We believe more is
possible together.

You’re stepping into a bigger role, bringing an idea to life, or leaving something you spent years building. What’s ahead may excite you, unsettle you, or both. Even when little has changed on the outside, you may find yourself questioning the ambition that carried you this far and wondering what you want now. These moments ask you to explore beyond what’s familiar, in your work and in yourself.

The right guides help you go places you couldn’t reach on your own. They bring perspective, experience, and belief in what’s possible for you. With someone who supports you and challenges your thinking, you can examine what you want and what stands in the way. As you come to understand your own habits and assumptions, you gain more agency in how you lead, what you build, and how you live.

We’ve experienced the difference those relationships make in our own lives and work. For years, each of us ran a thriving coaching practice working with founders, leaders, investors, and creators. We chose to build Camerado because working together deepened our own development and made us better coaches. We challenge each other, support our clients with different perspectives, and bring new approaches to work we care deeply about.

Camerado gives a name to that spirit. A camerado is a fellow traveler: someone who shares in the uncertainty and awe of discovering something new. Someone who walks with you, side by side, into each challenge, and always tells you the truth. The work is yours, but you don’t have to navigate the open road alone.


Three partners. One practice.

We bring decades of experience founding companies, leading teams, and investing in businesses, alongside years devoted to our own development and the people we coach. Each of us brings a different history and way of seeing.

You work closely with one lead partner, who gets to know you, what you’re navigating, and what matters to you. Your lead partner draws on the experience and perspective of the full partnership, with a network of trusted practitioners we can call on when useful.

What we discover together will change how you make decisions, approach difficult conversations, and lead.

Derek Haswell

Derek Haswell

Founding Partner

Co-founded and helped scale meditation company 10% Happier. Derek helps founders and CEOs grow their businesses, build effective teams, and bring more of who they are into how they lead and live.

Meet Derek
Steve Schlafman

Steve Schlafman

Founding Partner

Former operator and venture investor. Steve guides founders, executives, and investors through major business and life transitions, drawing on his own experience of leaving a career and beginning again.

Meet Steve
Ryan Vaughn

Ryan Vaughn

Founding Partner

Former CEO of three venture-backed companies (one exit). Ryan supports founders in building high-performance, low-drama companies that fuel the life they truly want to live.

Meet Ryan

Begin with a conversation.

What are you building, navigating, or beginning to question? We’d like to hear what’s happening in your world and explore how we might work together.