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title: "Interview agenda B — Coaching, constructive dissent and sponsors"
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description: "Potential invitee: Jerry Colonna / Reboot, whose published podcast examines leadership and hard company decisions; an ICF ethics practitioner for sponsored"
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# Interview agenda B — Coaching, constructive dissent and sponsors

**Potential invitee:** Jerry Colonna / Reboot, whose published podcast examines leadership and hard company decisions; an ICF ethics practitioner for sponsored-coaching questions. These are editorial prospect suggestions, not confirmed participants. [Reboot Podcast, episode catalogue](https://www.reboot.io/podcast/) [ICF Code of Ethics, effective 1 April 2025](https://coachingfederation.org/credentialing/coaching-ethics/icf-code-of-ethics/)

### Q4. How does an adviser disagree with a founder without becoming another shadow CEO?

**Why buyers care:** Founders buy challenge but fear loss of decision ownership. **Good answer covers:** explicitly contracted roles; evidence versus judgement; privately recorded objections; respectful challenge; and when the founder may ignore the recommendation. **Expert quote:** *[Pending interview]*.

### Q5. What would a real constructive-challenge work sample look like?

**Why buyers care:** Most testimonials cannot show dissent. **Good answer covers:** redacted initial belief, competing hypotheses, evidence sought, contradictory discovery, documented reasoning, and boundaries on outcome attribution. **Expert quote:** *[Pending interview]*.

### Q6. What exactly should a founder know before accepting investor-paid coaching?

**Why buyers care:** The payer may have different information needs. **Good answer covers:** who is the client, confidentiality limits, who receives summaries, what is recorded, consent revocation, conflicts, safeguarding and who handles escalation. ICF's published standards explicitly distinguish sponsor/client reporting. [ICF Code of Ethics, effective 1 April 2025](https://coachingfederation.org/credentialing/coaching-ethics/icf-code-of-ethics/) **Expert quote:** *[Pending interview]*.