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Chief Executives books board advisory as a confidential conversation with a sitting executive before a board, a chair’s question, or a paper that has grown into a memoir. It is a sounding board with a date. It is not a board seat for sale, not a communications agency, and not legal, medical, or investment advice.
The agency arranges the conversation. The coach does not attend the board unless that is a separate, written agreement — and even then, only if the brief is actually that. Most of this work stays in a room with one executive.
If you need a series rather than an hour, that is executive coaching. If the whole executive team needs a facilitated paper clinic, that is a workshop.
What you are booking
Time before the meeting. Typical trigger: a paper that is too long, a chair who will ask how coaching is going, a silence on the executive team that will be read as alignment, a first no that has not been said yet. The conversation is scheduled. Content stays with you. Process can be shared with a chair if you write that rule down first.
A useful brief is the meeting, the question you expect, and what must not be said in the room. “Help me with the board” is a mood. “The chair will ask whether the paper is a confession; I need a three-page version by Thursday” is a brief. That standard is in a board paper is not a confession.
Coaches for this work sit on Our Coaches. Adeola’s focus on this roster is board conversations. What this agency books Linus for — major leadership change, not a board seat — is on the about page.
What this is not
It is not a seat on your board. It is not a vote. It is not a lawyer. It is not an investment banker. It is not a script the coach wrote for you to read. You leave with a clearer paper or a clearer sentence. You do not leave with someone else’s name on the work.
If the chair wants a report on a coaching series, write the rule before they ask — when the chair asks how coaching is going. Board advisory is not a back-channel around that rule.
How it sits next to the rest of the menu
A keynote is a speech to a room. Board advisory is one executive, usually. Training is a group over days. Coaching is a series. Do not book this if what you actually want is training for the whole ELT, or a search brief, or someone to take the heat in the meeting on your behalf.
| Conversation | Typical trigger | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| Paper before the board | The pack is a memoir | Ghost-writing a strategy |
| Chair’s question | “How is the coaching going?” | A report of content |
| Silence mistaken for alignment | The ELT has stopped arguing | A team offsite |
| First no, on the record | The organisation is writing your job in the corridor | Outplacement |
Enquire on the contact form. Say it is board advisory. Name the meeting and the question. Do not paste the board pack into a first note. The office is in ICD Brookfield Place, DIFC, Dubai; the street address is on that page. There is no phone number on this site.
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Say the room or the seat, and the stretch of work. Fees and fit are agreed in writing — they are not published here.