Speaking & Workshops
Give your audience practical ways to lead, communicate, build trust, and create value as work changes.
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Turn expertise into decisions and business results.
We help leaders and teams put their expertise, technology, and relationships to work. Start with the decision, conversation, or commercial opportunity that needs to move.
Find the right work
Three ways to work together
What does your organization need?
Enterprise Advisory
Work through consequential leadership, sales, and strategy decisions with ongoing support.
Explore advisoryRare Rooms™
Commission a curated, facilitated room for customers, partners, leaders, or a new market.
Design a purposeful roomHuman value creation
People make the work valuable.
Technology can produce more options. People still have to apply judgment, earn trust, make decisions, and act. We help teams connect those human contributions to a business goal.
The method follows the problem. Leadership teams work on decisions and ownership. Sales teams work on the value a buyer needs to understand. Customers and partners come together around a reason to act.
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Evidence you can explore.
A keynote that stayed in the conversation
NC TECH’s Summit for Women in Tech: an opening keynote on AI, trust, and human judgment, with organizer and audience feedback.
Read the keynote caseLeadership decisions under pressure
See the scope, confidentiality boundary, and client-reported outcomes from work with a senior leadership team.
Read the advisory caseA room with a defined purpose
The Field & Main gathering supported Washington National Opera through a client advisory relationship. See the room and fundraising result.
Read the room caseAbout Kristi Straw, MBA
Executive experience. Work people can use.
Kristi is the founder of Lighthouse Leadership Consultants, an executive strategist, and a keynote speaker. Her work connects leadership judgment, communication, and commercial growth.
She brings senior banking leadership experience to the decisions organizations face today, from how leaders earn trust to how expertise becomes a useful offer or relationship.
Read Kristi’s background →For an individual leader or founder
Kristi’s personal site covers private advisory, her background, books, and resources.
Meet Kristi →From the blog
Turning Expertise into Business Value
What conversations at Women in Sales revealed about expertise, trust, and making value easier to understand.
Read the article →Start with the work
What needs to change?
Tell us about your organization, the decision or opportunity, and your timing. We’ll help you choose the right scope.
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