CEO & Founder Advisory
A strategist in the room, so the decisions do not fall on you alone.
CEO and founder advisory built for leaders whose businesses have outgrown what they can carry by instinct. Jacquelyn works directly with the founder or CEO on the decisions that shape the company.
Who This Is For
- Founders whose companies have grown past their own bandwidth
- CEOs without a peer or board they can think out loud with
- Leaders carrying consequential decisions continuously between board meetings
- Founders preparing the business to run without them in every room
What Brings Leaders Here
Every meaningful decision still routes through the founder personally.
There is no one senior enough in the room to pressure-test a hard call.
The company has scaled past the founder's original operating instincts.
Leadership feels isolated in decisions that carry real consequence.
The Approach
Assess how the business actually depends on you
The starting point is an honest look at where decisions, information and judgment currently concentrate, and why.
Strategize what only you should own
Priorities and decision rights are put in order, so attention goes to what genuinely requires the founder and nothing else.
Execute with ongoing counsel
Advisory continues as a working relationship, providing decision support and perspective as the business and its questions evolve.
What You Leave With
- A confidential thinking partner for consequential decisions
- A clearer view of which decisions require the founder and which do not
- Continuity of judgment between formal governance meetings
- A path toward a company that depends less on any one person
How This Is Engaged
Executive Strategy Session
One consequential decision. Focused executive counsel and a clear direction forward.
Investment
$750
Executive Advisory Partnership
Ongoing executive counsel for leaders who need continuity, perspective and decision support.
Investment
Starting at $5,000/month
Start With a Diagnostic
CEO Operating System Assessment
Determine how dependent the organization is on the CEO and where leadership, systems, execution, revenue, and technology need greater independence.
Take the AssessmentWhere The Work Happens
Jacquelyn Clayborn is based in Dallas, Texas, and works with leadership teams across Dallas-Fort Worth in person and with organizations nationally and internationally by video.
Questions
- What is the difference between a strategy session and an advisory partnership?
- An executive strategy session addresses one decision in a single focused conversation. The executive advisory partnership is an ongoing monthly relationship providing recurring counsel and decision support over time.
- Do you work with founders as well as CEOs?
- Yes. The work is built for anyone carrying consequential decisions at the top of a company, whether the title is founder, CEO or owner.
- Is Dallas the only place you work with CEOs and founders?
- Jacquelyn is based in Dallas-Fort Worth and works with CEOs and founders there and beyond; engagements are structured around the decision, not the location.
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Where To Go Next
Bring the decision you're carrying into the conversation.
Every engagement begins with a short inquiry questionnaire, so the first conversation starts with substance rather than introductions.