A senior executive coach is a relationship measured in quarters. SynthBoard is a structured panel measured in minutes — for the calls too small for the coaching hour and too large for your inbox.
CEO, CFO, strategist, empath, and skeptic — the room your coach would assemble if they could clone the executives you wish you knew.
Walk into your board meeting, your difficult one-on-one, or your investor update with the analysis already pressure-tested by five perspectives.
The promotion, the firing, the strategic reorganisation. Get the steel-man counter-argument before you commit.
Real questions. Multiple expert perspectives. Every time.
“Should I promote my VP of Sales into the COO role or hire externally?”
“How do I have the performance conversation with my co-founder without burning the relationship?”
“What is the steel-man case against the restructuring I am about to announce?”
“Am I avoiding the conversation about my own succession?”
“How would a top-tier CEO coach reframe the way I am thinking about this exit?”
Each expert thinks independently — they won’t just agree with each other.
The CEO
Holds the through-line on company strategy and stakeholder trade-offs.
The Empath
Reads the emotional, cultural, and team dynamics behind the decision.
The Strategist
Maps competitive dynamics and strategic options across multi-year horizons.
The Skeptic
Questions every premise. Finds blind spots others miss.
The Investor
Thinks like a board, an LP, and a downstream acquirer at once.
A synthesized recommendation from your team of experts — not just opinions, but structured analysis.
Strong Agreement
Key Recommendations
Synthesized Recommendation
Hire externally for COO. Promote your VP of Sales to a new "Chief Revenue & Customer Officer" role that recognises their contribution without overstretching them into ops they have not run.
Full analysis continues with detailed reasoning, trade-offs, and next steps...
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Expert Opinions
“Your coach is the one person who is allowed to interrupt your story. SynthBoard is the room where you check the story first.”
Coaches meet monthly or quarterly. SynthBoard is there for the question that arrives between sessions.
Your coach holds your perspective. SynthBoard holds the CEO, CFO, strategist, skeptic, and investor lenses in parallel.
SynthBoard is free to start. Senior executive coaches charge $500-$2000 per hour, with monthly retainers from $5k-$25k.
Every session ends with a written synthesis you can bring to your coach, your board, or your own reflection.
The questions people ask before they sign up.
No. An executive coach builds a multi-quarter relationship, holds you to commitments across years, reads the patterns you cannot see in yourself, and witnesses your growth in real time. SynthBoard cannot do any of that. It is the room you walk into between coaching hours.
When the question is tactical and time-sensitive. When you need adversarial structured input rather than reflective questioning. When the call does not warrant burning a coaching hour. Most senior leaders use SynthBoard for the daily strategic calls and reserve the coach for the meta-patterns.
When the work is on you, not on the decision. When you need to be witnessed in a leadership identity shift. When the pattern is years-old and only a human relationship can name it. When accountability and continuity matter more than a sharp single answer. Coaching and SynthBoard are different instruments.
SynthBoard is free to start with paid tiers from low double-digit dollars per month. Senior executive coaches charge $500-$2000 per hour, with monthly retainers commonly $5k-$25k. The two are complements, not substitutes.
No relationship continuity beyond what you tell it, no accountability outside the session, no observation of your leadership in the room, no reading of who you are becoming, no emotional witnessing. SynthBoard is a structured thinking room, not a developmental relationship.
Yes, and many leaders do exactly that. Share the consensus score, the watch-outs, and your reaction to the synthesis. The coaching hour becomes a higher-leverage conversation about the patterns underneath the decision, not a walk-through of the surface analysis.
Adjacent decisions, audiences, and methods inside SynthBoard.
The general business-coaching comparison.
ExploreFor CEOs without (or between) board meetings.
ExploreWhy a panel beats a personal-AI conversation for decisions.
ExploreCalls a senior leader would workshop with their coach.
ExploreThe full comparison hub.
ExploreThe product manifesto.
ExploreConvene 24 expert Synths to debate it across rounds. Free to start. No card.