Alisa CohnExecutive Coach, Author of From Start-up to Grown-up

Dennis Crowley, Foursquare: What's it like to work with Alisa

23 Jun 2017 · 1 min

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In this reflective segment, Dennis Crowley outlines three major ways Alisha Cohn helped him and the Foursquare leadership team. First, she introduced the concept of the "first team," encouraging the management group to see themselves as a unified, primary team. Second, she facilitated clear delineation of roles and responsibilities across the organization, improving accountability. Third, during Crowley's transition from CEO to executive chair, Alisha guided him through a "drawing a finish line" process, helping him define the point at which he could comfortably hand over day‑to‑day operations to a new CEO. The discussion emphasizes executive coaching, team alignment, and structured leadership transition.

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You know, in working with Alisa, there was, you know, there was, I think, 3 big things that we were able to work through during that time. And the first was really getting the, you know, getting the management team to work together. And I remember the term being the first team, like getting the management team to think of itself as the first team. The second was to have a clear delineation of roles and responsibilities. The big one for me was, you know, during my transition from being the CEO of this company to being the executive chair and putting another CEO in place, you know, Alisa was helpful for me in what she called the process of drawing a finish line. Like, what does it look like to get to the point where I'm comfortable handing off day-to-day responsibility of the company to someone else? And that was, you know, like a personal journey for me and a personal strategy I had to come up with, and she was instrumental in helping me figure out how to do that.

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