Luciana Breivik
advisory

STAVANGER · REMOTE

Leadership Infrastructure for Critical Change

Change management and organisational advisory for CEOs, founders and executive teams.

Fifteen years building leadership structures inside global organisations — through growth, integration, restructuring, and crisis.

15+

Years of senior experience

13

Markets of international expansion

4

Countries called home

60,000+

Employees across post-merger integration

Markets built, expanded, or restructured

Brazil UK US France Portugal Spain Sweden Norway Germany Italy Malaysia Singapore Hong Kong Australia UAE Saudi Qatar Brazil UK US France Portugal Spain Sweden Norway Germany Italy Malaysia Singapore Hong Kong Australia UAE Saudi Qatar
Most companies scale everything except how they lead.

As businesses grow, restructure or change direction, communication breaks, decisions slow and founders become the bottleneck.

The Hidden Cost of Growth

The hidden cost of growth nobody puts on the deck.

Every meaningful stage of growth quietly breaks something — and the things that 

break are rarely the things being measured.

Founder-led

10 ·

employees

  • Direct trust holds everything
  • No process needed yet

First fractures

25 ·

employees

  • Communication becomes work
  • Decisions begin to bottleneck

Coordination tax

50 ·

employees

  • Culture starts diluting
  • Hiring outpaces leadership

Founder dependency

100 ·

employees

  • Strategy and execution split
  • Misalignment compounds quietly

Structural reckoning

250 ·

employees

  • Systems become the ceiling
  • Leadership must evolve or fracture
There’s a space most organisations never address deliberately.

Traditional consulting focuses on markets, strategy, and cost. Executive coaching focuses on the individual. Neither addresses the collective mechanics of how a leadership team actually functions under scale and pressure.

“Pressure reveals the quality of the system. And the leaders within it.”

Signature Framework

Three things I fix.
01

Who decides what, and at what level.

Decision Architecture

When ownership is unclear, everything escalates to the CEO. Speed disappears.

Critical during: M&A, restructuring

02

What reaches leadership, and how accurately.

Information Flow

Filtered information means leaders act on noise. Problems grow before anyone sees them.

Critical during: Crisis, downsizing

03

Who carries the weight — and whether the system can hold it.

Leadership Capacity

When a few people absorb everything, you’re one resignation from breaking.

Critical during: Merger, transition

— Case Studies

Work, told honestly.

Founder-led · Consumer Goods

50 → 300

PEOPLE

2 → 13

MARKETS

Building the infrastructure a fast-scaling business needs.

“We stopped scaling the chaos and started scaling the company.”

Fashion Retail

7

SOURCING OFFICES

0

legal challenges

Consolidating global operations without losing the business.

“The strategic logic was clear; the execution was not.”

This work comes from the inside.

I didn’t learn this in a classroom. I learned it over fifteen years inside organisations that were scaling, restructuring, and expanding faster than their leadership could handle.

I’ve helped restructure seven international sourcing offices for a British fashion retailer without losing a day of operations. I’ve helped grow an American beauty brand from two markets and fifty people to thirteen markets and three hundred — legal entities, hiring, leadership structures, operating cadence, built from zero. I’ve worked inside post-merger integration at the scale of 60,000 people, and rebuilt operating models through a market downturn.

I’ve lived and worked in Brazil, the UK, the US, and Norway. I founded Luciana Breivik Advisory in Stavanger to do this work independently — for the companies that need it most.

— Begin

Every meaningful transformation begins with a conversation.

A short qualification call — no deck, no pitch, just clarity. I use that conversation to understand the structural problems you are facing and whether a diagnostic will create value. If there is a fit, we will know quickly.

  • Responses within 48 hours
  • 8–12 engagements accepted per year
  • Full confidentiality, always