Charles Sterling
Chief Strategy Officer United States · Global perspective
Making the choices that shape the next enterprise.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Start a conversationA point of view
Strategy should make a consequential choice clearer. I examine assumptions, alternatives and capability demands, then help the organisation connect its chosen direction with capital, ownership and a disciplined plan to learn.
Decisions in context.
Portfolio strategy
A portfolio review had become a debate about individual business plans.
Explore the work ↗Strategic options
A growth opportunity depended on assumptions the organisation had not tested.
Explore the work ↗Strategy execution
Strategic priorities were being added without changing budgets or leadership attention.
Explore the work ↗The leadership record
Trusted with consequential decisions.
In the boardroom
- Meridian ConsolidatedIndependent Director · 2022 — Present
- The Futures Policy InstituteFellow and Advisory Board Member · 2019 — Present
Recognition
- Strategy Leader of the YearCapital & Governance Quarterly · 2024
- Deal of the Year — PartnershipThe Corporate Development Awards · 2022
In conversation
- “Making the portfolio choices most boards postpone”Capital & Governance Quarterly · 2025
- “Scenarios the board can actually use”The Boardroom Review · 2024
- “Episode 115 — Strategy is a choice, not a deck”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
Turned our strategy from an annual document into a set of decisions we actually made.
An invitation
The most consequential work begins with a conversation.
For board, advisory and leadership conversations where enterprise strategy matters.
- Board appointments
- Advisory roles
- Speaking invitations
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