Your credibility should be converting.
Lighthouse Leadership Consultants™ helps high-capacity leaders, founders, and teams turn trust into clearer decisions, sharper language, stronger rooms, and revenue movement.
Start with the AAA Quiz if you’re exploring your authority style. Book a Quick Connect if the move already needs strategy.
Created by Kristi Straw, executive strategist, speaker, and founder of Authentic Authority™, The Pinnacle Dinner™, BetterStory Studio™, Rare Rooms™, and Capital Trust Dinners™.
Executive strategist. Speaker. Builder of trust-rich rooms.
Kristi Straw is the founder of Lighthouse Leadership Consultants™, an executive strategist and advisor to leaders, founders, and teams navigating trust, visibility, and high-stakes decisions.
She helps credible people turn authority into clearer language, stronger rooms, better decisions, and commercial movement.
Drive energy. spark momentum- with true impact.
Structure your thoughts, build scalable systems.
Navigate change through bold, purpose-driven thinking.
Create stability and trust with authenticity.
Simplify complexity, accelerate clarity and results.
Kristi’s work sits where leadership psychology, strategic communication, and revenue strategy meet.
She created the Authentic Authority™ Archetype Quiz, The Pinnacle Dinner™, BetterStory Studio™, Rare Rooms™, and Capital Trust Dinners™ to help leaders and organizations move through trust with more precision.
Leaders call on Kristi when the work requires candor, strategic clarity, and trust that holds under pressure.
Her clients and collaborators include founders, executives, advisors, association leaders, civic builders, and teams preparing for higher-stakes visibility, growth, and decision-making.












Start with the right door.
Lighthouse helps leaders, founders, teams, and rooms move through trust when the next decision matters. Start with the Authentic Authority™ Archetype Quiz, choose the path that fits what you need to move, or book a Quick Connect if the opportunity already has stakes.
Start where the trust gap is showing.
You may need clearer language, a stronger room, private strategy, or better team trust. Lighthouse routes you based on what needs to move next, then points you to the right offer, experience, or conversation.
2026 Keynote Speaker – NC Summit for Women in Tech
2025 GlobeSt. Woman of Influence
2025 Career Mastered Leadership in Action Honoree
2024 Meck Times Most Influential Women in Charlotte
Featured in CREW Network, Chief, Women in Payments, ALM, and more!
Leadership today demands trust, clarity, and influence that aligns. That’s what we deliver.