FOR COMPANIES

For the leader you just bet on.

You promoted someone you believe in, and you can see the new job straining them. Or a founder you backed is growing slower than the company.

You don't need a program. You need one person working closely with them through the hard part, scoped with you and confidential to them.

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WHEN COMPANIES BRING ME IN

Usually it's one of these.

You promoted your best operator. Six months in, they're still doing their old job because it's the one they know how to win at.

A founder in your portfolio is brilliant, and the company is now bigger than the way they lead.

Your new executive is talented on paper and isn't landing with the team.

After the reorg, the leaders you kept are carrying more than anyone sees.

Someone you can't afford to lose has gone quiet in a way that worries you.

You're preparing a leader for a bigger role next year and want them ready before they need to be.

WHAT CHANGES

Who they are is how they lead.

Most leadership development works on behavior. I work on the person doing it: how they see the world, how they work holistically, what they value. Some call this executive coaching on the ontological level. When the identity shift happens, the behavior follows, and it holds after the engagement ends.

For the leader

  • A confidential room with someone who isn't their boss, their board, or their team

  • Weekly sessions on the real decisions and conversations in front of them

  • A clearer sense of who they need to be in the bigger job

For you

  • A leader who decides faster and says the hard thing sooner

  • Goals agreed with you at the start, and a clear end date

  • One accountable person, no program to administer

HOW SPONSORSHIP WORKS

Three conversations frame the work.

First

We start together.

A three-way conversation with you, the leader, and me to agree on what the work is for. You share the goals and the context. The leader shapes the rest.

Throughout

The sessions stay theirs.

A three-way conversation with you, the leader, and me to agree on what the work is for. You share the goals and the context. The leader shapes the rest.

At the end

We close the loop.

A three-way conversation with you, the leader, and me to agree on what the work is for. You share the goals and the context. The leader shapes the rest.

ENGAGEMENTS

Scoped per leader

Every sponsored engagement starts with a short conversation with you to scope it. Pricing is per leader.

I provide invoices, a W-9, and whatever contracting your procurement team needs, including an NDA.

i.

Transition Sprint

Six weeks of weekly sessions on one turning point: a new role, a first year leading leaders, a hard stretch after a reorg.

Starting at $1,000

ii.

Quarterly Advisory

Twelve weeks of weekly sessions for changes that unfold over a season, with access between sessions. The most common sponsored engagement.

Starting at $2,000

iii.

Retained Advisory

Ongoing work with a leader, by invitation after a quarter together.

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WHY ME

I've sat in the middle.

For years I was the buffer between the top of a company and the people doing the work. As a Senior Director at Escalent, I led a fourteen-person international team and an eight-figure Fortune 100 partnership.

So I know both sides of this. I know what the company needs from your leader, and what it's costing them to deliver it.

“She's special because of her subtleties you won't find in a resume: compassionate, self-aware, a clear communicator and a natural leader.”

— Tim Krozek · managed Marisa · ex-Netscape, Yahoo, AOL

Questions sponsors ask.

  • No. We agree on goals together at the start, and we review what changed together at the end. What the leader says in between stays with them. That's what makes it work.

  • The goals we set in the first conversation are the measure. At the close, the leader describes what changed in their own words, and you can add what you've seen.

  • Yes. Each engagement is separate and confidential, and nothing one leader shares reaches another.

  • Call it what fits your budget line. I am trained as a coach, and I work like an advisor: direct, practical, and willing to tell the leader what I see.

  • Over Zoom anywhere in the US.

    Along Colorado's Front Range (Denver/Boulder metro areas), in-person is an option too. I have an office in downtown Boulder where I meet clients.

Have someone in mind? Let's talk about them.

Tell me a little about the leader and what you're seeing. I'll reply within two business days to set up a short conversation.

marisa@onbeingadvisory.com