Market Maker for Valuable Expertise

What could your
expertise become?

A bigger role. A fractional engagement. An offer people understand and buy. A partnership that creates opportunity. Bring the experience, ambition, and ideas. Let's decide what deserves to happen next.

$5Min business movement through five Pinnacle Dinners™
$109Kin business Kristi documented from LinkedIn in one year
Six figuresclient compensation increases

Start with what you want to make possible

Coming from Your Bankable Brain™? Bring your result and the examples you shared. We'll use them as a starting point for the conversation.

Private advisory / Executive Recalibration™

Your next role should have room for more of you.

You may be negotiating a bigger role, deciding whether to leave, considering boards or consulting, or building a portfolio career. You have a track record. The question is how to use it next.

We clarify what you want, where your authority has grown, how to explain your value, and which opportunities deserve your time. Then we prepare for the conversations and decisions that move you forward. For a portfolio or fractional direction, that means examining who needs your experience, what responsibility you could take, and how the work fits alongside your current commitments.

Client results include six-figure compensation increases

Four to five months of private work

  • Nine private advisory sessions
  • Between-session advisory access
  • Executive positioning and résumé or board bio refinement
  • LinkedIn positioning support
  • A personalized 90-day visibility and action plan

$12,000
Private advisory without the VIP half-day.

$15,000
Private advisory plus an in-person VIP half-day strategy session.

We confirm the scope, timing, and any travel arrangements before you commit.

Discuss Executive Recalibration™

Founder advisory / Strategic Authority™

Give your good ideas a buyer, a scope, and a way to earn.

Your offers, partnerships, audience, and experiences are growing. Every idea could become something. You need to decide what comes first, what connects, what makes money, and what your business can deliver well.

I work alongside you on the actual commercial decisions: what someone can buy, who needs it, how we reach them, what to charge, and what you can deliver well. We can connect your expertise to offers, experiences, partnerships, and a portfolio of work that makes sense together.

A strategic partner for the business you’re building

Strategic Authority™ connects your expertise to a clear business direction and paid opportunities. Ongoing chief strategy officer or founder advisory can support decisions across several parts of the business.

What we can put to work together

  • A defined offer: buyer, outcome, deliverables, price, and boundaries.
  • A buyer journey that connects your content, assessment, or live experience to a useful next step.
  • A partnership proposal with contributions, responsibilities, and commercial terms.
  • A practical implementation plan with owners, decisions, and a first test.

We choose the deliverables your situation requires and put them in the proposal, along with the working rhythm, access, investment, and who does what. Content production, technical builds, and ongoing publishing are included only when explicitly scoped.

Relevant introductions and collaborations may form part of the work when there is a clear fit. We agree on the purpose and follow-through together.

Bring the whole business: existing offers, live experiences, intellectual property, relationships, and the decisions you’ve been putting off.

Discuss founder advisory For leadership, sales, or strategy across an organization

For organizations / Lighthouse Leadership Consultants™

Put your team's expertise to work on a business priority.

You may need leaders to make clearer decisions, a sales team to communicate value, founders to explain commercial relevance, or a new application for knowledge your organization already has.

Start with the problem, the sponsor, and what needs to change. We shape the engagement around that work.

A defined first engagement

  • Clarify the business problem and who owns the decision.
  • Choose the appropriate advisory, working session, or pilot.
  • Define participants, deliverables, responsibilities, and a measure of progress.
  • Agree on the follow-through before delivery begins.
Discuss your organizational priority
Guests at the Pinnacle Powered Washington National Opera fundraiser
Pinnacle Powered™ · Washington National Opera fundraiser at Field & Main

Expertise, relationships, and a commercial application

Thirty people.
$20,000 raised.

My work with Nicki Scolaro Bland has connected her offers, voice, relationships, and live experiences. The Washington National Opera fundraiser brought artists, executives, and guests together around a specific purpose.

Nicki subsequently hired me as fractional Chief Strategy Officer. Our work continues into what people can buy, who needs it, and which opportunities deserve her time.

Explore the work and results

Rainmaker in banking. Market maker for valuable expertise.

I see possibilities in work you've already done.

I was a rainmaker in banking. Then I got fired. I built a business around my judgment, experience, relationships, and ability to see where value could become opportunity.

Today that work includes executive advisory, digital resources, speaking, partnerships, and Rare Rooms™. With clients, I look for the useful connection between what they do exceptionally well, who needs it, and how someone could hire them.

Bring the whole picture. Your career, your ideas, your existing business, and the parts you haven't figured out how to connect yet.

Choose where to begin

Build Your Own Rare Room™ / Cohort · $3,500

Hosting is leadership.
Become the convener.

Learn to create a Rare Room™ that gives people a reason to gather and opens a path to a new market, referrals, or partnerships.

Design the purpose

Define the business goal, who belongs, and why the invitation matters.

Lead the experience

Create the conditions for trust, useful conversation, and participation.

Build the follow-through

Connect the relationships to a next step, your offer, and future pipeline.

$3,500 per participant. The same investment applies whether you pay personally or your employer funds your seat. Company-exclusive delivery has a six-seat minimum of $21,000.

This is for founders, consultants, experts, and relationship-led leaders who want to create opportunity through convening. Human judgment, trust, and the ability to bring people together are central to the work.

See the cohort scope + next steps See Rare Rooms™ in practice

Career Clarity Sprint™ / $2,900 · Three 50-minute sessions

Choose your next work direction.

Explore executive employment, consulting, fractional leadership, or a portfolio career. Bring your result from Your Bankable Brain™ if you have one. We decide on a direction, develop your positioning, and prepare a focused 90-day action plan.

Explore Career Clarity Sprint™

One defined issue / $395 · 45 minutes

Trusted Brand Blueprint™

Bring one positioning, messaging, offer, introduction, or visibility problem. Leave with clearer language, a strategic direction, and a personalized Blueprint.

Explore Trusted Brand Blueprint™ · $395

Want tools first? Take the free Authentic Authority™ assessment or explore AMPLIFIED · $97.

Speaking + commissioned Rare Rooms™

Bring the work to your audience.

For a keynote, start with what the audience needs to understand or do differently. For a commissioned Rare Room™, start with the customer, partner, leadership, or market opportunity.

One firm. Two ways to begin.

Looking for work across your organization?

Lighthouse Leadership Consultants™ supports leadership, culture, sales capability, and strategic decisions across organizations. Enterprise and ongoing advisory engagements receive a custom proposal based on the work.

Explore organizational advisory

Start with your situation

What needs to change?

Tell Kristi what you’re leading or building, what’s getting stuck, and your timing. She’ll follow up about the fit and useful next step.

Start the conversation

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