Executive Advisory gives you a senior talent strategist in your corner, someone who understands the legal, financial and commercial consequences of every people decision before you make it.
What Is Executive Advisory?
Executive Advisory is a dedicated one to one relationship between you and a senior Spencer & Trent talent strategist. It is not a project or a programme, it is a confidential ongoing partnership built entirely around you as a leader and the decisions you are facing right now.
Some decisions are too important to make alone and too sensitive to discuss internally. A leadership appointment that could reshape your business. A restructure that carries legal and financial risk. An AI adoption strategy that could expose you in ways you have not yet considered. These are the conversations that need a trusted senior adviser. Executive Advisory is that relationship.
Abi Demi, Managing Director
Who Is Executive Advisory For?
Executive Advisory is for:
- Founders and CEOs who are making people decisions without a senior people expert in the room
- Business leaders navigating a period of growth, restructure or significant organisational change
- Founders who are scaling fast and need a trusted strategic partner to think alongside them before decisions are made
- Leaders who have experienced the legal and financial cost of a talent decision gone wrong and want to make sure it never happens again
What Is The Difference Between Executive Advisory And Consulting?
Consulting is a defined project with a clear brief, a timeline and a deliverable. Executive Advisory is an ongoing relationship. You are not commissioning a strategy document, you are bringing a senior talent strategy consultant alongside your leadership team. Someone who is there when important decisions need to be made, sits above the office politics, carries no internal agenda and is invested solely in the long term commercial success of your business.
Why Executive Advisory Protects Your Business
The legal and financial consequences of a talent decision made without the right expertise are rarely visible until the damage is done. A leadership appointment that creates more problems than it solves. A senior exit handled incorrectly that becomes a tribunal claim. A people situation that escalates because nobody with the right knowledge was in the room. Executive Advisory exists so those decisions are never made in isolation. Having a trusted senior adviser alongside you at leadership level is not an overhead. It is the commercial decision that protects your business from consequences that cost significantly more than the investment.
Who You Are Working With
When you engage Spencer & Trent’s Executive Advisory service you work directly with Abi Demi, a talent strategy consultant with over ten years of experience working across FTSE 100 companies, startups and SMEs. Abi Demi brings legal understanding, commercial thinking and a perspective that has been missing from most boardroom conversations about talent and organisational structure.
What Does Executive Advisory Cover?
Every engagement is tailored to the specific challenges and commercial priorities of your business.
Areas typically covered include:
People strategy and organisational design
Senior hiring decisions and leadership team structure
Managing legal and financial risk in people decisions
AI adoption and its impact on your workforce and legal obligations
Board and investor readiness from a people perspective
Navigating difficult people situations before they become costly ones
Some decisions are too important to make without the right person in your corner. If you are ready to have a trusted senior adviser alongside you when it matters most, the conversation starts here.
How it Works
Step 1 — Confidential Consultation
We begin with a private conversation to understand your current situation, the decisions you are facing and what you need from an advisory relationship. No commitment required at this stage.
Step 2 — Tailored Advisory Agreement
We agree the scope, frequency and format of the engagement based entirely on your needs. Whether that is monthly retained advisory, ad hoc counsel or an intensive period of support, it is built around you.
Step 3 — Your Advisory Partnership Begins
From that point you have direct access to Abi as your trusted senior adviser. Available for one to one sessions, urgent counsel and strategic thinking whenever the decisions that matter most to your business arise.
If you are ready to have a trusted senior adviser alongside you when it matters most, the conversation starts here.
