Matt Hunter

Hunter Consulting

Location: Boulder, Colorado

Sweetspot: Supports founders and CEOs at a range of stages in growing their businesses, becoming great leaders, and building winning cultures. Leadership development, conflict mediation, strategy, fundraising, enterprise sales, culture building, managing, recruiting, and navigating mental health as a leader; trained with and inspired by the Harvard Negotiation Project, Ivey Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nonviolent Communication, The Enneagram, The Hoffman Process, Conscious Leadership Group, Katie & Gay Hendricks, Co-Active Training Institute, Buddhism, Men’s Work, and The Inner Game

Style: Integrates years of athletic training in college basketball, tournament golf, and ultra-endurance events into coaching

Impact work: Led Founders Pledge from 2017–20, an organization for high-impact giving that has raised over $10 billion for charity from startup founders

C-level experience: 15 years founding and leading companies, most notably co-founding Turnstyle (acquired by Yelp) and as president and CEO of Founders Pledge

Newsletter: The Unlock

Connect: hello@matthunter.co

Challenge: “The need to embrace toughness. The recent prevailing narrative emphasizes consciousness, empathy, and balance. While valuable, this message is incomplete. The pendulum has swung too far. Conversely, they hear stories of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos and wonder, ‘Do I need to be a jerk to be successful?’”

Fix: “Tease out what is tough, strong, and useful while leaving behind what’s negative and toxic. Learn to develop toughness while maintaining kindness and fairness. You do not need to be a jerk to be successful, but you do need to be tough.” —Matt Hunter

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