A deal. A board seat. A senior hire. Or your own next role.
A dedicated team, supported by AI, to build the relationships and follow through on the work behind your next move.
Explore the eight outcomes
Choose a priority for your business or for your own career. The people and the approach follow.
Identify where your relationships can help a priority account move forward. StepUp prepares the stakeholder context and next steps alongside your account team. You lead the conversation that needs your involvement.
Explore deal winsTell us what you want to achieve. We agree a plan and put a team to work.
Map who you know, who is missing and what each person cares about.
Use your experience, ideas and evidence to give those people a reason to talk.
Follow up, track commitments and bring the next decision back to you.
Understand their world. Find a relevant way in, contribute and earn a welcome. Build trust before making a pitch.
Understand their needs and timing. Contribute, learn and shape a proposition together.
Choose the priority, add your context, approve the approach and lead the important conversations.
Coordinate access, timing and permissions. Keep the work aligned with your mandate.
Your StepUp.One Client Partner coordinates the relationship plan, research, useful material and follow-through.
Your judgement shapes the next move.
Business priorities and personal career plans have separate permissions and records.
Executive relationships
“the most important stakeholders for our business.”
Network growth reported by Ryan.
Review the relationships in place, the people still missing and the support you need. Start with the outcome you chose.
A useful starting conversation
For executives
What we do for you
Tell us what you want to achieve. We agree a plan and put a team to work.
Map who you know, who is missing and what each person cares about.
Use your experience, ideas and evidence to give those people a reason to talk.
Follow up on conversations, track commitments and bring the next decision back to you.
Supported by AI. Checked by people. You approve the approach and lead the important conversations.
Your next move
Choose a priority for your business or for your own career.
For your business
Reach the customer sponsors and decision-makers who can move it forward.
Explore deal supportReach prospective leaders and trusted referrers alongside your hiring team.
Explore senior hiringFind the sponsors and people who would deliver the work.
Explore partnership supportResearch relevant investors or acquirers alongside your advisers.
Explore capital and exitsFor your next step
Find boards where your experience fits and reach the chairs and sponsors involved.
Explore board opportunitiesBuild confidential relationships with owners, chairs and search advisers.
Explore your next roleFind relevant events and prepare proposals for their organisers.
Explore speaking opportunitiesFind advisory, board and leadership opportunities that fit your commitments.
Explore a portfolio careerTwo relationship engines
Some of the people who can help are already in your network. Others are not.
We find the relationships that matter to your priority, understand their current needs and help turn shared interests into agreed next steps.
Turn existing relationships into outcomesWe find the gaps in your network, identify the people who could help and build a relevant approach. Then we follow through as each relationship develops.
Build new relationshipsWorking alongside your office
Business priorities and personal career plans have separate permissions and records.
Executive client experience
Dr. Ryan O’Sullivan
Executive relationships
Ryan reports growing from around 1,000 to 16,000+ LinkedIn connections over more than seven years of support.
“These 15k people are not just anyone but the most important stakeholders for our business.”
Connection growth reported by Ryan. These figures describe his network, not revenue or completed deals.
View Ryan’s LinkedIn profileThe work included network development, thought leadership and content from Ryan’s talks and events.
Watch Ryan describe the first three yearsThis earlier video describes the first three years of the relationship.
Your next move
Bring one priority to a 30-minute conversation about where you stand and the support you need.
We’ll discuss:
You or your chief of staff can join.
Discuss one priorityChoose a time that works for you.
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