With Shadow Leaders, your growth journey goes much faster with help from your dedicated Gatekeeper, our founder Stefan van Eerde. This primary advisor delivers a seamless, experience-led journey, expertly tailored to transform your strategic challenges into definitive growth opportunities. Your Gatekeeper connects you with our exclusive collective of Shadow Leaders – a network of seasoned entrepreneurs, former C-suite executives, investors and global specialists with vast international experience in legal, AI and business growth. This ensures a truly bespoke strategic business advisory service, designed to unlock the full potential of your enterprise and leadership.
We offer four services:
The Shadow Leaders Advisor service provides a private collective of top-tier, experienced entrepreneurs and venture specialist, exclusively curated by your Gatekeeper. They can be hands-off (advisor) or hands-on (interim) depending on the hours you want them to be involved. For instance during leadership change, maternity leave or for project management. Sometimes you do not need an advisor but someone who roles up their sleeves and gets the work done. Because you lack the manpower to do it. Strategically, yet practically.
CEOs of larger SMB companies who cannot afford to wait and stagnate, and Founders of scale-ups seeking accelerated growth relying on advisors and mentors.
Achieve faster, more sustainable business expansion.
Gain honest, unbiased, and highly practical advice.
Direct access to proven insights for better decisions.
A fractional leader to join your ranks for a limited amount of time.
Challenge assumptions and refine your strategy. Work on what actually works.
Receive candid, actionable insights from former CEOs and founders.
Practical guidance for execution. Or interim leaders stepping into action.
Elevate your personal and team leadership capabilities.
Hands-on workshops and training on how to use automation, AI and more for faster growth.
Minimum of 6 hours per week (27 hours per month) of having an advisor by your side.
Flexible 6-12 month engagements.
6-month commitment:
12-month commitment:
Björn Larsson, serial entrepreneur and investor from Sweden, created this process based on his own experience as a founder in raising several rounds of funding and enriched his experience with years of training and data he collected throughout the past decades. He is also an investor so understand both angles.
You are a founder who knows what (s)he is doing, but do you know if you are ready for a series A or series B?
Go through the Investor Readiness Process and you find answers on the questions you have and the questions investors will ask.
Get clarity on your financial and business outcomes and goals and how you can work toward an exit, where everyone wins.
A certified IRP instructor will guide you through the process to make sure you do not miss anything and are truly ready when the time is right.
An objective way to understand if you are ready for investment or perhaps you are better of without investors? The IRP will show you.
Talk to a certified IRP instructor to share your ideas and challenges and see if you are ready for this process.
Meet your instructor weekly and stay accountable. Do your ‘homework’ in between meetings via the system.
Get a clear overview of the Risks, the Value your company brings, the Sales optimization cycle and how much funding you need per round.
At the end of the process you get a shareable report and access to a large group of investors.
Get clarity on how your exit and your company valuation will compound over time and also how the investors’ exits will look like. Know your equity dillusion and your growth trajectory.
Spend approx. 2 to 4 hours of your time to have meetings with the instructor and fill in your data in the system.
6 week process of meetings and data entry to give you (and investors) the clarity you need.
6 week process:
Our Shadow Leaders Non-Executive Director (NED) service provides strategic, boardroom-level sparring and C-level advisory from our most experienced former CEOs, CMOs, and Sales Directors.
Exclusively designed for CORPORATE C-Level executives seeking to enhance their strategic impact and decision-making.
Master essential meetings with enterprise clients, investors, or co-founders.
Ensure successful meeting outcomes and strategic alignment.
Gain invaluable insights for top-tier corporate governance.
Approx. 2-8 hours/week dedicated to your needs.
Flexible 6-12 month engagements.
(for a 6-month minimum commitment)
