Founder Coaching
Confidential coaching for founders, co-founders, and owner-operators navigating scale, succession, board dynamics, delegation, identity shifts, and the transition from hands-on operator to leader of leaders.
Strengthen leadership capacity, decision-making, and execution with confidential executive coaching built for Portland founders, CEOs, and senior teams. EVP Leadership helps leaders perform under pressure, recover from burnout, delegate effectively, and build operating discipline—especially in growth-stage, founder-led, and purpose-driven organizations navigating complexity in Portland’s evolving business landscape.

Structured coaching and leadership conditioning for executives, founders, teams, and business owners facing high-pressure growth.
Confidential coaching for founders, co-founders, and owner-operators navigating scale, succession, board dynamics, delegation, identity shifts, and the transition from hands-on operator to leader of leaders.
A proprietary 90-day leadership conditioning program that builds emotional capacity, decision integrity, execution discipline, and consistent performance under pressure for executives and leadership teams.
On-demand intensive coaching for high-stakes moments such as leadership transitions, financial distress, operational rupture, reputational events, rapid growth strain, and urgent executive decision-making.
Coaching and operating-system design to help leaders delegate cleanly, establish accountability rhythms, move decisions down the organization, and break founder-bottleneck patterns.
Facilitated executive offsites, team alignment workshops, leadership retreats, board governance sessions, and conflict-resolution engagements designed to build trust, clarity, and psychological safety.
Private executive coaching for leaders experiencing overload, decision fatigue, declining capacity, poor recovery rhythms, and unsustainable operating patterns that erode leadership effectiveness.

We begin with a confidential scoping conversation to identify the real leadership constraint, whether it is burnout, decision fatigue, delegation breakdown, team misalignment, or growth pressure common among Portland’s founder-led and mid-size organizations.
EVP Leadership conditions leaders to perform with clarity, discipline, and resilience under pressure.
Over 35 years working with C-suite executives, small businesses, and founder-led organizations.
The 90-day PressurePoint System helps Portland leaders make disciplined decisions under complexity.
Coaching addresses identity, scale, delegation, governance, and succession realities unique to founders.
Virtual coaching with periodic in-person intensives supports busy Portland executives and distributed teams.
Experienced advisors for executives, founders, and leadership teams.

Founder
Gennifer Baker is a C-level executive consultant and Founder of EVP Leadership, bringing more than 30 years of experience in business strategy and leadership development. Since 2009, she has advised thousands of entrepreneurs and executive teams, helping them increase profitability, strengthen operations, and build systems designed for lasting growth. Gennifer specializes in strategic planning and leadership capacity, with a strong emphasis on aligning day-to-day operations to long-term business goals. Her disciplined, results-driven approach empowers small business owners and executives to navigate complexity, make confident decisions, and scale with intention. Known for treating every engagement as a true strategic partnership, Gennifer is committed to creating meaningful, sustainable change rather than short-term fixes.

Leadership Facilitator
Teri Evans is a Leadership Facilitator at EVP Leadership, bringing a uniquely diverse background spanning healthcare, education, athletics, and organizational leadership. Her career began in music therapy, where she designed therapeutic workshops and piloted a music therapy program in pediatric oncology and cardiac units at Mayo Clinic's Children's Hospital. This foundational work cultivated a leadership philosophy rooted in listening, psychological safety, and experiential growth. Teri has since expanded her expertise to youth development, nonprofit governance, and executive leadership, consistently helping teams strengthen communication and build trust. As founder of Care By Air, LLC, she also demonstrates her entrepreneurial spirit. At EVP Leadership, Teri helps clients develop presence, clarity, and purpose-driven performance.
Executive leadership coaching is a confidential development engagement for senior leaders who need stronger clarity, capacity, and execution. At EVP Leadership, coaching focuses on practical leadership conditioning: decision-making under pressure, communication, delegation, accountability, resilience, and operating discipline. It is designed for CEOs, founders, presidents, COOs, managing partners, and executive teams.
Talk confidentially with EVP Leadership about your goals and pressure points.
Proprietary framework for leadership under pressure.
Advising entrepreneurs and executive teams.
Over 35 years supporting business leaders.
Share your leadership challenge, transition, or team goal. EVP Leadership will respond with a confidential next step and the right engagement path.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at (833) 991-0991. You can also send us a quick email at info@evpleadership.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at (833) 991-0991. You can also send us a quick email at info@evpleadership.com.