BMD · Private Executive Advisory

Private Executive
Advisory

25 years in executive leadership · Fortune 500 · $54M scaled · International bestselling author

At a certain level, the honest conversations stop.

The stakes are too high. The room is too political. The cost of being wrong is too visible.

You have advisors. You have a team. You may have a board. But there is no one in that group who can tell you the truth about what they see when they watch you lead, and whose job it is to do exactly that.

That is what this is.

Private Executive Advisory

Direct access for the decisions in front of you right now.

Private Executive Advisory is direct, private access to someone who has spent 25 years operating inside companies at the CEO and executive level, not studying them from the outside.

Someone who has sat in the room where the real decisions happen, seen what compound pressure does to how leaders think, and built a framework for fixing it structurally rather than managing it symptom by symptom.

This is not coaching. It is not a program. It is a private advisory relationship built for one thing: helping you make the decisions in front of you right now, clearly, under pressure, without second-guessing them afterward.

The Moment This Is Built For

Leaders seek this kind of engagement at a specific kind of moment.

Not when everything is going well. When the decisions have gotten heavier, the stakes have gone up, and the internal filters that used to produce good answers have started producing noise instead.

That moment looks like one of these:

You are navigating a transition: a new role, a restructure, a capital event, a succession, and the normal playbook does not apply

You are carrying decisions you cannot fully process with the people around you

You have started to notice that the feedback you receive has gotten thinner as your authority has grown

You are making good decisions but slower than you should, and the delay is costing you

The company is performing but something in how you are operating is not sustainable and you know it

You have added tools, AI, new systems, new hires, to a company that still has a decision problem at the top, and the problem is compounding

If you are in one of these moments, this is for you.

“The clarity I gained at the top changed how the entire company moved.”

Alia Kahn
Founder, Oak + Lotus Studio

“Within weeks, my decision load reduced. I stopped re-entering delegated work and execution stabilized.”

James McCaffrey
Founder & CEO, Allura

Apply Now!

This is for you if

You lead a company or team and carry a lot of high-stakes decisions

You need direct help, not a program, a process, or a course

You are already successful and want honest input, not a development plan

You would never join a group program

You want private, direct access to someone who knows how companies actually work at the operator level

This is not for you if

You are looking for mindset work or personal development

You want a group room or a peer community

You are not yet leading a team

You are not ready to hold a decision once it is made

What Changes

What changes when we work together

You have a private space for the decisions you cannot fully process inside your company

You stop changing decisions that are already made

You stop going back into work that is not yours

The decisions that used to take days get made in minutes

You know exactly which decisions need you and which ones do not

You stop adding AI tools to a company that still has a decision problem, and start fixing the problem first

The feedback that stopped reaching you starts reaching you again, because someone outside the organization is watching

You lead from clarity instead of pressure

How It Works

Entry
A diagnostic review of what is on your plate at the start of the engagement. Not a sales call. A structured intake conversation to confirm fit and scope before we begin.

Sessions
One private 60-minute session per week

Access
Direct access between sessions via a private channel, up to 30 minutes of response time per week

Format
Live work on the real decisions in front of you. No homework. No curriculum. The work gets used the same week.

Acceptance
Every engagement is application-gated and accepted based on fit and available capacity

The ROI Case

One prevented reversal can pay for the engagement.

Every time a leader changes a decision that was already made, it costs $2,000–$5,000 in team time. Most leaders at this level are doing this weekly.

One month of this engagement pays for itself the first time it stops that from happening, which typically happens in the first two weeks.

Investment

$10,000

per month · 6-month minimum commitment

Acceptance is based on fit and available capacity.

Why 6 Months?

How you make decisions does not change in one session.

It changes when you build new habits under real pressure and hold them over time. That takes months, not weeks.

Leaving before the work has time to hold is the exact thing this work is designed to stop you from doing. The 6-month minimum is the first boundary the engagement asks you to keep.

30 days gives you a new experience. 6 months gives you a real change.

About Brooke

Structural leadership at the CEO level.

Brooke M. Dukes is the Founder & CEO of BMD, a structural leadership firm, and creator of Success by Design. She has spent 25 years in executive leadership, sales, and consulting, including Fortune 500 roles. She helped scale one company to $54M in revenue. She is the host of the Burn On, Not Out podcast, an international bestselling author, and a board member of Texas Women in Business. Based in Austin, Texas.

How This Relates to Success by Design

Same work. More direct access.

Success by Design is a structured program that installs clear decision rules and accountability across your whole company and team.

Private Executive Advisory is 1:1 work at the top. It is for leaders who want direct, private help with their own decisions, not a group program.

It is not a replacement for Success by Design. It is more direct access to the same work.

Apply for Private Executive Advisory

If you are navigating something consequential right now, apply below.

If you want someone outside the room who has been in rooms like yours, this is where the conversation starts.

Capacity is limited. Every application is reviewed for fit before acceptance.

Not ready to apply yet? Book a free 15-minute call first →

BMD · Private Executive Advisory · brookemdukes.com/private-advisory · Brooke M. Dukes, Founder & CEO