Brooklyn Advisors works with the CEOs, owners and leadership teams of New York City’s small and mid-sized companies: the agencies, firms and family businesses that keep the city running.
Book a Free Conversation →What it doesn’t necessarily provide is an independent place to think.
The people around a CEO or senior executive usually have a stake in the decision. Employees want direction. Boards have expectations. Investors have priorities. Advisors bring their own specialties.
Sometimes what you need is someone outside all of it.
If there’s a decision on your desk right now, let’s talk it through.
Book a Free Conversation →It might be a decision you’re carrying longer than you should. A leadership team that still depends too heavily on you. An executive you need to develop — or replace. A new role that requires you to lead differently. A growth opportunity you’re not convinced the organization is ready for. Or simply the need for a confidential conversation with someone who has led businesses and understands the difference between discussing a decision and being accountable for it.
With leadership teams, we work on the real issues affecting their performance: decision-making, accountability, communication, priorities, organizational structure and the team’s ability to operate without unnecessary dependence on the CEO. The objective is not better meetings. It’s greater leadership capacity.
On strategy, we help CEOs and leadership teams examine choices from outside the organization — strategic planning, growth decisions, organizational design, leadership transitions, succession, market choices or ongoing advisory work through a period of significant change. Our role isn’t to hand you the strategy. It’s to make the strategy stronger by challenging how you arrived at it.
OCTET CEO groups are not yet available in New York City.
Brooklyn Advisors was built around a simple premise: leaders make better decisions when they have access to experienced perspectives outside their organizations.
Our work draws on decades of operating and leadership experience rather than a coaching methodology alone. That changes the conversation.
We understand budgets, boards, employees, customers, acquisitions, difficult executives, growth expectations and the reality that eventually someone has to make the call.
The headlines go to Wall Street, the tech giants and the big agency holding companies. But finance is only part of the story. Professional, scientific and technical services, which includes advertising agencies, design and technology firms, consultancies and specialist practices, is now the city’s largest industry by employment, with more than 430,000 jobs. And tech is growing faster than any other major industry in the city.
Behind all of it is an army of small and mid-sized companies: the agencies and studios, contractors, distributors, restaurant groups, professional firms and family businesses across the five boroughs, Long Island, Westchester and North Jersey that keep New York running.
Their CEOs are surrounded by eight million people and still make the hardest calls alone. Big companies have boards and strategy teams. Venture-backed startups have investors and accelerators. The owner of a 40-person agency or a third-generation contractor usually has neither.
That’s the New York business owner Brooklyn Advisors works with.
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Every relationship starts with a free 30-minute conversation about where you are and what you’re working on. No pitch, no obligation.
Fees are shared directly during that conversation.
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