The founders in your startup accelerator program most likely struggle with:
- Confusion or complexity when designing their business models
- Slow decision-making or second-guessing themselves
- Cluttered KPI's and action plans
- Waning motivation or personal challenges that stall progress
- Fear of visibility and difficulty articulating themselves in sales settings
- Stress, overwhelm, burnout or other mental challenges associated with the fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
This leads to drop-outs, slow progress, and lower success rates... Which costs your program time, money and resources.
Most programs try to solve these issues by:
- Considering charging the participants a fee to attract more serious “ready” founders…
- Asking the founders what they want more of (which keeps you endlessly adding MORE content)
- Following-up endlessly, adding more mentors, or giving access to fancy AI-chat therapy... in hopes that speaking to more humans will speed them up and lower stress
Even if you charge money or add more support to your program, it won’t improve founder outcomes without overloading your team. Because more information or more financial buy-in is not going to fix the underlying root issues the founder’s face.
The below symptoms your founders face are common but not normal. And unfortunately, the startup culture teaches that they are an unavoidable part of entrepreneurship:
- Waning commitment
- Slow decision making
- Second-guessing decisions
- Slow action taking / procrastination
- Stress, overwhelm and burnout with a fast-paced workload
- low confidence and poor communication in a sales setting…
All these things are caused by one root issue:
The Founder’s Central Nervous System
The system of the human body that scans the environment for threat.
Why does Neurobiology Matter for Startups?
Founders develop and grow their startups in a faster and simplified way when they understand how their neurobiology effects them, and learn to utilize it as a CEO.
The same mindset tools that turn floundering founders into strategic CEO's also strengthen their stress resilience too, which means their mental health and personal life thrives right alongside their companies.
Once your founders understand how their brain and body affect their company… and learn how to shift their mindset to a more helpful state they will:
- naturally increase motivation and commitment
- navigate personal challenges while staying on track
- make quicker, more streamlined decisions for their business
- Take more action without overwhelm, stress or burnout
- Evaluate more effectively to apply learnings
- Step into more visibility naturally and communicate more effectively
- Make more sales and move their businesses forward
Do Business Better FounderS aRE
Gaining traction and making steady progress toward financially-sustainability.
Have a healthy personal life and a strong sense of wellbeing.
Because they have the neuroscience education and toolkit they need to use their founder brain effectively and streamline their startup journey.
Boost Founder Success Rates in Your Accelerator Program
With The Do Business Better School Accelerator Mindset Curriculum
Our Plug-in Digital Curriculum is an easy and cost-effective way to improve founder success rates by building upon the business concepts you are already teaching.
We teach founders how to regulate their central nervous system and use simple mindset tools so they bring the best of their brain to their business.
Then, we teach them 3 Core CEO Skill Sets so they:
navigate challenges with more ease, expedite decision-making, take consistent data-driven actions, and sell more effectively.
All while lowering stress, overwhelm, burnout and other mental and emotional issues that tend to weigh down on a founder's personal life.
Kari Elizabeth Enge, Founder and CEO at The Do Business Better School and Lead Mindset Coach of the Accelerator Mindset Curriculum
Here’s a peek into our founder-centric, science-backed curriculm
Module 1: Mind-Body Founder Foundations
The level at which founders utilize their brain determines how well they strategize, implement, evaluate and succeed. So at DBB, brain science education comes first.
We teach founders how their entrepreneurial brain and body work, and how to use central nervous system regulation and mindset tools to strategize, implement and evaluate more effectively.
Module 2: Strategic Decision-Making
We teach founders how to use commonplace but often misunderstood tools like vision, goals, and action plans so they are laser-focused on needle movers. Then, we equip founders with a simple decision-making process to make fast, confident decisions for rapid implementation. Because the faster your founders test, the more learning and progress they can make.
Module 3: Implementation
Application and implementation is everything. So we teach founders a simple implementation framework that helps them declutter their to-do list, reduce KPI’s and get them gaining traction on what matters with less overwhelm. This module includes sales and marketing mindset education too. Because a large component of a founder’s focus is sales (and science shows that 90% of what you communicate is actually unspoken).
Module 4: Evaluation
Most founders are not evaluating because they are too busy, can’t track and interpret data, or get caught up in the drama of failure. We teach founders a simple evaluation method and ‘CEO Day Practice’ that takes the guesswork out of evaluation. We also teach them exactly how to objectively troubleshoot.
At the end of the curriculum, founders will have a simple structure to follow each week (strategize, implement, evaluate) and the mindset tools to bring the best of their brain to each step.
We do not take an academic, theoretical approach. We cut through the clutter and teach practical tools that integrate into a founder's workflow. Because true understanding happens through application.
How it Works:
Watch the Video (Coming Soon)
Watch the free 5-minute intro video to learn why most programs are missing the mark when it comes to mindset education, and how the DBB Mindset Accelerator Curriculum can complement what you are already teaching your cohort.
Get Your Questions Answered
Schedule a 15-minute demo call with our lead coach Kari Enge, to ask questions and confirm if the Accelerator Mindset Curriculum might be right for your program.
Plug-in the Digital Curriculum with Ease and Confidence
Quickly and easily integrate our digital curriculum into your program without adding sessions or making massive changes to your program. We have a seamless onboarding process to ensure your founders are successful with the 100% virtual curriculum. We also share data with you so you can track outcomes.
You’ll see tangible founder improvements within the first few weeks of integrating the curriculum.
Faster decision-making, simplified business models, more consistent action taking, lower stress
Our goal is that a higher percentage of your founders will succeed, so that you can strengthen the reputation of your program and more easily make the impact you want to create in the world!
Curriculum Values
Science-Backed
The entrepreneurial processes and frameworks you founders will learn are widely researched academic methods that we have decluttered so founders actually use them while strategizing, implementing and evaluating. We use the most cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology-based mindset tools based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Polyvagal Central Nervous System Methods. Nothing is 'woo-woo' here.
Founder-Centric
We teach founders how to trust in themselves and lean on their ability to navigate as CEOs instead of following the old-fashioned startup culture fueled by speed and scarcity. Your entrepreneurs will go from floundering founders to high-impact, low-stress CEOs because we focus on CEO Skill Sets inside our founder-centric curriculum. Our coach-approach is also grounded with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind.
Trauma-Informed
Our curriculum teaches an important piece of the puzzle that accelerators are currently lacking: the central nervous system connection. Founders will learn how to shift out of common problems like overwhelm, frustration, anxiety, procrastination and anything else holding them back. This will allow them to form stress resiliency and achieve success with more ease because of the trauma-informed approach of this program.
About the Instructor
Kari Elizabeth Enge is an American social entrepreneur turned business coach at The Do Business Better School. Certified by the Life Coach School, Kari teaches founders the CEO mindsets and skill sets they need to become high-impact, low-stress CEOs.
Kari’s background includes founding two companies, a hospitality management and business administration degree, and extensive management experience in corporate America. She has traveled to over 35 countries and has worked with individuals from more than 40 nationalities, which has shown her that:
No podcast, book, or even a fancy MBA program can get the results that coaching tools can. Why? Because the application is everything.
Trauma-informed, neuroscience-based coaching tools, which harness the power of the central nervous system and behavior change, are game-changers for founders. They help entrepreneurs integrate best practices into their daily lives, ensuring tangible results.
Integrate the Do Business Better School Accelerator Curriculum into your program, and watch your founder show up more strategically and effectively.
