THE WORK
“Your best leadership is already inside you, this partnership frees it and focuses it.”
THE PATHWAYS
Four Ways In
Strategic · Catalytic · Trusted Counsel
Private advising for CEOs/ Executive Directors, Founders and C-Suite leaders who need a trusted thought and activation partner at pivotal moments.
Transitions, strategy, governance, capital raises, and the decisions that shape what comes next. You bring your most complex challenge. Qiana brings 25+ years of having led through challenges like yours — and the candor to tell you what she sees.
Executives in an Advising partnership may already have a coach. This is not coaching – this is go-time.
Who This Is For
CEOs, C-suite executives and senior leaders managing complexity, transition, or legacy-level decisions.
Transformational · Growth-Oriented · Liberating
Traditionally known as executive coaching, Qiana’s unique approach is about movement and activation. Private engagement for CEO’s, C-Suite, and senior leaders ready to activate, elevate, unlock what has been constrained, or renegotiate success.
You will not just think differently. You will lead differently, from the inside out. Your best leadership is already inside you, this partnership frees it and focuses it. You will be stretched in ways that challenge you, and supported with the kind of care that makes the stretching sustainable.
Wholeness · Healing · Whole-Life Design
For the leader who is ascending and navigating personal and professional challenges at the same time — Qiana calls it “winning while warring.”
“Sozo Life Architecture” is a premium partnership that supports an Executive holistically – personal, professional, relational, and spiritual. You will not need to leave any part of yourself out of the room.
Purpose-driven governance is not a formality. It is the X-factor.
When governance is working at its highest level, it is not a compliance function — it is a force multiplier for organizational effectiveness and CEO impact. A board that leads from purpose, operates with clarity, and builds the right culture of accountability and trust doesn’t just govern well. It unlocks what the organization and its leader are capable of becoming.
A Unique Vantage Point
I bring something to board advisory work that is rare: I have sat in both seats. As a President and CEO, I have been accountable to boards navigating governance dynamics, earning trust, and leading organizational transformation through the complexity that only a CEO truly knows. As a board chair to local and national organizations, I have held the responsibility of governance from the top.
That dual fluency means I don't advise boards from theory. I advise from lived governance across the five modes that explores whether a board is a liability or a legacy asset:
Fiduciary:
Stewarding assets, ensuring accountability, aligning the organization's missional, financial, legal and reputational integrity.
Strategic:
Shaping direction, advancing mission and ensuring the organization is positioned for long-term impact and sustainability.
Generative:
Asking the questions that drive innovation, challenge assumptions and traditions and generate the creativity and thinking that moves an organization and its stakeholders forward together..
Cultural:
Cultivating a board culture of trust, equity, candor intellectual community, ecosystem awareness and shared commitment because how a board operates shapes what the organization and its leader can accomplish.
Risk & Compliance:
Navigating enterprise risks, taking calculated risks that fuel mission, honoring regulatory responsibility and leveraging the governance structures that protect and power the organization and those it serves.
