Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?
For most of my early career, I assumed the answer was no.
Entrepreneurs were a different species.
Braver. Bolder. Built from a rarer alloy.
But after founding several businesses myself and coaching many others, I’ve realised that many more people than you might think have some of the raw material that makes a successful founder.
The research backs this up.
While certain traits help, like tolerance for uncertainty, a bias for action, creativity under pressure, and the ability to recover quickly from setbacks, there is no single profile of the ideal founder.
My coaching clients come in every flavour imaginable.
The quiet strategist who hates the spotlight but builds extraordinary products and systems.
The visionary who wakes up every morning with three new ideas and finishes one of them.
The reluctant entrepreneur who starts a business almost by accident and discovers they are better at it than they were inside a big company.
And on and on…
They are all hugely successful but in different ways.
They all struggle in different ways too.
And as technology and AI hollow out more traditional corporate roles, while at the same time lowering the barriers to starting a business, more of us may need to consider the entrepreneurial route if we want to thrive.
Over the years I have become increasingly curious about what makes someone suited to that journey.
Not the clichés, but the deeper wiring.
The strengths that help.
The built-in risks that could trip us up.
The patterns that shape how we build, lead and adapt.
So I’ve built a simple diagnostic tool that captures what I have seen again and again in founders.
It helps you understand your natural entrepreneurial strengths.
It highlights the risks that come bundled with those strengths.
And it gives you a few practical suggestions to start flexing your entrepreneurial muscles.
You might be a visionary.
You might be a builder.
You might be something entirely different.
And it might surprise you.
It takes only a couple of minutes and it may reframe how you think about whether you have the entrepreneurial chops to succeed in the world we are moving into.
If you would like the free Entrepreneurial Profile diagnostic, just follow the link: https://tally.so/r/Pdd950
And I’d love to hear what you discover about yourself.