Gareth Marlow's Linkedin Analytics

I’m a natural-sciences-trained engineer who spent years building and running high-performing teams in real-world, high-stakes settings. Now I coach and advise CEOs, exec teams, and senior leaders—especially in science, tech, and mission-driven orgs—where complexity is high, pace is relentless, and people care deeply about getting it right. My clients aren’t looking for platitudes. They want deep thinking, clean challenge, and support that matches the pressure. Many are scientists, technologists, founders or operators. Some are holding executive weight in ambiguous or politically entangled systems—post-acquisition, pre-scale, mid-crisis, or all of the above. They’re often: • Carrying invisible weight and unshared doubt • Caught between strategic clarity and team friction • Wrestling with cultural drift, power asymmetry, or internal incoherence • Responsible for people, values, outcomes—and somehow still expected to smile through it They don’t want a cheerleader. They want someone who can hold the full complexity with them—and help them see through the fog. What I bring ✅ Radical clarity. I cut through noise, story, and self-justification to get to what matters ✅ Insight that lands. I name the thing under the thing—so you shift the pattern, not just the symptoms ✅ Engineering-grade bullshit filter. I won’t let you hide behind cleverness or charisma ✅ Coaching that doesn’t flinch. I’ll hold up the mirror—and I’ll stand beside you when it gets hard ✅ Systems thinking + human truth. I help you see how the parts fit—and where they’re under strain What changes • Decisions get clearer. Rework drops. Regret shrinks. • Your leadership gets congruent—so you don’t have to perform it • Your team behaves like a team—not just senior individuals in a meeting • You gain trust in your own instincts—and in the people around you • You stop carrying it all alone If you’re scaling something extraordinary—or surviving something unbearable—I’m here for the real work. (And if you know me from Cambridge, Business of Software, or the deep end of the product/startup/mission space—you probably already know I mean that.) Let’s talk.