Executive strategy. Authority. Commercial movement.
Lighthouse helps leaders, teams, and organizations turn credibility into clearer decisions, stronger market position, and commercial movement.
Created by Kristi Straw, executive strategist, speaker, and market maker for expertise.
Selected clients, stages, and collaborators
One strategic home
Lighthouse connects individual authority, team trust, executive strategy, and designed proximity. Choose the path that matches the decision in front of you.
For leaders and founders
Clarify how you lead, what you know, and the next move your experience is ready to support.
For teams and organizations
Give leaders and teams a shared language for trust, decision-making, communication, and execution.
For market makers and partners
Build the room, trust architecture, relationships, and follow-through around what the business needs to move.
Strategic advisory
Kristi sees the enterprise hiding inside valuable ideas. She connects strategy, language, trusted relationships, market access, experience design, and commercial follow-through so the opportunity can become easier to understand, support, and move.
Clear thinking and candid counsel for leaders navigating consequential decisions, growth, visibility, and organizational change.
Programming and curriculum that strengthen authority, commercialization readiness, decision-making, and the ability to communicate value.
Positioning, partnerships, curated access, and executive experiences designed around a new market or strategic priority.
Keynotes, workshops, executive retreats, diagnostics, and Rare Rooms™ built around what leaders need to move together.
A clear next step
Discover your authority archetype and receive the matching guide.
Take the assessmentTurn the value in your work into language people can understand and repeat.
Get AMPLIFIEDA focused 45-minute session to clarify your message, proof, and next move.
Build your blueprintThree private sessions for an experienced leader making a serious career move.
Explore the sprintPrivate executive and strategic authority engagements are scoped through a direct conversation.
Documented outcomes
Clearer authority changes what people can recognize, recommend, fund, hire, and move.
compensation increase and a new executive role
increase in sales conversations for a wealth advisory business
increase in booked business for a hospitality client
from CFO uncertainty to a paid fractional consulting engagement
“Kristi’s energy and authenticity moved the room. It was an unforgettable experience that left people ready to use what they learned.”
“Honesty, integrity, empowerment, passion, and confidence became hallmarks of our management team.”
Rare Rooms™
Rare Room™ is the Lighthouse methodology for engineering high-trust environments around a specific business reason. BetterStory Studio™ makes authority and language visible. The Pinnacle Dinner™ moves relationships and opportunity. Pinnacle Powered™ brings the methodology inside organizations.
Current strategic work
Selected active engagements show how Lighthouse combines advisory judgment, founder development, leadership experience, and market-making. Current work is identified separately from completed outcome proof.
Global commercialization
Kristi is Strategic Advisor for Sponsorships and U.S.–Africa Partnerships. Her work includes summit strategy, executive rooms, capital proximity, and market access around the September 8–10 Global Africa Summit in Charlotte.
See the Global Africa Summit Active strategic advisory workFounder development
Kristi is Global Head of Founder Programming and Curricular Development. She is developing founder-readiness programming and will facilitate Invested: An AYANA Founder Readiness Workshop at Austin Tech Week on October 26.
Visit AYANA Capability in productionMarket expansion
Lighthouse is Elevate Digital's Charlotte market-development and executive-experience partner. The work includes private prospect rooms, the September 30 INFUSION Charlotte event, and commercial follow-through into 2027.
See INFUSION Charlotte Active strategic partnershipExecutive alignment
Designing and delivering a multi-day executive alignment and leadership experience for a senior team in Baltimore.
Current confidential engagementOpening keynote
Bringing Authentic Authority™ to 350+ leaders at the Summit for Women in Tech in Asheville.
September 29, 2026Private-room architecture
Designing executive activations that connect the right people, surface what matters, and move qualified relationships into clear next steps.
Enterprise application of Rare Rooms™Joint operator room
The first Operator Dinner was called “an absolute slam dunk.” Drew Burdick and Kristi Straw return to the table with a second Charlotte room on October 29.
Repeat partnership · 2026Organizational names describe the context of Kristi's work and do not imply endorsement. Confidential work is described without identifying the client.
Now moving
September 23 · Raleigh
A live story, visibility, and authority lab at Terrace Raleigh. General admission remains available.
Reserve a seatSeptember 29 · Asheville
Kristi opens the summit with the Authentic Authority™ keynote for 350+ attendees.
See the speaker lineupSeptember 30 · Charlotte
An invitation-only AI and digital transformation event at Lincoln Street Kitchen & Cocktails. Lighthouse is the Pinnacle Powered™ partner for the Charlotte room.
See INFUSION CharlotteOctober 14 · Charlotte
Lighthouse Wellness addresses the conditions people need to perform well under sustained pressure. Mike Straw, Lighthouse Chief Wellness Officer, leads the wellness point of view. The October 14 working Rare Room™ will examine what organizations ask people to carry and what those people need.
Private interest list opening soonOctober 29 · Charlotte
The second operator room with Drew Burdick, returning after a June experience he called “an absolute slam dunk.”
Private invitations opening soonNovember 12 · Charlotte
The final Charlotte Pinnacle experience of 2026. Black tie optional. Every seat intentional.
Explore The Pinnacle Prom™
Kristi Straw, MBA
Kristi helps credible people make their value easier to understand, place, and buy. Then she builds the strategy, relationships, rooms, and commercial architecture around what needs to move.
She is the founder and CEO of Lighthouse Leadership Consultants™, creator of Authentic Authority™, The Pinnacle Dinner™, BetterStory Studio™, and Rare Rooms™, and author of the bestselling UNICORN Leader™.