Strategic Leadership Consortium

Say the Real Thing

About SLC

Built by three founders who needed it first.
Now open to the leaders who need it just as much.
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Why We Exist

Growth-stage leadership carries a distinct weight. When you are steering a business in the $1M to $15M band, high-stakes decisions often happen in complete isolation.

Traditional peer groups are often built for broad networking or general business advice. They rarely offer the rigorous, unvarnished counsel that growing, closely held businesses actually require.

SLC began when our founders found themselves at critical business crossroads, navigating consequential decisions alone. When we came together to advise, challenge, and support one another, the resulting clarity and momentum changed the trajectory of our firms.

We built SLC for leaders who carry the same weight.

Our Mission

To ensure that women, founders of color, LGBTQIA+ founders, and leaders from other underrepresented backgrounds building businesses in the $1M to $15M range have access to the caliber of honest, informed peer counsel that their decisions demand and that the peer advisory landscape has not historically provided.

Our Vision

A world where leaders from underrepresented backgrounds have the freedom, the counsel, and the community to build boldly, lead fully, and realize their greatest ambitions. Fearlessly.
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Our Values

We operate with: 
 
  • An Abundance Mindset. Success expands when it's shared.
 
  • Generative Candor. Unpolished thoughts and real vulnerability are where breakthroughs start.
 
  • Lived Authority. Judgment and wisdom earned through real experience carry the circle.
 
  • Shared Stewardship. Every member protects the circle and champions the people in it.
 
  • Inherent Dignity. Every leader here is seen and respected as a full person, not just a title.

Meet Our Founders
 

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Kruti Kapadia - Founder & Chief Marketing Officer

Kruti brings nearly 20 years of Fortune 500 consulting expertise and a proprietary methodology, the Authority Amplifier, developed specifically for senior technology leaders navigating organizational complexity. She built her practice, Kapadia Coaching, after a career in change management and strategic communications, and she founded SLC because she lived the isolation SLC exists to end.
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Cindi Johnson - Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Cindi brings over 20 years of leadership development, executive coaching, and a master's in Organizational Development to SLC. Since founding Thrive Development, her work bridges brain science and executive performance and is the foundation on which the Collective Intelligence Practice was built. Cindi knows that better thinking happen when you assemble better thinkers.
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Maya Larson - Founder & Chief Technology Officer 

Maya brings over 25 years of leadership development and advisory experience across public and private sector organizations. She has built and led high-performing teams at every level of organizational complexity and as president of Colleague Consulting, she knows firsthand the costs of leading in isolation. Maya is the operational backbone behind SLC's people-focused, technology-enabled strategy.