Three partners, one studio.
We believe the company we keep shapes who we become and what becomes possible. We’ve experienced this in our own lives and through years of coaching leaders navigating unfamiliar territory in their work, relationships, and inner lives.
Between us, we’ve founded and led companies, invested in startups, and devoted years to studying human development and doing our own inner work. Each of us brings different experiences, disciplines, and gifts to the studio.
At Camerado, we challenge one another’s thinking and continue developing together. Our commitment to one another’s development is ultimately a commitment to the leaders we serve.
Together, we help you navigate the demands of leadership, expand what you’re capable of, and discover new possibilities for what you build and who you become.
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
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
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 RyanWhat our clients say
Steve helped me be intentional through one of the most significant passages of my life.
The Company We Keep
Camerado extends beyond its founding partners. We draw on a circle of trusted people whose experience, skill, and care deepen our work and expand what we can offer the leaders and teams we serve.
Our collaborators
With twenty years in operations, many of them at a founder’s side, Marion keeps the studio running, from a client’s first hello to the last detail of every engagement.
A fellow founder, coach, and friend, Dan designs and builds the systems behind our work, with care for our clients’ privacy at the center.
Our wider network
Operators
Founders and executives who’ve navigated building, scaling, and exiting companies. Sometimes we introduce them, sometimes we consult them for hard-earned lessons and practical guidance.
Specialists and advisors
Trusted collaborators across strategy, organizational design, talent, technology, and other disciplines who can help clients move from insight to action.
Teachers, healers, and coaches
Experienced practitioners who bring complementary approaches to personal development, contemplative practice, and deeper inner work.
Our name comes from Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road. A camerado is a fellow traveler, someone who walks alongside you into unfamiliar territory. It captures what drew us together and what we hope to offer the people we serve: good company, honest challenge, and the possibility of discovering and becoming more together.
With gratitude.
Our work has been shaped by teachers, mentors, healers, coaches, and friends who have challenged us, supported us, and helped us become who we are. We carry what we’ve learned from them into our work every day.
Jay Althoff, Carl Baccellieri, Brooks Baron, Jonathan Basker, Ed Batista, Rich Borofsky, Barti Bourgault, Hugo Braun, Scott Britton, Sharon Brown, Carl Buchheit, Rob Burbea, Diana Chapman, Jerry Colonna, Julia Corley, Rasanath Das, Bethany Davis, Jim Dethmer, Dave Dickenson, Jason Donahue, Christina Ducuret, Carl Erickson, BJ Fogg, John Ford, Angie Fox, Bryan Franklin, Joseph Goldstein, Vipin Goyal, Melissa Grace, Jeff Greenberg, Dr. Ronald Hanover, Bebe Hansen, Dan Harris, Brian Hawes, LJ Heller, Vince Horn, Karl Hosten, Matthew Immergut, Rachel Jepsen, Andy Johns, Deb Katz, Gina Kellogg, Dr. Josh Klapow, Hap Klopp, Tarikh Korula, Mary Kuentz, Sherri Lassila, Tracy Lawrence, Steve March, Kevin McCurren, Micah McLaughlin, Lorena Monda, Paul Moore, Alex Olshonsky, Hari Prasad, Lior Prosor, Dan Putt, Richard Rohr, Ben Rubin, Ryushin, Sharon Salzberg, Alexis Santos, Guthrie Sayen, Amita Schmidt, Martina Schneider, Eric Shashoua, Michael Singer, Michael Sloyer, Sokuzan, David Spinks, Rachel Sussman, Andrew Taggert, Susa Talan, Kelli Turner, Tzipi Weiss, Alice Wells, Justin Welsh, Holly Whitaker, Haromi Willingham, and many others.