Laura Powner
THE CEO CONFIDANTE
STAY THREE MOVES AHEAD
WHO IS THIS FOR?
You have built something significant.
The exits. The milestones. The business that worked. Perhaps still works.
And somewhere in the middle of all that success, a different kind of question has started surfacing.
Not a business question. Not a strategy question.
Something quieter. More persistent.
Who am I when the company is no longer mine?
What do I do with myself now the children have left?
Why does getting here feel nothing like I thought it would?
If I'm not the CEO anymore, then who am I?
You are not falling apart. You are transitioning. And transitions at this level tend to arrive without a roadmap.
Most of the people around you either do not understand, or have too much at stake to tell you the truth.
This is for the founder, the CEO, the person who has operated at the highest level and is now standing at an inflection point they did not see coming.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
You have built something significant.
The exits. The milestones. The business that worked. Perhaps still works.
And somewhere in the middle of all that success, a different kind of question has started surfacing.
Not a business question. Not a strategy question.
Something quieter. More persistent.
Who am I when the company is no longer mine?
What do I do with myself now the children have left?
Why does getting here feel nothing like I thought it would?
If I'm not the CEO anymore, then who am I?
You are not falling apart. You are transitioning. And transitions at this level tend to arrive without a roadmap.
Most of the people around you either do not understand, or have too much at stake to tell you the truth.
This is for the founder, the CEO, the person who has operated at the highest level and is now standing at an inflection point they did not see coming.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
You have built something significant.
The exits. The milestones. The business that worked. Perhaps still works.
And somewhere in the middle of all that success, a different kind of question has started surfacing.
Not a business question. Not a strategy question.
Something quieter. More persistent.
Who am I when the company is no longer mine?
What do I do with myself now the children have left?
Why does getting here feel nothing like I thought it would?
If I'm not the CEO anymore, then who am I?
You are not falling apart. You are transitioning. And transitions at this level tend to arrive without a roadmap.
Most of the people around you either do not understand, or have too much at stake to tell you the truth.
This is for the founder, the CEO, the person who has operated at the highest level and is now standing at an inflection point they did not see coming.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
You have built something significant.
The exits. The milestones. The business that worked. Perhaps still works.
And somewhere in the middle of all that success, a different kind of question has started surfacing.
Not a business question. Not a strategy question.
Something quieter. More persistent.
Who am I when the company is no longer mine?
What do I do with myself now the children have left?
Why does getting here feel nothing like I thought it would?
If I'm not the CEO anymore, then who am I?
You are not falling apart. You are transitioning. And transitions at this level tend to arrive without a roadmap.
Most of the people around you either do not understand, or have too much at stake to tell you the truth.
This is for the founder, the CEO, the person who has operated at the highest level and is now standing at an inflection point they did not see coming.
TRUSTED BY:
Whilst I don't share testimonials from CEO/Founder clients (NDAs/anonymity guaranteed), I understand that you will be looking for some evidence of my character, values and abilities that you can trust. Here are some thoughts from people I have known, networked or collaborated with or provided services to their clients over the years.
WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING
Strategy will not fix this one.
You have spent years in the room where decisions get made. You are good at identifying the problem, building the plan, executing.
But there is a category of problem that does not respond to strategy. The patterns that have run quietly under the surface of every decision you have ever made. The beliefs that built your business and are now limiting what comes next. The identity that served you brilliantly and is now holding you in a version of yourself you have outgrown.
These are not mindset problems to be coached through. They are wiring. And wiring can be changed.
The people who understand this space well are rarely the people who also understand the inside of a boardroom, a due diligence process, or the specific pressure of being the one who cannot afford to get it wrong.
That combination is what this is.
THE CONFIDANTE
25 years. Three exits. The work that actually moves things.
I am a Chartered Accountant with 25 years of experience across businesses from startup to £300M revenue. I have guided multiple multi-million pound exits, sat inside board dynamics, and personally scaled a 40-person company by 433%.
I am a certified practitioner in advanced energy work, Clear Energy Therapy. I have spent years studying why highly capable people hit ceilings that have nothing to do with their skills or strategy, and developing precise methods to shift those patterns at the level where they actually live.
The combination matters. You are not working with someone who will hand you a framework or ask how that makes you feel. You are working with someone who can read both the numbers and what is running under them. Who understands the specific texture of decisions made at the top. Who can hold a strategy conversation and then do the deeper work that makes the strategy executable.
This is not coaching. It is not therapy. It is something more precise than either.
THE FLAGSHIP OFFER
The CEO Edit.
One private day. Just you and I. Everything changes.
What the day is
We meet at Grantley Hall, one of England's finest five-star estates in North Yorkshire. The day is entirely private and entirely yours.
The morning is diagnostic. We go through everything that is currently running: the decisions you are circling, the patterns you recognise in yourself, the version of yourself you are moving towards and what is in the way. This is part strategic audit, part something more precise. You will leave the morning knowing exactly what is actually happening and why.
We break for lunch. Michelin-starred kitchen, full service, no agenda. The integration time is part of the work.
The afternoon is the clearing. Based entirely on what surfaced in the morning, we work through the specific patterns, beliefs, and wiring that are currently running your decisions and your sense of self. This is not talk therapy. It is precise, targeted work that operates at the level where these things actually live. Most people describe the afternoon as unlike anything they have experienced before.
We close with a strategic debrief. What shifts now. What you are likely to notice over the following weeks. What to do with the space that has been created.
What you take away
Within the week following the day, you receive two or three bespoke audio sessions. These are built specifically from what surfaced on the day, using your exact language and the precise patterns we identified. They are yours to return to as the work continues to settle.
This is not a recording of a generic session. It is made for you, about you, from the day we spent together.
The practicalities
The day runs approximately ten until five, including lunch.
All sessions are conducted under a mutual NDA signed before we exchange any substantive information. Our work together is never publicly disclosed.
Investment is discussed privately and confirmed before we proceed.
For clients where ongoing work makes sense following the day, a monthly arrangement is available. This is discussed in the room, not on the website.
TRUSTED BY:
Whilst I don't share testimonials from CEO/Founder clients (NDAs/anonymity guaranteed), I understand that you will be looking for some evidence of my character, values and abilities that you can trust. Here are some thoughts from people I have known, networked or collaborated with or provided services to their clients over the years.
THE PHILOSOPHY
Stay three moves ahead.
Not of the market. Not of your competitors.
Of yourself.
The founders who navigate transitions well are not the ones who react to change when it arrives. They are the ones who saw it coming. Who understood, before the exit completed or the last child left home or the retirement date approached, what that transition was going to ask of them internally.
Most people walk straight into the wall. Not because they are not intelligent or capable. Because nobody told them that success at this level comes with its own category of internal reckoning, and that reckoning does not care how well the business performed.
Three moves ahead means understanding what is coming before it arrives. It means clearing the patterns that will otherwise run your next chapter the same way they ran the last one. It means stepping into whatever is next as the version of yourself that was always on the other side of this work.
That is what a day with me is for.
ENTRY
This is not a public room
There are no groups.
No social media posts announcing our work.
No public profile of who I am working with or what they are navigating.
If you are reading this, you were either referred here or you found your way here through content that spoke to something you recognise.
Either way, the next step is a private conversation. Before any context is shared, a mutual NDA is signed.
Trust is the currency here.
To explore fit, contact me directly.
0748 006 5427