Guiding founders and family leaders through complexity and transition

Not a consultancy. Not a retained firm. A single trusted voice at the level where the real decisions are made.

Private counsel to founders, family enterprises, and legacy businesses, across Europe, the Gulf, and Southeast Asia.

Former Germany & Singapore CEO ·  Forbes Coaches Council · G100 Advisory Board · Author of The Power of Change

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90-Day Embedded Advisory

SIGNATURE ENGAGEMENT

• Capacity: three clients per quarter
◦ Single, fixed engagement fee
• Discreet, conflict-free counsel - no hourly billing, no retainers beyond scopeOutcomeDecisions executed at speed, aligned across generations, jurisdictions, and capital structures.A German biotech founder arrived with breakthrough science and a story that wasn't travelling. One engagement later, they were in the right rooms, with the right narrative, the right introductions, and a capital pipeline that hadn't existed 90 days earlier.

WORKING FRAMEWORK

1. Diagnose - Rapid mapping of assets, constraints, and leverage points
2. Re-Map - Scenario architecture delivered board-ready within 14 days
3. Activate - Coordinated execution with on-call support
4. Shadow-Board - Continuous sounding-board for real-time course correction

ABOUT MELISSA LEICH

Born of German and Malaysian heritage, Melissa grew up between Hamburg's trading legacy and Southeast Asia, a cross-cultural formation that would define both her career and her counsel. She went on to lead operations across Asia and Europe as CEO, later serving as Chief Growth Officer in Europe, before founding her private advisory firm, now headquartered in Dubai. Her work spans German boardrooms, Gulf investment committees, and family councils across Malaysia and Singapore, corridors she navigates not as an observer, but as someone who has operated within them at the highest level for over two decades.Her operating background spans SaaS, pharma, consumer goods, and strategic planning, giving her the cross-sector pattern recognition that single-industry advisers cannot offer.Her practice is rooted in a conviction shaped by personal history: that the most consequential decisions — generational transitions, cross-border capital moves, high-stakes market entries — require a private counsel who understands both the strategy and the human architecture behind it. That integration of commercial precision and psychological depth informs every mandate she accepts.She is a Forbes Coaches Council member, G100 Advisory Board member, and author of The Power of Change (2023).