Fractional Chief of Staff for women leaders

Transform your company without losing yourself.

You are scaling something that matters. I become the strategic right hand you have been missing: clearing your mind, structuring your decisions and putting AI to work, so your company grows and you stay whole.

Women founders & executives · post-seed to scale-up
France · Denmark · UK
In English & French
Sound familiar?

You built something remarkable. Now it is running you.

Between 10 and 150 people, everything changes. The instincts that got you here are no longer enough, and everything still lands on your desk.

  • Every decision, big or small, waits for you.
  • Your calendar belongs to everyone except you.
  • You know AI could give you hours back, but who has time to figure it out?
  • Your team needs structure, and you need someone to think with.
  • Growth is happening, and it is costing you your energy.

You do not need another consultant with a slide deck. You need a partner at your side.

The Velvet Method

Three kinds of intelligence, rarely found in one person.

Most advisors give you strategy, or mindset, or tools. The Velvet Atelier brings all three into one seamless partnership.

i.

Strategic Intelligence

Decades at the highest levels of power, where pressure, politics and precision are daily realities. I bring the judgment, discretion and operating rhythm of the most demanding offices to your company.

ii.

Nervous System Wisdom

Sustainable leadership starts inside. We reduce your cognitive load, protect your energy and help you lead from calm power rather than constant urgency. Not theory: lived experience.

iii.

AI as Strategic Leverage

AI used as a thinking partner and a force multiplier, not a gadget. We build the workflows, prompts and systems that let you and your team decide faster and execute with ease.

Two ways to work together

Start with clarity. Continue with momentum.

Every engagement is tailored, discreet and designed around one outcome: a company that runs well and a leader who feels like herself again.

One-day intensive

The Clarity Sprint

One focused day to untangle what matters most and leave with a plan you believe in.

  • Pre-sprint diagnostic of your priorities, team and bottlenecks
  • A full day of strategic work, one to one
  • Clear decisions on your next 90 days
  • Your first AI workflows, set up and ready to use
  • A written action roadmap and a follow-up session
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Monthly partnership

Fractional Chief of Staff

A senior strategic right hand, embedded in your company, without the full-time hire.

  • Weekly strategy sessions and executive thinking partnership
  • Leadership rhythm: priorities, meetings, rituals and reporting
  • Board, investor and key stakeholder preparation
  • AI systems built into how you and your team operate
  • Direct access between sessions when it counts
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Behind the Atelier

"I have seen power up close. I know what it gives, and what it quietly takes."

The Velvet Atelier was built by someone who has spent nearly three decades at the side of those who lead at the very top: heads of government, ministers and international executives.

I have held together agendas where every minute mattered, navigated crises in rooms where nothing could be left to chance, and learned to turn complexity into calm, clear action.

I have also learned, first-hand, the price high performance can extract when no one protects the person carrying it. The Velvet Atelier is the partner I wish every woman at the top had: sharp, discreet, fiercely loyal to her ambition, and just as protective of her wellbeing.

Excellence, without the cost.

Is this for you?

Designed for women who lead, build and refuse to shrink.

This is for you if

  • You are a founder or executive of a post-seed startup or scale-up of 10 to 150 people
  • You are growing fast and feel you have become the bottleneck
  • You want a senior partner, not a junior assistant
  • You are curious about AI and want it to work for you, concretely
  • You refuse to choose between success and your wellbeing

This is not for you if

  • You are looking for a purely administrative assistant
  • You want a generic AI training course
  • You are not ready to change the way you work
How it begins

Three simple steps.

01

Discovery call

A 30-minute conversation to understand where you are, where you want to go, and whether we are the right fit.

02

Clarity Sprint

One intensive day to set your direction, make the decisions you have been postponing and launch your first systems.

03

Partnership

If it feels right, we continue month after month, turning clarity into lasting momentum.

Your next chapter

Your company deserves your best thinking. So do you.

Places are intentionally limited so that every client receives full attention. Book a confidential discovery call to explore what we could build together.

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Confidential · In English or French · No commitment