BUILD YOU FIRST ✷
BUILD YOU FIRST ✷
COACHING FOR FOUNDERS
Coaching for founders who are ready to lead on their own terms
Most founders don't have a strategy problem.
They have a self-trust problem that looks like a strategy problem.
More strategy won't fix it. More tools won't fix it. More pushing won't fix it.
You already know your business. What you've lost somewhere along the way is trust in your own judgement, so every decision gets second-guessed, every yes gets over-thought, and the whole thing runs on effort instead of conviction.
We don't build the business first. We build you first, then we build the business. We get underneath what's really keeping you stuck, look at how you're actually wired, and turn that into decisions you make with conviction.
That's what coaching with HelmCrew does.
“I came in overwhelmed and unclear on where to focus. Niki gave me a completely different perspective, and I left with extreme clarity.”
Gracia H., Stylist & Elegance Coach
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Systems on the outside. Self-trust on the inside.
The strategy is rarely the missing piece. Most capable founders already know what to do. What's missing is trusting themselves to actually do it, without the second-guessing, the people-pleasing, the quiet sense that everyone else's needs come first.
That's the inner work.
And when it shifts, everything on the outside gets easier. How you price. How you decide. Who you say yes to. The business stops running on adrenaline and starts running on you, the calm, clear version of you that was there the whole time.
How Transformational Coaching Works
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01 / See what's actually keeping you stuck
Most of what holds a capable founder back lives underneath the surface, in beliefs and patterns you keep circling without quite seeing. We start by getting underneath it, so you're working on the real thing and not the symptom. Tarot comes in here where it helps, as a mirror that brings the pattern into the open so we can look at it together.
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02 / Understand how you're built
You've probably been trying to lead like someone you're not. We look at how you're actually wired, your strengths, your decision-making style, your energy, with Human Design as one of the tools. You come away knowing what to lean into, what to stop forcing, and how to make decisions that actually fit you.
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03 / Lead from within
This is where the inner shift becomes real in the business. You start deciding with conviction, you stop losing hours to overthinking, and you lead with a steady, calm energy that changes how the whole thing feels, and who it attracts.
A simple test to see if you need alignment:
→ Do you trust your own decisions, or do you talk yourself out of them?
→ Does your business run on your judgement, or on everyone else's expectations?
→ How many hours a week do you lose to second-guessing?
If those answers aren't where you'd like them yet, that's the work.
Client Results
A few of the results we've built with clients. Every business is different, so these are real individual outcomes, not a promise.
A client 3.5x-ed their monthly revenue in eight months.
Others have grown 6x, and as much as 24x, all from repositioning and a sharper offer.
8x, and finally consistent. A client went from erratic, founder-driven income to steady, self-running revenue.
A revenue stream that runs itself. For one client, a new income line built to run on its own and doesn't have to manage.
Ways to Work Together
Choose the one that suits you and your business
1:1 COACHING
Transformational Coaching
Best if: you want to work through one specific thing you're trying to move forward, privately, at your own pace.
Three months together, around six sessions, meeting every other week, with homework and support in between. We build the whole thing around one goal you want to achieve in your business or career, and I weave in tarot and Human Design as tools to get underneath what's really going on. You leave able to make the call yourself, not just this time but the next time too.
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GROUP COACHING
Wired to Lead
Best if: you want to do this alongside a small group of women founders, over a structured twelve weeks, following a proven path.
A twelve-week group programme for women founders, built around four movements: unlearn the conditioning, know your wiring, put down the load, lead from within. A small founding cohort, so it's curated by application rather than open enrolment. You keep the tools you build, forever.
[ See the programme → ]
Who this is for
✔️ You're capable and committed, but leading from doubt more than trust
✔️ You want to work through something real, not collect more advice
✔️ You're open to intuitive tools like tarot and Human Design as part of how we work
✔️ You want your decisions to feel like yours again
✔️ You're ready to look underneath the surface, not just tweak the tactics
Who it’s not for
❌ You want someone to hand you a plan to execute. That's consulting, and I do that too, separately.
❌ You're looking to the cards for prediction or certainty, rather than reflection
❌ You're not open to the inner work, or to intuitive tools as part of it
❌ You want a quick fix rather than a real shift
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"Niki helped me take a step back and get clarity on where I’m spending a lot of time that I’d rather spend elsewhere, and pushed me to think about making these more efficient in future. Highly recommend."
—Shub S., Canvas of Calm
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"I came in overwhelmed by too many offers and unclear on where to focus. Niki gave me a completely different perspective on my services, pricing, and positioning, and I left with extreme clarity."
— Gracia H., Stylist & Elegance Coach
About
I spent eighteen years driving growth across APAC, in fintech, connectivity and SaaS, and in agencies before that. I've owned revenue and built go-to-market from the ground up: at a global eSIM brand, work I led helped cut acquisition costs by 90% and triple revenue; in my agency years, I won and ran accounts like Singapore Airlines and Singtel. Thirty-odd industry awards along the way.
But I was always a bit of an odd-ball about it, because I couldn't get behind grow-at-all-costs. I'd watched what that relentless push quietly costs, the weekends, the health, the reason you started the thing in the first place, and I didn't want to keep calling that success.
So I built HelmCrew to do it the other way.
I still know how to drive serious growth. What I care about now is a different question: is a business actually growing, or only getting heavier? I build the first kind, with founder-led businesses and the early-stage founders I mentor at BLOCK71.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Offer Clinic is a fixed fee.
Project work is scoped and quoted once we've named what's needed, and fractional is a monthly retainer.
I'd rather price the actual work than quote a number that doesn't fit your situation, so an Offer Clinic or a quick enquiry is the fastest route to a real figure.
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Depends on how we work. The Offer Clinic is 90 minutes.
Projects have a clear start and end, scoped to the work.
Fractional is ongoing, month to month, for founders who want it run rather than advised on.
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That's normal, and it's exactly what the Offer Clinic is for. We diagnose what's actually stuck first, then you'll know whether you need a scoped project, ongoing hands, or just the clarity to take it from here yourself.
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I work with service-based founders and SMB and SaaS businesses that already have clients, revenue, and a proven model.
If you're pre-revenue or still testing the model, this isn't the right fit yet.
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Senior hands inside your business over time, leading the build as part of the team, without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
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I'm in Singapore and work with founders across the region.
A calm business doesn't happen by accident.
It gets built.
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