Your challenges are coming faster than ever.

  • Your competitive landscape is shifting more rapidly than you can plan.
  • There’s more pressure for clear & unified communications. 
  • Pivotal decisions will shape your organization & reputation.
  • The AI revolution is reshaping roles & expectations.

Extending Your Business Leadership

Leadership

Strategy

Communications

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Leadership Services

Experienced leadership and decision-making support matters—especially when you’re navigating critical shifts, making strategic pivots, facing high-stakes choices, accelerating growth, leading organizational transformation, or planning leadership transitions.

At these pivotal moments, smart and agile executives make all the difference. Crosscurrent Strategies will be your candid and trusted partner for leadership support.

Executive Coaching

Executives are often isolated as they confront growth, major transitions, pivotal decisions, and the challenges of rising visibility. They need an experienced peer who understands their world–to help them tackle their biggest challenges and opportunities.

My candid and confidential coaching helps executives turn insights into action—by honing their leadership approach, building decision confidence in complex environments, and communicating with clarity and impact.

As an Advanced Certified Executive Coach (ICF Level 2/ACTP), I draw on decades of leadership and senior consulting experience across the business, government, and nonprofit sectors. I help leaders tackle their thorniest challenges with insight, savvy and a bias for action.

Problem-Solving

Leaders often face complex, high-stakes choices where data is incomplete, stakeholders disagree, and the cost of getting it wrong is high.

I provide confidential counsel as a thought partner—helping you frame the right questions, weigh tradeoffs, anticipate reactions, and communicate decisions in ways that bring your organization with you.

My real-time decision support services include confidential executive counsel for CEOs and boards, rapid-response decision rooms during crises, facilitated planning exercises, scenario planning that stress-tests strategies, and “pre-mortem” sessions that help teams spot blind spots before decisions are locked in.  

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Strategy Services

The landscape is shifting faster than traditional planning cycles can track. You need a partner who can help you understand and anticipate emerging forces—technological, political, competitive, and regulatory—before disruption becomes a threat or opportunity passes you by.

Emerging Trends and Challenges

Strategic advantage comes from understanding the deeper currents reshaping your environment—and separating noisy distractions from emerging forces that will remake your sector in the next 3-5 years.

I provide assessments of your sector’s landscape that integrate policy and regulation, technological disruption, competitive dynamics, demographic and workforce shifts, and funding and talent trends.

My experience tracking and navigating emerging forces across the business, government, nonprofit, and technology sectors has helped my clients and organizations succeed—by leading market change instead of perpetually catching up.

Strategic Planning

When organizations face high-stake choices—restructuring, aggressive growth, leadership transitions, or significant competitive shifts—the path forward is rarely obvious.

I partner with leadership teams through strategy refreshes and multi‑year planning, facilitating decision‑making, scenario planning, and pre‑mortem exercises that surface blind spots and clarify tradeoffs.

In crises and inflection points, I run focused “decision rooms” that help teams align quickly and act with discipline.

As a board chair, senior federal executive, nonprofit leader and consultant, I’ve guided organizations through strategic planning processes that produce clear choices, focused plans, and deeper organizational clarity.

AI Adoption

AI is reshaping work across every sector, but algorithms are only half the challenge.

I work with expert partners like People-AI-HR to help you cut through the hype and navigate the leadership and human factors required to successfully adopt AI—and capture first-mover advantage rather than playing catch-up.

I help executives understand their role in leading AI transitions, prepare their teams for change, and build employee-AI partnerships that strengthen execution and drive competitive advantage.  

My leadership work on AI spans businesses, government, and nonprofits, so I can help you focus on what matters most to your organization rather than getting lost in the hype and noise.

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Communication Services

Fumbling in public, failing to build market influence, or mishandling a crisis can damage reputations and squander business opportunities.

Executives need senior partners who understand the craft of communications and the changing media landscape that determines whether–and how–your message lands with stakeholders, investors, customers, and the market.

  • As Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman at the U.S. Department of Justice, I shaped public messaging and navigated high-profile crises at the highest level.
  • As a consultant, I’ve helped business leaders, national organizations, and government agencies tell their story and build their influence.

I bring sophisticated communications strategy and real-world crisis experience to the products needed to stand out and stay ahead.

Speechwriting & Ghostwriting

I draft speeches, op-eds, and written remarks that help executives stand out, reflect your authentic voice, advance your business strategy, and position you as a thought leader in your field.

Whether you’re addressing your board, a national conference, industry peers, or the media, I craft remarks that are sharp, strategic, and unmistakably yours.

Media Training & Presentation Coaching

I provide media training and presentation coaching for high-stakes moments—helping you build confidence and communicate with clarity and impact under pressure.

Through realistic practice, feedback, and strategic counsel, I help leaders deliver their message and avoid pitfalls at media interviews, investor pitches, board presentations, earnings calls, and public speaking when it matters most.

Commentary & Publications

I help organizations and leaders get noticed by building thought leadership with op-eds, articles, reports, and commentary that heighten market visibility and shape the conversation on the issues that matter to stakeholders, investors, and customers.

Campaigns & Message Development

I develop integrated message strategies and campaigns that cut through competing noise, clarify what matters most, and move your target audience to understand and act.

Whether you’re launching a new initiative, responding to a market challenge, entering a new market, or repositioning your brand, I help your team build message strategies that resonate and stick.

Reputation & Crisis Management

When crisis hits or reputation is at stake, I help leadership teams move quickly—clarifying what happened, deciding what to say, preparing for tough questions, and protecting shareholder value and market trust.

I provide rapid-response counsel during crises and reputation challenges—helping you navigate the immediate moment, align your team, and protect your credibility.

How We Work with You

Whether we’re partners on strategic projects or in an ongoing advisory relationship, our goal is to extend your leadership capacity and judgment—so you can navigate complexity, seize opportunities, and drive sustainable, long-term growth.

Advising a busy leader, supporting a team in crystallizing its strategy, building the visibility you need—we’re here to help. We love working with executives and teams to confront their toughest challenges.

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Let’s discuss your next move.

Schedule a conversation with founder Bert Brandenburg to discuss your toughest challenges, and how a peer executive could help.