
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Online Education and Training
To show up at your best as CEO takes having the headspace and skill to think strategically and lead relationally—to make the right choices to orient your business and team in the right direction.
And continually make sure they keep working well together as you scale.
Here are the areas we can guide you through to do this:
Business Strategy
So many problems, so little time. What should you and your team be doing? We’ll figure that out.
We’ll weigh competing priorities and help you decide what’ll make the biggest impact to move you forward without stretching yourself or your team too thin.
Business and Workplace Design
At every new stage, all the moving parts of your business: culture, structure, roles, skills, people need to reset to stay in sync.
We’ll help you see how to fit the pieces together to keep working as effectively and efficiently as possible and create a delightful experience for clients and team members as you keep growing.
Strategy Execution Facilitation
Once we set your direction, we’ll map out the action steps to get there. But we don’t create static plans that crumble when they make contact with reality.
We’ll help you define concrete, rolling, action steps that are flexible and adaptable in response to real-world feedback and align with your bigger picture vision. Tall order, but we got you.
Founder-CEO Training and Tools
We constantly get told to: delegate, delegate, delegate (what you hate) in entrepreneurial spaces. What about what we need to do to get better at our jobs as CEO?
We’ll train you on the 3 core essential skill sets, you’ll need to succeed as Founder-CEO. These will help you implement any strategy, step-by-step plans, we create together.
Founder and Business Strategist
“Hi! I’m Monisha.
I’ve found that as a founder, you play an influential role in the lives of others. And, that you have the job of making tough business choices—almost daily when your business really starts to grow.
I’ve run 500+ workshops and strategized with 70+ founders and executives to help them lead and think strategically to make smarter, more cohesive, choices to grow their businesses. Importantly, a business and culture that stays in integrity with their personal values. Basically, guiding them to tune out the noise and pave your own way forward. Which sounds simple but it’s actually really challenging to do as a leader with many competing priorities, outside voices, risk and uncertainty, moving pieces to consider, and impact of your decisions flowing to many people.
At m times v, I’ve developed structured, guided programs that are designed for each founder and executive team we work with to fit their needs and personalities. To do so, I combine business strategy, and business architecture with a restorative lens. I’ve spent 7+ years honing my craft through practical experience, consistent studying, getting feedback from mentors, and completing rigorous training and certifications. (I’m a bit of a nerd. I love what I get to do every day!)
My perspectives on business scaling and the role of a founder have been quoted in Business Insider, Forbes, NASDAQ, Hubspot’s The Hustle, and Create and Cultivate. One of the best compliments I’ve gotten was when the journalist who interviewed me for the Business Insider said it was exciting that I had such a different perspective on these topics.
I have an optimistic (yet grounded) belief that business can be a vehicle for solving some of our biggest problems as a society.
Before m times v, I founded Ruam Chuay Foundation, a social enterprise that delivers relationship violence interruption programs in schools and organizations in Thailand. At Ruam Chuay, I steered the vision and strategy, led the team, and designed training programs that have been delivered to over 1600+ people in small group settings. And of course, there was no shortage of tough choices that had to be made as we built this. But those are stories I’ll save for a virtual tea/coffee chat. :)
That’s enough about me! I much prefer putting our clients front and center and love getting to know other founders and leaders. Do reach out and send me a message if you’d like to just like to nerd out and connect or are interested in exploring working with us.
Thoughtfully,
Monisha
Founder, Phern Education Studios
“Words cannot express how amazing it has been working with Monisha. When I first started working with her, I had been in business for about a year and a half - had tried several coaching programs - and still felt like I was throwing spaghetti against the wall when it came to structuring my business in a way that would lead to sustainable growth.
Monisha went through every last piece of documentation that I had created thus far - my previous offers, notes, website, initial business plans, social media, just everything - and was able to take me through a structured process that has given me the foundation of a business that I can actually see myself scaling over the next however many years!
I couldn’t have asked for a better guide to take me through this journey. She went above and beyond and blew all of my expectations out of the water. All of the activities we did in the workshops were geared towards helping bring out the best in me and were designed to fit my learning and working style. It was truly a co-creative process which I absolutely loved. I am so happy with the final outcomes of my time with Monisha.
I 1000000% recommend Monisha to every founder who wants to build a sustainable business!!”
Founder/Principal, Lily Spruce
I reached out to Monisha because I was lacking some big picture focus and proactive thinking about taking my business to the next level.
But to what level?
That was what Monisha and I worked on! She's a great listener and can synthesized and organized my roaming thoughts, bringing things into focus in a very visual way.
I wasn't sure what "growth strategy" was, but I understand it more fully now: ensuring that there is direction in your day-to-day, and year-to-year.
It also means creating a solid work culture for employees and contractors, and providing systems and clarity for all those involved with your business.
Working with Monisha is about facing the underside of your company so that the leveling up is intentional, and considered, and not reactionary.
It was a deep investment in the future of my business, and I'm happy to report, well worth it.
Director, Defend Yourself
Working with Monisha was a joy. She's wicked smart about this stuff.
She was super organized, encouraging, a good communicator, and a great navigator of the process.
At every point I felt I was in good hands and excited to do whatever came next!
The organization will grow and thrive because of the ways Monisha supported this work.
Founder, Digital Nomad Girls
“I decided it was finally time to work with Monisha after I had a close brush with burnout. I had been running my business for over 5 years but for a couple of years, I felt very stuck like I wasn’t making any progress anymore and I was tired of trying to figure out what to change by myself.
I was nervous about working with a strategist because I was a bit ashamed of the „state“ my business was in, I felt like I should be further ahead and that it was very chaotic. It’s quite a vulnerable thing to let someone see fully behind the scenes but I am so glad I did. Monisha was nothing but professional and helpful from the very first moment we even talked about working together, I felt fully supported and taken care of.
The audit felt quite intense because I shared everything with Monisha, all the plans and mess I had created over years, I didn’t hold back. It was absolutely fascinating to me how Monisha could work with everything I shared with her and come out with a few simple but incredibly powerful observations about my business, its strengths and also the challenges I was facing. I felt so understood and supported, it was incredible.
During the workshops, Monisha managed to walk me through all aspects of my business, from the big vision to financial goals, down to the day-to-day operations and she helped me make crucial decisions that I had been putting off for years. Not only did I make the decisions, but I also felt 100% secure and confident in them. I still do now.
What struck me most is how kind and fun Monisha is to work with. We covered so much ground but I never felt overwhelmed or rushed or pushed in a direction I didn’t want to go down. Monisha is incredibly smart, she lives and breathes strategy and has a deep understanding of business. But she also cares so much about her clients, I could feel at every step of our work together that her main goal was to create a strategy that truly worked for me and my business and the way I want to work.
I was also very impressed by how Monisha took into account my personality, way of learning and processing information. I have ADHD and very early on was a little worried whether the plans we’d make wouldn’t be feasible for me, but Monisha took all of this into account and I had absolutely nothing to worry about.
I can’t remember the last time I felt so clear about where I want to take my business and what I have to do in order to get there. Actually, I never felt this clear in over 6 years. I’m not only excited about where I am going but also really proud of how far I got so far, and that is because of Monisha and seeing my business through her eyes.
If you’ve been running your business by yourself for a while and feel overwhelmed or stuck, then I 100% recommend working with Monisha. The only thing I regret is not working with Monisha sooner, I know it sounds cheesy but it’s true.
This was one of the very best investments I have ever made in my business and I know we will work together again soon!”