EXECUTIVE ADVISORY SERVICES

Building Adaptive Organizations Through Better Leadership

LEAP partners with executives, leadership teams, and boards to strengthen leadership, align the organization, and turn strategy into sustained performance.

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SELECTIVE CLIENT FIT

Organizations We Partner With

LEAP is designed for established organizations facing leadership, organizational, or performance challenges that require more than a one-time workshop or traditional consulting solution.

Primary Fit

Established small to mid-sized organizations with a leadership team and sufficient organizational complexity to benefit from sustained executive advisory support.

Leadership Scope

CEOs, executive directors, senior executives, executive leadership teams, and boards responsible for organizational direction, alignment, and performance.

Larger Organizations

LEAP may also partner with divisions, departments, leadership teams, or business units within larger enterprises when the engagement can be clearly defined around a specific leadership or organizational challenge.

When Organizations Typically Engage LEAP

Growth or transformation · Leadership transition · Executive team misalignment · Strategy execution challenges · Organizational change · Culture or accountability challenges · Board effectiveness · Building leadership capacity

LEAP intentionally maintains a focused advisory model so that every engagement receives direct senior-level attention from Dr. Gina O. Barrios.

THE MEANING BEHIND LEAP

Leaders Evolve · Adapt · Perform

LEAP is an acronym for Leaders Evolve · Adapt · Perform. This perspective sits behind every advisory engagement: organizations perform better over time when leaders can evolve, the organization can adapt, and leadership can translate that adaptability into sustained performance.

WAYS TO ENGAGE LEAP

Four Ways to Engage

Organizations engage LEAP at different points depending on what leadership is facing. Some need to understand what is really happening across the organization. Others already know the priority and need focused advisory support. Executives may also need an ongoing thought partner or a facilitated setting where leaders can work through an important issue together.

Adaptive Organization Diagnostic

What is really helping or constraining our organization?

A structured assessment designed to help leadership understand the organizational conditions affecting adaptability and performance.

LEAP combines structured assessment, stakeholder insight, organizational evidence, and executive interpretation to identify the conditions strengthening or constraining adaptability and performance.

OutcomeExecutive Findings Report, leadership priorities, and a clearer evidence-based path forward.

Focused Executive Advisory

We know what needs attention. How do we strengthen it?

A defined executive advisory engagement focused on an important organizational priority. Based on Discovery and, when applicable, Diagnostic findings, Dr. Barrios recommends the areas of advisory support needed to achieve the desired outcome.

Leadership & Executive Team Effectiveness
Strategy Alignment & Execution
Culture, Change & Adaptability
Board Governance & Executive Partnership
Growth, Revenue & Performance Alignment

Advisory support is tailored around the organization's primary outcome and may draw from one or more of these interconnected areas.

OutcomeGreater leadership alignment, stronger organizational capability, clearer action, and improved execution around the identified priority.

Executive Advisory

How do I lead through what we are facing?

Ongoing strategic thought partnership for CEOs, Executive Directors, and senior leaders navigating important decisions, organizational change, growth, leadership challenges, and performance expectations. Dr. Barrios serves as an executive advisor and uses coaching as one method within the relationship when reflection, behavior, resilience, decision-making, or leadership relationships affect organizational performance.

OutcomeA trusted executive thought partner helping the leader think clearly, make stronger decisions, navigate complexity, and lead the organization forward.

Leadership & Board Retreats

How do we bring our leaders together to work through an important issue?

Purpose-built facilitated working sessions designed around a defined leadership or organizational outcome.

Leadership effectiveness
Strategy and organizational alignment
Adaptability and change
Culture and psychological safety
Executive team effectiveness
Board governance and board/executive partnership

These are working sessions that produce clarity, alignment, decisions, and action—not simply meetings or team-building events.

OutcomeShared understanding, stronger alignment, clear decisions, and defined next actions.

NOT SURE WHERE TO START?

Begin With a Discovery Conversation

You do not need to diagnose the organization before contacting LEAP. Every prospective engagement begins with a 30-minute Discovery Conversation with Dr. Gina O. Barrios.

The conversation is designed to understand what is happening, why it matters now, what outcome leadership needs, and whether LEAP is the right resource.

Based on that conversation, Dr. Barrios will recommend the most appropriate starting point—whether the Adaptive Organization Diagnostic, a focused advisory engagement, ongoing Executive Advisory, a Leadership or Board Retreat, or another resource when LEAP is not the right solution.

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THE LEAP ADVISORY APPROACH

How We Advise

Every engagement follows a disciplined advisory approach designed to move from understanding the challenge to strengthening organizational performance.

Understand

Clarify the challenge, context, leadership priorities, and desired outcomes.

Assess

Use evidence, organizational insight, and structured inquiry to understand what is strengthening or constraining performance.

Align

Build shared understanding around priorities, decisions, responsibilities, and the path forward.

Advise

Provide executive guidance, perspective, challenge, and practical recommendations.

Strengthen

Help leaders strengthen the capabilities, practices, relationships, and organizational conditions required for progress.

Measure & Adapt

Evaluate progress, organizational performance, revenue or fundraising implications where relevant, and adjust as conditions change.

↶ Learning from measurement informs the next cycle

BEGIN THE CONVERSATION

Build an organization prepared for what comes next.

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