Selected work + public experiences
Explore the current engagements and public rooms. For organizational work, start with the problem your people need to solve.
Bring Lighthouse into your organizationCurrent 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.
Cultural and philanthropic rooms
Kristi helped an advisory client create the WNO Rare Room™ at Field & Main. Thirty guests and $20,000 raised in support of Washington National Opera. The work has continued through that client relationship.
The Voice at the Table™, October 8 in Tysons: upcoming work around guest curation, conversation, relationships, and follow-through.
See the Rare Rooms™ applicationCompleted September room · Upcoming October collaborationGlobal commercialization
Kristi serves as Strategic Advisor, Sponsorships & U.S.–Africa Partnerships. She helps GABA convert Global Africa and Caribbean relationships into credible sponsor, institutional, government, investor, market-access, and commercial pathways. Current work includes the September 8–10 Global Africa Summit in Charlotte and defining paid 2027 advisory, cohort, and curated-room scopes.
See the Global Africa Summit Active strategic advisory and 2027 scope developmentFounder 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 November 3 INFUSION Charlotte event, and commercial follow-through into 2027.
See INFUSION Charlotte Active strategic partnershipExecutive alignment
Delivered a multi-day executive alignment and leadership experience for a senior team in Baltimore.
Completed · September 2026Opening keynote
Opening keynote for 300+ attendees. Standing ovation. Books sold out. Within three hours, Kristi was hired for a leadership retreat, a workshop, and a keynote.
Completed · September 29, 2026Private-room architecture
Pinnacle Powered™ brings the Rare Rooms™ method inside your organization.
We help you build a room around a business goal, choose who should be there, shape the conversation, make the ask, and follow through.
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
November 12 · Charlotte
Portraits, dinner, cocktails, dancing, and a guest list designed for real connection. Tickets are $200.
Explore the PromNext · UNC Charlotte
The next live story and authority lab. See current dates and ticket options on the Studio site.
Explore BetterStory Studio™Completed · September 29 · Asheville
Opening keynote. 300+ attendees. Standing ovation. Books sold out. Three new engagements within three hours: a leadership retreat, a workshop, and a keynote.
See the speaker lineupNovember 3 · 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
Michael Straw, MA
Principal + Chief Wellness Officer, Lighthouse Wellness
Human Capacity + Sustainable Performance
Lighthouse Wellness is the human-capacity application of Lighthouse Leadership Consultants. Michael is Lighthouse’s primary human-systems authority. He brings more than 20 years of behavioral-health experience to organizational questions involving decision load, manager capacity, change fatigue, recovery, trust, and sustainable performance.
The October 14 working Rare Room™ will examine what organizations ask people to carry and what those people need.
Explore Lighthouse WellnessOctober 29 · Charlotte
The second operator room with Drew Burdick, returning after a June experience he called “an absolute slam dunk.”
Private invitations opening soonA 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.