Anne Sperling

Strategic Board Advisor / Industry Specialty Real Estate

Providing Strategic Board Advisory Service to Privately-Held Companies / Industry Specialty Real Estate

Anne Sperling is an accomplished business advisor of privately held and nonprofit companies. With more than 25 years of experience in the real estate, nonprofit, and technology industries, Anne has developed a deep expertise in identifying, evaluating, and mitigating organizational risks and issues as a business advisor to boards and senior management teams. She has a proven track record of leading across a broad range of responsibilities, including board governance, strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, and culture and people development.

A board can make or break a company.

I work as a board member and consultant to advise business leaders as they make the decisions necessary for growth, profitability, and success.

I work as We, a people-centered leader with over 25 years as a hands-on lead director and CEO advisor, providing strategic leadership, building cohesive teams, and creating purpose driven missions backed by cross-organizational alignment. I have over 10K hours advising both newly-created and existing boards, addressing stagnant organizations, and developing trust and cooperation within misaligned teams. I solve issues using the experience gained through years of addressing unpredictable situations that come up in day-to-day situations; experience that can’t be taught through traditional education.

Here’s how we can work together:

• Hire me on retainer and leverage my expertise as needed
• Hire me as a board director to deliver a specific project or unify a board stalemate
• If you are a CEO and board chair, hire me as your lead director to balance conflicts of interest and create a board that sought-after directors wish to serve on
• Hire me as a court-appointed provisional director when your board is deadlocked

I am deeply passionate about this work, having founded my own successful real estate start-up at the dawn of the internet, successfully using the principles that are now known as stakeholder capitalism. I advise clients who often are facing an inflection point on how to achieve the exceptional results that come with intentional leadership based upon these principles.