Year-long counsel for purpose-led leaders forging what's next.

Where personal growth meets strategy.

 

Vision → Capacity. 
Desire & Constraint → Strategy.
Impossible → Inevitable.
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Your vision isn't done expanding. Your leadership isn't done evolving. 

It's calling you deeper.

 

This Counsel is where visionary leaders expand what's possible—for their impact, their teams, and themselves.

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What Is The Collective Counsel?

A year-long counsel for founders, funders, and executives who know their vision is needed—and can feel it stretching you.
You've done leadership work. The strategy work. Personal growth.
This is different. It's the integration.
Because the leader who can hold the vision IS the strategy. And becoming that leader? That's the work we do here.
This is where you do the real work of leadership.

 

Maia's play therapy is called The Real Work. I love that because for elementary kids, navigating relationships and developing emotional resilience—that is the real work to do at their stage. 
The Real Work for leaders at your level?
Not another thing on your plate. Not another strategy deck to execute.
 
The real work is:
Vision and capacity. Insight and strategy.
Claiming the space to steward the vision.
Holding creative tensions—the heartbreak and possibility, your expertise and others.
Delegating with vulnerability. Convening rather than controlling.
Seeing the strategic insight in what feels off and in your desire.
Shifting state. Embodying the vision. Working with felt sense—alongside strategic thinking.

 

Where who you're becoming shapes what you're doing next.
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Your Invitation

You love the impossible assignment and feel most alive when the stakes are high, the terrain complex, and the impact matters.

 

You're holding a vision in unprecedented complexity. 
Executing—with a full plate, full calendar, and full responsibility. 
Moving millions. Shaping systems. Leading through uncertainty.
 
You've gotten here by being the capable one. The responsible one. The one who carries the vision when no one else can see it yet. Maybe because you can. Maybe because you always have.
 
This moment with its pace of change – systems collapsing and possibility emerging—is asking for something different. Not more effort. Different capacity.

Being the responsible one—the one who carries, the one who steps in has been your superpower. It’s now the cap on what you can create.
 
That's not a failure. It's your invitation.
And it's asking for something you can't build alone.

The Real Work of Leadership

 

You bring what you're walking—the question keeping you up, the tension you're metabolizing, the pattern ready to shift.
 
Not just problems. Possibility. The win you want to celebrate. The frustration you need to name.
 
You get mirrors who spot your next breakthrough before you do.
Peers who ask the questions that slice through to what's real.
 
A guide who tracks the pattern you're living and names what you can't see alone.
 
Whole Human Welcome. You can never be too big here—bring the biggest win, the global stage, the vision no one else can see yet.
And you can never be too small—bring the uncertainty, the heartbreak, the questions you can't ask anywhere else.
 
You are the curriculum—the tensions you're metabolizing, the systems you're shifting, your impossible visions becoming inevitable.
You metabolize what's been simmering for months—in real time.
 
One leader's constraint—"I don't have what it takes"—became her strategy: "I can have a bigger impact with others."
One shift. Entire perspective changed.

 

Where the clarity you've been reaching for rises to the surface—because you've created the conditions for it to emerge.
 
You will walk out of every session clearer, more resourced, and more alive in your work—with an expanded vision, a sharper sense of your role in it, and clarity on exactly who and what to bring in to make it real.
 
This is not time out from leadership. This is leadership.

What Leaders Say

 

"Jeanine provided something I could not have found elsewhere—a safe place to put forward my toughest challenges with a facilitator who asks the exact right questions I need to move forward."


 — Toby Rubin, Former CEO, Upstart Lab

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Here's What Meeting This Moment Looks Like

One funder came to support immigrants and refugees facing urgent needs in this moment. She wanted to raise $1M. It's what felt feasible—and heartbreakingly not enough.
 
I asked: "What's actually needed? What do you really want?"
 
The pause created space to see what was truly needed: $3.5M, unanimously approved within a week—with a completely different strategy, more collaborative, more systemic. Not just her team. The ecosystem.
 
Then came the real work: deploying that capital over the year. Navigating team dynamics. Strategic pivots. Bold delegation. Orchestrating the ecosystem.
 
Wayfinding: Staying true to the vision while letting what showed up become fuel.

What Leaders Say

 

"One conversation expanded my vision. I invited in my team, engaged our policy and program partners, and the result? A $3.5M initiative—unanimously approved—that's now resourcing grantees, supporting safety and security, and influencing other funders across the field."


 — Lea Tienou-Gustafson, Senior Director, Mariam Assefa Fund, World Education Services

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Here's what the real work of leadership looks like in motion:

 

One executive stepped into the biggest role of his career—now leading areas where he wasn't the expert. On his team, he had excellent leaders operating in silos.

 

 
As our work deepened, he identified the one strategic lever that mattered most—and then let his team decide the how.
 
"Jeanine asked questions that stopped me in my tracks," he said. His team transformed from great managers in silos to a unified force. "Our team has never executed with this much collaboration or care."
 
He learned to delegate with real trust—"not because I was stepping back, but because I could trust they'd rise." — Kevin Albers, SVP Customer Support and Success, Slack & Trailhead
 
The result: Strategic impact AND freedom. He took his full parental leave and moved away from HQ to the mountains with his family.
 
One shift. The entire web moves.

Meet Your Guide

For two decades, I've partnered with leaders at the intersection of vision, responsibility, and systems change.

My clients include:

  • CEO of a social enterprise and one of the 50 Most Influential People in SF for reimagining cities
  • Founder of a social-impact network with a community spanning 190+ countries
  • SVP Customer Experience at Slack, shaping how millions communicate and work
  • Presidents and CEOs of philanthropic foundations distributing millions annually toward equitable systems

I work with people whose decisions ripple through industries, cities, and global systems—leaders carrying both immense responsibility and immense possibility.

What makes my work different:

I see the pattern you're living before you name it. I track for the lie—the discrepancy between what you're saying and what your knowing knows.

I midwife the possibilities you can't yet name and hold your impossible as possible even when you can't.

 

I taught negotiation and collaboration at Stanford for a decade. I learned interdependence solo-parenting—learning to need and receive support.

I catalyzed global impact networks and studied under Donella Meadows at the Academy for Systems Change. I learned to shift from control to creating conditions during a six-year fertility journey.

I coach visionary leaders navigating unprecedented uncertainty and studied psychological development.

I learned to hold paradox by witnessing my daughter's first breath and my father's last within two weeks—and watching Maia go from full-body sobbing to pure delight at a feather in one breath. She taught me: you don't hold paradox. You let it move you.

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What Leaders Say

 

 "I've never experienced a facilitator that can productively bring a collective together like Jeanine. She asks questions that cause a group to lean in with a common purpose and uncovers jewels of collective intelligence that were previously unspoken or unrecognized. Suddenly, bigger dreams become possible and start to unfold."


 — Jensine Larsen, Co-Founder, Unfurl Futures; Founder, World Pulse 

This is for you if...

 

You're holding a vision you know is needed—and you can feel it stretching you.

You're moving millions—in capital, revenue, policy, people—and shaping the systems that will define what's next.

You're navigating uncertainty with decisions that matter, staying true to your vision and values while maintaining velocity.

You love the impossible assignment—not just because it's hard, but because it matters. 

You want true peers who meet you at your edge—cross-sector thinkers navigating complexity, designing for systems change, who meet the gravity of this moment with fire and possibility.

You've been the responsible one, the capable one—maybe because you can, maybe because you always have. The edge now isn't doing more. It's shifting from expert to convener. Building the team you can truly lean into. Becoming the leader this moment needs—not who you've been, but who you're becoming.

The Details

Length: 12 months
 Format: Twice monthly for 90 minutes (we work with precision—what takes others 3 months, we do in 90 minutes)
 Size: Intimate, curated group
 What to bring: No prep required. The questions, opportunities, and challenges you are walking—and work them here

Everything begins with an application—we discover together if this is your room and what level of engagement serves you and your work.

 

The Circle — The Held Field [$2,500/month or $30,000/year]

Your foundation: Where genius is witnessed, complexity is metabolized, and impossible visions and constraints carve your path.

What's included:

  • 2 x 90-minute sessions monthly
  • Private Telegram channel
  • Cross-sector collective wisdom
  • Strategic discernment + vision expansion

The result: Clarity on what's needed, who you're becoming to lead it, and the collective support to make it real.

 

Enhanced Pathways (by application)

The Spring — Private Emergence

The Circle + 1 monthly 1:1 with Jeanine

Faster access to insight, development, and strategy. You work the questions in real time—with the clarity and precision that comes from 1:1 space.

 

The Flame — Catalytic Momentum

The Spring + quarterly personal retreats with Jeanine

We don't just hold the immediate questions—we hold the longer arc of your year. You set an intention and we tend it through every season. Fire. Faster. Bolder action. Your vision doesn't just expand—it becomes inevitable.

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What's Possible Here 

 

When you expand your capacity to hold the vision, delegate with trust, and convene collective wisdom—your entire team rises. When you evolve from expert to convener, your team steps into their genius. When you shift from over-functioning to precision about your role, your whole organization transforms.

The right investment in you IS an investment in the team and your results.

One founder came in feeling like her strategy meetings were off—but couldn't name why.

I asked: "What do you really want—not for the meetings, but for the year?"

Seven-figure take-home. Six weeks off and quarterly deep dives. Results and revenue. Her team rising so she could really lean into them in a new way.

She thought that combination wasn't even on the table. Six weeks off and quarterly deep dives felt indulgent.

But we walked it together for a year—through pivots, strategic decisions, and the tensions she was metabolizing. The space she claimed—to resource herself, be present with her family, and think strategically—became the catalyst for the business.

The vision she thought was impossible? Inevitable. Those six weeks and quarterly retreats didn't just shift her capacity—they created the clarity that drove her results. 

Seven figures. Strategic clarity. And a team that rose.

This is your forge — not for a moment, but for a year.

 

Where you tend the fire through every season of change, navigate uncertainty with steady counsel, and lead transformation that sustains.

 

This is where vision deepens, wisdom compounds, and the impossible becomes inevitable — one conversation, one insight, one breakthrough at a time.

 
The fire is already burning. Let's tend it. Together.
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