Supported by:
MIKE BUONAIUTO
Exited Founder | Senior Advisor | Author
Mike Buonaiuto is a philanthropic business leader, who founded, scaled and exited Shape History, the award-winning social impact communications agency. Currently, he serves as a senior advisor, assisting rapidly growing organisations in navigating optics and operations.
📚 Mike's book Founder Therapy, published June 2023 reaching best-seller status.
📢 His TEDx talk, ‘No wonder people are quitting - business must do better’ was selected and featured by TED’s Editor picks.
🤝 Mike supports Virgin Startup as their ‘Entrepreneur In Residence’ and NatWest’s Business Accelerator as their ‘Business Startup Coach.’
Areas of focus include:
- Brand, comms and marketing consultancy
- Operations strategy (growth, revenue, new business, cash-flow)
- Investment, fundraising and pitch support
- Culture of entrepreneurship
- Founder, leadership and team wellbeing / development
- Exit strategy and valuation development
- ESG and CSR strategy and deployment
THE BOOK
Our ‘high-performance’ generation has a problem with burnout. Depression and anxiety are now at record levels amongst founders and leaders.
In Founder Therapy, Mike Buonaiuto uncovers why and offers a radical new approach, presenting 50 lessons to start, scale and sell without wounding our wellbeing.
THE AGENCY
Mike founded, scaled and exited Shape History, the award-winning social impact agency. The organisation has worked internationally alongside global institutions including the United Nations, Atlantic Council, and World Health Organisation.