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
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.
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