Ventures, organizations, and founders we've helped build, scale, and fund
What We Do
Most consultancies offer one of three things: experienced people, functional systems, or leadership development. Junto offers all three — integrated, intentional, and built around your specific vision.
Capability One
Senior COO, CMO, CTO, and Chief of Staff support embedded in your business — without the full-time overhead. We become genuine partners to your founding team, not outside advisors.
Capability Two
The infrastructure that lets your business run without you in every room. We design and implement the processes, tools, and rhythms that turn intention into execution — including our preferred technology platform, Kunossa.
Capability Three
A proprietary leadership and organizational alignment process that works alongside your functional development — addressing the internal dynamics, belief systems, and interpersonal patterns that determine whether strategy actually lands.
The Collective
COO · CRO · Chief of Staff · Boulder, CO
Over three decades at the crossroads of people, sustainability, and finance. Travis has helped launch and scale more than a dozen startups and social enterprises — from co-founding Big Green with Kimbal Musk to raising $2M in clean-tech capital during the 2008 financial crisis. He serves as Junto's principal and the primary intake lead for every client engagement.
CMO · CTO · London, UK
David is a marketing and technology strategist who has spent his career building platforms and processes that help businesses grow intelligently. He is the founder of Kunossa — an EOS-mapped operating platform built specifically for SMBs — and the architect of Collab OS, a leadership alignment process that sits at the heart of The Junto Method. David brings both deep technical fluency and a marketer's understanding of what drives human behavior.
The Junto collective is designed to grow. We bring in additional partners as the right operators commit to the ecosystem.
How We Work Together
An intensive session designed to give your leadership team clarity on the decisions that matter most — vision, priorities, structure, and the 90 days ahead. Often the right first step.
Embedded senior leadership — COO, CMO, CTO, or Chief of Staff — working inside your business on a part-time basis. We own outcomes, attend key meetings, and operate as true partners to the CEO.
For businesses that need to build operating infrastructure fast. We step in as a focused team for 90 days, diagnose what's broken, implement what's needed, and hand off a machine that runs.
All three pillars working in concert — fractional leadership, operating systems implementation, and The Junto Method running in parallel. For founders building something ambitious who want all the support in one place.
Selected Work
From founding a national nonprofit with Kimbal Musk to raising $2M in clean tech during a market downturn to delivering a $16.5M renewable energy project across two continents — here is a window into how we operate.
Big Green · 2011–2015
The Challenge
Kimbal Musk had the vision for Learning Gardens in underserved communities. What he needed was an operator who could turn that vision into an organization with real infrastructure, culture, and national scale.
The Outcome
Led business formation, hired and developed the full team from inception, and built the culture and values that became the organization's north star — growing from initial concept to a nationally recognized nonprofit connecting tens of thousands of kids to real food.
Infinity Energy · 2007–2011
The Challenge
A promising waste-to-energy and biomass-to-hydrogen startup needed early-stage capital — in 2008, in the middle of a global financial collapse that had effectively closed most investors' doors.
The Outcome
Secured $2 million in early-stage capital by owning the full fundraise — investor outreach, due diligence, pitch deck, and close — in one of the most difficult fundraising environments in modern history.
L&R Energy · Italy · 2003–2007
The Challenge
A cross-continental renewable energy project — 6.6 megawatts, two countries, multiple stakeholders — needed someone to own delivery, secure complex equipment financing, and bring it in on time.
The Outcome
Brought a $16.5M, 6.6 MW renewable "Energy Island" online in Cologna Veneta, Italy — and negotiated $2.5M in equipment financing for the project's major components.
Capability Three
Strategy is the easy part. Most businesses know roughly what they need to do. What prevents execution is almost always found in the people doing it — in the patterns, belief systems, and dynamics that sit below the surface of every leadership team.
The Junto Method is a proprietary leadership and organizational alignment process — developed in partnership with David Levy's Collab OS — that works alongside the functional work to address what's actually in the way.
Ask about The Junto Method →We begin with a structured assessment of the leadership team — individual belief systems, relational patterns, decision-making dynamics, and where the gaps between stated values and lived behavior exist.
Facilitated sessions — sometimes intensive, sometimes embedded into the rhythm of the business — that surface the real conversations the team needs to have and build the shared frameworks to have them productively.
1:1 work with the CEO and key leaders that goes deeper than business coaching — into the internal constructs, accountability patterns, and ways of relating that shape how they lead and how their teams follow.
The Method doesn't run in parallel to the business — it integrates with it. Culture design, values activation, and ongoing team rhythms that make the internal shifts permanent rather than a workshop memory.
Preferred Technology Partner
Within our Operating Systems capability, Junto brings fluency with Kunossa — an EOS-mapped business operating platform designed specifically for small and mid-sized businesses. If you've ever worked with EOS, you'll recognize the structure. If you haven't, you'll wish you'd started sooner.
Kunossa is David Levy's platform, and it's one of the genuine differentiators we bring to engagements where technology infrastructure matters.
See how we deploy it →EOS-Mapped Architecture
Built around the Entrepreneurial Operating System — the most widely adopted business framework for SMBs — with familiar concepts like Rocks, L10 Meetings, and Scorecards built in.
Unified Business Dashboard
KPIs, accountability tracking, and meeting rhythms all in one place — built for how SMB leadership teams actually need to review and run their businesses.
Team Accountability Tools
Ownership, follow-through, and cross-functional visibility — so leaders spend less time chasing status and more time doing the work that actually moves things forward.
What Clients Say
The people we work with are building things that genuinely shouldn't fail. Here's what the partnership looks like from their side.
Travis has a rare gift — he brings the rigorous mind of a seasoned operator and the soul of someone who genuinely cares about why the work matters. He didn't just help us scale; he helped us stay true to ourselves in the process.
When we were trying to raise in the most brutal fundraising environment we'd ever seen, Travis was the person who made it happen. His relationships, his credibility, and his ability to tell our story made all the difference.
Working through The Junto Method changed how I lead. Travis helped me see the connection between my inner world and the external results we were getting — and once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it. Our whole team shifted.
The Origin
In 1727, Benjamin Franklin gathered twelve tradespeople and thinkers in Philadelphia and formed a club for mutual improvement. He called it the Junto. Its rules were simple: bring a question worth asking, pursue truth without ego, and help every member of the group become better at what they were building.
Three hundred years later, that idea still holds. The best outcomes for founders don't come from a single outside advisor — they come from a group of experienced operators who are genuinely invested in each other's success and in the success of the businesses they serve.
Junto is built on that original premise: that the right collective of people, working in concert, can accomplish things that no single individual can. We bring senior operators, real operating systems, and a process for the deeper human work — because all three are needed for a business to truly perform and endure.
The founding principle
"Our debates were to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory."
— Benjamin Franklin, on founding the Junto, 1727
Junto (noun, archaic Spanish) — a group of people united for a common purpose. Franklin's Junto was a club for mutual improvement, meeting weekly to share questions on morals, politics, and philosophy. Every member was expected to show up with something worth asking.