Scaling B2B, SaaS, and enterprise technology companies through revenue growth, business transformation, and strategic execution.

Leilani partners with CEOs, boards, and VC/PE firms to align teams, strengthen governance, and unlock enterprise value.

C-Suite Executive | NACD Certified Board Director | Strategic Advisor to CEOs, Investors & Founders

Leilani Latimer Executive Leader

“Leilani’s ability to process a large amount of information and contribute to an organizational goal is only outweighed by her compassion and concern for others. She's a proactive professional, team member and leader, who achieves positive results in a very thoughtful, yet determined manner.”

~ Board Colleague

About Leilani Latimer

Leilani is a strategic C-suite executive, board director, and advisor known for bringing clarity to complexity and aligning bold strategy with practical execution. She partners with CEOs, founders, boards, venture capital, and private equity firms to strengthen growth, improve performance, and guide organizations through critical inflection points.

She brings a founder’s mindset and operator’s discipline to building teams, shaping strategy, and turning ideas into measurable outcomes. Her global leadership experience spans public, PE-backed, venture-funded, and for-purpose organizations, with a consistent track record of delivering results through innovation, collaboration, and sustainable value creation.

Learn more about how I lead here

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Strategic Advisory

Strategic advisory for CEOs, founders, investors, and leadership teams building the strategic and operational foundation for sustainable growth. Focus areas include revenue acceleration, business model evolution, go-to-market strategy, leadership alignment, organizational transformation, and enterprise value creation.

Speaking & Thought Leadership

Keynote speaker and panelist for conferences, executive offsites, and board events. Topics include AI governance, sustainable growth, ESG, women in leadership, digital transformation, and leading through change. Designs and facilitates innovative panels, workshops, and leadership dialogues that shape perspective, spark alignment, and advance forward-thinking conversations.

Let’s Work Together!

Board Governance

Proven board service for public, private, PE-backed, and venture-backed companies. Oversight includes emerging technology and AI governance, cybersecurity, ESG/sustainability, succession planning, strategy and growth, M&A, and enterprise risk.

See my full Board Profile here

Operating Leadership

Proven C-suite and interim operating leadership for companies navigating growth, transformation, and critical inflection points. Experienced in stabilizing leadership, accelerating execution, and leading mission-critical initiatives across go-to-market strategy, operating model modernization, and enterprise value creation.

Thought Leadership


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5 Steps Boards Can Take to be ESG-Ready

ESG continues to gain importance in corporate strategy.

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Women on Boards: Better for the Environment

Boards with More Women Have Better Sustainability Performance.

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Be the Diversity you Seek: 5 Steps you can take

Ways you can bring diversity into marketing and more

Data, Process, and Culture:

A Practical AI Blueprint for CEOs

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The Importance of Diversity in Leadership

Don't Know What's Wrong with Your Company? Look at the Leadership.

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Are you Greenwashing Your DEI Programs?

In 2007, issues around sustainability were heating up

Business Transformation


Journey to Equity: Taking the Road Less Traveled

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Why Systems Thinking Matters

You have an amazing idea and you are ready to change the world!

Life on Demand: How Change Comes with Control

Incredible change happens in your life

 Trust, Culture & Community

When I published my Leadership Manifesto at the beginning of this year.

Business Transformation and Scaling for Growth

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Value, Expectations and Customer Experience

Expectations around insights – your customers want value and they want more


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2016 - In Italian