Offering 

Are you ready to own your expertise, mine your experience, & hone the expression of who you are as a leader, team, and business?

RELATED ExPERIENCE (Rx) is a full-service global culture & leadership strategy consultancy with a focus on founders & families. 

We have offered (since 2017) transformative:

  • Executive Leadership Assessment, Alignment, & Coaching (for individuals & teams)

  • Leadership Development Program Design & Facilitation (including Train-the-Trainer)

  • Culture Strategy Consulting (including Organizational Assessment & Observation)

Each Rx client has access to our 3rd Thing with Annie Perrin Consulting — a just-in-time leadership library of micro learnings for outsized impact, brimming with uncommon wisdom delivered in evidence-based cognitive, experiential, and social/peer learning formats.

Examples of workshops and/or interactive keynotes we regularly deliver include:

Enneagram for Leaders | Feedback in the Workplace | Become A Feedback Expert | Setting & Honoring Healthy Boundaries | Leading in Complexity | Establishing Psychological Safety, Being an Active Ally | Constructive DEI Conversations | Personal Brand for Leaders | Practicing Allyship at Work | Speaking Up in Moments That Matter | Leading Across Generations | Leadership Immersion Offsite | Leading Innovation | Thinking Like a VC | Managing & Renewing Human Energy | Team Leader University | Executive Presence, Voice, & Storytelling |Mission, Vision, & Values| Leading with Wisdom and Compassion (offered in partnership with Annie Perrin Consulting)

Approach

We approach client organizations as microcosms of society — and macrocosms of their leaders. We help you to manage pressures from within and without so as to restore and maintain sustainable, healthy functioning. (Think: homeostasis in a cell.)

We work with the awareness that humans default under stress to reactive versions of ourselves. (As a test: are you currently leading at your best? Is your business, today, living up to the valorous aspiration encoded in its name?) With intention, we can be deeply resourceful and wildly creative.

We believe that we can change how leaders look (who we attract and retain, who we tap to lead in uncertain times, which behaviors and mindsets we reinforce) by expanding how leaders see. We increase inclusive representation in every client engagement by activating and strengthening a:

  • Core Layer, honing conviction through a highly personal Inner Lens, unlocking Ownership in our organizations

  • Relational Layer, honing connection through a compassionate Other Lens, unlocking Relationship (+ allyship) in our organizations

  • Developmental Layer, honing clarity through a temporal Long Lens, unlocking Mentorship (teaching + learning) in our organizations

  • Professional Layer, honing competence through a leaderly Micro Lens, unlocking Sponsorship in our organizations

  • Transcendent Layer, honing a greater contribution to our eco-systems through a wide Macro Lens, unlocking Stewardship at large

Clients

We have improved performance alongside relational leadership across:

  • the world’s premier professional services firms (e.g., Bain, McKinsey & Company, PwC)

  • Fortune 100 multinational corporations (e.g., DuPont, MassMutual, Merck, Microsoft, Shell)

  • high-growth technology start-ups & market leaders (e.g., Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Stripe)

  • higher education (e.g., Columbia University Business School, The New School, School for International Futures)

  • the public & philanthropic sector (e.g., The Barack Obama Foundation, Ford Foundation, World Health Organization Foundation)

  • iconic founder-led & multi-generational family-owned businesses under pressure (e.g., internal conflict, external disruption, etc.)

Leadership

Dana Bilsky Asher, PhD is a seasoned executive leadership and team coach with deep roots in organizational performance, and a track record of improving quality of life at work. She works with CEO/founders and co-founders of high-growth start-ups, as well as other C-suite executives, presidents, boards of directors, under-represented talent, and rising leaders. Across industries – with spikes in Health Care, Professional Services, and Technology – Dana’s work builds capacity for learning and growth on an individual and institutional level.

Professional History
Dana partnered with The Obama Foundation as senior leadership advisor on a values-based global leadership framework, and led a global community of practice scaling a resilience curriculum for the partnership of PWC. She is regularly called upon to train a global community of facilitators in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Leadership at Microsoft. As Faculty at Columbia Business School Executive Education and The Google School for Leaders, and as Managing Director at Mobius Executive Leadership and The Energy Project, Dana has helped leaders to perform sustainably while leading transformationally. As Practice Manager in Capability for Performance at McKinsey & Company, where she worked for six years, she delivered measurable impact at scale, and contributed thousands of hours of client learning. 

Education & Training
Prior to an executive coaching and organizational consulting certification from The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research (IPTAR), a component society of the International Psychoanalytic Association, in Socio-Analysis (the unconscious dynamics of groups), and two years of Tavistock-method participant (infant) observation with a supervisor affiliated with the New York Freudian Society, Dana was awarded a PhD with distinction from Northwestern University, in the Humanities. Her thought leadership has appeared in Fast Company, the blog Inner Workings, and the Substack Close Leaders, and cited in multiple print volumes. Her book in progress is titled Lead the Nest: The Playbook for Leading Well and Doing Good.

Since founding RELATED ExPERIENCE, Dana has led client-serving teams that help leaders to meet rising demand and increased complexity, restoring capacity to thrive under conditions of systemic stress. We excel at helping leaders to adapt interpersonal and communications skills to evolving expectations of an intergenerational, multicultural workforce. 

TEAM

Client-serving teams of credentialed global practitioners include valued partners. Representative profiles below. Team curated to your engagement.