Your clients trust you with decisions that shape the future of organizations.

Executive search firms, leadership advisory practices, and PE-backed organizations rely on clear behavioral insight when leadership decisions carry real consequence. This work helps you evaluate executives more deeply, reduce leadership risk, and deliver stronger recommendations with greater confidence.

Strategic clarity for consequential leadership decisions.

The pressure of leadership compounds as the business grows.

The strongest leadership recommendations come from understanding how executives actually operate under pressure, complexity, and change.

Boutique advisory firms, executive search partners, and PE-backed organizations use this work to gain deeper visibility into leadership capability, decision patterns, and organizational fit — especially when the cost of a mis-hire or misalignment is high.

Dr. Asha Gipson, Ph.D. provides independent behavioral insight that helps clients:

  • Evaluate executive readiness with greater rigor

  • Strengthen succession and leadership selection decisions

  • Surface risks that interviews alone often miss

  • Support boards, investors, and leadership teams with clearer perspective

The result is stronger recommendations, better leadership alignment, and more confidence in the decisions shaping the future of the business.

Leadership Advisory

A trusted assessment partner behind your most important client engagements.

The strongest advisory relationships are built on clear judgment, credible insight, and the ability to help clients navigate consequential leadership decisions with confidence. Dr. Asha Gipson, Ph.D. and Felix Addison, COO, partner closely with a select number of executive search firms, leadership advisory practices, and PE-aligned organizations to provide deeper behavioral assessment, leadership insight, and ongoing advisory support. Engagements are intentionally high-touch, discreet, and designed to strengthen the value you deliver to your clients.

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Engagement Options

Executive Leadership Assessment

Behavioral assessment and leadership evaluation for executive search firms, leadership advisory practices, and organizations making consequential leadership decisions.

Includes: Executive assessment interview, psychometric review, written leadership evaluation, and strategic recommendations.

Investment: Starting at $3,500

Ongoing Advisory Support

Continued advisory partnership for leadership transitions, executive integration, succession planning, and high-stakes organizational decisions.

Includes: Ongoing advisory sessions, leadership consultation, strategic decision support, and organizational insight.

Investment: Retainer-based engagement

How strategic advisory strengthens leadership decisions.

Executive search firms, leadership advisory practices, and PE-backed organizations rely on clear judgment when leadership decisions carry long-term consequences.

Clarify

Create deeper visibility into leadership capability, organizational fit, and decision-making risk.

  • Surface behavioral patterns interviews often miss

  • Clarify leadership strengths and potential derailers

  • Identify alignment risks earlier

  • Bring greater rigor to executive evaluation

Evaluate

Strengthen high-stakes recommendations with clearer behavioral insight and independent perspective.

  • Pressure-test executive selection decisions

  • Assess succession and transition readiness

  • Support boards and investors with objective insight

  • Improve confidence in leadership recommendations

Move Forward

Turn insight into stronger leadership outcomes and long-term partnership value.

  • Support executives through transition and integration

  • Strengthen alignment across leadership teams

  • Maintain clarity as organizations scale

  • Help clients move forward with greater confidence

This is ongoing strategic partnership for firms navigating consequential leadership decisions.

Start the Conversation

If you are evaluating an executive hire, navigating a leadership transition, or supporting a high-stakes client decision, we’d be glad to learn more about the engagement. We review every inquiry personally. If there’s strong alignment, we’ll schedule a introductory conversation.