Strategic Leadership Advisor & Executive Coach

Fulchester Consultants; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fulchester Consultants is seeking a Strategic Leadership Advisor & Executive Coach to work with CEOs, Vice Presidents, and other senior leaders. The role blends executive coaching with practical leadership advisory to turn strategic intent into clear action, improved capability, and sustained organisational performance.

You will partner with HR and cross‑functional leaders to identify priorities, deliver confidential coaching, leadership development, change management, and executive

Qualifications

• Experience coaching or facilitating development for executives or senior leaders.
• Strong executive coaching capability and communication skills.
• Ability to connect strategy with leadership capability, organisational performance, and practical execution.
• Experience supporting change management and stakeholder management.
• Strong facilitation and consulting skills, including discovery, diagnosis, structured problem-solving, and follow-through.
• Professional maturity, discretion, and judgement to handle confidential leadership matters.
• Ability to build trust with senior stakeholders and HR partners.
• Commercial awareness and ability to contribute to business development through a consultative approach.

Responsibilities

• Partner with CEOs, Vice Presidents, and other senior leaders to clarify strategy, priorities, and leadership-development needs.
• Deliver confidential one-to-one executive coaching focused on leadership effectiveness and accountability.
• Translate broad business challenges into practical coaching objectives, development plans, milestones, and next steps.
• Advise on leadership development and organisational development initiatives to strengthen capability and alignment.
• Facilitate strategic-planning discussions, leadership sessions, and change-management conversations.
• Support leaders in navigating organisational change, performance-management challenges, and growth.
• Assess leadership needs through structured discovery and stakeholder conversations.
• Prepare executive-ready recommendations and action plans for stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships across senior leadership and HR while maintaining confidentiality.
• Contribute to consultative business-development through client needs discovery and proposal input.

Skills

Executive coaching

Active listening

Powerful questioning

Feedback

Accountability

Goal-setting

Facilitation

Structured problem-solving

Job description

This role is for a trusted professional who can help CEOs, Vice Presidents, and other senior leaders navigate complex business priorities, organisational change, leadership challenges, and stakeholder expectations. The role blends executive coaching with practical leadership advisory, helping leaders turn strategic intent into clear action, stronger capability, and sustained organisational performance.

The title reflects the seniority of the stakeholders supported. It does not confer CEO, VP, corporate-officer, director-level, or enterprise decision-making authority within the client organisation.

Fulchester Consultant is conducting a confidential search on behalf of an undisclosed client for a Strategic Leadership Advisor & Executive Coach.

Why This Role Matters

Senior leaders need a credible thinking partner who can connect business strategy with leadership behaviour, organisational capability, and execution. They need support to communicate clearly, make high-accountability decisions, manage competing stakeholder priorities, lead through change, and create the conditions for stronger team and business performance.

In this role, you will bring an executive-coaching mindset together with the structured problem-solving and client judgement associated with management consulting, leadership development, organisational development, and people-focused advisory work. You will work closely with senior business leaders, HR partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify practical priorities and support meaningful progress.

What You’ll Be Trusted To Do

• Partner with CEOs, Vice Presidents, and other senior leaders to clarify business strategy, strategic priorities, operating challenges, and leadership-development needs.
• Deliver confidential one-to-one and, where applicable, group executive coaching focused on leadership effectiveness, executive communication, decision-making, accountability, and stakeholder influence.
• Translate broad business and people challenges into practical coaching objectives, leadership-development plans, measurable milestones, and clear next steps.
• Advise on leadership development and organisational development initiatives that strengthen leadership capability, talent effectiveness, team performance, and organisational alignment.
• Facilitate strategic-planning discussions, leadership sessions, and change-management conversations that help stakeholders align around outcomes, ownership, and execution.
• Support leaders in navigating organisational change, performance-management challenges, leadership transitions, growth, restructuring, or evolving stakeholder dynamics.
• Assess leadership and organisational needs through structured discovery, stakeholder conversations, feedback, and other agreed methods.
• Prepare clear, executive-ready recommendations, action plans, and non-confidential progress updates for authorised stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships across senior leadership, Human Resources, people teams, and business functions while maintaining appropriate confidentiality and professional boundaries.
• Where genuinely within the scope of the engagement, contribute to consultative business-development activity through client needs discovery, relationship management, proposal input, and the shaping of clearly scoped advisory solutions.
• Track agreed outcomes, risks, dependencies, and engagement progress to help leaders sustain momentum through ambiguity and change.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means senior leaders have greater strategic clarity, stronger leadership habits, more effective executive communication, and practical plans for execution.

You will deliver coaching and advisory engagements that are thoughtful, confidential, commercially aware, and connected to agreed business and people outcomes. Stakeholders will value your ability to bring structure to complexity, strengthen alignment, and offer credible guidance without overstepping decision-making authority.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience coaching, advising, or facilitating development for executives, founders, functional leaders, or senior leadership teams.
• Strong executive coaching capability, including active listening, powerful questioning, feedback, accountability, and goal-setting.
• The ability to connect business strategy and strategic planning with leadership capability, organisational performance, and practical execution.
• Experience supporting change management, stakeholder management, executive communication, performance management, or leadership transitions.
• Strong facilitation and consulting skills, including discovery, diagnosis, structured problem-solving, recommendation development, and follow-through.
• The professional maturity, discretion, and judgement needed to handle confidential leadership and organisational matters.
• The ability to build trust with senior business stakeholders, Human Resources partners, and cross-functional teams.
• Commercial awareness and, where relevant, the ability to contribute to business development through a consultative, client-centred approach.

Experience That Would Be Especially Valuable

Relevant experience may come from professional training and coaching, management consulting, Human Resources services, leadership consulting, talent management, people strategy, or comparable advisory environments.

Experience supporting senior leaders through organisational change, business transformation, growth, restructuring, succession, leadership transitions, strategic planning, or performance improvement would be valuable. Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

Why Consider This Opportunity

This opportunity gives you the chance to apply executive coaching, leadership advisory, organisational-development insight, and strategic thinking in work that matters to senior decision-makers.

You will support leaders facing real business and people challenges, help create practical and measurable progress, and build trusted relationships in a role that values professional judgement, discretion, stakeholder partnership, and high-quality client delivery.

Fulchester Consultant and its confidential client consider applicants based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and business needs, without regard to protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, and local law.