Executive Partner

for complex portfolios

Accelerating strategic priorities to commercial results

Senior leaders and founders accountable for complex, multi‑geography or high‑stakes portfolios bring me in when a complex portfolio, programme, or special project cannot fail. From series B to complaex global organisations.

With PMO Lead and Chief of Staff experience across 21 sectors, I have led complex, global, trust-based special projects 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

Meeting you where you are

Whether you're leading an organisation, aligning a team, or planning your next event.

Executives & Founders

You're leading through complexity and need a strategic partner who can translate vision into operational reality at pace.

Leadership Teams

Your team is talented but misaligned. You need structure, clarity, and someone who can bridge the gap between strategy and execution.

Event Organisers

You need a keynote speaker who delivers frameworks your audience can apply immediately.

Interactive tools

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Services for immediate purchase

Rhtyhm of Business cadence design
£3,500.00

For: Leadership teams who want a predictable rhythm for 80% planned strategic focus to allow for the 10% priorities shift/privot and 10% urgency for sustainabile opersations. Organisations where strategic priorities seamlessly translate to the day-to-day.

  • Strategic Focus: Leadership team agenda setting (decisions and alignment vs inform only), executive offsites, strategic planning cycles

  • Talent Management: OKRs implementation, performance reviews, succession planning, recognition programmes

  • Commercial Operations: Go-to-market stakeholder alignment, performance reporting, portfolio oversight

What You Get

  • Current-state diagnostic of how decisions, meetings, and reporting cadences flow

  • Design of a structured operating rhythm (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual cycles)

  • Alignment of strategic focus, talent management, and commercial operations into one coherent system

Timeline: Design phase: 2 to 4 weeks depending on complexity.

Investment: Custom, based on scope.

Perfect if...

  • Your leadership meetings feel like status updates instead of strategic conversations

  • Priorities shift constantly and the team struggles to maintain sustained execution at pace

  • You want to proactively plan for 80% of Business as Usual areas to be more responsive for urgent and important areas.

Outcome: A rhythm that keeps strategic priorities visible, surfaces issues before they become roadblocks, and frees your leadership team to focus on what only they can do.

Leadership Alignment at Speed in the AI age: The Board Game

If speed is the priority, alignment is non-negotiable.

A 60-90 minute facilitated in-person session including learnings where leadership teams (6-15 people) work through a facilitated board game that mirrors real leadership dynamics: the constant pull between speed and rigour, and the tension between autonomy and alignment.

As pressure increases, patterns appear. Decision paths shorten or jam, and assumptions are tested in real time.

For: Executive teams, boards, and leadership teams navigating AI-driven market change at pace.. Especially valuable during planning season, transformation, or to bring the team closer together, more in alignment.

  • Strategic Focus: What slows organisations down is misalignment in how decisions are made and how priorities are interpreted across the business. This session makes that visible, quickly.

What Leaders leave with

  • A shared, lived understanding of how alignment shifts under speed

  • Clear language for decision ownership and escalation

  • Practical adjustments leaders can act on immediately to move faster together

  • Insight into how AI reshapes friction patterns across teams

  • The final part of the session is a structured debrief. We connect what happened in the game to what is happening in the business, and agree what needs to change.

Timeline: A 90 minute facilitated session with 30 mins of pre-session preparation and a post-session written summary within 48 hours.

Perfect if...

  • Your leadership team likes learning by doing, under conditions that feel uncomfortably familiar, in the best possible way.

  • Want a fast-paced and surprisingly fun session delivered with direct but warm facilitation.

Outcome: AI is compressing timelines and increasing dependency between teams. When alignment is even slightly off, execution gets out of alignent faster than it’s anyone’s remit to fix. This session helps leaders recognise and correct that, quickly with a lasting impact.

The session is delivered globally. To request a specific date, please enquire through the contact form ahead.

Please note: travel, accommodation and materials are recharged at cost.

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.”
— Dr Robert Joslin, Founder AIPMO

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.

Szilvia Kocsy, Founder and CEO of Life Mentor Global, Strategic Alignement Partner and Keynote Speaker, with light blue background

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

Let’s Get It Done

Let’s discuss how we can work together to accelerate your organisation’s impact.