The Power Seat: How to turn your board and executive team into your most powerful allies
The Power Seat: How to turn your board and executive team into your most powerful allies
You are the CEO. You sit in the most powerful seat in the company.
And yet most of your time goes to two things that feel like the opposite of power.
Upward, you are managing the board. Preparing decks, fielding requests, reassuring people who should be your partners but feel more like your supervisors.
Downward, you are in the weeds with your executive team. Stepping into problems they should be solving. Making decisions they should be making. Fighting fires you thought you had left behind two roles ago.
The result? You are working harder than ever. But you are not leading. Not really. Not the way you know you could.
Here is what most CEOs already know: the quality of your board relationship and the strength of your executive team shape everything else. What they often miss is why those relationships stay stuck, and what it actually takes to shift them.
In this 45-minute session, you will learn what it takes to:
Create a powerful relationship with your board so you are not micromanaged or constantly having to reassure
Elevate the performance of your executive team without doing the work for them or cleaning house
Become the influential CEO you aspire to be in this chapter of your work, and feel that you are making a real difference
There is a third relationship that quietly shapes the other two. We will get to that on the call.
If you are ready to stop managing and start leading from the most powerful seat in the company, these 45 minutes will show you how to unleash the real power you have in it.
Places are limited to ensure the quality of the conversation.
About the host:
Andrea Petrone CEO Coach | Speaker | Author | The CEO Whisperer
Andrea works with mid-tenure CEOs who know the real weight of the role. Through his private CEO community WCL21 and one-to-one coaching, he helps leaders shift from operational to truly influential. Over 200,000 leaders follow his work on LinkedIn.
His book, Reinvention at the Top: The Playbook for CEOs to Lead Under Pressure, is published by Wiley on 22 October 2026. His podcast, The World-Class Leaders Show, features conversations with global executives about what nobody else tells you about leading at the top.