Discover your path to bold and extraordinary leadership.
Unlock the full potential to bring out the best in you and your teams drive transformational growth strengthen business outcomes cultivate a culture of boldness, agility, and resilience prepare for the unexpected navigate with purpose, intent, and clarity to achieve lasting impact confidently meet challenges in an ever-changing world optimize team dynamics
Discover your path to bold and extraordinary leadership.
Unlock the full potential to bring out the best in you and your teams drive transformational growth strengthen business outcomes cultivate a culture of boldness and agility prepare for the unexpected navigate with purpose, intent, and clarity achieve lasting impact confidently meet challenges optimize team dynamics
Being a leader is both exhilarating and daunting. You don’t have to go it alone.
As a leader, you know the pressures of navigating complex business environments, innovating to compete, creating an inspirational vision, inspiring your teams, and achieving sustainable growth while adapting at a pace that continues to accelerate.
We help you discover the best path forward. We equip you with breakthrough thinking, leadership agility, and actionable growth strategies that are necessary to drive transformational change in a dynamic business landscape.
We connect the dots differently and discover what is often unseen to guide you into your ‘next new’.
Do you know what drives you and your leadership team to deliver exceptional results? How can you harness this magic more consistently across diverse situations?
How often has a key initiative remained unsolved, been delayed, or failed to realize the ROI?
How can you more effectively juggle competing dualities and the tensions these generate for individuals and teams?
We partner with you to unravel uncertainty and clarify the dynamic forces at play, enabling you to deftly navigate through complexity.
We distill the abstract into meaningful performance-based insights and present the best approach to generate measurable impact – now, and in the future.
We meet you where you are and then take it bolder.
It starts with understanding the outcomes you want. We listen deeply—tuning into the said and unsaid—ask unexpected questions, and stay curious.
Leadership is a team sport, inherently interconnected and interdependent, whether at the individual, team, or organizational level. Wherever your starting point, we anchor to your business strategy and apply this lens to design the best path forward.
Amplify your strengths.
We partner with you to break through to new levels of performance, leading with clarity of purpose to achieve your vision. Together, we cultivate boldness, agility, and resilience—empowering you and your teams to confidently navigate challenges and embrace the unexpected.
We foster relationships, not transactions.
Our role as your trusted advisor is to guide you to self-discover the best ways to navigate situations and achieve goals. As business strategists and leadership advisors, we bring proven expertise across diverse business conditions and organizational dynamics.
We approach every relationship with a blend of pragmatism and inspiration, grounded in thoughtful insight. Our collaboration is experiential and action-oriented, cultivating adaptability, experimentation, and individuality to ensure solutions are both practical and transformative.
Chart a bold path to extraordinary leadership.
We empower leaders, teams, and organizations to achieve transformative results through expertise across these areas of focus.
✦ Strategic Visioning and Planning
“Lisa is a CEO Whisperer! She has been an invaluable advisor over the years. Lisa guides me to understand and articulate the Why, What, and How for me to drive strategic impact and realize my vision and aspirations.”
CIO-CTO, Global Fortune 150
“Lisa is by far the most effective strategic advisor I’ve worked with. She uniquely identifies goals, carves clear paths, and prompts solutions by reframing barriers. Her pragmatic guidance and practical solutions transformed my view of leadership and success in a highly complex organization, resulting in achievements beyond expectations. I lean on her counsel daily and gladly re-engage as I build my career.”
EVP, Fortune 50
“We partnered with Lisa to build a purpose and vision for a newly forming leadership team. Even with interruptions due to COVID, Lisa developed creative ways to continue the engagement. The team was very positive about the collaboration which resulted in a solid framework for Vision, Purpose, and Priorities that we used daily to align to broader organizational goals.”
COO, Top 10 Academic Medical Center
“Lisa has a rare ability to see both the big picture, and the here-and-now. There are only two people in my whole career that I have met with this talent. I value Lisa’s wisdom and guidance in building my organization to be extremely agile and high performing. Every time we meet, she inspires me and gives me the courage to move forward with what I believe is needed for the business, and what I know to be so.”
SVP, Transformation, Global Fortune 150
“Lisa has helped us discover the best-fit organizational strategies to optimize our business goals, aligning to our values and ways of working. She has inspired the courage to be bold and industry-disruptive as I led my team to exceed analysts’ predictions. I am truly indebted to her wisdom, insights, and guidance. Lisa focuses on impact, and she pushes each of us to think bigger and act bolder.”
President NA, Global Fortune 500
“Wow! Lisa designed and facilitated the most impactful executive leadership team offsite we have ever had. I’ve worked with her in many capacities, and she consistently understands how to read the room, bring everyone along, and build alignment – even amidst tension and differing perspectives on the right path forward. She has a unique gift to listen deeply and stay tough – holding us accountable to achieve the business outcomes we need. Her approach is both creative and no-nonsense, focused entirely on delivering the targeted goals.”
CEO, Global Fortune 500
“Working with Lisa has been one of the most valuable and transformative experiences of my career. She quickly assessed my working style and tailored her recommendations. Her guidance has ranged from macro feedback on my brand, to navigating my leadership journey within a highly complex organization, to scenario-specific advice and frameworks, to designing and facilitating team workshops – all of which I still use today and has helped me elevate my career multiple times. Lisa is on-point, observant, direct, and easy to work with. I have grown immensely and will always seek her counsel.”
Senior Director, Fortune 50
“Lisa possesses a rare blend of strategic foresight and a deep understanding of what drives senior executives at the individual level, enhancing team performance. She has a unique ability to see both the big picture and the nuances of individual leadership, and knows how to bring us together to surpass expectations and achieve bold ambitions! She has guided me in my journey to becoming a global CEO, outperforming competitors and navigating internal complexities.”
Global Group CEO, Global Fortune 150
“Lisa truly understands what makes execs tick and how to help them be more successful. She gets each executive and what drives them personally and professionally, and she deeply understands the inner workings of business and how to work with companies to help them grow. She is a CEO Whisperer. Very few people can do this.”
Senior Partner, Top 10 Global Professional Services
“Lisa is an exceptional leadership advisor, combining her gift of emotional intelligence with extensive training. She empowers leaders to discover strengths, develop skills, and enhance talent. With a personalized approach and deep connections, Lisa equips clients with tools for continuous growth. Through her guidance, I’ve gained confidence in my leadership journey, understanding that it’s a process that never ends.”
COO, Top 10 Integrated Health System
“Lisa’s ability to listen to our aspirations, understand who we truly are, and where we need to go is magical. The program she designed left us in awe of her process and craft. Everyone was fully engaged. She navigated us through a journey that was both intense yet enjoyable, and we gained new levels of insight, with clear priorities, aligned actions, and a strong sense of commitment and accountability.”
CHRO, Global Fortune 500
“Lisa’s approach to executive coaching provided immediate benefits. I received meaningful information and actionable feedback that I could implement right away. The depth of our work together goes to the heart of how I think, perceive, and act. Lisa is flexible, accommodating, and completely trustworthy. I felt comfortable discussing even the most confidential details without reservation. Thanks to her leadership skills, I have enhanced my own.”
Director, Fortune 50
“Lisa is one of the most strategic and insightful advisors I’ve encountered in my 30+ year career. Over the years we’ve worked together, she has consistently proven to be an exceptional business strategist and a spot-on leadership advisor. Regardless of the topic or challenge, she adapts her approach to get to the crux of the issue. Lisa seamlessly integrates complex dynamics, draws from her extensive experience, and aligns everything with our goal of driving growth–for both our people and our organization.”
CMO, Global Fortune 150
“Lisa is an empathetic and compassionate listener. She seeks to understand an organization, the history and culture as part of building an engagement that will be most effective for the need/ask. She always starts with the ‘Why?’. And is careful to not jump to or assume solutions without a solid outline and understanding of the Purpose. I value Lisa’s listening, creative thinking, collaboration in problem-solving, and pushing her clients to be very clear on intention.”
COO, Top 10 Academic Medical Center
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A word from our founder.
Lisa Finkelstein, Founder & CEO of Astra Leadership, has a wealth of experience as a business strategist, a leadership advisor, a business model innovator, and an executive coach.
Every conversation is an opportunity for growth.
Let’s chat and explore new possibilities.