How Senior Leaders Build Their Board of Directors Before They Need It
Executive Careers with Fexingo: VP, C-Suite, and Senior Leadership Career Strategy · 2026-06-22 · 10 min
Episode notes
Episode 68 of Executive Careers with Fexingo: VP, C-Suite, and Senior Leadership Career Strategy. Lucas and Luna explore how senior leaders proactively assemble a personal board of directors—a small group of trusted advisors who provide counsel, accountability, and introductions long before a crisis or job search. They walk through a real example: a former Fortune 500 CFO who built a board of five people over two years, including a retired CEO, a venture partner, a headhunter, a peer CFO, and a leadership coach. The episode covers how to identify the five archetypes every senior leader needs, how to approach potential board members without making it awkward, and how to keep the board active with quarterly check-ins. Lucas shares a specific framework from his reporting—the 'one ask per quarter' rule—and Luna challenges whether this works for introverts. The hosts also touch on the economics of listener support: buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo keeps the show ad-free. No fluff, just actionable career strategy for senior leaders who want to stop navigating the executive track alone.