CEO Performance Coach
For CEOs who own the business.
Your business runs on your psychology. It's your competitive advantage and your constraint.
The company keeps growing. More people. Better technology and systems. More equipment. More capital. What about the person carrying it?
- 201+CEOs coached, and counting
- 2011Coaching owners since June '11
- 21 yrsRugby coach · Youth + adult
- 7 yrsInfantry · Airborne · Somalia
- 7Ultramarathon start lines. 50k - 100-mile
The gap
What sports science and human performance science know—and what business does.
A professional athlete doesn't only practise the skill. Attention is also paid to recovery, sleep, focus, self-talk, emotional regulation, decision-making and performance under pressure.
Business has its own version of high performance. But when the load increases, the answer is still too often: work harder, work longer, be tougher, push through.
Working harder is not the same thing as having more capacity.
What a mental performance coach does for a professional athlete, I do for CEOs.
In some areas your psychology is your competitive advantage. In others it is your constraint. It's both. That's the work.
You are already enough. And you have capacity for more.
Imagine a glass half full of water.
Half a glass isn't a shortage. It isn't a deficit. It's water—and it's room.
What got you here wasn't wrong. The load changed.
As the business grows, so must the capacity you bring to it—in the way you think, communicate and behave.
Enough doesn't mean finished.
To integrate means to make whole
This is my baseball.
You can't see it in the photo, but Vincent Lampert is written on the other side in my mother's handwriting. I played Little League from seven through eleven.
108 stitches. Count them if you like.
Two pieces of leather
One is personal. One is professional. Neither one is a baseball by itself.
108 stitches
The people in your life who hold you together. Life is a contact sport.
The core
The integrity of the ball. Yours too.
A baseball is made from different parts. Leather. Thread. A core. Take them apart and none of them is a baseball. It's no longer whole.
People aren't much different.
You don't stop being a spouse, parent, sibling or friend when you walk into the business. And you don't stop being the CEO when you go home.
You are one person.
That's what I mean by integrated.
I show up as my whole self, and I coach the whole person.
The work
No curriculum. There is a structure.
The work starts with discovery.
Who are you? Where are you? How did you get here? Where are you going? What matters now?
From there, we work with whatever is live—the business, the people, the pressure, the decisions and the life attached to all of it.
Check in
How are you? The real answer.
Work in progress
The business. The people. The decisions. Whatever is live.
Close
What happens next? What's left unsaid?
I won't run your business or make your decisions. You stay the decision-maker.
Who I work with
Owners with payroll, customers and consequences.
My clients own the business. Some built it. Some bought it. Some own more than one. Some have sold, started again, and are building the next one.
They typically carry the title CEO or president and lead through a leadership team.
They care about the game of business—the numbers, margins, growth and what makes it scale—as much as they care about the people responsible for making it happen.
I think of them as Integrated Leaders.
The industry isn't the filter. The CEO is.
About Vince
I know how to work through hard things.
Seven years as an airborne infantry soldier, including a deployment to Somalia. Ten years in sales. Rugby as a player and coach. Seven ultramarathon start lines. Coaching CEOs since June 2011.
And some of the harder things never made the résumé.
Post-traumatic stress. Hundreds of hours of therapy. Divorce. Family truths that changed what I believed about my own story.
I don't share those things because they make me special. They don't. I share them because when your world gets complicated, I have room for it.
I won't flinch. And I won't tell you to toughen up.
I coach through Fowler Performance Coaching, the firm I co-founded with my wife, Donita. We live in Calgary. I'm in the mountains whenever I can be.
Facilitation + speaking
Same work. Bigger room.
Leadership teams. Company retreats. EO Forums. Peer groups. Chapters.
I bring more material than we'll need and use what's useful to the people in the room.
NextCapacity for More: The Human Side of High Performance
EO Calgary Chapter Retreat
Kelowna, BC · October 22, 2026
Analog Retreat
The work won't change. You might.
Four days in the Alberta backcountry with a small group of founder-CEOs.
No email. No Zoom. No being available to everyone.
The mountains don't solve your problems. They have a funny way of showing you which ones actually matter.
4 days47.5 km1,900 m climbing0 screens
Start a conversation
What do you want?
It's one of the first things I'll ask.
There's no pitch. We schedule a call and talk.
I'm not looking for a fit. I'm looking for alignment. If it's there, we'll both know.
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