I'm Trevor. I'm a founder and operator based in Switzerland, working internationally. Over the last decade I've worked across technology, transformation, operations, commercial strategy, and a long list of high-pressure decision-making environments where bad management quietly costs everyone everything.
I started Bad Management because I kept watching the same thing happen: good people, good products, good intentions — wrecked by an operating model nobody designed on purpose. Strategy died between the deck and the standup. Decisions stalled in meetings that produced more meetings. Founders became their own bottleneck and called it "being hands-on."
So I built a practice around the boring, useful parts: ownership, decision rights, operating rhythm, meetings, prioritization, accountability. The infrastructure under the work. I help founders, operators, creatives, and teams diagnose the management failures creating chaos — and install practical systems for better execution.
I am not a guru. I don't have a manifesto. I am allergic to the kind of leadership content that's mostly graphic design. My version of coaching looks more like a working session than a podcast.
If that sounds like what you need — tell me what's broken. I'll tell you straight whether I'm the right person to help. If I'm not, I'll tell you who is.
Coaching, classes, speaking and media platform helping founders, operators and creatives stop scaling chaos and build operating systems that hold under pressure.
Ran ops, installed operating rhythm, and rebuilt leadership cadence at a portfolio of venture-backed teams — from 8-person studios to 200-person platforms.
Ran transformation programs and commercial strategy across technology orgs going through scale, restructure, or both at the same time. Got very good at re-pricing the work.
Before tech, I came up in environments that ran on briefings, structured analysis, and decisions under pressure. That's where I learned what real "operating tempo" looks like — and why most companies confuse motion for momentum.
1:1 work with founders, operators, creatives and emerging leaders who need clarity, better systems and sharper decisions — without corporate jargon.
Short engagements: read your operating model, write the diagnosis, install the fixes. Decision rights, meeting structure, operating rhythm, prioritization.
Speaking, classes, podcast, Twitch. A media surface for the work — so the people who need it can find it before things get expensive.
First call is a real conversation, not a sales pitch. 90 minutes. Then a written diagnosis and a 30-day plan you can actually run.