Board & Governance
Board & Governance Appointments
Available for board membership, advisory councils, and oversight roles where clarity, ethics, and cross-disciplinary fluency are required.
Sophy Laughing brings institutional trust, global experience, and independent judgment. With a background in critical infrastructure, defense, cross-border negotiation, and regulatory oversight, she serves boards that value both practical execution and principled conduct.
Use Case: Infrastructure funds, public boards, ethics committees, cultural institutions.
Board-Level Strategic Scripts (Ghost Authorship or Facilitation)
Boards don’t need another slide deck. They need a narrative they can act on—a scenario map, a risk logic, a strategic frame to make decisions that will hold under scrutiny.
Use Case: Confidential strategic memos, scripts, or facilitated sessions designed to support board-level action under uncertainty. These are crafted quietly, and tailored specifically to the internal questions your leadership is wrestling with: political shifts, ESG exposure, operational risk, labor volatility, or regulatory pressure.
Deliverables
Executive Strategic Support
For C-suite executives (CEOs, COOs, GCs), senior operations leads, government contractors, or defense/infra leaders and organizations operating under pressure—regulatory, reputational, or geopolitical—this suite of deliverables is designed to provide senior leadership with clear, actionable insight fast. This is not a strategy workshop. It’s decision support for leaders facing uncertainty, complexity, or institutional resistance.
1. Executive Decision Brief
A 3–5 page high-level memo that frames a pending or recurring decision: options, risks, second- and third-order consequences, likely stakeholder reactions, and recommended action. This is what gets read before a $100M call. Drafted to be forwardable, quotable, and defensible.
Use Case: Fast response-tools for operators dealing with real-time uncertainty or high-stakes decision modeling for cross-border deals, post-breach remediation, federal inquiries, or complex asset transfers.
2. Internal Strategy Memo (Ghostwritten)
When a board member, COO, or general counsel needs to articulate a position—without writing it themselves. Includes interviews, synthesis of past materials, and strategic voice alignment. Often paired with decks or talking points.
Use Case: Fast response-tools for strategic voice alignment for public statements, board prep, congressional briefings, or sensitive policy positions.
3. Scenario Tabletop (Virtual or On-Site)
A facilitated 2-hour tabletop session with key leadership to walk through strategic contingencies. Includes briefing materials, red-team prompts, escalation points, and recovery plans. Used to prepare for funding gaps, regulatory escalation, project disruption, or institutional conflict.
Use Case: Fast response-tools for contingency planning for regulatory escalation, funding gaps, contract disruption, or reputational risk events.
Board & Governance Strategic Support
For institutional boards, advisory councils, ethics committees, or investment funds navigating instability—this suite is built to provide quiet, clear, high-trust support. This is not lobbying, public affairs, or external strategy. It’s governance-grounded decision guidance.
4. Board Strategy Memo
A 3–4 page confidential memo that outlines the current threat landscape: political instability, ESG exposure, labor volatility, or regulatory shifts. Frames the context, provides calibrated scenarios, and offers a position or response the board can stand behind.
Use Case: Quiet alignment before a board vote, navigating investor pressure, or crafting a defensible position for the minutes.
5. Governance Risk Pulse Report
Quarterly or situational briefing for boards and oversight committees. Synthesizes developments across legal, political, regulatory, labor, and reputational domains. Includes early warning signals, timeline risks, and key questions to surface at the next board session.
Use Case: Institutional oversight when the situation is moving too fast for internal teams to track or flag the real exposure.
5. Crisis Alignment Workshop (Virtual or On-Site)
A confidential 90-minute facilitation session to get board members aligned on how to move through a reputational or regulatory threat. No slides. Just scenario parsing, stakeholder mapping, and response triage.
Use Case: Immediate alignment when there’s board-level disagreement on how to handle a political, ESG, or legal escalation.
Note: Market values are estimates. Pricing varies based on required research depth, document sensitivity, and urgency of delivery.