Executive Coaching is a transformative process that helps leaders gain crystal-clear focus on their highest-impact priorities while challenging them to think beyond conventional boundaries. Through strategic questioning and deep inquiry, this coaching unlocks powerful thinking and decision-making capabilities, enabling leaders to achieve breakthrough clarity on both what they need to accomplish and why it matters. The result is a leader who operates with enhanced vision, confidence, and strategic acuity.
Leadership Advisory bridges the gap between vision and execution through hands-on thought partnership, practical solutions, and access to the right resources. Drawing from leadership development frameworks, science-backed protocols, proven best practices, and a trusted referral network of recruiting agencies and professional services firms, this advisory service equips leaders with the tactical options and strategic guidance needed to turn ambitious plans into measurable results.
While Executive Coaching transforms how leaders think and decide, Leadership Advisory ensures those elevated insights translate into concrete action and sustainable outcomes—creating a powerful synergy where clarity drives execution and execution validates clarity.
Ambitious Venture partners with CFOs and finance leaders at Fortune 1000 companies through our outcome-driven methodology. We begin by defining winning business outcomes, then optimize human performance, develop strategic leadership capabilities, and transform mindsets to deliver measurable results. We work with ambitious leaders who push beyond traditional boundaries while investing in their people’s success.
Peak performance drives business results.
Prioritizing physical, mental, and emotional well-being is essential for finance leaders to sustain peak performance under pressure. Leaders who maintain their health demonstrate greater resilience, think more strategically during critical initiatives, and model healthy leadership for their teams. By investing in foundational human performance, finance organizations create a culture where leaders thrive while maintaining the energy, focus, and emotional stability needed to drive exceptional results.
From Technical Expert to Strategic Leader.
Accounting and Finance leaders can no longer succeed on technical expertise alone – they must evolve into strategic business partners who influence decisions and drive organizational outcomes. As finance roles expand beyond traditional reporting into strategic planning, digital transformation, and cross-functional leadership, developing elevated leadership capabilities becomes critical for career advancement and business impact. Leaders who master these strategic skills position themselves as trusted advisors to the C-suite and unlock their potential to shape business strategy.
Thinking like value architects.
Finance leaders must fundamentally shift how they view their role – from managing numbers to architecting value across the organization. This transformation requires moving beyond traditional financial analysis to identify opportunities, drive innovation, and think strategically about business growth. Leaders who develop a value architect mindset become proactive contributors to organizational success, constantly seeking ways to optimize resources, unlock hidden opportunities, and create sustainable competitive advantages.
The ultimate measure of elevated finance leadership is delivering tangible business results that drive organizational success. This stage focuses on translating enhanced human performance, elevated skills, and transformed mindsets into quantifiable outcomes that impact the top and bottom line. Leaders who reach this level consistently deliver strategic initiatives on time and under budget, improve key financial metrics, and create lasting competitive advantages.
Over 15 years working alongside CFOs has given Laura deep insight into how the role has evolved beyond traditional finance to encompass strategy, technology, operations, and complex global team leadership. She understands the expanded capabilities required to drive breakthrough performance and maximize value creation in today’s demanding environment.
Laura founded Ambitious Venture to help financial executives, and their teams achieve their highest professional performance under intense pressure. Her approach develops the leadership capabilities, business partnering, and commercial acumen modern CFOs need, while also addressing the foundational elements—resilience, sustained energy, and mental clarity—that enable peak performance when stakes are highest.
Connect with Laura to explore how Ambitious Venture can support you and your team.
