Lana is a senior executive advisor specializing in leadership stabilization during complex organizational transition.

She has served on executive teams through post-merger integrations, directly advising CEOS of acquired companies, as well as leading regional HR across 7,000 employees in 14 countries for a publicly traded company.

Her work has spanned enterprise-scale restructuring, including people cost oversight, due diligence participation, workforce streamlining initiatives, and global cultural integration - providing firsthand exposure to the financial, operational, and political complexity that defines high-stakes transition.

Experience & Leadership Background

Lana brings over 15 years of experience in executive partnership roles across acquired startups and global enterprise environments.

She served as Head of HR for multiple companies navigating acquisition and integration, leading talent strategy, organizational design, executive communication, and retention planning during critical inflection points.

She later led HR operations across North, Central, and South America. In this role, she partnered with global and regional leadership teams to align workforce strategy with business expansion, integration, and operational objectives.

Her leadership experience includes:

• HR Operational Oversight of 7,000 employees across 14 countries

• Direct management of a 40-person HR team and matrix leadership of 100+

• Integration strategy across four acquisitions

• Large-scale and global workforce restructuring initiatives

• Executive-level change communication and organizational realignment

She has worked on the executive team, partnering with CEOs and operating as a trusted advisor to senior leadership during periods of rapid growth, restructuring, and organizational transformation.

Lana holds a Strategic HR Leadership certification from Cornell University and has been a speaker at HR Global Congress on the topic of cultural integration following acquisition.

Advisory Perspective

Having operated inside executive teams during following acquisition and restructuring, Lana understands that transition is not solely operational, it is deeply cultural, political, and human.

While transactions are measured financially, their long term success is sustained through culture.

Leadership under pressure demands more than operational alignment. It requires emotional intelligence, political awareness, and disciplined judgment about how trust, morale, and authority shift under stress.

Lana’s advisory approach blends structural insight with executive level emotional intelligence to stabilize leadership, reduce reactive decision cycles, and support thoughtful, steady decision making when stakes are high.

Engagements are confidential, focused, and structured in defined phases designed to create clarity and alignment during complex organizational transition.