Private Advisory for Owner-Led Companies
Bowen Banbury helps founders and CEOs of companies with $500,000 to $20 million in revenue make better decisions, challenge their thinking, and gain the confidence of having a trusted advisor in the room before every consequential decision.
The Problem
Owners usually have people around them. What they often lack is a confidential board of seasoned peers and a strategic advisor willing to challenge the thinking behind the plan.
How the Advisory Board Works
The Secret Weapon Executive Advisory Board System combines private counsel, disciplined planning, and a confidential CEO council.
Lay out the goals, risks, decisions, and problems that cannot be solved by generic advice. Leave with a clearer picture of what is true and what matters next.
Turn the discussion into a simple set of moves for the next 90 days. No giant binder. No jargon. Just a plan that fits the business and the life behind it.
Bring consequential decisions to experienced peers who understand payroll, growth, pricing, people, and cash, and who will tell you what they actually see.
Why It Works
Pressure-test the hard call in a confidential room and leave with a clearer view of the move, the risk, and the next constraint.
Replace scattered problem-solving with a regular cadence for strategic thinking, commitments, and accountable follow-through.
Stop relying on employees, friends, or vendors to provide the independent perspective only other owners and experienced advisors can give.
Imagine This
This is what leadership can feel like when trusted perspective and a disciplined advisory rhythm are already in place.
Big decisions are no longer a lonely guessing game. There is a trusted room ready to help think them through.
There is a clear strategic plan instead of 20 half-finished ideas competing for attention.
Real issues get tackled on a reliable cadence instead of being pushed to "later."
Blind spots get called out early with honesty, before they become expensive problems.
The team feels the shift: less chaos, fewer emergency meetings, and more focused action.
Nights and weekends feel lighter because the hardest "what if" questions have somewhere productive to go.
Meet the Partners
Bowen and Lana bring complementary operator, legal, boardroom, and strategic experience to every advisory relationship.
Meet Bowen
Bowen's experience spans business ownership, acquired businesses, board work, turnarounds, strategic planning, international business, and capital markets.
Meet Lana
Lana brings more than 30 years advising business owners, boards, C-suite executives, and nonprofit leaders across business law, transactions, employment matters, and growth.
Bowen's Story
For years, Bowen kept hearing the same quiet line from founders and leaders: "I know I'm supposed to have it all together, but honestly, it feels pretty lonely up here."
On paper, things looked great. Good revenue. Big goals. Busy calendar. Behind the scenes there was second-guessing, pressure, and almost no one they could talk to about the real decisions.
Secret Weapon brings executive advisory, strategic planning, and a private advisory board into one system, so no owner has to white-knuckle every consequential decision alone.
Membership Options
Select the level of strategic support that matches the decisions, complexity, and access your company needs.
For owners who want peer-board accountability and better decision-making.
Best for: Owners who want experienced peer perspective behind consequential decisions.
Board membership plus regular one-to-one strategic advisory with Bowen.
Best for: Owners who want board perspective plus dedicated private counsel.
High-touch, ongoing involvement in major decisions, strategy, and execution.
Best for: Owners who want an advisor involved before every major decision.
This is for founders, owners, and senior leaders who feel lonely at the top and want a real sounding board. If big decisions live mostly in your head and you wish you had sharp, honest people to think with you, this is built for you.
The system is designed for busy leaders. Focused private advisory, clear strategic planning, and regular advisory board meetings are built to save time otherwise lost to stress, second-guessing, and backtracking.
This is a confidential executive relationship, not a broad networking program. You get deep strategic counsel, structured planning, and an advisory board prepared to challenge the thinking behind the plan.
You answer three short fit questions. Owners at or above $500,000 in annual revenue who can approve outside advisory support proceed directly to Bowen's booking calendar.
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Whether you're navigating rapid growth, hiring executives, buying a business, or making the biggest decision of your career, you should not have to do it alone.
Apply for Membership and discover what changes when every major decision is backed by trusted perspective, honest accountability, and experienced strategic advice.
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