CTO Levels™ Certified Coaches
Our dedicated, certified coaches and mentors are trained to guide CTOs through this comprehensive framework, assisting them in mastering each aspect of their role effectively. With a focus on mentorship, our coaches leverage their extensive experience in technology leadership to deliver personalized guidance, nurturing the CTO's ability to strategize, innovate, and lead their technology teams.
CTO Levels coaching and mentoring is more than a professional development tool – it's a game-changer. It equips CTOs to navigate the rapidly evolving tech landscape, overcome unique challenges, and effectively harness technological advancements to fuel organizational growth. By leveraging our expert coaching, CTOs can unlock their full potential, fostering not just personal growth, but also stimulating innovation, productivity, and resilience within their organizations. Step into this transformative journey with us and lead your organization into a prosperous future.
Levels coaching is ideal for the organization that would like to invest in their leadership as they face various challenges relevant to their levels.
All our CTO Levels Certified Coaches have been CTOs before and have strong track records of success.
Meet our Certified Coaches
Kathy Keating
Kathy is mission-driven technology executive, bringing three decades of experience working with B2B and B2B2C SaaS companies and consultancies. As a two-time founder with an exit, she is a forward-thinking leader committed to steering and empowering high-performing teams to cultivate great culture and deliver successful results. Kathy has been at the helm of many visionary strategies, transformations, strategic partnerships, pivotal initiatives, turnarounds, and out of the box problem solving leading growing companies to scale quickly and effectively.
Kathy is a CTO Advisor and Executive Coach. She coaches CTOs and CEOs to develop the key leadership skills that are essential for success in their role, including their ability to think strategically, make effective decisions, build highly productive teams, and successfully navigate change. She assists startups and scaleups to optimize their product engineering operations so that they can deliver quickly and effectively.
Kathy holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona with an emphasis in artificial intelligence. She also holds additional relevant certifications in Data Science, Entrepreneurship and Ontological Coaching. She is a global mentor within the Techstars ecosystem, holds multiple advisory positions, and sits on boards.
Etienne de Bruin
Etienne de Bruin began his career as a software developer in his native South Africa before moving to Germany, where he joined a startup building innovative products in the data encryption space, then to San Diego, where he managed the supply chain and business intelligence of a biotech startup. From 2005 to 2015,
Etienne co-founded a company, where he served as CTO, navigating SaaS product development in a rapidly scaling environment and establishing himself as a highly effective C-level executive.
After serving many organizations as advisory board member or CTO, Etienne founded 7CTOs, a peer group and coaching organization supporting CTOs, technical founders, and other executive leaders.