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Leadership teams carry paradox.

They hold the greatest leverage in the organization, yet often operate with the least support.

Leadership Teams operate in environments shaped by increasing complexity, constant change, and paradoxical demands. 

 

Beyond delivering results, they’re responsible for setting direction, modeling culture, and holding alignment, often amid uncertainty.

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What they need today isn’t just better collaboration.

It’s the capacity to think clearly together, navigate tensions skillfully, and lead with shared purpose.

What is at stake

For impact-driven professional service firms and organizations, when leadership teams misfire:

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  • Decisions drag, or get diluted into lowest-common-denominator compromises.

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  • Distributed offices or functions pull in different directions, creating tension and fragmented delivery.

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  • Executives operate as individuals stretched to their limits, with little true collective ownership.

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  • ​​Top talent notices the fractures at the top, disengages or exits.

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These are not “team-building” problems. They are leadership problems, the kind that determine whether transformation holds or unravels, whether an organization thrives or slowly loses its edge.

What changes 

Our work with leadership teams is designed to unlock clarity, trust, and collective focus at the very top of the organization.

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  • Decisions accelerate: no more months lost to circular debate or diluted consensus.

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  • Alignment deepens: executives stop pulling in silos and start carrying the load together.

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  • Trust resets: unspoken tensions surface, enabling more honest and productive conversations.

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  • Strategy turns into action: priorities agreed in principle actually get delivered in practice.

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  • Talent confidence strengthens: high performers see coherence at the top and choose to stay engaged.

A Distinct Approach 

Each engagement is tailored to the team’s context.


We work closely with the team lead and senior stakeholders to understand the landscape — strategy, culture, external pressures — and design a process that meets the team where they are and positions the organization for stronger performance.

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How we support leadership teams:

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  • Advisory partnership with the executive team on live strategic challenges — ensuring leadership alignment becomes a driver of organizational execution, not a barrier.

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  • Executive retreats and offsites that reset direction, strengthen trust, and equip the team to lead the organization through pivotal moments.

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  • Team coaching to sustain new ways of working, deepen ownership, and build the collective capacity required for the organization to adapt and grow.

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  • Facilitation of pivotal conversations where misalignment or conflict threatens to slow execution, dilute strategy, or risk stakeholder confidence.

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Our work is  about enabling executive teams to act as a single, cohesive leadership body — making decisions that accelerate strategy, steward transformation, and sustain organizational credibility.

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​If your leadership team is navigating a strategic shift, transformation, or seeking a more grounded way to move forward together, let's explore how we can support.

Why Leadership Impact

Leadership Impact is a boutique leadership advisory practice founded and led by Nazly Frias, bringing over 15 years of leadership and advisory experience in impact-driven professional service firms and organizations across the globe.

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  • Focused on Top Teams & Senior Leaders: We specialize in executive teams and senior leaders. This focus shapes a comprehensive approach — combining advisory, coaching, and facilitation — tailored to where leadership carries the highest stakes.

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  • Grounded in Your Context: We begin with your context, strategy, and outcomes, not generic models; every engagement leverages an advisory lens and is designed to unlock organizational value.

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  • Proven Inside and Out: Having led, advised, and been part of leadership teams — from global impact consulting firms to public innovation labs- allows us to bring the understanding of an insider and the perspective of an external trusted advisor.

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  • Global, Forward, Human: We bring global fluency shaped by work across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia; forward insight and practices grounded in evidence, systems thinking, and what's next in leadership; and the human touch of a founder-led practice supported by a trusted associate network.​​

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Nazly Frias Leadership Facilitator

15+

100+

25+

12+

advising and leading in contexts where leadership decisions carry systemic impact — from consulting partner groups to public innovation teams.

senior leaders and leadership teams supported to align, adapt, and deliver in high-stakes environments.

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

Countries

worldwide

Managing Partner Avnish Gungadurdoss

An Asset to any Leadership Team

"Nazly has 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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