Clarify authority, reserved decisions, fiduciary duties, conflicts, confidentiality, independence, reporting, and stakeholder obligations.
Governance
U.S.-based · Global reach
Board Placements
Hospitality boards benefit from directors who understand how strategy reaches the floor and the P&L. Cole helps define the experience required, identify and assess candidates, and add practical operating, people, financial, risk, and growth perspective to boards or advisory groups while respecting governance responsibilities and stakeholder priorities.
What this work is designed to deliverStronger board-level challenge, oversight, and hospitality operating insight.
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Senior expertise.
Practical execution.
We clarify the board’s strategic gaps, committee needs, stakeholder expectations, and the behaviors required from an effective director. Candidate assessment examines judgment, independence, governance maturity, operating relevance, and contribution style—not résumé prestige alone—and supports a deliberate onboarding into the board’s priorities.
Our operating approachNo seagull management. We can enter at the diagnostic, planning, implementation, stabilization, or ongoing-advisory stage—and remain accountable through execution, adoption, and a sustainable handoff.
Define the board’s strategy, committee, stakeholder, independence, industry, financial, risk, people, technology, and operating capability gaps.
Develop role specifications covering fiduciary maturity, judgment, contribution style, time, conflicts, confidentiality, compensation, and term expectations.
Source and assess candidates through evidence, references, conflict checks, background review, scenario discussion, and stakeholder fit.
Coordinate governance documents, independence standards, disclosures, committee charters, regulated requirements, insurance, and counsel review.
Design onboarding across strategy, financials, sites, management, risks, culture, stakeholders, calendars, policies, and board information.
Review board and committee effectiveness, information quality, challenge, follow-through, succession, education, and renewal.
Details that protect the work
What clients cannot afford to discover too late.
Requirements vary by jurisdiction and operating model. We identify the dependencies early, assign ownership, maintain the evidence, and coordinate licensed specialists wherever professional authority is required.
Maintain a visible risk, compliance, insurance, litigation, license, audit, cyber, people, continuity, and succession agenda.
Ensure executives and boards receive reliable information, challenge assumptions, document decisions, and verify corrective action.
Coordinate legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, insurance, employment, and specialist review where professional authority is required.
When to bring us in
Before a decision.
During a transition.
When performance slips.
Build or launch
Get the structure, economics, people, systems, and controls right before opening or expansion.
Fix or stabilize
Step into an urgent gap, stop leakage, restore accountability, and protect the business.
Improve or grow
Strengthen the operating platform before scaling, transacting, refinancing, or adding leadership.
Flexible engagement
Focused project
A defined issue, deliverable, timeline, and implementation plan.
Fractional leadership
Hands-on senior ownership without adding a permanent full-time executive.
Ongoing advisory
Regular operating review, decision support, accountability, and governance.
Step in where it matters