FOR EXPERIENCED EXECUTIVES BUILDING VALUE BEYOND ONE COMPANY, TITLE OR OPERATING ROLE
Make the value of your experience portable.
A high-touch executive positioning intensive that turns years of experience and judgment into a clear market position, credible executive narrative and practical assets designed to support what comes next.
EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY, IN PLAIN ENGLISH
The right people understand what you uniquely know, trust your judgment and know when to hire, recommend or invite you.
It is not about becoming an influencer. It is about becoming known and trusted for expertise that travels with you.
ADVISORY · CONSULTING · FRACTIONAL LEADERSHIP · ENTREPRENEURSHIP · BOARD SERVICE · YOUR NEXT EXECUTIVE ROLE
WHO THE INTENSIVE IS FOR
Built for two executive moments: transition and expansion.
TRANSITION
EXPANSION
You are preparing for what comes after this chapter.
You are preparing for what comes after this chapter. You are leaving, redefining or moving beyond a full-time operating role - and need the market to understand the value you can create in advisory, consulting, fractional leadership, entrepreneurship, board service or another executive role.
You are still operating, but your expertise should travel further.
You want external recognition, stronger enterprise influence and future options before you need them. Your market position should exist beyond one organization or title.
Typical participant: VP through C-suite, with substantial experience and developed judgment. Qualification is based on professional evidence - not title alone.
Not designed for: early-career exploration, a tactical job search, a résumé-only refresh or visibility without strategic focus.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Strategy you can explain. Assets you can immediately use.
The work moves beyond advice. You leave with an individualized position, opportunity strategy and the core market-facing assets required to activate both.
01 / STRATEGY
Executive Authority Blueprint
02 / EXECUTION
Executive Authority Launch Kit
01 Authority Position
What you should be distinctly known for.
02 Opportunity Architecture
Where your experience can create the greatest value.
03 Priority Audience + Market
The decision-makers, markets and networks that matter most.
04 Commercial Opportunity
The strongest potential paths for translating expertise into economic opportunity.
05 Authority-Building Strategy
How to build recognition and credibility with the audiences that matter.
06 90-Day Activation Plan
The actions that put the strategy into motion.
01 Executive positioning statement
02 Market-facing executive bio
03 LinkedIn headline and About section
04 Referral and introduction language
05 Three signature content themes
06 Flagship Point of View + Activation Assets
A distinctive idea or argument you can credibly own, developed into one flagship thought-leadership asset, three completed LinkedIn posts and a 90-day plan for
extending the idea across the channels that matter most.
INSITE THE BLUEPRINT
A position people can understand and use.
The output connects four questions that are usually addressed separately.
01 What do you uniquely know?
The patterns, judgment and point of view your career has built.
02 Who needs it?
The audiences and decision-makers who value that expertise most.
03 Where does it create value?
The roles, problems and opportunities where your authority matters.
04 What proves it?
The evidence, narrative and ideas that make the position credible.
THE REAL PROBLEM
The problem isn’t your credibility.
A strong career does not automatically tell the market what you should be known for next.
People may know you without knowing exactly when to hire, refer or recommend you.
A stronger résumé or LinkedIn profile cannot solve an unclear market position.
A clear position does more than improve visibility. It expands professional optionality by making it easier for others to understand where your experience can create value.
WHY NOW
The best time to build authority beyond your title is before you need it.
A clear position does more than improve visibility. It expands professional optionality by making it easier for others to understand where your experience can create value.
THE STRATAVANCE THESIS
A successful career creates earned credibility. It does not automatically make your expertise clear, trusted and usable outside the role that produced it.
01
Earned Credibility
The experience, results and trust your career has established.
→
02
Owned Authority
What you are personally known and trusted for beyond a specific title or employer.
→
03
Market Value
The right people understand where your experience can create value and know when to hire, refer, recommend or invite you.
THE WORKING METHODOLOGY
Four decisions turn experience into authority the market can use.
01
Extract
What do I uniquely know?
Surface the patterns, judgment, evidence and point of view your career has built.
02
Position
What should I be known for?
Define the authority position you can credibly own.
03
Architect
Where can it create value?
Map the audiences, markets and opportunity paths where your experience matters most.
04
Activate
How will it become recognized?
Translate the position into narrative, proof, visibility, relationships and market activity.
THE EXPERIENCE
Rigorous enough to change the strategy. Practical enough to change what the market sees.
You work directly with Sophia to define and pressure-test your position. Those decisions are then translated into individualized, market-facing assets, tested against your objectives and priority audiences, and refined before activation.
01
Diagnose
02
Position
03
Build
04
Test
05
Calibrate
COHORT
5 - 8 senior leaders
A selective peer group with substantive experience and a genuine professional inflection point.
FORMAT
Live strategy + individual production
Shared frameworks, direct strategic challenge and assets developed around your own experience.
FOLLOW-THROUGH
Testing + calibration
The position and assets are pressure-tested, refined and connected to a 90-day activation plan.
FOUNDING SCHEDULE
Shared in the fit conversation
Exact dates and live-session timing are being finalized during this private-review phase.
WHY STRATAVANCE
SOPHIA MARSHALL • FOUNDER + CCO-LEVEL ADVISOR
Position your experience with the rigor used to advise CEOs.
For more than two decades, I have advised CEOs and leadership teams through the moments when how they were understood shaped what happened next: leadership transitions, transformation, reputation challenges, acquisitions and other high-stakes decisions.
Before founding Stratavance, I led communications at Fiserv, Comcast, Wellstar Health System and GE. I have also made the move from corporate executive to independent advisor myself.
“Your career has already created the evidence. The work now is deciding what it should mean next.”
FOUNDING EXECUTIVE COHORT
One integrated strategy. One clear position. The assets to put it to work.
FOUNDING INVESTMENT
$8,500
PER PARTICIPANT
WHAT IS INCLUDED
Live strategic work, individualized Executive Authority Blueprint, market-ready Launch Kit, testing, calibration and a 90-day activation plan.
YOUR INVESTMENT INCLUDES
Strategic judgment
+ a differentiated market position
+ individualized executive assets
+ testing and calibration
+ a 90-day activation plan
SCOPE COMPARISON
AUTHORITY READINESS DIAGNOSTIC
Is this the right moment to make your expertise portable?
Five questions. A practical readiness assessment. You’re likely ready for the Stratavance Executive Authority Intensive if most of these statements feel true:
- You’ve built significant leadership experience and have patterns, judgment and expertise worth extracting.
- Your reputation still relies heavily on your company, role or title.
- You want greater career optionality, whether you’re staying, transitioning or already exploring the market.
- You’re ready to decide what you want to be known for rather than keeping every possible direction open.
- You need more than a résumé or LinkedIn refresh. You want a clear authority position and market-ready strategy.
If you recognized yourself in four or five of these, the Intensive is likely a strong fit.
If two or three resonate, you may have the raw material but need greater clarity around timing, focus or direction first.
If only one resonates, this may not be the right moment for the Intensive.