ADVISORY BOARD

CHAIR SERVICES

INDEPENDENT ADVISOR, SOUNDING BOARD, AND ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR

I facilitate strategic transformation and operational alchemy for bold, visionary, and mission-driven innovative organizations.

ADVISORY SERVICES

Grow Your Business with Expert Advisory Board Chair Services

Leverage Decades of Strategic Expertise to Accelerate Growth, Mitigate Risk, and Drive Innovation. Close the Leadership Gap with a Dedicated Advisory Chair.

Are your advisory board conversations strategic and generative enough? Transform your vision into future business success. With our expert professional guidance, you can get insights from an independent, trusted external advisor or establish a formal Advisory Board structure to support you and your key stakeholders in your business's pivotal moments.

An Advisory Board Chair functions as a strategic accelerator—helping leaders chart the right course, tackle pressing issues, and ensure the organization remains innovative and resilient over the long term.

Unlike the Independent Director or Non-Executive Chair, the Advisory Board Chair is not involved in governance or compliance. Their role is purely advisory, focusing on strategy or specific business challenges. The Advisory Board Chair’s mandate is to bring fresh perspectives and solution-oriented insights without a traditional board role's governance or compliance mandates associated with the traditional boards.

Advisory and Board Chair Services

  • External Advisor

    EXTERNAL ADVISOR

    Ready to elevate your business with a strategic partner committed to driving your growth and innovation?

    As an External Advisor, I offer impartial insights and professional guidance based on my extensive business experience, industry insights, problem-solving expertise, and ability to guide strategic foresight. I help leaders navigate complex challenges, refine their strategic vision, and make informed decisions that drive business growth, operational excellence, and innovation.

  • Advisory Board Chair

    ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR

    Is your organization ready to establish a formal Advisory Board structure or evaluate an existing one? Doing so can help you gain essential strategic guidance and expert insights to overcome critical business challenges and avoid costly mistakes that could hinder your growth.

    As a Board Chair, I partner with business owners to manage Advisory Board planning and meetings, facilitate value-driven insights and advice, and ensure that your advisory board operates efficiently and maximizes its impact.

  • Strategy Development

    STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

    We help organizations through setting a vision, developing strategic options, and choosing a strategic direction. The process involves foresight, analysis of market trends, assessment of capabilities, competitive positioning, and identification of emerging opportunities or risks.

    Our Strategy Development service will help you turn your vision into a clear and actionable roadmap that outlines how the organization will navigate changing environment and achieve its mandate, impact, and business objectives.

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What You Gain From an Experienced Advisory Board Chair

    • Why It Matters: Leaders often need an unbiased, big-picture viewpoint to refine long-term plans or navigate complex challenges.

    • Outcome: Clearer strategies, better decision-making, and a roadmap tailored to the company’s unique vision and market position.

    • Why It Matters: Internal teams can become siloed, risking groupthink or missing fresh ideas. An external Advisory Board Chair brings new perspectives informed by broad industry experience.

    • Outcome: Innovative solutions to business obstacles, enhanced creativity in product or market approaches, and less risk of strategic blind spots.

    • Why It Matters: Specific business challenges—like scaling operations or entering new markets—can drain resources if tackled without specialized expertise.

    • Outcome: Targeted and efficient solutions; quicker resolution of issues, saving both time and money.

    • Why It Matters: Busy executives and leadership teams benefit from ongoing mentorship to sharpen leadership styles, negotiate tricky transitions, or build resilience.

    • Outcome: A stronger leadership bench, improved team dynamics, and a culture that embraces continuous learning.

    • Why It Matters: Lack of fresh ideas can stall an organization’s evolution, especially in rapidly changing markets.

    • Outcome: Faster identification of growth opportunities, guidance on innovative projects, and a stronger competitive edge.

    • Why It Matters: Investors, customers, and partners often value the input of reputable external advisors who focus on big-picture strategies.

    • Outcome: Reassurance that the business is proactively seeking expert perspectives, fostering trust among key stakeholders.

    • Why It Matters: Strategy must evolve as market conditions shift; a solely internal viewpoint can slow adaptability.

    • Outcome: Timely pivots based on real-time insights, ensuring the organization remains competitive and future-ready.

What my Partners and Clients are Saying

  • "During the period of our work together, Svetlana facilitated peer advisory groups of 8-10 C-level and VP level women for our organization’s primary service - Core. Our Guides leverage cutting edge facilitation techniques to draw lifelong professional and personal connections and harness the collective power of the group to help executives tackle their problems and seize opportunities in the moments they need it most. Svetlana had an immeasurable impact on our membership by leading her Core groups and unlocking the potential of her members."

    — Head of Guide Success, CHIEF

  • “I sound like a broken record now, but Lana has been an amazing coach. She listens, provides great perspective, and helps me find the balance between leadership and my true self. I will miss not being connected with her! Lana continues to be very insightful and helpful. I really enjoy connecting with her.”

    — Operation Manager at a $4B global HR company, USA

  • “Great chance to brainstorm and think through how I could approach situations differently.”

    — HR Business Partner Lead at a Fortune 500 Chemical Company

  • “Thought-provoking discussions. The discussion prompted me to develop a couple of new ideas of how to advance certain goals. Svetlana has helped me search/consider tactics for personal development in specific ways.”

    — General Counsel for a $2B industrial engineering company, USA

  • "I wanted to thank you for the very helpful conversations over the last year. My whole perspective on careers has been shifted, thanks in large part to some of our discussions."

    — SVP of Strategy, Higher Education, US

  • “I restored my courage to face the challenge I once escaped from.“

    — International Development Leader, Japan

  • "Life-changing session. I think Svetlana is AMAZING. She is insightful and kind and nurturing and sparks me to explore ideas I haven't come to on my own. I'm so excited to have a coach whose energy and desire for self-seeking knowledge and change dovetails so well with my own."

    — Casting Director, Los Angeles, USA

  • "Awesome session. Really great insight on anchoring habits in core values to make them more organic. Transformational advice that I'm still thinking about."

    — CTO, Top Global Management Consulting Firm, USA

  • Life changing session. 10 out of 10! "Wow! this session was very powerful and I learned a lot.”

    — Export Operations Director, Global Fortune 500 Consumer Goods Company, USA

  • "Amazing session. Really valuable and lots of self introspection."

    — Associate Director, Top Global Management Consulting Firm, India

  • "I talked a LOT and processed a LOT, and ended up with some great insights and some questions to continue to explore."

    — Director of Talent Acquisition, USA

  • "Life changing session. It has been a joy to work with Lana. She helps me see that I have more wisdom inside of myself than I ever knew."

    — Educational Consultant, USA

  • "Amazing session with Lana. Thank you for helping me see the bigger picture and realize that I need to allow myself time to listen to my wisdom. The answers are in me and I just need to allow myself space to find them."

    — Product Strategy Leader, Global Biotech Company, Switzerland

  • "You've been a tremendous help over the last 2 years and I'm extremely grateful. Thanks again for everything, you truly made a difference and helped me think about things in a more comprehensive (even creative) way that I'm not sure I would've gotten to on my own."

    — VP & Board Member, fast-growth global fintech company, US

  • " Life changing. Thanks for helping me dig deep."

    — Senior Executive, banking and financial markets, US

  • "Life-changing session. [...] believe in my own convictions and have confidence in that path that i believe is right for me."

    — Director of Product, global wealth management, US

  • " [the session...] helped move me further through the grief and acceptance of certain things in my corporate role. I think these questions about the future are big ones - transparency / visibility, potential strategic partners..."

    — COO, global investment and asset management company, US

  • "I am very grateful for your coaching, all the energy and knowledge you share with me to be a stronger leader."

    — SVP, Operations, pharma & healthcare sector, Europe

  • " You have a wealth of information about various topics that are relevant to me, such as giftedness, how it impacts my life, and possible career paths. You've helped me identify possibilities I was unaware of."

    — Software Developer, USA

  • " I greatly appreciate all the attention you provided me with and how you pushed me to leave with actionable steps. I'm looking forward to our next catch-up."

    — Director, Project Management, financial industry, US

  • "... incredibly helpful to change the lens of measuring impact to observing what drives action. I appreciate talking through what I could experiment with this coming week. I also like talking through how to balance self accountability and self-compassion. Lastly being able to put words to the "complacency" ghost of the past and the reasoning that outside pressure is energy draining is very helpful. I also appreciate your enthusiasm of this time as a point of innovation instead of focusing on it as an early struggle. It helps to take a truly open mind to the process instead of one of guilt or disappointment."

    — Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, tech sector, US

  • "We are working toward some pretty cool/life changing goals. Svetlana is a wonderful guide and great patience and experience to help me reach them."

    — Sales Executive, US

  • "Life changing. Lana is awesome at breaking items down and getting me to think differently about situations."

    — Assistant Director, Communications, US

  • "Wonderful first session. We were able to cover so much grounds in this session - Lana is such a good listener and give excellent feedback and guidance in this short first session already. Super excited to working together."

    — International business professional, tech & wealth management, US

  • "Svetlana was really great. She has a large amount of experience to draw from which was very helpful and insightful. She balanced providing advice critique and encouragement and was deeply empathetic - she took the time to get to know me my personality goals and way of working. She coached me based on this in a very agile way which I truly appreciated it."

    — Director of Discovery, large multinational tech, US

  • "I highly appreciate Lana's ability to listen and provide coaching value through having me consider things I wouldn't have thought of and are critical to the work I'm doing to re-discover who I am as a leader and where I want to be and who I want to help in the future. Thank you!"

    — Leadership and Organizational Development Director, HR tech, US

  • "Good program, helped me out tremendously...[I] gained a lot of confidence. Thanks Lana!"

    — Construction Engineer, Canada

  • "Svetlana is an incredible coach. She is unique in her ability to hold space help you practice courage and ask incredibly insightful questions that support your development. Her energy is calm and puts me at ease immediately. Because of her coaching - I've been able to change my perspective and actions in a very short period of time. Not sure what I would without her!"

    — Global Talent Partner, financial sector, US

  • "It's been a pleasure to work with Svetlana. I have been slowly shifted away from my imposter syndrome and now able to approach career work in a less cynical perspective and more of a business perspective."

    — Marketing professional, big tech, US

  • "...looking forward to continue working with you. I really like how you helped me land my ideas."

    — Logistics Director, multinational CPG, US

  • " I really enjoy the way I'm challenged to think about what actions I can take to make a step in the right direction."

    — Program management, big tech, US

  • "We were able to identify the area of opportunity and a plan of action in a short period of time (our initial meeting). I'm looking forward to working with Svetlana."

    — Director, Engineering Program Management, HR tech, US

  • "Gained a lot of insight from having a safe place to brainstorm and get feedback."

    — Sales Development, fast growth tech, US

  • "I judge myself less harshly, I have redefined my view on success, I am working on improving my wellbeing. ...[I] tuck to relatively healthy lifestyle, stopped working to burnout on every project."

    — Partner, global consulting firm, Europe

  • "I have more clarity about my goals and what I want to do long term. I also no longer focus on other people's perceptions of my performance or worth."

    — VVP of Operations, healthcare, US

  • "I think over the months, I've gained greater confidence to advocate for myself. I feel more fearless."

    — HR Advisor, energy sector, US

  • "Lana is a wonderful coach who helped me grow in so many different ways! I am a different person thanks to her coaching."

    — Senior Associate, large consulting firm, US

  • "Thanks a lot Svetlana for your support in creating my routine. Although it sounds simple, I most probably wouldn't make it without your support."

    — Regional Manager, Logistics & Transportation, Europe

  • "I feel seen and heard. Our discussion left me feeling not only inspired but with clarity of how to look at my situation and create the magic where I am to set me up for where I want to be. I am confident that more of this will definitely help shape my career."

    — Strategy & Business Development Professional, US

  • "Amazing session. Provided invaluable insight into how to handle more direct shame triggers during negotiations. In the end the session made me reevaluate how I approach these type triggers in general based on my core beliefs and identity."

    — Chief Data & Information Officer, pharma & healthcare, US

  • "Amazing probing and helping me to face my deep reservations. Simply talking them through / out loud help eliminate them and to find new ways to approach the problem."

    — Partner Development Director, large consulting firm, US

  • "Svetlana beautifully delves into the story behind my stories to identify what is at the root of my concerns or problems. Even when I have a strong realization she asks yet another question that leads me to a stronger awareness! I have worked with many people regarding my well-being throughout the years and I have to say that Svetlana is providing information and a perspective that I have never received before. As a result I am discovering things that will take me to the next level with my goals and general sense of well-being. Thank you for being so genuine skilled and thoughtful in your coaching!"

    — Project Manager, financial sector, US

  • "Svetlana is very perceptive and picks up on nuances and takes that to grow into organic forms of positive change."

    — Manager, entertainment industry, US

  • "My sessions with Lana are always so powerful. One of the best things of my weeks every Thursday!"

    — HR professional, US

  • "Thank you for helping me visualize how I might start my journey inwardly bringing my team with me. I believe this is a positive step towards positive health as well as positive work environment."

    — UX Manager, design software, US

  • "So helpful-this is coaching at its best and I am so grateful. Lana is just a truly amazing coach who is able to tap into so many deeper areas and pull out what I need to spend time on in reframing my perspective, etc."

    — Product research, FAANG, US

  • " Lana helped me framing the actions required to take action and reach my objectives. She is insightful, supportive, and motivational. A great personality inspiring and positive. I really enjoyed our work together."

    — Tax Director, international business development, NORAM

  • "Thank you for giving me the forum to find myself while listening without judging."

    — IT Manager, US

  • "Words cannot fully express the depth of my gratitude for your transformative impact on my life. Thank you for being the catalyst for my personal growth and for empowering me to reach my full potential. I am forever indebted to your guidance and support."

    — L&D Manager, telecommunications, US

  • "Svetlana provides tremendous insight and coaching into not only the situation but also the context and the surrounding elements (and people) that impact it. She's a tremendous asset to her clients!!"

    — Managing Director, global consulting firm, US

  • "Thank you so much Svetlana! Talking to you always gives me things I would have never found on my own!"

    — Product Manager, expert, FAANG, US

  • "Thank you very much for continuing to be a dedicated and caring partner as I navigate such a big next step. You are helping me find and take the little steps that grow me and teach me what I need to experience to lead myself. I am deeply grateful to have your perspective. It is my great fortune to have found someone who is aligned with my values and I feel comforted to have your guidance."

    — Health Strategy Lead, CPG industry, US

  • "Thank you for the amazing thought provoking conversations!"

    — Sr. Program Manager, FAANG, US

  • "I had a great session with Lana. She checked in with me prior to the session to ensure that we could use our time efficiently. During the session she carefully listened to my concerns provided perspective and asked me questions to guide the discussion. I walked out with much more clarity on how to navigate the challenge I'm currently facing. Lana made me feel a lot more confident coming out of the session with tools to help me succeed. I look forward to working with her again in the future. THANKS LANA!"

    — Risk Manager, US

  • " Thank you so much Svetlana for being my coach....Your patience and curiousity has helped me vocalize and organize my thoughts which led to helping me understand my purpose in life and career. Thank you so much for the life changing experience!"

    — Sr. Manager, software, US

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