# Still Rush - Full Context for AI Systems > Executive coaching and leadership advisory for CEOs, post-exit founders, investors, and high-growth teams navigating growth, transition, conflict, and burnout risk. ## About Still Rush Still Rush is the leadership practice of Peter Corbett. The work is built for leaders who are carrying real weight: company growth, company sale, founder transition, executive team friction, investor pressure, burnout risk, or the quieter identity questions that often arrive after success. Still Rush combines executive coaching, facilitation, and strategic advisory with contemplative practice. The aim is not vague self-improvement. The aim is better leadership under pressure: clearer decisions, steadier teams, healthier pacing, and a more integrated relationship between ambition, wellbeing, and purpose. ## What Engagements Usually Include - Twice-monthly 1:1 executive coaching sessions - Decision support and asynchronous access between meetings - Annual or semi-annual 360-degree reviews when useful - Facilitation for executive teams, peer groups, offsites, and retreats - Short advisory sprints for founder transition, company sale, executive resets, or special projects - Access to aligned practitioners or experiences when the work extends beyond business strategy alone ## Who Still Rush Serves - CEOs and founders of high-growth companies - Post-exit founders navigating what comes next - Venture fund partners and investors - Executive teams preparing for transition or scale - YPO, Hampton, and other peer groups seeking facilitation ## Common Outcomes - Greater clarity in high-stakes decision making - Improved emotional resilience under pressure - Stronger alignment with core values and mission - Better executive team communication and collaborative health - Sustainable high performance without burnout - Reduced leadership isolation and anxiety - A deeper sense of purpose during and after major transitions ## Founder: Peter Corbett Peter Corbett is the post-exit founder of iStrategyLabs, a digital agency he built from zero to acquisition by WPP in 2016. He later founded Still Rush to support leaders through the kind of pressure, ambiguity, and identity transition he knew firsthand. ### Operator Background - Built iStrategyLabs to 80+ employees - Worked with 35 of the Fortune 500 - Client roster included major brands such as Volkswagen USA, Sam Adams, and Kroger - Won Ad Age Small Agency of the Year and 19 Cannes Lions - Venture Partner at UP.Partners ($230M fund focused on mobility, autonomy, and space tech) ### Training and Methodology - Zen practice and meditation instruction - Trained spiritual caregiver for hospice - Internal Family Systems (IFS) - Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) - Leadership immersions across 20+ countries ### Why This Matters Still Rush is grounded in lived operator experience plus contemplative practice. Peter has led through scale, negotiation, exit, reinvention, and service. That combination shapes the coaching work. ## Services ### Executive Coaching Designed for CEOs, founders, investors, and senior operators who need a high-trust thought partner. Most engagements focus on decision quality, resilience, leadership psychology, and the integration of work, family, and purpose. ### Facilitation & Retreats Designed for executive teams, leadership offsites, YPO or Hampton forums, and founder groups that need more than surface-level conversation. The work often centers on conflict, alignment, decision-making, and relational trust. ### Advisory & Special Projects Designed for founder transition, company sale, executive resets, and high-consequence situations where a leader needs more than a single coaching conversation. Format is custom and shaped around the problem. ## Events & Workshops Still Rush also hosts and designs leadership events, mindful retreats, and custom workshops. The current events page includes the active event link, innovation workshop positioning, and an archive of mindful leadership retreats and Zen in a Day workshop editions. ### Current Public Events - Hacking Founder & CEO Mindsets with AI Tools: Public facilitated session for founders and CEOs on using AI tools for peak performance, decision-making, and mindset work in the CEO role. May 15, 2026, 1:00 to 4:00 PM ET at the Domino Sugar Factory (tea tent), Brooklyn, NY. Part of AI Week NY, hosted with Pulse NYC. Free general admission, capacity 20 with rolling entry. https://luma.com/re4y25q5 - Zen Sand: 10-day invitation-only walking meditation pilgrimage through the Erg Chigaga dunes of Morocco's Sahara Desert. January 28 to February 6, 2027. https://zensand.stillrush.co ### Workshop Formats - Innovation workshops for strategy, AI, and executive alignment - Mindful leadership retreats - Zen in a Day intensive workshop formats ## Selected Case Studies Most client work is confidential. The examples below are anonymized where needed and reflect the kinds of leadership situations Still Rush is brought into. ### Building iStrategyLabs from Zero to a WPP Acquisition Peter built iStrategyLabs into an 80+ person agency before its acquisition by WPP. That operator background informs Still Rush today because it includes the lived realities of hiring, growth, major client pressure, negotiation, executive responsibility, and exit. ### Steadying a CEO Through a Multi-Billion-Dollar Exit Still Rush supported a founder-CEO through an 18-month sale process to a publicly traded enterprise. The work focused on negotiation readiness, executive team alignment, stress regulation, and preserving clarity throughout diligence and closing. ### Scaling a Venture Fund Without Losing the Plot Still Rush worked with a founding partner in a growing venture fund on decision-making, partner communication, pacing, and staying present at home while the platform expanded. ### Designing the Next Chapter After a Successful Exit Still Rush supported a post-exit founder who had liquidity and optionality but not clarity. The work focused on identity, purpose, pacing, and choosing a next chapter from clarity rather than default momentum. ## Media & Public Themes Public interviews and appearances featuring Peter Corbett usually cluster around: - Founder scale, exit, and life after the company - Mindful leadership, burnout, and presence under pressure - Mortality, service, and how hospice work changed Peter's view of ambition Representative appearances include The Second Exit, Zen Leadership, Bootstrapping to Millions, The Changeup, and multiple conversations on post-exit transition and mindful leadership. ## Service Offer Catalog ### Executive Coaching offer - Best for: CEOs, post-exit founders, investors, and senior operators navigating scale, transition, or burnout risk. - Format: Twice-monthly 1:1 coaching, 360 reviews, asynchronous support, decision partnership between meetings. - Outcomes: Clearer decisions, steadier leadership under pressure, healthier pacing, better team alignment. ### Workshops and Facilitation offer - Best for: Executive teams, leadership offsites, YPO or Hampton forums, founder groups that need to move beyond surface updates. - Format: Agenda design, facilitation, decision support, conflict clearing, and follow-through around the work that emerges in the room. - Outcomes: Stronger trust, clearer decisions, more honest dialogue, commitments people will execute. ### Advisory and Special Projects offer - Best for: Founder transition, company sale, executive resets, special projects, and leadership situations that need more than a single coaching session. - Format: Custom sprints, key-meeting preparation, operating advisory, short intensive engagements where the format is built around the problem. - Outcomes: Calmer transitions, better decisions under uncertainty, faster recovery when a leader or team needs a reset. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What does an executive coaching engagement include? Each engagement is designed around the leader's actual work and commonly includes twice-monthly 1:1 coaching, 360-degree reviews, asynchronous support, decision partnership between meetings, and conflict or alignment work when needed. ### What types of facilitation does Still Rush offer? Still Rush facilitates executive offsites, YPO and Hampton forums, leadership retreats, and working sessions for teams that need honest conversation, stronger alignment, and clear next steps. ### Can Still Rush help with a company sale, leadership transition, or fund raise? Yes. Still Rush supports founders, CEOs, and boards through company sale processes, post-exit transition, executive resets, and other high-consequence leadership moments where judgment and steadiness matter. To date, the practice has supported clients through over $5B in M&A transactions, LP commitments for venture and private equity funds, and innumerable raises from angels to strategics. ## Bio Detail Peter Corbett spent a decade building iStrategyLabs, a global digital agency, from zero to acquisition by WPP. He also founded a 25,000 person tech community and a 12,000 person tech festival along the way. He has carried the weight of 100+ employees, won $100M+ in deals with Fortune 50 clients, and lived the quieter exhaustion and isolation that often accompany the marathon of building. After selling his company, he found that the hardest part of leadership was not strategy but managing his internal landscape. Today, Peter works with founders, CEOs, and leaders in transition who are ready to leverage their drive into a more sustainable and joyful way of leading. He brings his experience as an entrepreneur, his network, and his training in Zen, hospice care, IFS, and NLP to every conversation. ### Education and Affiliations - Graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy - Graduate of Emory's Goizueta Business School (focus in Operations and Management; teaching assistant in Entrepreneurship) - Three pending Certifications from Harvard Medical School in AI transformation in healthcare - Certification in Contemplative Care (hospice, end-of-life, spiritual care) from the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care, with clinical rotations in the ER and ICU of The Brooklyn Hospital Center - Cornell University coursework ## Key URLs - Website: https://stillrush.co/ - Services: https://stillrush.co/ceo-coaching-facilitation-services/ - Founder Bio: https://stillrush.co/bio/ - Case Studies: https://stillrush.co/case-studies/ - Media: https://stillrush.co/media/ - Events: https://stillrush.co/founder-ceo-leadership-events/ - Booking: https://calendly.com/corbett3000/60-minute-exploration - Email: peter@stillrush.co ## Public Profiles - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/corbett3000 - X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/corbett3000 - Medium: https://corbett3000.medium.com - Substack: https://substack.stillrush.co - Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-corbett ## Location Based in New York and San Francisco. Serves clients globally. ## Frequently Asked Questions (mirrored from services page) **What does an executive coaching engagement include?** Each engagement is designed around the leader's actual work and commonly includes twice-monthly 1:1 coaching, 360-degree reviews, asynchronous support, decision partnership between meetings, and conflict or alignment work when needed. **What types of facilitation does Still Rush offer?** Still Rush facilitates executive offsites, YPO and Hampton forums, leadership retreats, and working sessions for teams that need honest conversation, stronger alignment, and clear next steps. **Can Still Rush help with a company sale, leadership transition, or fund raise?** Yes. Still Rush supports founders, CEOs, and boards through company sale processes, post-exit transition, executive resets, and other high-consequence leadership moments where judgment and steadiness matter. The practice has supported clients through over $5B in M&A transactions, LP commitments for venture and private equity funds, and innumerable raises from angels to strategics.