The CEO Success Coach

I was a CEO for 25 years, a venture capitalist for 5 years, and was trained by an outstanding CEO coach for 17 years. I’m a board member and an expert in AI. I received my MBA from Harvard Business School.

I’m committed to my CEO clients’ success. 

Please visit www.glenngow.com. 

- "The value per minute you provide is astronomical." - Sameer Ahuja, President, GameChanger
- "Glenn is an exceptional coach. His impact on my professional development has been nothing short of transformative." - AJ Bruno, CEO, QuotaPath
- “Glenn is definitely world-class.” - Albert Navarro, CEO, MetricLock
- “I feel I have superpower eyesight with you in my corner.” - Michael Kadisha, CEO, Treedom
- “He helped me raise $3M” - Darren Marble, co-CEO, Crush Capital
- “Glenn proved his value in every coaching session.” - Olin Hyde, former CEO, LeadCrunch
- "It has been very valuable working with you!" - Cynthia Tusan, CEO, Idea Lab
- “Every coaching session with Glenn has been extremely valuable.” - Jeff Strnad, CEO, DOOR USA
- “I have become a better CEO through Glenn’s guidance and counsel." - Liam Nguyen, CEO, PixelCanvas
- “Glenn deeply cares about our success.” - Srinivas Akella, CEO, Wootcloud
- “I credit a lot of my success in navigating challenging times to Glenn.” - Allan Njoroge, CEO, Actriv Healthcare
- "The value Glenn provides in each meeting is so significant, it's hard to keep up." - CEO, Software Company
- “Glenn provided me with new insights that have helped me and the company tremendously." - Simon Law, CEO, LoginID
- "Glenn's coaching has made a huge difference in how quickly and confidently we've been able to grow." - Rick Jones, CEO, WorkReels

Soteria Intelligence

Glenn contributes to corporate strategy, risk, and governance. Soteria is an AI-based company delivering the next generation of social media and digital customer experience solutions.

Board Member

Stanford University

Mentor and advisor to graduate students in the Management Science & Engineering Program -- the Technology Venture Formation course. 

Mentor to students in the course "Designing Decentralized Applications on Blockchain".

Advisor, Stanford Technology Ventures Program 

Clear Ventures

I coached the CEOs of our portfolio companies on growth strategy, organizational structure, target market definition, culture, fundraising, and more. Each of the CEOs I have coached has successfully moved their companies to the next stage of growth.

Marketing Partner

acuteIQ

As a board member, I advised CEO on strategy, corporate structure, product roadmap, market adoption, and positioning. acuteIQ is a customer acquisition platform that uses artificial intelligence and first-party data to deliver a 4X improvement in performance. Company was acquired.

Crimson Consulting Group

Ran this highly successful strategy consulting firm, while serving as Chairman of the Board. The company helped Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, SAP, Seagate, VMware and many start-ups become even more successful through strategic marketing consultation. 

Engagements included: 

For an education client, helped them save millions in advertising spend and redirected their marketing dollars to the highest impact marketing activities, greatly increasing their return on marketing investment

Helped Cisco create a global go-to-market approach for the SMB market, resulting in over $250M of incremental revenue within the first three years

For IBM, drove a Business Partner Acceleration Program that achieved 138% of pipeline target

For Microsoft, created a “competitive migration” program which helped move $100M in incremental revenue to their platform within a year

For Google, developed and executed a demand generation program, doubling the number of leads for the sales organization

For Seagate, recommended the technology architecture and products for the divisional demand center. Then, implemented the systems to start creating new pipeline. This effort helped Seagate sell the division at a higher price than anticipated.

Launched over 100 products / companies, starting with the strategy and ending with the tactical execution. 

Produced a popular podcast called Moneyball for Marketing. This included interviewing over 300 CMOs on the topic of Big Data and Marketing Automation.

Wrote the book Revenue and the CMO – How Marketing Will Impact Revenue Through Big Data and Social Selling.

Chairman of the Board and CEO

Checkd.in

As an advisory board member, advised CEO on transition from a professional services firm to a subscription-based revenue company. Checkd.in is a company collects consumer data from celebrity fans to enable pinpoint targeting, resulting in massive improvement in revenue across multiple venues and channels. Company was acquired.

Advisory Board Member

Ventra Systems

As a board member, contributed to strategy, governance and compensation issues. Ventra is a revolutionary water processing system to remove toxins from groundwater. The company was acquired.

Oracle

Was hired by Silicon Valley legend Tom Siebel (founder of Siebel Systems) to be the first marketing person in the sales organization. Focused on vertical / industry marketing.

Various Sales & Marketing Management Roles

Verizon

Sales

I was a CEO for 25 years, a venture capitalist for 5 years, and was trained by a CEO coach for 17 years. I’m a board member and an expert in AI. I received my MBA from Harvard Business School.

I’m committed to my CEO clients’ success. 

Please visit www.glenngow.com. 

Some references from my CEO clients:
- "The value per minute you provide is astronomical." - Sameer Ahuja, President, GameChanger
- “Glenn is definitely world-class.” - Albert Navarro, CEO, MetricLock
- “I feel I have superpower eyesight with you in my corner.” - Michael Kadisha, CEO, Treedom
- "Glenn is an exceptional executive coach. His impact on my professional development has been nothing short of transformative." - AJ Bruno, CEO, QuotaPath
- “He helped me raise $3M” - Darren Marble, co-CEO, Crush Capital
- “Glenn proved his value in every coaching session.” - Olin Hyde, former CEO, LeadCrunch
- "It has been very valuable working with you!" - Cynthia Tusan, CEO, Idea Lab
- “Every coaching session with Glenn has been extremely valuable.” - Jeff Strnad, CEO, DOOR USA
- “I have become a better CEO through Glenn’s guidance and counsel." - Liam Nguyen, CEO, PixelCanvas
- “Glenn deeply cares about our success.” - Srinivas Akella, CEO, Wootcloud
- “I credit a lot of my success in navigating challenging times to Glenn.” - Allan Njoroge, CEO, Actriv Healthcare
- "The value Glenn provides in each meeting is so significant, it's hard to keep up." - CEO, Software Company
- “Glenn provided me with new insights that have helped me and the company tremendously." - Simon Law, CEO, LoginID
- "Glenn's coaching has made a huge difference in how quickly and confidently we've been able to grow." - Rick Jones, CEO, WorkReels

I was founder and CEO of Crimson Consulting Group, where I ran the company for 25 years. My work includes:
• Apple: launch new products into new markets, 
• Facebook: leverage marketing technology, 
• Microsoft: a “competitive migration” program creating $100M in incremental revenue, 
• Cisco: a global GTM approach resulting in $250M of additional revenue
• Google: doubling the number of leads for the sales organization

Areas of expertise:  
- Strategy development
- Coaching CEOs
- Board membership
- Board of Directors
- Board Service
- AI Governance
- Board Governance
- Speaking
- Leadership
- Data Privacy
- Digital Transformation
- AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Robotics
- Computer Vision
- Deep Fakes
- ChatGPT
- Generative AI

AI isn’t just changing how we work, it’s changing how we communicate.
 
After my conversation with Alex Shevelenko, one thing is clear: static content slows companies down.
 
Interactive, intelligent experiences move people, align teams, and accelerate decisions.
 
If your ideas aren’t engaging your audience, they’re not scaling your business.

Glenn Gow

The Peak Performance CEO Coach -|- Board Director (AI Specialty)

The CEO Success Coach: I unlock your potential to achieve any goal, using insights from 25 years as a CEO and 5 years in Venture Capital.

Karl Hughes reminded me of a simple truth: startups win faster when they stop trying to be for everyone and focus on serving one niche better than anyone.

Burnout isn’t about long hours, it starts the moment you ignore the signal to pause.

On The Scaling CEO, Kiran Mann shared a simple truth: growth without fulfilment breaks leaders and organisations.

Her message is clear: clarity at the top, alignment through the company, and the courage to stop before you snap.

A powerful reminder that the healthiest companies are built by leaders who know when to breathe.

James Hotson made a simple point on the podcast that every CEO should hear: use automation for your 2 + 2 problems, and reserve AI’s reasoning power for the 37 × 17 work that actually moves the business.

That shift is where real operational leverage begins.

Most CEOs think they have a growth problem, but they really have an alignment problem.

In my conversation with Dr. Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D. Bouissou, we unpack why companies stall when their product, market, team, and board drift even a few degrees apart.

Also how the right alignment can unlock the jump from ten million to one hundred million.

Most new leaders try to prove themselves by doing everything.

But as Dr. Karla Johnson shared on The Scaling CEO, real leadership is measured by how much you can get done through others.

Her school grew more than sixty percent in a year, and the only way through was trust, talent, and a team empowered to lead.

The lesson is simple: build leadership capacity early, give your people the space to rise, and scale yourself before you try to scale the organization.

Great leaders create clarity.

Great teams turn that clarity into growth.

On The Scaling CEO, Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D., reminds us that every company is in the same business (delivering delight) and real growth starts when the experience you deliver finally matches the delight your customers expect.

As Christophe Zoghbi put it on The Scaling CEO, real growth comes from building the infrastructure to sustain scale, because sometimes going a bit slower now is the only way to go much faster in the long run.

In my conversation with Omar Sahyoun Sahoyun, he reminded me that even in tech, the CEOs who win are the ones who treat the business like it’s their own and refuse to scale faster than profitability allows.

Entrepreneurs do have to be a bit crazy (optimistic but not delusional), and in my conversation with Fran Brzyski, CEO & co-founder of Hark, we dug into how showing up every day as the six-months-from-now version of yourself can change the trajectory of your company.

Adam Lieb reminded me of a truth every CEO eventually faces: the people who are perfect at 15 employees aren’t always the ones you need at 50.
 
And waiting to make that call never pays off; you always knew earlier.
 
Scaling means having the courage to evolve your team as fast as your company grows.

Most CEOs don’t burn out from long hours, they burn out because they refuse to protect what matters.

My paddle-boarding mornings, my e-foiling afternoons, my Friday planning time, they’re all blocked on my calendar, and I honour them.

If it’s not scheduled, it’s not a priority.

And once CEOs embrace that, their focus, energy, and clarity transform almost overnight.

Most CEOs still underestimate how powerful internal communication really is.

As Tom Alexander put it in our conversation, “internal communication is the cheat code for business”,  and I agree.

Your employees are never “fully informed.”
 
They are always trying to make sense of what’s really happening, what matters now, and where the company is going.
 
If you don’t fill that gap with clear, frequent, honest communication, they’ll fill it with their own stories.

In the latest episode of The Scaling CEO, Tom and I dig into why you almost can’t over-communicate with your team, and how better communication directly improves performance, retention, and culture.

Great scale rarely comes from ego.
 
In this conversation, Omar Sahyoun breaks down why humility, long-term thinking, and operating discipline matter more than titles or hype.
 
If you care about building something that lasts, this one is worth your time.

The biggest takeaway from my conversation with Simon Goodall, CEO of Caribou, is that the answers are usually already inside the company.

Real scale happens when leaders listen closely to the front lines and help the organisation act on what it already knows.

Avanish Sahai reminded me that when a company’s purpose truly aligns across employees, partners, and even investors, growth stops being a push and starts becoming something people choose to build with you.

Most CEOs become the bottleneck without realising it.

As companies grow, leaders often keep doing the work they are best at instead of the work only a CEO can do.

Hiring someone to replace yourself in that function is not a cost.

It is the cheapest CEO you will ever hire.

As Dr. Jim Schleckser puts it, your real job is to find the constraint, remove it, and then move on to the next one.

That is how scale actually happens.

AI is no longer optional for CEOs; it’s reshaping how companies are built, funded, and scaled.

On The Scaling CEO, I sat down with Sam Hodges, CEO of Vouch and co-founder of Funding Circle US, to talk about how founders can grow responsibly in an AI-first world.

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