For CEOs & Founders

Clarity when the stakes are real.

Strategic advisory, executive mentoring, and interim leadership -
built for founders navigating growth, pressure, and messy tradeoffs.

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How I Help CEOs

You don’t need motivation. You need leverage.
Here are three ways we create it.

Leadership Trusted Partner

A sharp second brain,
for high-stakes calls.

Board-level perspective, decision support, and leadership judgment - without the politics, fluff, or “consultant theater.”

Use cases
  • Strategic hiring for senior roles (role clarity, evaluation, red flags)
  • Product / org reset when momentum stalls
  • Founder decision support under uncertainty

Interim Leadership

Continuity when leadership gaps weigh.

Step-in leadership during absence, transition, crisis, or a critical initiative - to keep execution sharp, and teams calibarted.

Use cases
  • CTO/VP/Director absence: continuity + clear handover
  • Driving strategic initiatives (offshore scale, restructuring, rescue missions)
  • Change management with real ownership (not slideware)
How it works →

Leadership Power Boost

Hands-on coaching that touches the real work.

Upgrade leadership capability across the org - by working inside the day-to-day. Decision-making, influence, accountability, and team leverage.

Use cases
  • Mid-level managers becoming real leaders (judgment + ownership)
  • High-potentials preparing for bigger scope
  • Leadership performance gaps (alignment, communication, execution)
My hands-on approach →
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What This Is Not

This is not “leadership inspiration.” It’s leadership pressure-testing.

No theater

We don’t “align stakeholders.” We clarify the call and ship the decision.

No generic models

We use principles - then adapt them to your reality and constraints.

No dependency

The goal is stronger leadership in-house, not permanent external crutches.

No buzzwords

If we can’t say it clearly, it’s usually not real.

About Oren

I work with CEOs and founders when judgment, direction, and execution matter more than consensus - and when the cost of a wrong call is real.

  • Two decades in tech leadership - including scale, pressure, and failure modes
  • Seen leadership from founder chaos to corporate inertia - and how each breaks
  • Built and led global teams where alignment had to work without proximity
  • Operates at the intersection of strategy, org design, and execution
  • Founder, Disruptive Leaders Journal - focused on leadership judgment
  • Founder, The Israeli Executive Forum
  • Writing: leadership articles
  • Book: The Age of Leadership
LinkedIn Writing Book
Oren Yakobi

My Approach

Simple principles. Aggressively practiced.

Lean Mindset

Maximize impact. Eliminate waste.

Entrepreneurial Approach

Transparency, ownership, and real accountability. No theater.

Excellence Native-

Better decisions beat more activity.

Zero Micromanagement

Ownership through radical delegation - without losing control.

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