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Own the Next Level · Private Executive Advisory & Coaching

Become the executive they trust with more.

A 12-month private advisory partnership for senior leaders preparing for greater responsibility or stepping into a consequential new role.

You’ve built the track record. The next level asks you to read a wider situation, make sound decisions with less certainty, and earn trust beyond your function.

Start the conversation

Start with a short questionnaire about your situation. If there’s a fit, we’ll arrange a private conversation about what you’re facing and whether I can help.

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What changes at the next level

The higher you rise, the fewer people can tell you the truth.

Performance got you noticed. Now people are watching your judgment: how you handle pressure, whether you think beyond your function, how you weigh competing needs, and who trusts you.

If the promotion comes, the scrutiny doesn’t disappear. It increases. Bigger decisions. Less certainty. Fewer people you can speak candidly with.

A role you wanted can still leave you second-guessing yourself. Part of our work is helping you grow into the responsibility without letting it consume the rest of your life.

Getting the role and becoming the leader the role requires are two different things.

The real work

Some days you need a coach. Some days you need an advisor.

Sometimes you need someone who has operated at senior levels to help you figure out what is actually going on.

You need somewhere you can stop performing, tell the truth, see the situation clearly, and decide what to do next.

  • Tomorrow’s board conversation.
  • The CEO who suddenly seems colder.
  • The sponsor who stopped returning calls.
  • The peer relationship that is becoming political.
  • The opportunity you can’t tell whether to pursue.
  • The mistake you need to recover from.

One partnership. Two paths.

Where are you now?

You’re preparing for the next level.

You may be a VP moving toward SVP, an SVP approaching the C-suite, or a senior leader preparing for broader responsibility.

  • See the gap.Understand what the next role requires and where decision-makers still hesitate.
  • Build credibility.Strengthen judgment, enterprise perspective, presence, and relationships.
  • Read the decision.Understand sponsors, competing candidates, timing, and the story being told when you’re not in the room.
  • Create the right opportunity.Prepare for the promotion, the next succession cycle, or a move elsewhere.

You’ve just gotten the role.

You’ve stepped into a larger executive position. The title has changed. Now the work is learning to carry what comes with it.

  • Read the terrain.Understand what you’ve inherited before you try to change it.
  • Establish trust.Build the relationships that will define your effectiveness with your boss, peers, team, and board.
  • Lead at enterprise scale.Weigh broader tradeoffs, decide with incomplete information, and account for consequences beyond your function.
  • Fully inhabit the role.Develop the range and steadiness to lead with authority while remaining yourself.

If you get promoted while we’re working together, we pivot. There is no graduation from one program and enrollment in another. We move from earning the opportunity to owning it.

“What felt like hitting a dead wall turned into an opportunity again.”

— Client feedback

Why this partnership is different

Continuity of judgment.

Over time, I know you, the organization, the history, and the people involved. I know what tends to happen to you under pressure.

So when something consequential happens Tuesday morning, we can get to the real question.

This is a relationship that stays close to the work, through the choices that lead to greater responsibility and the demands that follow it.

If your role changes, our work changes with it. The perspective we have built together comes with us.

“He didn’t try to implement a playbook … He was very personal.”

— COO, technology

The partnership at a glance

One year. A relationship that stays with the work.

Private conversations

After assessments, we meet weekly for four to six weeks, then every other week. We adjust the rhythm together as the work takes hold.

Between sessions

Direct access, preparation, and debriefs when something important is unfolding.

Quarterly reviews

Space to step back, assess progress, and recalibrate.

Targeted insight

Assessments, stakeholder feedback, and sponsor mapping when they add value to the agreed work.

Toward the end of the partnership, we may meet less often as you put the work into practice with greater independence. We stay close to what your situation requires.

Why twelve months?

Executive transitions have their own timing.

Relationships take time. Reputations change through evidence. New behaviors have to survive pressure.

The promotion may happen in month four. Or month eleven. Or not during the first year at all.

If it hasn’t happened, we don’t manufacture a happy ending. We ask:

  • Are you ready?
  • Is the opportunity available?
  • Is this still the right organization in which to pursue it?

Those answers tell us what comes next. If more time makes sense, the advisory relationship can continue.

Daniel Lieberman, executive advisor and coach

About Daniel Lieberman

I know what it means to move into bigger rooms.

Before becoming a coach, I was a P&L operator accountable for people, performance, and results. I began as a Starbucks barista, became a chief executive in less than ten years, 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. In my WA State position, I improved operational efficiency and reduced the agency’s budget for the first time in decades.

For more than 15 years since, I’ve coached and advised senior leaders. I know what it’s like to carry greater responsibility and discover that the skills that got you there are not always the ones that will help you thrive there.

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87% advanced

In my tracking of 67 clients who came to coaching wanting to move up, 87% gained a bigger role, greater responsibility, higher pay, or a new title within 18 months of starting coaching. This is my tracking of those clients, rather than a promise of any individual outcome.

15+ yearsadvising senior leaders
10,000+ hoursof executive coaching and advisory work
4.8 out of 5client satisfaction rating

Carry greater responsibility.
Bring more of yourself to it.

The higher you rise, the more people will have opinions about who you need to become. Listen. Learn. Adapt. But don’t surrender yourself in the process.

Your next level is already asking something of you. Let’s find out what.

Start the conversation

Start with a short questionnaire about your situation. If there’s a fit, we’ll arrange a private conversation about what you’re facing and whether I can help.