Executive advising

What’s executive advising? Imagine executive coaching - now make it deeper and higher impact.

Every leader needs a mirror. Who’s yours?

Leadership is lonely. The power differential inherent in your role as CEO/founder means you can’t always count on your team to tell you when you’re not doing your best; nor is it appropriate for you to share openly all your worries and insecurities with your team, board, or investors.

Having an executive advisor - a trusted, confidential thought partner and confidant who is not part of your company - provides a space for you to process what’s happening for you as a leader so you don’t unwittingly harm your company, team, or yourself.

As your executive advisor, my job is to be an accurate mirror for you - to reflect back to you, directly and honestly, how you are thinking, feeling, and behaving. Together we will understand and track how you operate, find and fix your blind spots, and determine what needs to change in order for you to be more balanced, successful, and satisfied as a leader.

Executive advising is deeper than executive coaching.

My training as a therapist gives our work an edge that executive coaches typically cannot provide. Advising isn’t the same as therapy - we aren’t focused on healing you or treating any mental illness or substance abuse issues, for instance - but it’s deeper than coaching.

Working with me will help you understand how you are unconsciously recreating old, historical patterns in your style as a leader. I’ll also teach you the tools you need to overcome those patterns, so you can operate in more adaptive and successful ways.

Executive advising can save businesses plagued by business-partner and co-founder issues.

It’s not uncommon for profitable, successful businesses to get derailed by the relationship issues and poor communication of their co-founders or business partners. If you and your co-founder or business partner are struggling, executive advising can help you get and keep your relationship on the right track. I’ll teach you how to talk and listen to each other, how to identify and resolve interpersonal issues before they get big and disruptive, and how to lead well together. I work with business partners on both a short-term and ongoing basis; my goal is always to work towards my own obsolescence.