Claudia Beck

About Claudia Beck

Strategic Advisor to CEOs & Senior Leaders | Enterprise Transformation | Decision Quality & Executive Alignment | Former SVP Tory Burch, VP Burberry | ICF MCCI advise senior executives and leadership teams operating in complex environments where decisions carry strategic, financial, and reputational consequence.Before founding my advisory practice, I held senior operating roles in multinational enterprises, both public and private, including Burberry, Tory Burch, and Gap Inc, with earlier leadership experience at PwC and in commercial banking. I carried revenue accountability, led global teams, and worked where strategy, power, and personality collide inside real organizations.I have worked across the United States, United Kingdom, China, Japan, and Austria. Those experiences shaped my perspective on leadership under cultural complexity and executive power dynamics. I have seen how quickly clarity erodes under pressure and how easily executive teams fracture when trust thins.Today, I work at the intersection of executive judgment, relational dynamics, and decision-making under pressure.In many engagements, the work begins with disciplined conversation around decisions that carry strategic, financial, or reputational consequence.Senior leaders engage me when:• The weight of responsibility becomes isolating• Alignment inside the executive team begins to crack• A role expands faster than internal confidence• A decision carries material financial, reputational, or organizational risk• They need a confidential space to think clearly before acting decisivelySince 2019, I have delivered more than one-to-one executive sessions and designed focused interventions for leaders navigating transformation, restructuring, succession, and enterprise change.My work integrates operating experience with applied psychology and disciplined behavioral insight. I pay close attention to how leaders think, choose, relate, and act, especially when pressure exposes patterns that can either strengthen or quietly undermine leadership effectiveness.I am an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC).I work with senior executives in global enterprises who value discretion, clarity, and disciplined counsel when the path forward is not obvious and the stakes are real.

Experience

1. Founder Principal Advisor

   Better Together Group Llc

   Jan 2019 — Present · Santa Monica, CA, US

   Better Together Group is a confidential executive advisory practice led by Claudia Beck, MCC.I advise senior executives and executive teams on the leadership conditions that determine whether enterprise strategy succeeds or quietly fails.Strategy rarely breaks on paper.It breaks in the room.In the board conversation that requires principled pushback.In the executive meeting where alignment is performative.In the decision that carries financial, reputational, or political consequence.I work with a limited number of C-suite and senior leaders during periods of material pressure:• Enterprise transformation• Restructuring and margin compression• Executive transition and succession• Significant role expansion• Sustained operating intensityAdvisory FocusConfidential Executive CounselPrivate thinking space for leaders carrying disproportionate responsibility.Executive AlignmentIntervention when senior team misalignment slows execution or erodes trust.Decision DisciplineClarifying decision rights, restoring accountability, and accelerating execution velocity.Since 2019, I have delivered more than one-to-one executive sessions across North America, Europe, and Asia, advising Fortune 500 and growth-stage organizations navigating complexity and change.My perspective is grounded in 30 years of global operating experience across Tory Burch, Burberry, Gap Inc, PwC, and commercial banking.I advise from lived accountability, not theory.Based in Los Angeles. Working globally.

Education

• BHAK Bundeshandelsakademie

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, General

• Economic Institute Vienna

  Certified Public Accountant, Accounting and Business/Management