The following are some of my client testimonials. Since I assure my clients complete and absolute confidentiality, their names have been kept anonymous. However, if you are a prospective client who is seriously evaluating working with me, you are welcome to pick any two or three of these and I can connect you with the person whose testimonial is quoted below—they have all agreed to serve as personal references, and you can speak to them directly.
Yosi has been invaluable as my confidant and coach over the past twenty months as the company’s business grew to over $30M and I grew as its CEO and leader. Not only were Yosi and I able to build a strong relationship founded on deep trust, he has been a great sounding board—always able to listen, understand and offer practical advice whether it pertains to leading our organization, managing investors, working with the board, refining our sales strategies, or articulating our competitive strategy and differentiation. His advice has been practical and reflects his deep understanding of the real world and experience in building companies. In addition, Yosi is also highly emotionally perceptive and helped me tremendously by increasing my awareness and sensitivity to the dynamics of human interactions. Lastly, he has also been a great supporter in helping me manage my transition and work myself out of my job as the CEO. I would highly recommend Yosi as a coach for almost any CEO.
– CEO
I worked with Yosi as a coach for over two years and found him to be an incredibly helpful counselor on a wide variety of subjects from product or company strategy, to board dynamics, team leadership, and management issues. Yosi is particularly talented at understanding the human emotions that drive situations in early-stage companies and was able to help me work through challenges by seeing the perspective of other individuals on many occasions. When the company and I faced particularly challenging or urgent situations, I appreciated the additional time outside of our weekly sessions that Yosi took to help guide me to a successful outcome. I look forward to continuing to work with Yosi throughout my career, and absolutely recommend him to other CEOs.
– CEO
Having Yosi as a coach was invaluable. He really understands firsthand how to navigate situations that are critical to the success of a startup. Whether it is about building and managing a board, dealing with a difficult co-founder, managing investors, developing partnerships, maximizing shareholder value, or dealing with the pressures and stresses of the CEO job, his involvement was of great benefit. In summary, Yosi provides a platform for the CEO that is unique, unlike what any other advisors, board members or friends of the company can provide.
– CEO
Without Yosi our company, team, board, VC investors, and the millions of users we developed would have never been built.
– CEO
I walked into Yosi’s office ready to resign my CEO role and shut down the company. Six months later, I got the company sold, and Yosi’s coaching had a large part in making this happen. He has a unique ability to coach on practical business matters, and the subtle emotional intelligence issues, as well as the important challenges of balancing CEO’s work-life stress. I only wish I hired him earlier when things were going well. If I did, I might have avoided some of the darker moments in my journey altogether. If you are a first time CEO, having a coach is a must. You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain.
– CEO
Having founded and run two successful companies previously, I didn’t initially think I could get so much out of our coaching sessions. I was wrong. If there is one word I’d use to describe my benefits from working with Yosi, it would be greater ‘awareness.’ As a CEO being consciously aware of yourself, your environment, your team, emotions, values, intuitions, logic, allows you to be deliberate and aligned in your decision-making process, which ultimately allows you to make your best judgment in most situations.
– CEO
I have been a company founder and corporate executive, but I had never faced failure before. As a CEO I worked with Yosi for about nine months. Although he couldn’t save the company, he succeeded in something more important for my future: he helped me see it as a business failure, not a personal one. I don’t think I could have come to grips with the situation nearly as quickly and effectively if I hadn’t worked with Yosi.
– CEO
In this age of specialization, Yosi brings an integrative approach to leadership coaching. Drawing on his own experiences as an entrepreneur, CEO, board member, angel investor, and businessman, he incorporates the latest from the diverse disciplines of communications, emotional awareness, and personal growth to weave a net that any person in a leadership position would be wise to utilize. This net helps one excel on the way up and is indispensable for the occasional slip. Having worked with Yosi for over a year, I believe that Yosi’s personable and passionate interest in his clients makes this a must experience and resource for CEOs.
– CEO
As a CEO, I have known and relied on Yosi Amram’s input and counsel for over six years. As a former CEO, he knows the territory and has been through the ups and downs himself. I have been able to count on his insight, balance, and guidance as I needed— sometimes once a month at the calmer days, and sometimes several times a week during critical moments when his input and perspective were invaluable. What more can a CEO ask for in a confidant and a coach?
– CEO
Yosi Amram has been my business and personal advisor for five years. I started three companies during this period, successfully and unsuccessfully. Yosi’s coaching led me through the business challenges as well as helping me grow as an individual. His approach cultivates serenity and confidence. His advice helped me to stop, analyze and reflect, avoiding the danger of distress and burnout. His coaching helped me leave problems in the office and carry my drive and energy into other activities in my life.
– CEO
If I were a CEO, there is no person I’d rather have on my side than Yosi Amram. Yosi and I worked together at a venture capital firm, and subsequently I was an investor in his first start-up. Through these experiences, I’ve seen his full range of capabilities. Yosi is a master at business strategy, with the ability to address technology, market, and organizational issues in a deeply insightful way. He has great operating skills, having founded and been CEO of two successful start-ups. He is an expert on the venture capital and start-up world, and how the two interact. And he’s terrific person—caring, thoughtful, creative, and direct. In my own career, Yosi’s advice has been invaluable—as it will be for you.
– General Partner at top ten VC firm &
Former Director of the National Venture Capital Association
Yosi Amram was an advisor and board member from when I had founded the company, and through difficult times. I greatly valued the business expertise, wisdom, perspective, and balance that he contributed in his role with the company. Yosi’s personal qualities and professional depth would make him extraordinarily qualified as a CEO’s mentor and confidant.
– CEO
Yosi taught me that the way you feel is a choice you make. I still think about that every day of my life. When everyone is looking to you to make the right decision, just ask Yosi he will help you figure out your truth. Even when he is not there, he will be right there inside you, spiritually, helping you make that decision for yourself…
– CEO
Being the CEO is a lonely job. It can be far too easy to get wrapped up in your own head and lose perspective. I’ve used Yosi to provide guidance in good times and bad. He has both calming and practical wisdom to provide in every situation.
– CEO
Yosi listens. He understands. He gives quality feedback. He helps other people understand their dreams, and how to make them come true. His experience enables him to understand the meaning of events as they unfold. He suggests plans of action. Working with Yosi has helped me articulate and realize my own dreams.
– CEO
When you find yourself in an impossible trap fighting for your life, Yosi can tell you a story of his own escape from similar circumstances—what he learned, and how to avoid it in the future. When you are contemplative, philosophical, moody, and aloof, he makes you sensible, practical, realistic, and direct. When you are working hard, focused, diligent, and intense, he will teach you to stop, take a breath and to reflect. And with Yosi’s help, you won’t ever stop believing in yourself.
– CEO
Yosi has himself taken two high-tech companies public as their CEO. He brings valuable insight and experience to the coaching process. As a CEO, I’ve worked with him for three years, during which time my company tripled in size to a $30 million dollar business. I have found it very valuable to discuss strategic options, board management, leadership, and executive team dynamics with Yosi. Our coaching sessions gave me some time to step away from the day-to-day operational issues and to think about the broader issues we all face as CEOs, as well as work on my own self-improvement.
– CEO
I spoke weekly with Yosi for eighteen months and can say without reservation that his support, knowledge, insights, and perspective on managing a business helped me as a CEO. Yosi combines and integrates two sets of business coaching skills and knowledge. He offers practical knowledge on any aspect of running a business, from managing challenging employees to budgeting strategies to targeted approaches to raising revenue. Yosi also offers informed emotional guidance with an emphasis on cultivating mindfulness, the ability to “see” oneself and one’s environment with wisdom and perspective. By combining these two disciplines—practical business advice and wise emotional insight—Yosi gives CEOs a complete set of tools for managing their businesses on a daily basis and for growing personally and professionally throughout the course of their careers.
– CEO