Private Executive Advisory
One advisor.
The whole situation.
A custom advisory relationship for CEOs, founders, and senior executives navigating connected decisions, relationships, and organizational change.
A confidential 45-minute conversation about what you’re facing and whether working together makes sense.
The connected challenges
When the challenges are connected, the advisory work should be too.
A board question becomes a succession question. A transition exposes a team fracture. A consequential decision changes the relationships you need to carry it through.
You may have capable people around you and still struggle to find a place to think honestly about the whole situation. Some questions are difficult to bring to the team. Others are hard to see clearly when you are in the middle of them.
Our work gives those questions room: to examine what is happening, challenge assumptions, and decide what needs your attention next.
The relationship at a glance
The relationship follows the work.
Custom scope
Built around the connected challenges you are navigating.
Direct counsel
Perspective on live decisions, relationships, and tensions.
Between sessions
Access agreed around the demands of the work.
Flexible duration
A focused engagement or a longer-term relationship.
We agree the scope, access, duration, and investment after we understand the situation.
“He was truly engaged in conversation about my experiences, challenges and concerns and was flexible in direction we were going.”
The situations we work on
Different pressures. Connected consequences.
Bigger role
The title changed. The expectations changed faster.
Clarify the terrain, reset key relationships, and understand what the role now requires.
Major transition
The org chart changed. The human system changed with it.
See what is shifting, anticipate the impact, and lead with greater steadiness.
High-stakes decision
You have the data. The right answer still isn’t obvious.
Examine the options, surface what you may be missing, and decide with greater clarity.
Political complexity
The formal structure rarely tells you the whole story.
Read the power, trust, timing, and relationships shaping what is possible.
Strain and uncertainty
The stakes are rising, and people are watching.
Think clearly, communicate honestly, and lead without adding volatility.
Several challenges at once
Real executive life rarely delivers one clean problem at a time.
See the connections, sort competing demands, and decide what needs your attention first.
What becomes possible
A clearer view. A more considered next move.
The aim is to help you work through the situation with more perspective and greater choice. We agree on what useful progress would look like in the work itself.
Decisions with the consequences in view.
Examine the options and tradeoffs alongside the people and relationships needed to carry a decision through.
Conversations you are better prepared to have.
Work through the purpose, timing, and difficult truths before a consequential conversation.
Attention on what matters next.
Separate the immediate demand from the underlying issue, and decide where your involvement will be most useful.
“He helped me look at things through a different lens and I appreciate that.”
Choosing the right engagement
A relationship shaped around what you need.
Private Executive Advisory
For connected decisions, relationships, and organizational questions that call for a custom advisory scope. We shape the relationship around the situation, including any organizational involvement and access the work requires.
Leading Under Pressure
A focused three-month coaching engagement centered on your leadership patterns and keeping sound judgment available when the stakes rise. Organizational support can be included.
Explore Leading Under PressureOwn the Next Level
A 12-month partnership centered on preparing for greater executive responsibility or establishing yourself in a new role.
Explore Own the Next LevelIf the central work is how your executive team operates together, explore Cohesion Under Pressure
These situations can overlap. You do not need to arrive knowing which engagement to choose. We can work that out together.
How we work
Context makes the counsel useful.
You may need someone who can understand the whole system quickly, challenge your thinking, notice what you are missing, and stay close enough to help when the situation changes.
We work with what is happening now, connecting the personal, relational, strategic, and organizational parts of the situation.
- Understand the terrain.Clarify the decisions, pressures, stakeholders, and outcomes that matter.
- Agree the relationship.Define the scope, cadence, access, and organizational involvement the work requires.
- Work on what is live.Prepare, examine choices, have the difficult conversations, and learn from what happens.
- Step back and reassess.Review what is changing and whether the focus or structure needs to change with it.
Practical support where it matters.
We select the work that will help you move forward. Depending on the situation, the relationship may include:
- Private advisory conversations and counsel between sessions
- Preparation for board, investor, and executive-team conversations
- Stakeholder interviews, reputation feedback, and targeted assessment
- Sponsor, succession, and organizational mapping
- Leadership-team observation and conflict debriefs
- Transition planning and strategic reflection
Where other people are involved, we agree what is shared, with whom, and for what purpose before that work begins.
What you can expect from me
Compassionate. Candid. Practical.
I’ll tell you the truth.
Including when I think you are missing something or your own response is making the situation harder.
I’ll respect your agency.
You are the executive. You make the decision. My role is to help you see the situation and your choices more clearly.
I’ll stay close to the work.
Insight matters. What changes because of it matters more. Our conversations connect to what you need to do next.
“Daniel is very engaging and knows when it is time to listen and time to inject his opinion.”
About Daniel Lieberman
I have carried the responsibility.
I began as a Starbucks barista and became a chief executive in less than ten years. I led teams and owned P&L responsibility for a $500 million division.
At Pike Place Market, I turned around the financial health and organizational culture of its management organization.
For more than 15 years since, I have coached and advised senior leaders across complex organizations.
I have been the person in the room expected to have the answer. And I have been the person sitting beside the leader who knows there may not be one.
More About DanielFit and investment
Start with the situation.
This relationship works best when you value candor, are willing to examine your own leadership, and want to act on what we discover.
Some engagements are short and focused. Others extend across a year or more. We determine the structure and investment around the complexity, access, duration, and organizational involvement required.
We agree on the scope and investment before we begin.
The first conversation gives us time to understand what is happening and whether I am the right person to help.
What needs a clearer view right now?
If you are navigating several connected challenges, we should talk.
Let’s TalkA confidential 45-minute conversation about what is happening, what you want to accomplish, and whether working together makes sense. No obligation.
