John Fanous helps founders and CEOs make the hardest shift in business: from the person who built it to the leader it now requires.
Most scaling struggles aren’t strategy problems. They’re leadership and structural problems. The systems that got you to where you are start working against you at the next stage. John has watched this pattern play out across 25+ years of senior leadership, and he now spends his time helping founders and CEOs navigate it with clarity instead of chaos.
Through Lumis Coaching, John works with a select group of scaling founders and CEOs on the full leadership transition: honest self-assessment, building a cohesive team, and installing the operating systems that let a company scale. Using the Predictable Success framework, his approach blends practical structure with the kind of honest, unhurried attention that most coaching skips. Clients leave with clarity on what to do and a stronger sense of who they are becoming.
As a Convene Chair in Northern California, John also leads two peer groups of Christian CEOs who are serious about integrating their faith and their business. It’s a confidential table of non-competing peers who provide the kind of strategic accountability and collective wisdom most leaders never find.
John is the author of the forthcoming book The Evening Habit (Fall 2026), a practical guide to ending the day with intention so you wake up to a morning that’s already been prepared for you.
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