Some people know me as Leigh Sherman, others know me as Coach Leighroy.
I founded Hillspeed Group to challenge the fundamentals of coaching and leadership engineering in business.
Hillspeed is a coaching model, built on the same principles we use to develop championship athletes in sport, because that's where my story starts.
/ Coach Leighroy /
I went from athlete.
To coach.
Back to athlete.
“I had built something my market loved, that was difficult to engineer and at the right time in history, but I was suffocating under the weight of growth, stuck in a game I was never prepared to play.”
The crash.
The dark side of startups.
We can do better.
“Like many capable founders in the last 2 decades that played a big game but failed to understand the model, the cost of failure was prolific. I lost my company, my stability, and my identity - life went to 0.”
The real problem to solve.
The way founders are left to synthesise advice is the problem.
It takes 10-20 years to develop the pattern recognition to own your own development as an athlete.
That’s why in sport we have science and protocols for working with young athletes.
“We needed to fundamentally improve the way we support founders like you to step into your potential for scale.”
Back to coach.
Between 2018 and 2020 I built the Company Model framework while working inside scale-up companies Zwift.com and Booking.com
Then I switched into education and training and worked for industry giants such as Jack Delosa, Dan Martell, and I studied coaching under one of the top 5 life coaches on the planet Benjamin J Harvey.
I launched the Hillspeed protocol for coaching in 2022.
Commitment to my athletes.
Coach Leighroy has been my professional alias since 2022.
A reminder to myself and a commitment to you that I’m here to win with you, at speed, without burnout.
I live on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, with my beautiful family.
I work with athletes all around the globe, from North America to India.