For founders and the investors who back them
You started the company. We help your team share the load.
The product, the customers, and the next round are yours to win. Symphony 100 partners with you on how your team works together as it grows. You keep the calls only a founder can make, and your team learns to make the rest. We bring Chaos to Alignment™ for Startups, our online course for founders, plus Everything DiSC®, The Five Behaviors®, and the workshops we run for your team. If you invest in startups, we can work with the companies you back, so friction on a founding team gets worked through before it reaches the board.
We started a company too
Frank November founded Symphony 100 in 2023, after years in senior HR roles and in management consulting for high-tech companies. So we know the founder’s week from the inside: the hire you needed last month, the board update due on Friday, the decision that waits until you’re back from a customer meeting, and the conversation with your co-founder that you’ve already postponed twice.
Imagine you hired a head of sales six months ago, and everything on paper checked out. You ask for the numbers behind the forecast, your head of sales answers with the story of each deal, and your weekly meeting ends in the same argument every time. You’re both good at your jobs, but you make decisions in very different ways, and neither of you has said so out loud. On a small team, losing a senior hire sets the company back by months.
Our part is to help you and your team deal with friction like this early, so the people you hired stay with the company.
Six ways to help your team grow with the company
Pick one or several, in whatever order suits your team. Everything runs online, so it fits around the work.
Take the course on your own time
Chaos to Alignment™ for Startups has eight modules on trust, decisions, accountability, and the conversations you’ve been avoiding. The course follows a 30-day plan that you carry out with your own team.
See your own style first
In a live 90-minute online workshop, you get an Everything DiSC Workplace® on Catalyst™ profile of your own and find out how you like to make decisions and work with others, before your team takes the assessment.
Give the team a common language
Each person on your team takes the Everything DiSC® assessment and gets a profile on Catalyst™. The profiles stay there, so two people who clash can compare their styles side by side months later, and new hires learn the same language as soon as they join.
Have us run the workshop
A Certified Everything DiSC® Practitioner from our team prepares the workshop and runs it live online, with the profiles and a team report included. You take part with your team instead of running the session.
Work on the leadership team as a whole
The Five Behaviors® Team Development works with your leadership team on trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results, in online sessions over two to three months. It’s built for a team that has been together for at least six weeks.
Offer the course across your portfolio
Each founder you back can take the course and work through its 30-day plan with their own team. Take the course yourself, and your conversations with founders about their teams start from a common language.
What changes when your team works well together
Your team knows which calls are theirs to make, so the work keeps moving while you’re with a customer or an investor, and your calendar has room for what only you can do.
Friction between your first employees and the senior people you hire above them comes up while it’s still small, so you don’t lose the people who know the product best.
As the company grows, you can shape each role around the working style of the person who holds it, before a poor fit turns into a resignation.
Your leadership team can tell investors how its members work together and how they settle disagreements, with real examples from recent months.
Start with the details, or start with a conversation
The founders and investors page in the shop lays out every option, with prices and how to sign up. A twenty-minute discovery call with Frank settles where to begin, for your own team or for the companies you back.
Everything DiSC® measures style, not ability or performance. It is not a selection or evaluation tool, and Symphony 100 does not use it to screen candidates or to assess founders before an investment.