About Advisory 83
The thinking behind the work.
Advisory 83 exists because consequential organizational challenges rarely respect disciplinary boundaries. Strategy, story, and system have to be designed together.
Founder & Managing Principal
Dr. Aerial Ellis
Dr. Ellis is a strategist, researcher, educator, executive coach, and entrepreneur. Her work spans executive coaching, strategic communications, organizational culture, research, entrepreneurship, and higher education.
That range is the point. Leaders rarely need another plan in isolation. They need someone who can examine the conditions surrounding a decision, help articulate why the direction matters, and design the practices that carry it into everyday work. Dr. Ellis brings the discipline of scholarship and the pragmatism of executive experience to that task — informing how Advisory 83 approaches Strategy, Storytelling and Systems.
Scholarly rigor
Applied research that tests assumptions before they become strategy.
Executive advisory
Senior-level counsel and coaching for leaders carrying consequential decisions.
Entrepreneurial perspective
A builder's sense of risk, momentum, and what it takes to move.
Strategic communications
Narratives that help people understand direction and their role in it.
Cultural intelligence
Attention to the human dynamics that shape what becomes possible.
Facilitation
Designing the room for complex conversations and real decisions.
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