A board with a value creation plan. An operating partner asking questions behind the quarterly deck. A leadership team you inherited rather than chose, and a clock that started the day the deal closed. David Turner has run that company. He now coaches the CEOs and C-suite leaders who are running theirs.
David Turner is an executive coach for CEOs and C-suite leaders of private equity backed companies, and the founder of Velocity Now LLC in Denver, Colorado. He was CEO of Contegix, a $65M private equity backed technology company, SVP and Managing Director at DigitalGlobe, and a Vice President at IHS. He has been part of 57 M&A transactions and has logged 13,400+ hours coaching executives at companies from $50M to $27B in revenue. He works with CEOs across the United States.
At Contegix, David was the CEO with the board, the hold period and the value creation plan. He owned the number. He sat across from the operating partners. He integrated acquisitions while the core business still had to hit the quarter. The 57 M&A transactions came from buying, selling and integrating companies, not from advising on them from the outside.
Before that, at DigitalGlobe, his organization grew from $320M to $703M in revenue while employee engagement rose from 44% to 97%. Twelve years of coaching since then have added the pattern recognition from 13,400+ hours with CEOs and their teams.
That history changes the first session. His clients don’t spend it explaining what a sponsor board meeting feels like when the plan gets rewritten. They start on shared language and get to the real issue faster.
His background as a C-level executive is immediately apparent; he doesn’t just coach, he understands the unique pressures of being a CEO. Through our work together, I was able to sharpen my strategic focus and navigate complex team and board dynamics with much greater clarity. Tatiana Finkelsteyn, CEO, zLinq · LinkedIn recommendation
Built around the desk, not a curriculum. Every session starts with what is in front of the CEO that week: the board dynamic, the direct report who is not performing, the acquisition that closed and now has to be integrated.
The CEO and the team at the same time. David coaches the CEO and the direct reports in parallel. He triangulates what the CEO says, what the team says, and what neither of them says out loud. Misalignment gets seen early, while it is still cheap to fix.
Across the country. Sessions run by video, with David on site for offsites, 360 debriefs and the moments that call for being in the room.
What’s included. Monthly retainer coaching, 360 assessments, leadership offsites, executive candidate evaluation, and M&A advisory when a client is buying or being bought. Between sessions, 80+ proprietary frameworks through the Velocity Now frameworks app. The details live on the CEO coaching and executive team coaching pages.
David has a rare ability to cut through the noise and identify the core leadership challenges that actually matter. The ROI on our sessions has been evident in both my personal performance and the renewed alignment of my C-suite. Damon Stafford, CEO, InsurTech · LinkedIn recommendation
Yes. He was CEO of Contegix, a $65M private equity backed technology company, with a board, a hold period and a value creation plan to own. Before that he was SVP and Managing Director at DigitalGlobe, where his organization grew from $320M to $703M in revenue, and a Vice President at IHS. He has been part of 57 M&A transactions.
Portfolio company CEOs, especially in the first 18 months of a hold period, and the C-suite leaders around them: CFOs, COOs, CROs, CMOs and CHROs. Many engagements grow to include the full executive leadership team through alignment retainers, 360 assessments and offsites.
Clients range from $50 million to $27 billion in revenue across private equity backed, publicly traded and family owned companies, in technology, manufacturing, energy, professional services, consumer and healthcare.
Yes. Velocity Now is based in Denver and works with CEOs across the United States. Sessions run mostly by video, with David on site for offsites, 360 debriefs and the moments that call for being in the room.
A flat monthly retainer, scoped after the first conversation. Bi-weekly or monthly one-on-one sessions built around what is on the CEO’s desk that week, with David reachable between sessions. Many engagements open with a 360 assessment. Most run at least a year.
Yes. Every client is referenceable, without exception. Email David at david@velocitynowllc.com and he will connect you with CEOs at a comparable stage and scale.
What’s the decision you already know you need to make? Send David a few lines. No forms, no intake funnel. He’ll reply with a time to talk.
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