For twenty years I led organizations — as a CEO, an executive director, a board chair, and the attorney who structured the partnerships underneath them. I raised the capital, ran the teams, and sat through the meetings where a company outgrew the way its founders led it. I also did the other work: breathwork, nonviolent communication, men’s work, martial arts — not as hobbies, but because at a certain level the job is not technical. It is whether you can hold the pressure you asked for.
What I learned is simple and rarely said: a deal can be structured perfectly and still fail because of how someone shows up inside it. Partners don’t break over strategy. They break over the conversation they never had.
Triplicity is executive coaching for founders, partners, and co-leaders moving through change — a succession, an exit, a new co-founder dynamic, a season of fast growth. Presence-led and practical: lead yourself first, then lead together. Fit-first, starting small, building from there.
Triplicity is one of four practices under Vault Human — a family of companies built so one relationship can hold a whole life: the legal, the financial, the human, and the lasting. The essay that started it is called The Fracture.
— Russ Michaels
