Structure, accountability and execution discipline for growing organizations.
Cunneen Executive Advisory provides executive leadership and operational transformation: enterprise-level operating discipline and measurable execution, without enterprise-level bureaucracy.
Organizations typically engage me when growth or complexity outpaces the structure around it.
- Scaling organizations
- Operational complexity
- Unclear ownership
- Fragmented processes
- Strategy not converting into execution
Five areas where I create value for growing organizations.
Operating Model & Governance Design
Assess operations, design scalable processes and operating rhythms, and put clear governance, risk management and accountability in place.
Business + Technology Partnership
Lead cross-functional initiatives across varying cultures and teams, and make technology and digital tools work for the business.
Transformation Execution
Translate strategy into roadmaps, KPIs and practical execution, and lead the change that makes it stick.
Resource + Performance Discipline
Budget, forecast and allocate resources, interpret performance data, and build an operating cadence that drives efficiency.
Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
Coach, mentor and equip leaders to communicate, collaborate and lead through growth and transformation.
Not sure which area fits? Most engagements start with a conversation about where things are getting stuck.
Start a conversationExecutive coaching and leadership development
The things that decide careers are rarely written down: power, politics, visibility, and how decisions really get made. I coach leaders through them, drawing on two decades inside Canada's largest institutions.
One-on-one executive coaching
For individual leaders
A private, ongoing coaching relationship for leaders stepping into a bigger role, navigating a difficult environment, or planning their next move.
Leadership development for teams
For organizations
Workshops and programs for leadership teams and emerging leaders, built around the real situations your people face rather than generic frameworks.
Corporate Unfiltered
Free small-group session
Sixty minutes, fifteen people at most, on how corporate careers really work. Half practical insight, half open questions and group coaching. No sales pitch.
What we work on
- Stepping upMoving into a director, VP, or C-suite role and leading at a new altitude.
- Power and politicsReading the room, building sponsors, and influencing without losing yourself.
- Leading changeBringing people through transformation when you don't control every lever.
- Career strategyPositioning, visibility, and making deliberate choices about what comes next.
Keynotes, panels, and leadership summits
Available across Canada and internationally. Every talk is built from lived experience inside large institutions, told plainly.
New talk
The Room Already Knows: leading your team through AI
Every team has a question it won't ask out loud: is my job still going to exist? This talk helps leaders stop answering with silence or false reassurance, and instead lead their people through what AI is really changing. It's built around three moves: tell the truth, go first, and redraw the work together.
Bring this talk to your teamWhen skill isn't enough: how women navigate power, politics, and survival in tech leadership
What it really takes to rise and stay at the top in male-dominated technology environments.
Enterprise transformation and change leadership
Architecting change at scale, and turning resistance into momentum and ambiguity into alignment.
Women in technology and executive leadership
The unscripted lessons and pivotal moments on the path to the VP suite and beyond.
Mental health in the workplace
Building cultures where psychological safety is the foundation of high performance, not a policy.
Renate's keynote was the most talked-about session of our entire leadership summit. She changed the conversation.
Chief People OfficerCanadian financial institution
Rare, honest, and deeply strategic. Renate speaks the language of executives while touching something profoundly human.
VP of Talent and CultureNational insurance group
We brought Renate back for a second engagement. Her message is that powerful.
SVP, Enterprise TransformationMajor Canadian bank
Throne to the Lions
They threw her to the lions. She built her own throne.
A memoir of resilience, identity, and what it means to lead when the stakes are personal. From leaving home at fifteen to the executive floors of Canadian banking, and the courage it took to claim a seat at the table on her own terms.
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Get book updatesSenior operator who brings structure, accountability and execution discipline to growing organizations.
Renate Cunneen is a senior executive with more than 20 years of experience leading operational transformation, governance and enterprise technology across complex organizations. She has led teams at three of Canada's largest banks, leading more than 400 people, and managed significant transformation portfolios across complex, highly regulated environments.
Renate helps leadership teams turn strategy into execution through scalable operating models, clear accountability, practical KPIs, effective operating cadences and stronger cross-functional collaboration. She brings disciplined resource management, process improvement and change leadership, while coaching and mentoring leaders to communicate, collaborate and lead effectively through growth and transformation.
"I create the structure, cadence and accountability that help organizations execute."
Renate Cunneen, Executive Leader
Let's discuss how I can support your organization.
Renate works with leadership teams to bring structure, governance and momentum to growth and transformation. Send a message and she will get back to you.
Email RenatePrefer to write it yourself? renate@cunneenadvisory.com