Work
Boulder Soma supports founders, executives, leadership teams, and organizations working with decisions, transitions, conflict, founder dynamics, offsites, succession, and change.
We slow the situation down enough to notice what is shaping it, then return to a next step that is honest, practical, and clear.
Why this work
Boulder Soma is led by Michael Szymanski, whose background spans somatic coaching, entrepreneurship, teaching, facilitation, and international venture work. That mix helps the work stay both embodied and practical: attentive to the person, the room, and the business reality.
Two ways to begin
Discovery helps clarify what is happening, whether Boulder Soma is a fit, and what kind of support makes sense.
Executive & leadership work
Best for founders, executives, and senior leaders navigating a decision, role transition, founder dynamic, authority question, important conversation, conflict, or pressure point.
Organizational work
Best for teams, founder groups, boards, offsites, or organizations working with conflict, unclear ownership, decision loops, succession, transition, culture change, or repair.
When this helps
How the work works
The work is grounded, relational, and embodied. We stay close to the real situation, slow it down, and return to a concrete next step.
Learn the approachWe begin with the live situation: a decision, transition, conflict, founder dynamic, team pattern, offsite, or leadership question asking for attention now.
We pay attention to body signals, assumptions, role dynamics, power, timing, language, incentives, pressure, and what is happening between people.
The work returns to something concrete: a conversation, boundary, decision, repair, experiment, meeting design, or next clean move.
Typical engagements
Most work begins with Discovery. From there, the shape depends on the situation, the people involved, and what kind of container would actually help.
1:1 leadership
A steady 1:1 container for founders and senior leaders navigating pressure, authority, decision-making, role change, conflict, or growth.
Ongoing or seasonalFocused support
Short-term support for one decision, transition, conversation, or issue that needs careful attention now.
2 to 4 sessionsTeam pattern
Facilitation for co-founders or leadership teams caught in conflict, avoidance, unclear ownership, or repeated decision loops.
Scoped engagementRoom design
Carefully held rooms for teams and organizations navigating strategy, transition, alignment, succession, repair, or renewal.
Half-day to multi-dayWhat clients often need
The work does not promise a perfect answer. It creates conditions where the person or room can see more clearly and move with more honesty.
Good fit
Boulder Soma is a strong fit when the moment involves leadership, team dynamics, conflict, transition, pressure, or a pattern that keeps shaping the room.
Not the best fit
This work is more useful when you are willing to look at the live situation, include what is happening in the room, and choose a next step from there.
Begin with discovery
Use Executive Discovery if the question is primarily about your leadership. Use Organizational Discovery if the challenge involves a team, group, board, offsite, or wider organization.