Founder & Partnership Advisory
Confidential strategic counsel for co-founders and executive partners responsible for shared outcomes.
Two capable leaders.
One shared responsibility.
Constant pressure.
Decisions compound. Stress accumulates. Trust gets tested. Small tensions go unspoken. Over time, what begins as partnership can quietly become friction. And when the relationship strains, the company feels it immediately. At this level, even minor misalignment carries disproportionate consequence.
Founder & Partnership Advisory provides confidential counsel to leadership pairs navigating complexity, authority, and high-stakes decisions together. Because when two leaders cannot think clearly together, everything downstream suffers.
Most companies don’t fail from strategy.
They fail from misalignment at the top.
What Is Partnership Advisory?
Partnership Advisory is an ongoing advisory relationship designed specifically for two decision-makers who share responsibility for outcomes. As your founder advisor and strategic counsel, Executive HQ helps partnerships:
strengthen alignment and trust
navigate conflict without escalation
clarify roles, authority, and boundaries
improve joint decision making
surface unspoken tensions before they compound
process sensitive conversations privately and constructively
maintain a unified leadership presence under pressure
This is not facilitation. It is strategic and psychological counsel for the most important relationship inside the company.
Designed For
Founder & Partnership Advisory is designed for:
co-founders
CEO/COO pairs
executive partners
ownership teams
leaders who must present a unified front
Clients seek Founder & Partnership advisory during periods of:
rapid growth or scaling
strategic disagreements
increased external pressure (investors, board, market)
succession or leadership transitions
communication breakdowns
If you are accountable for decisions that affect other people’s livelihoods, you should not be making those decisions alone. If you have the desire to strengthen the partnership proactively, request your Executive Blueprint today. Because waiting until conflict is visible is often too late.
Why Partnership Work Is Different
Individual leadership advisory focuses on one mind. Partnership advisory focuses on the space between two. And that space is where most decisions are truly made. These decisions look like:
Unspoken assumptions
Power dynamics
Fear of damaging trust
Competing risk tolerance
Different communication styles under stress
These invisible dynamics quietly shape strategy long before it’s discussed out loud. Without intentional counsel, they accumulate into friction, indecision, or rupture.
Executive HQ integrates leadership psychology with strategic advisory to address these dynamics directly — strengthening the relationship so the business can function at its highest level. Because partnership health is operational leverage.
Founder & Partnership Advisory is structured as a retained relationship.
Not workshops. Not offsites. Not performance programs. Instead, partners maintain ongoing access to confidential counsel and structured conversations designed to strengthen clarity, trust, and shared decision-making over time.
Typical structure includes:
How We Work Together
support for sensitive or difficult conversations
strategic decision alignment
real-time counsel during high-pressure moments
deeper work around authority, communication, and trust
This creates continuity and discretion — allowing issues to be addressed early, before they become costly.
A Different Kind of Founder Advisor
Most partnership support is tactical.
Executive HQ approaches partnership as both a strategic and psychological system. Led by Chloé Miller — an executive advisor with a background in relational psychology and board-level strategic counsel — this work integrates:
leadership advisory
performance psychology
conflict navigation
governance-level perspective
The result is clearer thinking, faster decisions, and stronger alignment under pressure. Because the relationship between two leaders is often the single greatest risk — or advantage — in the entire organization.
Begin with the Executive Blueprint
All advisory relationships begin with a paid diagnostic session.
The Executive Blueprint clarifies:
current pressure points
decision dynamics
risks and blind spots
the appropriate advisory structure
Following the session, we determine fit and design the engagement accordingly.
By application. Limited availability.