Two live virtual sessions each month
Consistent access to conversation and perspective while issues are still current.
CEO People & Culture Advisory
CEO Advisory Circle
Confidential People & Culture Strategy for CEOs Navigating Growth
Build a stronger company through better people decisions.
Leading a growing company means making consequential people decisions, often before you have perfect information.
Hiring, accountability, leadership, structure, culture, retention, and performance can quickly become CEO-level issues.
The CEO Advisory Circle gives a small group of CEOs and founders ongoing access to senior People & Culture perspective, practical problem-solving, and peer insight in a confidential virtual setting.
The Reality of Growth
When People Questions Become Business Questions
As organizations grow, decisions that once felt straightforward begin carrying greater organizational consequence.
CEOs may find themselves navigating
- whether the right leaders are in the right roles
- accountability that is inconsistent or unclear
- hiring decisions carrying increasing risk
- managers who need greater leadership capability
- culture changing as the organization grows
- people issues consuming too much CEO attention
- questions about structure, roles, expectations, or decision rights
- uncertainty about when stronger HR infrastructure or senior People leadership is needed
The Circle creates a place to work through these questions while they are happening.
Inside the Circle
Bring the Real Issue to the Table
Members bring current people, leadership, culture, and organizational questions into a confidential advisory environment.
Each conversation is designed to help participants see the situation more clearly, consider the implications of different choices, and determine practical next steps.
Real-time People & Culture strategy
Work through hiring, retention, leadership, accountability, culture, organization design, talent, and growth questions.
Senior HR and executive perspective
Draw on Jennifer Kozel's experience as a former CHRO, senior People & Culture executive, executive coach, and organizational advisor.
Peer perspective
Learn alongside other CEOs and founders navigating their own growth and leadership complexity.
Confidential conversation
Create room for candid discussion of issues that may be difficult to process elsewhere.
Practical next steps
Leave with clearer options, stronger questions, and actions you can take back into the business.
Who the Circle Is For
For CEOs Carrying Significant People Decisions
The CEO Advisory Circle is designed for CEOs, founders, and owners of small and mid-sized organizations who:
- are carrying important people decisions personally
- want senior People & Culture perspective without a fractional engagement
- are navigating growth, organizational change, or increasing complexity
- want practical guidance grounded in real business situations
- value learning alongside other experienced business leaders
- are willing to bring real questions into candid conversation
- want to strengthen their own ability to make better people and organizational decisions
The Value
Greater Clarity for the Decisions in Front of You
The value of the Circle is not a prescribed answer. It is having a place to examine the situation from multiple perspectives before deciding what comes next.
A conversation may lead to
- a clearer hiring decision
- a more productive accountability conversation
- stronger expectations for a leader or team
- recognition that structure or roles need to evolve
- a different approach to a recurring people issue
- greater clarity about what HR capability the organization needs
- confirmation that the CEO is focusing on the right issue
Better people decisions strengthen the organization around them.
Why This Circle
Experienced Perspective When the Stakes Are Real
Jennifer Kozel brings more than 25 years of senior HR and leadership experience, including former CHRO and senior People & Culture executive roles, together with more than 20 years coaching professionals and leaders.
Her work spans executive coaching, organization design, workforce and talent strategy, leadership development, culture, change, succession, executive team effectiveness, HR infrastructure, and senior People & Culture advisory.
The Circle brings those perspectives into the room alongside the lived experience of other CEOs and founders.
Former CHRO
PCC Executive Coach
SPHR
25+ Years HR & Leadership Experience
20+ Years Coaching Professionals & Leaders
Membership
Join the Circle
Virtual
Two live advisory sessions each month
3-Month Initial Commitment
Membership begins with a three-month commitment. Members may continue beyond the initial term.
Investment
$499 per month
Limited to 12 CEOs and founders
Rolling Enrollment
New members may join throughout the year as space is available.
The ongoing format allows members to bring new questions into the Circle as their business, team, and leadership challenges evolve.
Start a Conversation About the CircleInterested in joining? Tell Jennifer you are inquiring about the CEO Advisory Circle when you complete the form.
Your Next People Decision
You Do Not Have to Work Through Every People Decision Alone
Bring the questions consuming your attention. Explore what may be shaping the situation. Leave with greater clarity about what the business needs next.
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