Executive Leadership Advisory
A trusted advisor for your decision making.
A coach helps you develop as a leader. An advisor helps you work through what is in front of you: the strategy call, the board, the person who has to go, the offer you are weighing. In this work I do both.
Who it is for
Leaders who need more than coaching questions.
- CEOs and executive directors of associations and nonprofits
- Founders building something new and asking others to fund it
- Real estate, consulting, and professional-services executives
- Executives in their first year in a new seat
What is included
Your engagement
- First month: weekly sessions to build context on you, your challenges, your organization, and your opportunities
- After that: two 75-minute private advisory sessions each month
- Access between sessions for urgent questions, with a reply within one business day
- Written notes after each session, with the decisions and commitments we named
- Strategy, organizational politics, and board relationships
- Hard personnel decisions, thought through before you act
- Your own leadership and effectiveness, alongside the work
What this looks like
Two recent engagements
We moved between strategy for the organization and her own leadership in the same hour. The work was turning a vision she held whole into a prioritized set of asks that funders and partners could act on, sequencing the first donor approach so momentum would build, and deciding the format of a field-wide summit on purpose rather than by default. Underneath it: growing comfort claiming the authority and the money the work requires.
Three senior colleagues were circling the question of who was running a high-stakes proposal. We worked out the structure, and he took the lead because the work needed it, not because he needed their approval. In the same months we worked through outside recruiter conversations and a difficult family boundary. Same skill each time: taking charge while holding things loosely.
You don't need more advice. You need someone with no stake in the outcome who has made these calls before.
How we start
- Conversation. A free 30-minute call to see whether this fits.
- First month. We meet weekly to understand you, your challenges, your organization, and your opportunities, and to name what you want to be true in three months.
- Ongoing rhythm. Two sessions a month, notes, and access in between. We review together at three months.
Talk it through first.
Book a 30-minute conversation. If advisory is not the right fit, I will say so.
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