The Founder's Self-audit Checklist

Being the founder doesn’t automatically make you a great manager. In fact, many well-meaning leaders accidentally erode trust, stall growth, and lose great people — not because they’re toxic, but because they’re unaware.

This printable, 1-page checklist helps you ask hard but necessary questions like:

• Do your team members feel safe bringing you bad news?
• Are you empowering people, or just assigning tasks?
• Do your 1:1s build connection, or just track updates?
• Are you actually modeling the culture you say you value?

Use this as a quarterly gut-check to course-correct before disengagement shows up in attrition.

🧠 Perfect for:

• Founders and startup leaders

• First-time managers

• Fractional heads of people

• Anyone serious about becoming the kind of leader others want to follow

📥 Download once. Revisit often. Your team will thank you — silently at first, and then out loud.