Executive Advisory & Coaching

Strategic Support
for Leaders Driving
Customer-Led Change.

Steve Towers works directly with CEOs, CX leaders, and transformation directors to align executive teams, accelerate programmes, and build the leadership capability that sustains Outside-In results.

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33+ years active practice  ·  500+ organisations  ·  140+ countries

Who This Is For

Senior Leaders With
Accountability for Change

CEOs & Managing Directors

Aligning the organisation around customer outcomes and building the executive infrastructure to sustain it.

CX & Customer Leaders

Moving from measurement and reporting into strategic influence, governance, and commercial impact.

Transformation Directors

Designing programmes that deliver the Triple Crown — revenue growth, cost reduction, and service improvement simultaneously.

Business Unit Leaders

Applying Outside-In thinking to a specific division, product, or market without waiting for organisation-wide change.

Advisory Focus Areas

Five Areas Where
Steve Adds Value

Each engagement is structured around your organisation's specific context, challenges, and leadership dynamics — not a fixed curriculum.

01

CX Strategy & Positioning

Define a customer strategy that connects to commercial outcomes and gives the board a reason to invest beyond NPS improvement.

02

Transformation Alignment

Align multiple workstreams, sponsors, and delivery teams behind a shared Outside-In direction — before momentum is lost.

03

Leadership Coaching

One-to-one support for senior leaders navigating CX accountability, board influence, or the transition from functional to enterprise-wide leadership.

04

Customer-Led Operating Model

Redesign governance, metrics, and team structures to sustain customer outcomes — not just measure them after the fact.

05

Executive Team Development

Build shared understanding, common language, and collective accountability for CX across a senior leadership group.

Engagement Models

Four Ways
to Work Together

One-to-One Advisory

Typically monthly

Structured support for a single senior leader — strategy, decision-making, stakeholder navigation, and personal effectiveness.

Executive Team Sessions

2–4 hours

Facilitated working sessions for a leadership group — alignment, prioritisation, or challenge resolution on a specific agenda.

Strategic Workshops

Half-day or full day

Applied methodology sessions that produce tangible outputs — strategy documents, roadmaps, governance structures, or operating principles.

Retained Advisory

Quarterly or ongoing

Ongoing access to Steve as a strategic sounding board — for organisations in active transformation or sustained CX maturity programmes.

Outcomes

What Advisory
Delivers

Practical, measurable shifts in direction, alignment, and commercial performance — not inspiration without follow-through.

Clearer strategic direction for CX and transformation programmes

Faster executive alignment on priorities, investments, and trade-offs

Stronger customer outcomes connected to measurable business improvement

A practical governance structure that sustains momentum beyond Year One

Confident leadership language for CX at board and investor level

A methodology your team can continue to apply independently

Trusted By

Leaders Who
Demand Results

“We had really fantastic sessions — not only did we walk away with the deliverables we needed, but people had a lot of fun, too. They were the most valuable and enjoyable sessions I have attended.”

Sharon Laemie NayaHead of Commercial Change Strategy, TD Bank

“Thank you for being an amazing mentor, guru and inspiration. You truly have a way of bringing all principles back into the workplace.”

Nancy MoodleyHead of Customer Experience, Nissan Africa

Advisory and programme clients include

HSBCAmerican ExpressVodafoneTD BankFNBEYCitiNissanMultichoiceKellogg School of ManagementSaudi Aramco

Next Step

Start With a
Conversation

Most advisory engagements begin with a 20-minute exploratory call. Share your situation and Steve's team will suggest the most relevant format.