Strategic perspective.
A clear direction forward.
Strategic advisory for founders and leadership teams navigating what comes next—aligning market opportunity, business priorities, and the people who bring them to life.
18+
years of experience
$15B+
in portfolio value
45+
projects led & advised
real estate, hospitality
& lifestyle businesses
A clear path from
vision to execution
Advisory Studio by HANA. partners with founders, operators, and executive teams to shape compelling offerings and strengthen business performance. Each engagement is tailored to the client’s priorities, connecting market insight, customer experience, and commercial strategy with practical execution.
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“Something isn’t working, and I need to understand why.”
When performance falls short, the cause isn’t always where it first appears. Using an assessment framework developed through years of advising entrepreneurs, corporate teams, and family offices, I examine how your market positioning, commercial activities, and internal operations work together—and where they may be working against you.
Each assessment is tailored to your priorities, with a focus on:
Brand Positioning & Market Relevance
Evaluate your offering, audience, competitive differentiation, and messaging to determine whether customers understand your value and have a compelling reason to choose you.Marketing & Sales Performance
Review campaigns, channel investment, sales funnels, and CRM practices to identify where demand, follow-up, and conversion are falling short of commercial objectives.Customer Experience & Engagement
Examine the journey from initial interest through purchase, identifying friction and gaps between your brand promise and the experience you deliver.Operations & Cross-Functional Alignment
Assess workflows, systems, responsibilities, and reporting to uncover bottlenecks, gaps in accountability, and coordination issues that limit team effectiveness.
Findings are synthesized into practical, prioritized recommendations—clarifying what to retain, what to improve, and where to focus resources first.
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“We know where we want to go. How do we get there?”
A new venture, expansion, or business transition brings decisions about where to invest, what to build, and how to prepare. I work with leadership to test the opportunity, weigh the trade-offs, and develop a practical strategy grounded in market demand and the business’s capacity to deliver.
Each engagement is tailored to the decisions ahead, with a focus on:
Discovery & Market Research
Examine market conditions, competitive dynamics, and customer needs to test assumptions and establish a sound basis for strategic decisions.Opportunity Evaluation & Commercial Priorities
Evaluate potential directions, revenue opportunities, and resource requirements to determine where the business is best positioned to advance.Product, Service & Customer Experience Planning
Define priorities for the offering, service programming, and customer experience—connecting what customers value with what the business can deliver.Operational Readiness & Strategic Roadmaps
Identify the systems, workflows, team capabilities, and partners required to support the strategy. Establish responsibilities, dependencies, and milestones to guide the work ahead.
The result is a clear strategic roadmap—defining the decisions, resources, and sequence of actions needed to move forward.
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“How do we position this and bring it to market?”
A compelling offering needs a clear place in the market—and a deliberate plan for reaching the right customers. Whether introducing something new or repositioning an existing brand, I connect customer insight, competitive differentiation, and commercial objectives to establish how the offering is understood, valued, and brought to market.
Each engagement is tailored to your offering and market context, with a focus on:
Audience & Competitive Positioning
Identify priority audiences, their motivations, and the alternatives they consider. Define a distinct market position grounded in what customers value and what your business can credibly deliver.Value Proposition & Brand Narrative
Articulate why the offering matters and what sets it apart. Develop compelling narrative and messaging that resonate with your audience’s motivations, communicate value, and give marketing and sales a consistent story to tell.Creative Direction & Brand Expression
Translate positioning into clear creative briefs and direction for brand identity, visual storytelling, and marketing assets. Collaborate with internal teams and creative partners to bring the narrative to life—ensuring that language, imagery, and design work together to create a distinctive and cohesive brand experience.Go-to-Market & Launch Planning
Establish channel priorities, strategic partnerships, budgets, and launch timing. Coordinate marketing and sales plans around how customers discover, evaluate, and choose the offering.
The work establishes a distinct market position and an actionable go-to-market plan—giving creative, marketing, and sales teams a shared foundation for launch or repositioning.
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“We have a direction, but how do we turn it into a plan we can act on?”
Moving from broad direction to coordinated action requires clear priorities, defined responsibilities, and a shared understanding of what success looks like. My role is to bring that structure across leadership, marketing, sales, and delivery teams—providing strategic oversight, resolving gaps in coordination, and establishing accountability as teams carry the work forward.
Each engagement is tailored to the level of support required, with a focus on:
Execution Planning & Priorities
Translate the existing direction into a practical marketing and sales plan. Clarify priorities, deliverables, and milestones so teams understand what needs to happen, in what sequence, and who is responsible.Campaign & Sales Alignment
Oversee how campaigns, messaging, and sales initiatives connect across the customer journey. Ensure brand storytelling and value positioning carry through from initial outreach to sales conversations, with clear expectations for lead handoffs and follow-up.Cross-Functional Coordination & Accountability
Align leadership, marketing, sales, operations, and external partners around shared objectives. Clarify decision-making responsibilities, address dependencies, and resolve gaps in communication that slow delivery.Performance Oversight & Refinement
Establish reporting and review practices that give leadership visibility into progress, conversion, and revenue performance. Use customer feedback and commercial results to guide adjustments to priorities, messaging, and resource allocation.
The engagement provides continuity between strategic intent and daily execution—with clear ownership, coordinated delivery, and visibility into what is driving results.
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“I’m at an inflection point. How do I grow from here?”
Growth & Development brings together tailored sales team development, specialized education, and private mentorship to strengthen capabilities and support meaningful professional and personal growth.
01 / Sales Team Training & Development
Tailored sales development programs that strengthen how teams communicate value, engage customers, and guide purchase decisions. Through focused boot camps and interactive workshops, I connect business priorities with practical sales skills, compelling storytelling, and a consistent approach to customer engagement.Strengthen brand storytelling, value communication, and audience-specific messaging.
Refine customer discovery, presentations, objection handling, and follow-up.
Connect the customer experience with sales processes and conversion goals.
Establish individual and team objectives with clear accountability benchmarks.
02 / New Development Sales Education
A structured, 21-lesson online curriculum for real estate professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of new development marketing or expand their business and service offerings. The series guides professionals through the fundamentals of new development project types, developer representation, project marketing, and sales execution.Understand development types and the fundamentals of multi-unit project sales.
Explore the responsibilities and expectations of developer representation.
Examine how positioning, audience insights, and storytelling inform project marketing.
Learn the planning and sales processes that support a development’s path to market
03 / Private Advisory
A private advisory engagement for professionals and business owners navigating growth, change, or an important decision. Through confidential conversations, I help individuals examine their priorities, challenge assumptions, and establish a direction that reflects both their professional ambitions and personal priorities.Clarify professional goals, personal priorities, and areas for development.
Work through business challenges, career decisions, and periods of transition.
Strengthen communication, leadership, and decision-making.
Develop an actionable roadmap with focused priorities and accountability.
Each format connects learning and insight with application—helping teams and individuals build capability, make informed decisions, and move forward with greater confidence.
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About me.
My career has been shaped by building businesses and bringing people together around a shared vision. Before founding my advisory practice, I held managing director roles at high-growth startups where I built and scaled their development marketing businesses.
That experience taught me to look beyond positioning alone—to understand how a business operates, where momentum is being lost, and what its people need to succeed. I focus on optimizing spend, aligning individual and organizational strengths, and creating a clear path to revenue growth.
Meaningful connection is what continues to draw me to this work. I’m curious about what makes someone feel connected to a brand, a place, or an idea, and what turns that connection into a lasting relationship. I’m drawn to ventures where capital, product, and human experience align. Beyond the offering itself, I believe the most successful ventures create places, communities, and experiences that people want to be part of.
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In their words.
“Hana understands the value of proper planning for the target demographic and she utilizes research, data, and consumer feedback to integrate buyers’ wants and desires. Discerning buyers today expect tasteful design and sophistication… and she is a master of early, thoughtful planning to best position any project for success.”
Jeff Meyers
Chief Executive Officer, Zonda
“Hana is a tireless leader and team player with a keen eye for detail and holds an extremely high standard for herself and her team. Her talent crafting compelling branding and marketing strategies is truly impressive. Hana was instrumental in turning around our sales effort in SF, demonstrating her ability to target the high-end customer. I’m confident her skills would translate seamlessly to diverse markets and demographics due to her well rounded approach and strategic thinking.”
TK Inbody
Founder, Grey Alps Capital
“Hana has rare ability to combine big-picture strategic thinking with exceptional execution. She can quickly assess a business challenge, develop a clear strategy, and roll up her sleeves alongside her team to make it happen. Hana is also an exceptional coach and people leader. She knows how to bring out the best in a team… she is equally effective with the sales team and with clients, always taking the time to understand their needs while keeping the larger business objective in focus.”
Debrah Kemp
Former Project Director, Compass Development
“We owe much of our success to Hana’s tireless leadership, creative negotiating tactics, and constantly evolving sales strategies to deliver record-breaking sales.”
Todd Goldstein
Chief Revenue Officer, AEG
Let’s connect.
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