Executive Partner
for founders &
leaders of complex portfolios
Accelerating strategic priorities to commercial results
Hi, I am Szilvia, Founder and an AI-forward Global Fractional Chief of Staff.
Founders and Senior leaders from fast-growing founder-led businesses to multi‑billion‑pound global B2B operations bring me in when complex problems are too high-stakes to leave them to chance.
I accelerate strategic priorities into commercial results. That means:
↳ People & AI: leadership team alignment and AI workflow with upskilling,
↳ Building: First 100 Days Leadership Team Playbook, Centre of Excellence, PMOs
↳ Structuring: creating operational rhythm, decision frameworks and structure to strategic priorities that have outgrown ways of operating.
↳ Priorities & special projets: setting priorities, speeding up slow-moving strategic programmes, leading transformations
I do this with PMO Lead and Chief of Staff experience across 21 sectors, including transformation, AI adoption, regulatory introduction, incident response, recognition, Centres of Excellence, and go-to-market alignment.
“Szilvia will break through walls to get the work done, with super high integrity” Joshua Graff, former LinkedIn EMEA & LATAM Managing Director & VP, LMS Global ESG
TRUSTED BY LEADERS
Who This Is For: Founders, Senior Leaders and Operators
Meeting you where you are
Whether you're leading an organisation, aligning a team, or planning your next event and you're leading through complexity in the AI-accelerated market.
People & AI
A 60-minute working session and a one-page priority sheet for founders. Founders at £1m to £15m who need a senior second opinion on strategic priorites.
What You Get
A 60-minute working session where we map your biggest concerns against where the business is now and where it needs to be by the end of the quarter. Funding, hiring, AI, board pressure, talent risk, whatever is on the list. We sort signal from noise.
A one-page priority sheet within 24 hours: priorities to act on this quarter, what to park and what to start doing for longer term outcome.
Timeline: 60-minute session. Priority sheet within 24 hours.
Investment: £500.
Perfect if...
Too many things feel urgent.
Important priorities are not moving at a pace you’d like them to.
You are about to make a decision that will shape the next 12 months and want a sharper read before you make it.
You are losing sleep over funding, hiring, or AI or a priority that is top of mind and want to stop spinning.
Outcome: Clarity on next steps with actionable insights.
A 90-minute diagnostic and a written Founder/Leader Profile for founders building or restructuring their leadership team.
For: Founders and Leaders at £1m to £10m who are still the person making most of the decisions and need clarity on the leader they have become before they hire the team that will scale them or for the existing leaderhip team members, each.
What you get
A 90-minute working session where we map your decision-making defaults, leadership style under pressure, and the specific gap between the operator you are now and the one the next stage of the business requires.
A written Founder/Leader Profile within 48 hours covering style, strengths, blind spots, and three priorities for the next 90 days. The profile becomes the brief you give to anyone you hire into your leadership team from this point forward.
Timeline: 90-minute session. Founder/Leader Profile within 48 hours.
Investment: £1,200
Perfect if...
You are the only one making the decisions and you can feel the moment coming when that has to change.
You are about to hire your leadership team/new members and want them to complement you.
Outcome: The team you hire next will work to the profile you have, and it’s intentionally shaped.
A 60-minute working session that gives your leadership team the confidence to apply AI in their workflow and understand their value against AI. Drawn from being an AI advocate since 2013.
For: CEOs and leadership teams of established businesses who know AI is reshaping their operating model and want to make the first real leadership decision about it together.
What You Get
60-minute facilitated session with your full leadership team, structured around job descriptions and workflows.
Pre-session briefing note so the team arrives with the same context
Timeline: 60-minute session. Delivered in-person.
Investment: £2,500 fixed fee. Add-ons available for follow-up sessions, multi-team delivery, or a written operating framework.
Perfect if...
Different members of the leadership team have different views and experiences about AI
You want to lead adoption AI
Outcome: Your leadership team walks out aligned understanding where to apply AI, with practical and immediately applicable tips that outlast the session.
A 2 to 4 week design engagement that produces a structured operating rhythm for your leadership team.
For: Leadership teams who want a predictable rhythm that holds 80% of business as usual on autopilot, leaves 10% capacity for priority shifts, and protects 10% for the urgent and important work only the leadership team can solve.
What you get
A current-state diagnostic of how decisions, meetings, and reporting cadences flow across the leadership team today.
A structured operating rhythm covering weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles. The rhythm aligns strategic focus (leadership agenda setting, executive offsites, planning cycles), talent management (OKRs, performance reviews, succession, recognition), and commercial operations (go-to-market alignment, performance reporting, portfolio oversight) inside one coherent system.
Timeline: 2 to 4 weeks design phase, depending on complexity.
Investment: £3,500.
Perfect if...
Your leadership meetings feel like status updates instead of strategic conversations.
Priorities shift constantly and the team works harder to maintain the same level of forward motion.
You want to plan proactively for 80% of business as usual so you have capacity for the urgent and important.
Outcome: A rhythm the team can rely on is the cheapest way to give a leadership team back the time they need to think.
Rhythm of the Business, Playbooks & PMO
A two-week build that produces a tailored hiring and onboarding playbook for your upcoming roles.
For: Founders at £3m to £20m who are hiring fast and want the next wave of hires to be the ones that scale the business.
What you get
A two-week build where we codify what good looks like for your upcoming hires: role scoping, interview design, decision criteria, first-30-60-90-day onboarding structure, and the cultural signals you want every new joiner to receive in their first week.
A written Hiring & Onboarding Playbook tailored to your business, ready to use the day it lands.
A 30-minute walkthrough session at the end so you and your hiring leads know how to operate it.
Timeline: Two-week build. 30-minute walkthrough on completion.
Investment: £3,300
Perfect if...
You are hiring fast and you suspect you are getting some of it wrong.
You want a structure that scales with you so the next hire is not built from scratch every time.
You want the culture to survive the next 10 hires rather than get diluted by them.
Outcome: The hires you make in the next six months will outlast the founder you are today.
Full visibility with decision-supporting reporting across every strategic initiative, with governance that enables speed.
For: Organisations running multiple concurrent initiatives that need structured oversight without bureaucracy.
What You Get
Standardised portfolio management, including governance framework and structure, roles and responsibilities mapping, progress tracking and reporting cadence
Executive decision-making process design
Regular portfolio health reviews with actionable insights, including risk and dependency management
Timeline: Initial framework delivered in 4 to 12 weeks depending on organisation size and complexity. Ongoing advisory available.
Investment: Fixed project fee for framework design. Retainer for ongoing advisory and roll-out.
Perfect if...
You are running several initiatives but lack a single, clear view of what is on track
Decision-making, accountability, transparency, decision-supporting reporting and clear roles & responsibilities alongside speed are important to you.
Outcome: Your leadership team has full visibility across all strategic initiatives, with a governance rhythm that drives accountability and consistently faster, smarter decisions.
Alignment:First 100 Days Playbook to New Leadership Teams, Diagnostic & Leadership Board Game
The operating system your leadership team needs in its first 90 days.
I work with the team to design how they will make decisions, run meetings, handle disagreement, and build the trust that lets them move at pace.
For: Executives and founders who have recently built a leadership team, and leadership teams under 18 months old who were gathered as the business grew and are now shaping the habits that will hold for years.
What You Get
Operating framework tailored to your team covering decision rights, meeting structure and team member preferences.
A virtual or in-person team session to build the playbook, and a Day 30 and Day 60 follow-up to review how it is landing.
30 days of async support between sessions for questions as the habits take hold
Written playbook the team keeps and uses as their reference.
Timeline: 90 days end to end. Upfront session in week one, follow-up sessions at Day 30 and Day 60.
Investment: £3,500. Add-ons available for larger teams or additional review sessions.
Perfect if...
Your leadership team was gathered as the business grew rather than designed together
Team members have not yet learned each other's decision styles
Meetings run long and produce status updates rather than decisions
Outcome: A leadership team that knows how it decides, how it meets, and how it handles friction. The first 90 days set the operating habits that will hold as the business scales, and the team has a shared reference for how they work together.
A two-week diagnostic that produces decision-ready, GTM-ready recommendations for leadership teams where execution has slowed and the cause is structural.
For: Organisations where teams are delivering individually but outcomes feel fragmented. Common during growth phases, post-merger integration, and leadership transitions.
What you get
A two-week diagnostic sprint with strategic stakeholder interviews across the leadership team and the functions they depend on. Mapping of requirements, opportunities, and hidden bottlenecks. Identification of where decisions have stalled and the structural reasons they stalled.
A written report within 5 business days of interviews completing, structured as what / so what / now what.
A leadership team presentation where every recommendation is assigned an owner, a timeline, and a decision route before the meeting closes.
Timeline: 2-week diagnostic sprint. Recommendations within 5 business days of interviews completing.
Investment: First engagement £5,000 fixed-scope. Subsequent work scoped and priced based on findings.
Perfect if...
You suspect misalignment is costing you speed but cannot pinpoint exactly where.
Town halls, offsites, and workshops have not created lasting change.
You want decision-ready recommendations in two weeks, not a three-month consulting engagement.
Outcome: Two weeks. Decision-ready recommendations.
A 90-minute facilitated session for leadership teams of 5 to 15 who have worked together long enough to test where they break under speed.
For: Executive teams, boards, and leadership teams navigating AI-driven market change at pace. Particularly valuable during planning season, transformation, or moments when the team needs to align fast.
Why it is relevant now: AI is compressing timelines and increasing dependency between functions. LinkedIn's Work Change report puts the rate of skill change at 70% by 2030. Leadership teams are absorbing more cross-functional dependency than the operating cadence they inherited was built to hold.
What you get
A 90-minute facilitated session using a board game that mirrors real leadership dynamics: the constant pull between speed and rigour, the tension between autonomy and alignment. As decision paths shorten or jam under time pressure, the team sees in real time how priorities are interpreted across the business, by whom, and where the translation breaks.
A structured debrief that connects what happened on the board to what is happening in the business.
A shared, lived understanding of how alignment shifts under speed. Clear language for decision ownership and escalation. Practical adjustments the team can act on the same week. A written summary within 48 hours.
Timeline: 90-minute facilitated session in person. 30 minutes of pre-session preparation. Written summary within 48 hours. Delivered globally.
Investment: £8,000. Travel, accommodation, and materials recharged at cost.
Perfect if...
Your leadership team likes learning by doing under conditions that feel uncomfortably familiar.
You want a fast-paced, surprisingly fun session delivered with direct but warm facilitation.
Your team has worked together long enough to know each other and is ready to test where they break under speed.
Outcome: The team that has felt the alignment break in a room together will name it faster the next time it happens for real.
Bespoke Strategic & Confidential services
Chief of Staff Partnership & Special projects
Your strategic right hand, without the permanent headcount.
I embed alongside your leadership team to co-create strategy, coordinate execution, and deliver the critical projects that move your organisation forward. At pace.
For: CEOs, founders, and senior leaders who need someone who has already done this at scale to bridge the gap between vision and execution.
What You Get
Rhythm of the Business with cross-functional alignment and stakeholder management
Decision-making- and governance rigour for accelerated results
Strategic projects ownership
Timeline: Minimum 3-month engagement. Typically 6 to 12 months for full impact.
Investment: Custom, based on scope and days per week.
Perfect if...
You are scaling fast and your leadership team is stretched beyond capacity
Strategic priorities keep slipping due to lack of ownership for one person to become the connective tissue between teams
The complexity goes beyond EA’s scope and need a senior leader to hold it all together.
Outcome: Your strategic priorities move measurably fast with clear ownership, aligned teams, and an operational rhythm that outlasts the engagement.
Transformation
Turning organisational change from disruption into competitive advantage.
From digital transformation to operational restructuring, I provide the strategic backbone and people-centred approach that keeps your transformation on track and your teams connected.
For: Executives leading significant organisational change who need someone who has done this with experience across 21 sectors and understands that transformation happens through people, not just to them.
What You Get
Transformation strategy and execution planning with stakeholder alignment and communication frameworks
Governance structure and decision-making cadence including risk identification and proactive mitigation
People-centred change management with regular executive reporting
Timeline: Typically 6 to 12 months, depending on complexity. Ususally starts with a 2-week diagnostic.
Investment: Custom, based on scope.
Perfect if...
Your transformation feels way more stressful and less organised than it could be
You need a partner who has led transformation at scale and keeps people at the centre
Outcome: Your transformation delivers on its promise: teams that finish strong instead of exhausted, and results that match your original ambition.
Centre of Excellence
Build repeatable, high-quality execution across teams.
For: Organisations where quality and consistency vary across teams, and institutional knowledge lives in people's heads rather than in systems.
What You Get
Centre of excellence strategy and design with best practice frameworks and playbooks
Knowledge management and sharing systems
Training and upskilling roadmap with milestones
Timeline: Design phase: 4 to 6 weeks. Build and implementation: 3 to 6 months.
Investment: Custom, based on scope.
Perfect if...
Quality and consistency vary significantly across teams
Critical knowledge walks out the door when people leave
You want to raise the bar for everyone, not just your top performers
Outcome: A self-sustaining capability hub that raises execution quality across your organisation and retains critical knowledge as your team evolves.
Your Path
How We Work Together
Book a Discovery Call
As short conversation to understand your situation and whether we’re a fit. No obligation.
15 minutes. Free.
Let’s Get It Done
Whether it's a diagnostic sprint, embedded execution, or a keynote, I deliver commercially focused results at pace.
Tailored engagement.
|Keynote speaking & workshops
Where executive strategy, operational clarity, people focus and AI meet real-world application.
Talk Topics
The largest upskilling of our lifetime is happening now. Are you ready to lead it?
Smooth sailing in turbulent waters
The sigh of relief: simplify complexity at pace
The art of stakeholder alignment
Perception vs delivery excellence
Global strategy, local impact
Recent Engagements
Gus Germany GmbH Annual Event, Berlin, December 2025: Keynote on Leadership for 100+ CEOs
Chief of Staff Connect, London, November 2025
LinkedIn Community LearnIn, London, June 2025
AIPMO PMO Masterclass, Royal Automobile Club, London, June 2025
Chief of Staff Connect, New York, October 2024
““Her delivery strikes a rare balance: inspiring without being abstract, warm without losing authority, and pragmatic enough to translate directly into action.””
About Szilvia Kocsy
Chief of Staff with 20 years of solving complex problems in 21 industries from series A start-up to complex multi-billion dollar global operations. AI since 2013.
Why this matters now
The market is shifting faster than most organisations can respond.
Even small misalignment between teams and operations creates outsized opportunity cost. The organisations that act now will define what comes next.
70%
of workplace skills will change by 2030 because of AI
LinkedIn Work Change Report 2025
14%
of the workforce currently use generative AI daily
PwC Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2025
56%
of CEOs report zero measureable returns from AI investment
PwC 29th CEO Survey 2026
15 Years at PwC
4 Years Chief of Staff at LinkedIn
21 Sectors Experience
AI Advocacy Since 2013