Overview
Eric Partaker is a CEO coach, entrepreneur, and author focused on peak performance for founders and scale-up leaders. He is the author of The 3 Alarms: A Simple System to Transform Your Health, Wealth, and Relationships Forever, and draws on experience advising Fortune 50 CEOs at McKinsey & Company, helping build Skype’s multi-billion-dollar success story, and founding multiple businesses.
SUCCESS readers who want CEO-level performance without sacrificing health and relationships will recognize Partaker’s “three alarms” framing across work, home, and health.
Why SUCCESS readers care
Partaker’s public story includes hard wake-up calls—entrepreneurial struggle and the cost of unbalanced success—then a rebuild via coaching practice, behavioral science, and systems. Official about copy notes recognition as “CEO of the Year” at the 2019 Business Excellence Forum, one of Startups Magazine’s “Top 30 Entrepreneurs in the UK” (35 and under), and among “Britain’s Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs” by The Telegraph, plus media features and a guest-judge appearance on The Apprentice with Lord Alan Sugar.
What he teaches
- Peak performance systems for CEOs and founders
- Balancing health, wealth, and relationships (The 3 Alarms)
- Scale-up leadership habits drawn from McKinsey, Skype, and company-building work
- Behavioral-science-informed coaching approaches described on his site
- LinkedIn education for founders/CEOs (1M+ followers claimed on official about)
Who it's for
- Founders graduating from startup hustle to CEO leadership
- Operators who want performance without burnout collapse
- SUCCESS readers pairing executive coaching with life design
- Leaders who like evidence-informed habit systems
Frequently asked
Coach or operator?
Both—operating experience (McKinsey, Skype, founding companies) underpins the coaching brand.
What are the three alarms?
The book frames simple daily alarms/prompts across work, home, and health domains—see The 3 Alarms for the full system.
Entry point?
Official site offers coaching, assessments, and the book; start with the book if you want the system before 1:1 work.