Navigate Complexity. Build Influence. Lead What’s Next.
CLM Advisory partners with leaders and organizations when the stakes are high, the path forward is unclear, and judgment matters most.
The most consequential leadership challenges rarely fit neatly inside one function. They sit at the intersection of people, strategy, culture, reputation, power, and change. CLM Advisory brings the perspective of real C-suite experience to moments that cannot be solved by a playbook alone.
For Organizations
Advisory for moments that demand more than a standard answer.
CLM Advisory works with organizations navigating high-stakes complexity: aligning senior teams, steadying leadership through transition, and making the trade-offs that change actually requires.
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Executive and CEO advisory
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Organizational transformation
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Executive-team alignment and facilitation
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Leadership transitions
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Strategic planning and offsites
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Culture, trust, and stakeholder navigation
For Individuals
The Design Lab
Executive advisory for people entering increasingly consequential rooms.
Success is rarely determined by talent alone. It is shaped by judgment, relationships, access, and the ability to navigate systems that most people never learn to see.
The Design Lab draws on real C-suite experience to help ambitious leaders build the judgment, influence, discernment, and executive ecosystem their next chapter requires. The work applies inside organizations—and far beyond them.
For first-time executives, founders, senior leaders, academics, nonprofit leaders, and others whose influence is expanding faster than the playbook around them.
Five Lenses
- 01Identity
- 02Judgment
- 03Influence
- 04Discernment
- 05Power
Channing Martin
Executive Advisor · Leadership Strategist · Organizational Transformation Leader
Over the past 15 years, Channing Martin has advised executive teams, developed leaders, shaped organizational strategy, and guided complex transformation across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.
Her perspective is grounded in real executive experience: reporting to CEOs of publicly traded multinational companies, working with boards and senior leadership teams, and navigating decisions where people, business strategy, culture, reputation, and risk converge.
Channing founded CLM Advisory to make that judgment and perspective available to organizations facing consequential moments—and to ambitious individuals preparing for rooms they have not yet entered.
Experience Across Sectors and Systems
Channing’s executive, advisory, board, speaking, academic, and industry work has spanned:
- Interpublic Group (IPG)
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- U.S. Department of State
- CSG
- Georgetown University
- StockX
- Harlem Stage
- Advertising Week
- The 4As
- The Female Quotient
Let’s begin with the challenge in front of you.
If you are navigating a consequential leadership moment—or preparing for what comes next—CLM Advisory welcomes the conversation.