David Ausdahl
Growth Partner | Strategist | Leadership Developer
Let's build:
Let's build:
A role that you love
Your role, redesigned for you.
A team that's got this
Your team, capable, aligned, delivering.
A business that thrives
Your business, working for you.
Not the other way around.
Not the other way around.
Growth Partner | Strategist | Leadership Developer
Stop just doing work. Start growing the future.
Hi, I'm David.
I help other Founders and CEOs to build leadership capacity, high performance teams, and accelerate strategic growth.
I help in three key ways:
- As your Growth Partner, I build the future with you. From root to Fruit.
- In Executive Leadership Coaching, we focus together on Leadership Alignment, Strategic Direction, and High Performance Execution.
- As a leadership developer with your team, we build capacity and level up everything through building leaders that build the business. Training in-house or just send some folks to my scheduled classes and cohorts.
Get Growing | Align, Strategize, and Execute | Build a team that delivers
Stop just doing work. Start growing the future.
© 2025, David Ausdahl II
Growth Partnership
My signature role is as your trusted Growth Partner.
Imagine you had a scalable business partner, committed to championing your highest good.
In it for you. In it with you.
First we get aligned in heart and mission. Next, we design a growth strategy and decide the goals. Then we execute: a full-stack roll-out of strategy, coaching, training, and tools across the business.
In it for you. In it with you.
First we get aligned in heart and mission. Next, we design a growth strategy and decide the goals. Then we execute: a full-stack roll-out of strategy, coaching, training, and tools across the business.
Growth Partnership is for those who want a system-wide force multiplier to clarify and accelerate the pace of growth.
Executive Coaching
Personalized tailored support to elevate your leadership and business
Team Development
Build cohesive, high-performing teams aligned with your vision
Strategic Development
Chart your course from where you are to where you want to be
Leadership Advances
Retreats, events, and monthly classes to deep dive in leadership essentials
Focused. No Fluff: I am building my own businesses too. There's no time for theory or maybes. I only use what works, drawing from 150+ proven tools to implement tailored measurable solutions. Excellent tools will scale to any level. I bring what's worked for Delta Airlines, Nike, and Chik-Fil-A to work for you.
Scalable Support: I limit Growth partnerships to only 3-5 at a time. This exclusivity means reassurance for you that you have continuity of support and a scalable partner who's aligned and ready to drive with you.
© 2025, David Ausdahl II
Strategic Direction
If you're not yet living at the 30,000 ft view, let's work together to level up everything to get you there.
If you are already at cruising altitude, you're already poised. Let's launch that next big thing.
Elevation to 30,000ft View
I provide tailored strategic support to elevate perspective to the 30,000ft view, identify the key moves to be made, and develop strategies for delivery.
Executive Growth
From Executive Coaching to Strategic Retreats or managing your Strategic Meeting Cadence, I am a growth partner for you to get to elevation now. And stay there.
Role [re]Design
It's time to focus on doing what only you can do. Strategic Direction often involves role clarity adjustments and role redesign. As you go higher first, you level others up across the business too.
"We started with an impossible design brief. We got the right people in the room. Together we saw solutions no one thought possible, and we made it happen!"
I love Innovation. The courage to do big things in the world is found in only a precious few. If you've got it, grow it.
I can't believe some of the things I've seen made. Out of thin air. A dream, some determination, and a process to make it happen.
I am a believer: A relentless optimist in the potential of people to innovate new things for the world.
© 2025, David Ausdahl II
About Me
Nice to meet you! Here's a few milestones from my journey. There's more in the expanded Bio.
Early Beginnings
I grew up in a remote wilderness town, 500 miles from the nearest road system. Out there, survival means working hard to make your own luck. Mom and dad had the courage and resolve to start multiple businesses. From 5 years old I worked every summer in them, learning the founder's journey from start up to scale up. Business wasn't just business, it was survival.
26 Years of Experience
Over the past 26 years as I've worked all over the world growing my own companies and coaching CEOs and founders, I noticed a troubling pattern: while many leaders start well and some do figure out how to continue well, very few actually make it to the finish line successful. Going by the official numbers, only 1/3 stay on the course to success. Added to that, most ventures that they lead also fail.
The Turning Point
"Someone has to do something about this!"
My turning point came 15 years ago, when I realized we were losing more leaders than we kept, and most businesses fail. Somebody has to act! I'm by no means the only one, but I knew it was my mission. So, I committed to change the numbers on leader and business survival. I certified as a coach, got my post-grad in leadership development, and began helping leaders to change course toward finishing well.
My turning point came 15 years ago, when I realized we were losing more leaders than we kept, and most businesses fail. Somebody has to act! I'm by no means the only one, but I knew it was my mission. So, I committed to change the numbers on leader and business survival. I certified as a coach, got my post-grad in leadership development, and began helping leaders to change course toward finishing well.
Leading for Good
Whether building my own companies or those of my partners just like you, my mission is to develop leadership for good.
Good that matters.
Good that scales.
Good that lasts.
Generational legacy from your business don't happen by accident. Thriving happens by design.
My mission is to build leaders that last through targeted partnership and support to get everything and everyone aligned to the path of sustainable growth.
At any given time I work with a handful of CEOs and Founders in the areas of Strategic Direction, Alignment, Growth and Innovation, and People Development.
© 2025, David Ausdahl II
Take the Next Step
Stop just doing work. Start growing the future.
Ok, it's go time. If you made it all the way here, maybe it's time to have a chat!
A role that you love
Your role, redesigned for you.
A team that's got this
Your team, capable, aligned, delivering.
A business that thrives
Your business, working for you.
Not the other way around.
Not the other way around.
Who I Work With
In leadership development, I work with leaders around the world to level up leadership through trainings, tools, and short sprints to implement simple, scalable, and sustainable solutions.
As a Growth Partner or Executive Coach, I partner in selective longer term engagements with a handful of CEOs/Founders at a time. This keeps you as my focus so that we can scale support according to your needs.
I'd love to hear from you. Share your details and I'll get in touch when the next slot opens up.
Before You Contact Me
Just like any meeting, the impact of a conversation is determined by what we bring in with us.
If you make use of the Free Clarity Assessment before you get in touch, you will be armed with deep insights into what is priority for you. This can be a big big help.
If you make use of the Free Clarity Assessment before you get in touch, you will be armed with deep insights into what is priority for you. This can be a big big help.
Should we work together, the first task is to scope and design the goal. The assessment pre-work accelerates that process by anchoring our conversation in a data-driven framework.
Should we not work together, you've won a lot of insights for yourself from a small investment of time.
Training Opportunities
Leadership is influence, and we all have a measure of it. And we all can increase it.
Are you intentional and growing in every area of your leadership?
Yes, leadership capacities can be increased. Those I have worked with have audiences anywhere from 1 to tens of thousands - the principles are the same:
Yes, leadership capacities can be increased. Those I have worked with have audiences anywhere from 1 to tens of thousands - the principles are the same:
- Who we are as leaders and how we show up can always be developed more.
- When we lead ourselves first, others start to follow.
Consider joining my regular series of leadership training events.
From monthly classes to group coaching and masterminds, there is certainly a place for you.
Complete the clarity assessment to highlight your training needs, and then just mention training when you reach out.
I will never sell your information. By providing your info you are giving consent for me to contact you by phone, text, and email.
© 2025, David Ausdahl II
Stop just doing work. Start growing the future.
A role that you love
Your role, redesigned for you.
A team that's got this
Your team, capable, aligned, delivering.
A business that thrives
Your business, working for you.
Not the other way around.
Not the other way around.
© 2025, David Ausdahl II
Expanded Bio
A role that you love
Your role, redesigned for you.
A team that's got this
Your team, capable, aligned, delivering.
A business that thrives
Your business, working for you.
Not the other way around.
Not the other way around.
David Ausdahl
Experienced Leader, Chief Executive, Leadership and Business Development Professional
David is an experienced growth partner to develop sustainable, lasting growth. His purpose is to develop leaders and their ventures to thrive and to last. Working in close partnership with primarily founders and chief executives, David focuses on leadership development and strategic integrated growth.
Over the past 26 years David has served as Director on several boards, founded companies, and served as a Chief Executive growing a manufacturing company exporting to 40+ countries.
As a certified leadership coach and mentor for 16 years David has coached, mentored, and developed teams around the world. His practical and data-driven approach uses over 150+ resources in a tool-based approach to increase clarity, focus, and deliver rapid and efficient solutions.
While David holds a Master’s in Global Leadership from Fuller Graduate School, his most valuable education is every minute working shoulder to shoulder with others in their businesses. This began just over 40 years ago at age 5, working with his parents to start and grow their rural small businesses. From commercial fishing to transportation to property development, his childhood school-of-hard-knocks MBA taught him a strong work ethic, a belief in the power of innovation, and a relentless commitment to help others build their ventures and succeed.
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Hi, my name is David Ausdahl.
I grew up in a remote wilderness town, 500 miles from the nearest road system. Out there, survival means working hard to make your own luck. Mom and dad had the courage and resolve to start multiple businesses. From 5 years old I worked every summer with them, learning the founder’s journey from start up to scale up. Business wasn’t just business, it was survival.
This taught me a deep respect for every leader, every business owner, who decides to make something new.
Many people can spot a need and say, “someone should do something about this!”
The leader, the entrepreneur, sees that same gap and say “ I will do something about this,” then does whatever it takes to make something new in the world.
Over the past 26 years as I’ve worked all over the world growing my own companies and coaching CEOs and founders, I noticed a troubling pattern: while many leaders start well and some do figure out how to continue well, very few actually make it to the finish line successful. Going by the official numbers, only 1/3 stay on the course to success. In any given room of leaders, the odds are that 2/3 are probably already headed in the wrong direction in some fundamental way.
This preventable problem leads to significant unnecessary losses: great ventures end up failing, good products and services cease, unemployment, strains on family, not to mention impact to the wider community and investor losses. With most businesses failing before their 10th birthday, we’re losing way more than we keep.
My turning point came 15 years ago, when I realized that we were losing more leaders than we kept, and that somebody must do something about this! So, I decided that somebody had to start with me. I committed to change the numbers on leader and business survival. I certified as a coach, got my post-grad in leadership development, and began helping leaders to change course toward finishing well. I started working with leaders around the world and have met some amazing, sacrificial, generous human beings in the process. It’s truly a privilege to work with leaders who want to lead for good.
Leading for good is everything to me. Leading with excellence, for the good of people, to contribute something meaningful to the world, and to lead something that lasts for good beyond ourselves.
Having walked the path myself, and as I continue to build my own businesses, today it’s my focus to lock arms with other business leaders to get aligned to the path of sustainable growth. I typically work with a handful of CEOs and Founders at a time, in the areas of Strategic Direction, Operational Integrity, Growth and Innovation, and People Development.
© 2025, David Ausdahl II
For Coaches
Mentor Coaching
As coaches, the time our clients invest in us is a sacred trust. Theirs is the most valuable time in the business.
We owe it to ourselves, and them, to keep raising the bar of excellence in the coaching space.
And we all need support.
We know the power of coaching: I'll never forget the first time I experienced it. I knew there was no going back.
But we also know there's a lot out there that's…meh.
Those who talk the talk but haven't walked it.
What set us apart is simple…execution. Can we deliver, at a higher and higher level?
I know that I am so thankful for the many accomplished coaches who have invested in me over the years.
I am privileged to do the same.
As a mentor coach I work with a limited number of coaches in 30, 60, or 90 day coaching level up sprints.
You know the drill, I don't need to tell you.
Come hungry, come ready.
Short, high impact sessions.
Elevate your Practice, Learn New Tools.
Deliver better every day.
Short, high impact sessions.
Elevate your Practice, Learn New Tools.
Deliver better every day.
These short, high impact engagements are designed to accelerate and compound your practice.
And when you're a Trusted Coach through our mentor coaching relationship, I'm delighted to refer and recommend.
Feel free to Get in touch
5 Voices Certification
Whether Gallup, Table Group, DISC, MBTI…the right tools in our toolkit make all the difference.
If you haven't already added 5 Voices to your coaching toolkit, do it now:
If you haven't already added 5 Voices to your coaching toolkit, do it now:
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Not sure? The 5 Voices Badge is a step one credential that will give you everything you need to know to decide if certification is for you.
© 2025, David Ausdahl II