Leadership Advisory

We help you build competitive advantage by developing the leaders you need for today and the future – leaders capable of optimizing talent, creating high performing teams, and navigating complex leadership challenges.
Leadership Advisory Solutions
We’re living in a fast-paced world that is continuously evolving. The demands on leadership continue to shape the landscape – internal, external, local, domestic, abroad, personally and professionally and the effects are far-reaching. Today’s leaders are expected to achieve more and with less. Leaders are under constant stress and pressure to increase performance, deliver results, maintain success, and offer contributions that yield favorable rewards. The expectation to excel, while making predictions of the future, can be both rewarding and daunting for both seasoned and new leaders.
Leadership is about getting things done with and through people. It requires more than vision and strategy. The ability to deliver results requires leaders skilled in obtaining the highest and best use of talent in the quest to create and maintain high-performing teams. The needs of employees are vastly different than they were a couple of years ago. Employees are growing, evolving, and in search of companies and leaders who contribute to their personal and professional fulfillment. Leaders must be able to connect with employees on a deeper level as they seek to attract and retain top talent.
Developing leaders and building people means investing in the continuous growth, advancement and development of human capital throughout the organization. Carefully designed human capital initiatives can lead to exceptional business outcomes. Executives who recognize that highly competent, emotionally intelligent leaders are the competitive advantage to long-term business success are well ahead of the curve.
Our leadership advisory solutions are designed to help you create the future of work that spurs creativity, innovation, and loyalty. We offer solutions designed to save you time and money. Together, we create leaders capable of maximizing potential, performance, and profitability.
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Leadership Advisor Capabilities

Organizational Culture
High employee engagement and satisfaction leads to increased productivity and profitability.

Leadership Assessments
We offer a wide range of leader assessments as essential tools to evaluate leaders’ probability to succeed in expanded leadership roles.

Visioning and Strategic Planning
We use our proprietary strategic planning process to communicate your vision and craft an actionable path forward.

Team Effectiveness
Achieving superior results requires leaders with the capability to form high-performing teams to solve organizational challenges.

Leadership Development Plans
Leadership development plans are used to help grow and advance your career.

Organizational Transformation
We work with your executive leadership team to achieve organizational goals, priorities, and strategic imperatives.
Leadership Advisor Capabilities

Organizational Culture
High employee engagement and satisfaction leads to increased productivity and profitability.

Leadership Assessments
We offer a wide range of leader assessments as essential tools to evaluate leaders’ probability to succeed in expanded leadership roles.

Visioning and Strategic Planning
We use our proprietary strategic planning process to communicate your vision and craft an actionable path forward.

Team Effectiveness
Achieving superior results requires leaders with the capability to form high-performing teams to solve organizational challenges.

Leadership Development Plans
Leadership development plans are used to help grow and advance your career.

Organizational Transformation
We work with your executive leadership team to achieve organizational goals, priorities, and strategic imperatives.

“Every leadership challenge can be solved with exemplary leaders capable of optimizing and inspiring talent, navigating leadership challenges, and thinking forward.”
Dr. Sharalyn Payne


“Every leadership challenge can be solved with exemplary leaders capable of optimizing and inspiring talent, navigating leadership challenges, and thinking forward.”
Dr. Sharalyn Payne

Organizational Culture

High employee engagement and satisfaction leads to increased productivity and profitability. We partner with you to create a culture that engages and retains top talent. Together, we can create a healthy culture that supports your company’s continued growth and evolution. We leverage surveys, data, and best practices to align culture with your organization’s business strategy. As your organizational health partner, we can help you create a listening, high-performance culture of creativity and innovation – a place where your employees are willing to share their ideas and contribute their best.

Leadership Assessments

Leadership assessments are powerful instruments that can help leaders assess the potential, performance, and capabilities of existing, emerging, and incoming people managers. We offer a wide range of leader assessments as essential tools to evaluate leaders’ probability to succeed in expanded leadership roles. Psychometric instruments provide you with insights to determine leaders’ effectiveness in moving the needle on performance. Our assessment tools are designed to uncover strengths, opportunities, drivers, barriers, derailers, opportunities, and fit. We use the insights gleaned from the leadership assessments to create targeted leadership development plans for growth and sustained performance.

Visioning and Strategic Planning

Expanding into new markets, growing by acquisition, increasing market share, or even leading social causes require vision and strategic planning. Moving from where you are to where you desire to be is attainable with a vivid vision, a strategy, and a carefully orchestrated strategic plan. We use our proprietary strategic planning process to communicate your vision and craft an actionable path forward. Our proprietary strategic planning processes delivers a powerful and inspiring message in a simplistic manner for ease of execution, speed of implementation, and measurement of business objectives.

Team Effectiveness

Achieving superior results requires leaders with the capability to form high-performing teams to solve organizational challenges. We help leaders examine the composition of a diverse team well beyond who is on the team. We help leaders assess the required capabilities of team members needed to achieve mission-critical business priorities, while analyzing teams for gaps and redundancies in skills needed for successful execution. We provide leaders with a review of individual team members strengths, gaps in areas of expertise, fresh ideas, and customer viewpoints. We help leaders create alignment on key focus areas, team dynamics, and the establishment of project management offices to execute strategy.

Leadership Development Plans

Exemplary leaders intentionally develop themselves as well as others. Leadership development plans are used to help grow and advance your career. We co-create a leadership development plan to help you identify the specific behaviors, roles, and experiences needed to reach your career goals and reach your full potential. SMP International’s Leadership Development Plans differ in that we increase your self-awareness, enhance your emotional intelligence, identify professional development programs, expand your network, and blend competencies with soft skills.

Organizational Transformation

We work with your executive leadership team to achieve organizational goals, priorities, and strategic imperatives. Efforts include addressing overdue business challenges such as digital transformation, creating an agile environment, achieving operational excellence, and aligning culture and leadership to support the successful execution of business goals. By focusing transformation on your employee experience which includes people, processes, and technology, we position your company to move from where it is currently to where you want it to be.
Our process involves assessing how your people engage with each other. We look at how leaders and employees communicate, how work gets done, and the efficiencies needed for execution. Our learnings are the guideposts to shape an employee experience that supports the customer experience.
Whether it’s restructuring your teams, leading value creation initiatives, creating an employee value proposition, reshaping the organization’s mission, vision, or values, we will work with you to create a path forward that speaks to your business needs.

Leader Assimilation

We help your new leaders successfully integrate into the organization so they can achieve results faster. Whether it’s integrating an external hire into the organization or onboarding an internal hire that has been promoted to lead a new team or function, our new leader assimilation approach prepares leaders for the first 100 critical days in role. We partner with leaders to learn the business, its customers, stakeholders, influencers, and the culture of the organization to mitigate risk. We conduct a deep dive into the idiosyncrasies of internal and external team members as well as the spoken and unspoken expectations that could derail performance.
We leverage executive coaching, 360 assessments, and organizational knowledge to build trust, demonstrate competency, and avoid pitfalls.
Together, we craft key messages and co-create actionable plans to accelerate progression towards deliverables as your leaders navigate new realities needed to be effective and impactful in role.

Executive Leadership Coaching

As a leader, it’s your responsibility to deliver business results through people. Our holistic executive leadership coaching is designed to move leaders from who they are now to who they need to become to realize professional goals and reach personal aspirations.
As experienced executive leadership coaches, we use tools, strategies, and resources to unlock a deeper level of self-awareness. We use data analytics to enhance your problem-solving capabilities and improve decision quality so that you can make better decisions faster. We illuminate strengths, highlight derailers, and address gaps so leaders can shift paradigms and elevate performance.
All information shared in closed door sessions are protected allowing us to coach for maximum impact.

Leadership Development Programs

Develop responsible and competent leaders who reflect organizational values, promote and reward desired behaviors, and drive for results. Our leadership development program equips leaders with the tools to inspire talent to achieve operational goals, manage human performance, improve decision quality, and navigate the complexities of an everchanging workplace and world. Leadership development programs range from emerging leaders to senior leaders within your enterprise

Trusted Advisor

Leaders are often faced with making decisions that can enhance their career or lead to failure as well as reputational risk. As your trusted advisor, our consultants are here to help you talk through your decisions and ides in a safe environment. We’ll ask questions that can assist you in reaching your goals, executing your priorities, and achieving your aspirations.
We can mitigate risk by prepping for important meetings with your colleagues, board members, and external stakeholders ensuring your messaging lands and resonates with the intended audience. We can explore possible solutions so that you are well equipped to shape, sell, and execute your agenda. Having the ability to run through if/then scenarios so that you arrive at the best conclusion given the information presented can be the secret to your success ensuring that you garner a reputation as a strong exemplary leader that can be trusted time and time again.
We’d love to be your thought partner. We’re ready to challenge your ideas, provoke your thinking, and work with you to strengthen your decision-making.

What Clients Are Saying


Amy W.
“Sharalyn is like our organization’s secret weapon. She is a transformative leader and consultant- purposeful in her intent, fact-specific and pushing our executives to always look for workable solutions. She is value-driven and helps us to develop and execute strategies that champion others. She is a sharp-shooter that thinks big and adapts quickly. Sharalyn is outcome focused and a strong communicator. She has creative ideas and diverse approaches to tackling challenges, which is needed and appreciated. In the midst of challenging sessions, Sharalyn can quickly pivot the conversation, moving the group to productively work through differences for the benefit of all. Sharalyn is a fresh thinker and visionary. Her observations and feedback address past and current organizational needs while eliciting new capabilities. Sharalyn always seems to be looking at the path forward. She has modeled how we can push back appropriately, close gaps and produce results.”