Executive advisory for high-stakes decisions
Make the next 12 months your most Decisive Year as an Executive.
Executive Authority is a private advisory for founders and senior leaders who can’t afford slow thinking, political drift, or diluted decisions. Get a clear, unemotional lens on strategy, organization design, and personal positioning—on demand.
Reserved for venture-backed founders and executives leading teams of 20+.
Advisory snapshot
Who it’s for: Founders & Executives facing compounding decisions across strategy, team, and reputation.
Format: 1:1 Advisory with structured decision reviews, rapid-response access, and quarterly reset sessions.
Focus: Strategy clarity, org and exec team design, personal authority, and communication leverage.
Typical engagement: 6–12 months with direct signal on 3–5 pivotal decisions per quarter.
The quiet cost of leading without a true advisor
You’re surrounded by opinions—but starved for clean signal.
Most executives are forced to arbitrate between board expectations, internal politics, and their own instincts—without a neutral, high-context partner dedicated to their judgment and authority.
Decision Latency
Critical calls on hiring, restructuring, and strategy drift for weeks while you collect yet another deck, perspective, or market scan.
Signal Distortion
Internal counsel is biased. External consultants lack context. Board members are optimizing for portfolio risk—not your day-to-day leadership reality.
Authority Erosion
When your communication, positioning, and decisions don’t line up, people stop feeling led—no matter how hard you’re working behind the scenes.
The solution
Executive Authority: a dedicated second brain for your leadership and leverage.
Instead of ad-hoc advice and generic coaching, you get a structured, ongoing advisory relationship that sits at the intersection of strategy, organization, and personal authority—so your decisions compound instead of collide.
- Dedicated, high-context advisor who tracks your company, team, and board dynamics over time.
- Structured decision reviews on your most leveraged calls—before they’re public and irreversible.
- Authority-level communication support: narrative, positioning, and executive presence.
- Quarterly reset to recalibrate strategy, leadership focus, and personal bandwidth.
What shifts over 6–12 months
From reactive to pre-emptive. Your calendar and communication are shaped around the few decisions that actually move the business.
From doing more to signaling better. You spend less time proving you’re working and more time leading with clarity and conviction.
From isolated to supported. You have a single place to process tradeoffs, pressure, and politics—without posturing or agendas.
The result: a visibly more decisive, composed, and credible version of you that the board, team, and market feel immediately.
Proof
Trusted by venture-backed founders and executive teams navigating non-trivial stakes.
Clients include YC-backed startups, PE-owned portfolio companies, and growth-stage technology firms between Series A and pre-IPO.
$10M → $60M ARR
“We rewired our exec team and board communication in 9 months. The advisory relationship paid for itself in a single hiring decision.”
Founder & CEO, B2B SaaS (Series C)
Board friction → alignment
“We went from defensive board meetings to real partnership. Having a neutral, strategic sounding board changed how I walked into the room.”
CEO, PE-Backed Services Firm
From chaos to cadence
“We finally had a rhythm for decisions. No more last-minute thrash. Our exec team knew which calls mattered and when.”
COO, Growth-Stage Marketplace
Sharper public authority
“My narrative, talks, and internal all-hands finally sounded like the same person. That coherence changed how people responded.”
Founder, YC-Backed Devtools Company
Engagement model
A deliberately lean structure around your most leveraged decisions.
The Executive Authority advisory is built to be light on ceremony and heavy on impact. Here’s how it typically runs:
01 / Orientation
Context download
We map your company, stakeholders, strategy, and current pressure points. You leave with a clear list of 3–5 pivotal decisions for the next quarter.
02 / Cadence
Decision reviews
We meet on a fixed rhythm (often bi-weekly) to pressure test options, tradeoffs, and communication for your highest-stakes calls.
03 / Access
Rapid response
You get async access for urgent scenarios—board emails, exec changes, investor conversations—so you’re never drafting alone on the most sensitive moves.
04 / Reset
Quarterly realignment
Every quarter we step back to reset priorities, refine narrative, and design the next cycle of decisions and leadership focus.
Most clients engage for 6–12 months. A limited number of advisory seats are available at any given time.
About the advisor
A strategic partner who understands both the boardroom and the backchannel.
Over the last decade, I’ve worked with founders and executives across SaaS, marketplaces, and services—from first institutional rounds through late-stage growth and exits.
The work is deliberately low-volume and high-contact. My role is to help you see clearly, decide cleanly, and signal confidently—while everyone else is escalating noise.
If we work together, it will be because your context, ambition, and values align with the kind of leadership this advisory is designed to support.
- Advised founders through fundraises, recapitalizations, restructurings, and CEO transitions.
- Partnered with executive teams on org design, succession, and exec team rebuilds.
- Shaped executive narratives for board decks, town halls, and public-facing keynotes.
- Sat in the room for hard conversations around underperformance, culture, and exits.
Services inside the advisory
What we actually do together.
Every relationship is tailored, but most advisory work falls into a few core tracks:
Strategic decision advisory
We work through major decisions together: funding strategy, market focus, M&A moves, pricing shifts, and other calls that bend the curve of the business.
Output: Structured options, recommended path, failure modes, and a communication plan for each high-leverage decision.
Org & executive team design
We shape the structure, roles, and rhythms of your leadership team. This often includes org mapping, succession planning, and support on sensitive personnel decisions.
Output: Clear org narratives, role definitions, and transition plans that your team can actually execute on.
Authority & communication
We refine how you show up: internal all-hands, board meetings, investor updates, industry talks, and public writing all tell a coherent story.
Output: Sharper narratives, higher-leverage communication, and a visible positional shift in how others experience your leadership.
Executive briefing
Schedule a Confidential 45-minute Briefing.
We’ll map your current reality, the decisions in front of you, and whether the Executive Authority advisory is the right container. No pressure, no pitch deck—just a direct conversation.
- You lead a team of at least 20 people.
- You’re responsible for P&L or company-level outcomes.
- You’re navigating 2–3 material decisions in the next 6–12 months.
- You value candor, discretion, and real partnership.
If it’s not a fit, you’ll still walk away with a sharper view of your decision landscape—and next steps to pursue on your own.
Request Your Briefing
Share a few details and my team will follow up within one business day with options.
We treat every conversation as confidential. No information is shared with investors, board members, or your team.