Ken Gavranovic

Co-authored Business Breakthrough 3.0 with Lee Atchison, an Amazon best seller on building and scaling a business. I also write for leaders through 100+ published articles and The Operator's Playbook newsletter.

I coach leaders of private equity-backed portfolio companies, or the leadership team as a unit, when ownership changes the job. A new leadership team that has not operated at this scale. The ninety days that have to stabilize before the sale. The sponsor just replaced your CEO and you are still here. Next round, or the exit.

I help leaders restart the transformation that stalled six months in, whether the change is happening at a fast-growing company or inside an 80-year-old corporate. The work turns strategy into clear priorities, owners and an operating rhythm that holds.

Through AGS, LLC I provide executive coaching, strategy and AI consulting to CEOs, founders and leadership teams. I bring an operator's view: I founded Interland and took it public on Nasdaq before it became Web.com, then served as EVP and GM at New Relic, VP of Engineering at Cox Automotive and COO at Blameless, across 35 M&A transactions and 18 exits. ICF Certified Coach and Certified Executive Coach. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, working with leaders remotely and in person.

I work with venture-backed founders who have all the drive and energy in the world and a company that now needs focus, priorities and a way to pair gut with data. Often the first real leadership team was hired faster than it gelled, and the next round or the sale is on the table.

I coach executives in their first quarter in a new seat, with a team that was not theirs yesterday. That includes taking over after the executive before you was fired, and the big presentation: the board, the investors, the all-hands. Stakeholder management and executive presence at the next level.