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15+ years. 30+ organizations. 150+ leaders & leadership teams.

Advising CEOs & senior leadership teams navigating strategic inflection points and the leadership demands they bring.

Leadership advisory, executive coaching, leadership & executive team facilitation for impact-driven professional service firms and organizations.

Moments we support

When We Help

Some leadership and organizational challenges cannot be resolved through better processes, clearer org charts, or a new strategy document.

When the real constraint is how the executive and leadership team think, align, and lead together — that is where this work begins.

When the organization is navigating transformation and the leadership team needs to evolve alongside it.

When growth has outpaced the leadership structures, practices, and capacity built to sustain it.

When a leadership transition at the top is creating uncertainty about direction, authority, and how the team operates.

When misalignment at the top is slowing decisions, fragmenting delivery, and eroding trust across the organization.

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Ways of working

How We Help

We work with leadership as a system: the individual leader, the executive and leadership team, and the organizational conditions that shape how strategy translates into results.

Our work integrates leadership advisory, executive coaching, and facilitation into a coherent, evidence-based approach, grounded in the complexity of the moment.

Top Team Effectiveness

When the leadership team is the bottleneck for decisions, alignment, or delivery, we work with them as a system to shift how they operate at the top.

Advisory Services

Confidential, high-level partnership for CEOs and senior leaders navigating strategic inflection points, transformation, and the leadership demands they bring.

Retreats design & Facilitation

For leadership teams that need more than a well-run offsite. We design and facilitate retreats that surface what's actually in the way and build the alignment to move forward.

Leadership Development

For organizations that have tried leadership development before and found it didn't shift anything. We design programs around your strategy and context, not generic models.

Executive Coaching

For senior leaders navigating complexity, plateaus, or inflection points who want a thinking partner with real organizational experience and the range to work across the inner and outer dimensions of leadership.

Transition Coaching

For leaders stepping into new roles, navigating structural change, or rethinking their leadership path when the stakes of getting it right are high.

About

Leadership Impact

Leadership Impact is a boutique leadership advisory practice, founded and led by Nazly Frías.

The organizations we work with are well-established, operating at the leading edge of their field, where purpose and impact are central to what they do and how they define success — impact finance, philanthropy, climate & sustainability, public policy and strategy, and the law firms and professional service firms that serve these ecosystems.

Nazly founded Leadership Impact after 15 years leading and advising in some of the most complex organizational contexts across Europe, Africa and the Americas. From building the Colombian government's first public innovation team to leading people strategy through rapid growth at a global impact consulting firm. She works with senior leaders and leadership teams in impact-driven professional service firms and purpose-led organizations at the moments that define what comes next.

Meet Nazly and the practice

About/Why us

Trusted by Leaders & Leadership teams

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15+

150+

30+

15+

year advising and leading in high-impact contexts: from consulting partner groups to public innovation teams.

senior leaders and leadership teams supported

organizations across global consulting, innovative finance, climate, and impact ecosystems.

Countries

worldwide

Our Insights

The Pipeline Illusion: Why Leadership Transitions Fail Without Team Readiness

This article explores why true succession planning means preparing the system, not just the successor.

Nazly Frias

3 min read

The Transformation Paradox: Why organizational change stalls when leadership stays the same.

Transformation doesn’t fail because of weak strategies, it stalls when leadership stays still. This article explores the hidden gap between system-level change and leadership evolution, revealing why even the most well-intentioned transformations falter when old habits persist. If your organization is navigating deep change, the real question might not be what needs to change, but who is truly adapting.

Nazly Frias

6 min read

The Leadership Paradox Inside Consulting Firms & Expert Organizations

In expert-led organizations, leadership teams often struggle with alignment, decision-making, and authority. This is often the result of a structural tension between expertise, autonomy, and collective leadership. This story of the Managing Partner of a global consulting firm is a good example of how this plays out on a day-to-day basis. She expected the hard part of her day to be the client meeting with a senior official. It was a complex reform and a room full of sharp mind

Nazly Frias

8 min read

The Hidden Costs of Bad Retreats: Why Misusing Leadership Time Backfires

Retreats demand one of the biggest investments of leadership time and energy. This article explains how poorly designed retreats waste that investment, and what it takes to make them catalytic instead of costly.

Nazly Frias

3 min read

Impct-drivn leaders say

Leaders are saying

CEO & Founder Instiglio, Leadership Client

An asset to any leadership team

"Nazly has a rare and powerful combination of strengths that make her an asset to any leadership team.

She combines the strategic vision and communication skills required to inspire, with the problem-solving and technical acumen to add value to the most complex decisions."

Avnish Gungardurdoss

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

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