The Founders Trust

The Founders Trust is a private membership for creative, growth-driven entrepreneurs. TFT offers direct access to seasoned entrepreneurs and insights you won’t find anywhere else.

Inside our trusted space, we share practical wisdom, solutions, and support through an active group chat and thoughtfully facilitated monthly online sessions.

Our goal is to help you navigate complexity with confidence by combining bold strategy with emotional clarity.

TFT  isn’t yet another networking group.

The Founders Trust is a place to share both struggles and wins, and form meaningful relationships along the way. 

It’s a place where founders connect, reflect, and rise — together.

Founder

RealRelevantResults

🔶 Founder CEOs hire me to achieve their goals with less stress, and live a more fulfilling life with flow and ease.

My clients ​achieve high performance and harmony in their lives, so they can take on new opportunities and achieve bigger goals, faster… without constantly doubting themselves, attaching their identity into their successes and failures, or damaging their relationships or health. They create joy while consistently achieving their business goals.

We maximise their performance and wellbeing by transforming 3 key areas.

✅ From underconfidence to confident high performance

We transform underconfidence to handle the demands of the next level of success to mental flexibility and ability to handle life’s challenges with a more positive mindset. We accomplish that by enhancing mental fitness and emotional intelligence, and understanding how you thrive.

✅ From uncertainty to focusing on what really matters

We transform overwhelm and stress to greater clarity, peace, and progress. We achieve that by activating eight Entrepreneurial Leadership elements, and getting your team aligned so they are less dependent on you, and perform efficiently.

✅ From an overwhelmed manager to a high-level CEO 

You'll go from being busy with day-to-day management to having time to focus on the bigger picture essential to your company’s future. We achieve that by implementing an Entrepreneurial Time Management System.You’ll gain the capability and energy of a high-level CEO without sacrificing your most important relationships, or quality of life.

When you hire me as your Executive Coach, you can expect to experience less stress, know what to focus on, accomplish your desired goals quicker and easier, and manage complex and challenging situations with certitude. You’ll feel happier and more confident about yourself, your business, and your future.

Send me a DM or book a call with me. It might be the best conversation you’ve had for a long time!

Certified Executive & Mental Fitness Coach to Entrepreneurs (CEC)

Positive Intelligence

Empowering leaders to enhance their mental flexibility and emotional intelligence skills. Participants of the Mental Fitness program experience immediate and sustained improvements in wellbeing and performance. They'll become more conscious and efficient leaders to their teams, and experience less stress, and more happiness.

Benefits of stronger Mental Fitness:
- you'll use your Mental & Emotional Energy more efficiently,
- your ability to develop others improves,
- better teamwork and collaboration,
- improved self-confidence,
- better conflict mananagement
- improved empathy and relationships.

Certified Mental Fitness Coach (CPQC)

The Good Entrepreneur

The Good Entrepreneur is a safe, supporting community for Entrepreneurs who face the challenges of entrepreneurship each and every day.  

People in the TGE network have something specific in this world that matters to them and they have decided to do something to fix it.  They did, at some point, choose something different, better, or go big and get committed to the work required for that change, progress, and new results.

FasterCapital

As a Mentor at FasterCapital, I offer Startup entrepreneurs High-Performance Project and Team Management mentoring so they can focus on the right things and get the tasks done in the right sequence. 

Entrepreneurial Business Matrix system I use with entrepreneurs transitions Startups from a stage to another and inevitably leads to an organized, optimized, and well-executed version of their business.  

FasterCapital is a virtual incubator based in Dubai Internet City that helps non-technical entrepreneurs who have good experience in one industry for over five years. FasterCapital empowers them by offering acceleration and incubation programs, plus becoming their co-funders and technical co-founders. 

They are ready to build the product per equity and to invest between US$200k-US$2M per startup. 

Currently, FasterCapital has 20 fully functional startups graduated from the incubation program, and 267 startups in the acceleration program. FasterCapital has invested more than US$10.5M in the startups that it has.

If you are interested in FasterCapital as a Startup business or an Investor, please contact me, Virpi Tervonen.

Mentor for Startup Businesses

VirpiTervonen.com

I work with Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners who hire me to improve their business so that they can work with people and projects they like and get their personal life back -- because most, unfortunately, are stuck in working all the time and feeling that they don’t have control over their business. 

My Coaching Program and Master Patterns of Business Excellence system are designed to make your possibilities a reality. It’s a transformational change for you as an entrepreneur and as a person, building on everything you’ve accomplished up to now.

This is an opportunity for you to get outside the grind of your business to a place where big ambitions and dreams are normal, and fresh perspectives and insights are virtually inevitable. 

This private coaching is designed to work for busy, distractible entrepreneurs, which means that you’ll have the time to focus on and strategize about what’s most pressing in your business. 

You’ll come away with new tools and capabilities. You’ll learn my signature system how to make an action plan with prioritized, concrete action steps you can share with your team members. You’ll have your support structure for your business and life on place. 

The bottom line is that you will get rid of constant worry, erase the thought loops from hell, and get off the soul-shredding confidence rollercoaster. You’ll work with your best clients, your business and life becomes easier and is more satisfying and wealthier than before.

Here’s what my clients say about my methodology   ⇒ www.virpitervonen.com/praise

Discover what can be possible for you, too   ⇒  www.virpitervonen.com/client-results

If you want real solutions and results, I have set aside time this week to help you, as my gift to you. Reserve your spot now   ⇒  www.virpitervonen.com/call

Transformational Business Strategist & Certified Coach to Entrepreneurs

CEOSpace

CEO Space International is a membership community for CEOs and Entrepreneurs that provides access to the connections business owners need to accelerate their business.

Five times year, CEO Space hosts business owners, CEOs, and professionals from almost every industry imaginable - and from all corners of the globe at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Convention Center in Dallas, USA. 

Benefits of Membership in CEO Space Include:

- CEO Space is MBA level skills, education, execution and accelerated business results in a single week for CEOs at the top

- Worldwide CEO contacts: Mature planning - open new markets faster with lower cost - rapid on-site new market development, including CEO alliances

- Niche & Global Marketing: Revise and improve master plans every 18 months using CEO Space as "think tank" to meet changing global market conditions
 
- Media marketing: Cross Marketing over multi-platforms - Superior Experts polish final plans for real-time execution in local to global market missions 

- Brand and Re-branding: Fortune Expert trainers help you evolve critical path marketing plan renewal

- Capital Compliance Training, Capital Legal Support: latest knowledge for any size capital future planning

- Safe Environment: Confidentiality agreements between CEOs cross protect intellectual property - for each class - top law firms monitor protection
 
- Lifetime class access on all Forum Classes & Follow up: Superior Corporate Coaches and the best Fortune Trainers - Always available to members via email, phone and text

- Peer-to-Peer networking for CEOs in unmatched privacy - Best Club in the world for Super Achiever Alliances in a quiet, appropriate environment 

Learn more about how you may be able to use the resources available through CEO Space to accelerate the growth of your business, company, or idea  https://ceospaceinternational.com/vt/ 

Or write to me, Virpi Tervonen, and tell me what you’d need to realize your business goals.

CEO Space Club President

WebinarEventPro.com

WebinarEventPro is a boutique webinar marketing consultancy providing customized Webinar Marketing Development, Webinar Services and Webinar Marketing Management for Small Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and Experts. 

Additionally, WebinarEventPro offers Online Webinar Training programs, as well as Virpi Tervonen as a private Webinar Marketing Coach and Digital Product Creation Consultant.

☐ WEBINAR MARKETING
Well-planned and executed webinar marketing is a perfect vehicle for lead generation, consultative sales, digital product delivery, and prospect & client follow-up for business owners providing services and products to individuals or other businesses. Webinars are also a powerful tool in authority positioning, shortening a sales cycle, improving client retention, increasing transaction value, boosting a product launch, and successfully publishing a book.

☐ WEBINAR COACHING & CONSULTING
Helping Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and Experts clarify their webinar marketing goals and create a webinar marketing plan. Webinar Coaching helps business owners to design a webinar presentation that deeply addresses their target audience’s root problem, seamlessly offers their solution to fix the problem, and converts to sales. 

☐ ORGANIZING WEBINAR EVENTS
A well-organized, goal-oriented webinar event can amplify your desired business outcomes. We can help you to create a webinar presentation, create and set up the webinar registration funnel, create and handle the pre-webinar and post-webinar email marketing follow-up, manage your “live” webinar event, and create an ongoing, automated webinar marketing system for your business. 

☐ ONLINE WEBINAR TRAINING
“1-Hour Workweek with Webinars” is a digital webinar training program for individuals who want to learn webinar marketing, webinar presentation creation, and promoting their webinar events from the comfort of their own home, in their own phase.

For more info, contact info@webinareventpro.com or message Virpi Tervonen.

Founder • Webinar Marketing • Webinar Training • Webinar Event Management •Webinar Marketing Systems

Chopra Center for Wellbeing

Chopra Center is specialized in physical healing, emotional freedom, and higher states of consciousness by integrating the healing arts of the East with the best in modern Western medicine. We offer a wide variety of programs, retreats, and teacher training programs at www.chopra.com

Chopra Center for Wellbeing is located in Carlsbad, California, USA, and was founded by Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon M.D. in 1996.

Coaching Consultant on Online Sales (Project)

SP Jain School of Global Management - Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore & Sydney

SP Jain School of Global Management is one of Asia’s top-ranked global business schools with international campuses in the cities of Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, and Sydney.

Rankings:
• Forbes: Top 10 Best International 1 Year MBAs (2015 – 17)
• The Economist: Top 100 Fulltime MBAs worldwide (2015)
• Forbes: Top 20 Best International Business Schools (2013 - 15)
• Financial Times: Top 100 Global MBA programs (2011 and 2012)

SP Jain’s undergraduate and postgraduate business programs are accredited by the Department of Education/ Tertiary Education Quality & Standards Agency (TEQSA), Australia, and licensed by the Council of Private Education, Singapore, and the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, Dubai.

Digital Marketing, Lead Generation, and Online Sales (Project)

Founder life is relentless. Exhilarating. And far lonelier than it looks from the outside. Most Founder CEOs are brilliant, yet bottlenecked — mentally and operationally overloaded. Behind the growth, the pressure builds: endless decisions, hidden doubts, and little true perspective. I help them figure out what to do next, handle tough situations, and scale without working themselves into the ground. 

I’ve lived this world for over two decades: founding four ventures and coaching Founder CEOs for more than ten years. My science background taught me rigour. Strategic thinking and positive psychology keep me future-focused. Coaching certifications give me practical frameworks. Two decades in Singapore added global perspective. Nordic directness keeps it practical. 

The result? An approach that’s analytical and deeply human.

✅ I help Founder CEOs win three battles: 

1️⃣ Mental overload — dissolving root causes of anxiety, frustration, and stress. Updating the mental OS and rewiring the brain for calm, creativity, and resilience. 
“Best training in my 37 working years.” • “I achieve more with a calm, clear mind.” 
Read more 👉 https://mentalfitnessprogramme.com

2️⃣ Leadership challenges — renewing identity and role, finding clarity fast, and building decision-making momentum. 
“My business went from $1M to $5M.” • “I tripled my business.” 
Read more: 👉 https://realrelevantresults.com/founder-ceo-coaching

3️⃣ Feeling disconnected — carrying the weight of a business in isolation. Community restores perspective, connection, and belonging through peer leverage. 
“Found my tribe.” • “This is what I’ve been seeking.” 
Read more: 👉 https://thefounderstrust.com

✨ In short: Founder CEOs hire me to renew their mind, role, and leverage — so their business (and life) can scale without breaking them. 

I champion visionary founders who have built their businesses from the ground without investor backup. If that’s you, let’s connect! I’d love to hear how you’re navigating your journey.

"This was supposed to be my best year yet."

That's what Ann told me in our first coaching call last week.

She's a successful founder. 7-figure business. Great team. Industry recognition.

But as Q4 approached, instead of celebrating wins, she felt empty.

The goals she set in January? Half-completed.
The vision she was excited about? Buried under daily firefighting.
The energy she had for her business? Completely drained.

"I keep thinking I should just sell and start over," she said.

Here's what I told her (and what I wish every founder knew):

Your problem isn't your business performance.
It's your mental operating system.

You've been running on "panicked intern" mode all year:
 ↳ Reacting to every crisis
 ↳ Second-guessing every decision  
 ↳ Carrying the weight of everything on your shoulders

But there's another way to operate.

What if your mind worked like a "calm COO" instead?
 ↳ Clear thinking under pressure
 ↳ Confident decision-making
 ↳ Creative problem-solving instead of constant firefighting

The neuroscience is clear: You can rewire these patterns in 7 weeks.

Not through willpower or positive thinking. 
Through actual neural pathway changes that make calm confidence your default setting.

That's why I launched my Q4 Mental Fitness Sprint.

Because the best time to upgrade your mental OS isn't when everything falls apart.

It's right now.

So you can end this year strong and enter 2025 with the mental clarity that matches your business success.

Your business deserves a founder who operates from core strengths, not stress.

✅ Q4 Mental Fitness Sprint is available for you. Visit the link in the comments.

Dr. Virpi Tervonen, CEC

Founder of TFT || Board Member || Certified Coach || Scale Your Business, Not Your Stress: Mental Fitness, Leadership Development, Strategic Business & Personal Development

When you open the door to opportunity, uncertainty tiptoes in behind.
That, you can manage.

But turn it into an open house? Anxiety makes itself at home.

Opportunities are everywhere: partnerships, fresh ideas, bold choices.
Openness to them fuels growth. But it also invites overwhelm.
Every “yes” brings potential and a dozen new uncertainties.

An up-to-date Founder Charter, Decision Protocol, and Operating Rhythm help you navigate growth with clarity and control.

You can manage uncertainty with agility and experience.
But when anxiety moves in… your leadership starts paying rent to worry.

Another benefit of mental fitness: you stay calm under pressure.
Your mind stops reacting to every “what if” and starts focusing on what matters now.

Scaling a business isn’t about staying open to everything.
It’s about knowing when to open the door and when to close it.
And having a mind that works for you, not against you.

📌 Resources in the comments.

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