Services
C-Suite Strategies proven business acumen and expertise provides highly effective solutions to complex challenges.
Executive Business Consulting
Founders, partnerships, family enterprises, and private equity management teams benefit from C-Suite’s end-to-end advisory capabilities. C-Suite leverages Lazar’s experience across hundreds of transactions to strategically guide and manage complex situations for individuals and businesses by advising on compensation, negotiation, and transition through the MBO, M&A, and divestiture processes. Clients gain a keen and experienced eye for maximizing short and long-term economic value and mitigating risks.
Wendi’s ability to collapse complexity into simplicity and focus on what matters most from both a value creation and risk management perspective is second to none. I trust her inherently.
Private Capital Transactions
C-Suite Strategies is a personal advisor to Founders, CEOs, and their management teams on all aspects of a sale, merger, IPO, SPAC, or other transactions that affect their compensation and employment positioning. We create value and opportunity from the individual perspective, aligning with deal financing and corporate investment, but our priority is always the management team and protecting their value.
Executive Transitions
In every new senior executive opportunity or exit, there is the “right” strategy for maximizing reputation, monetary value, career growth, and business opportunity for the executive. C-Suite Strategies ensures the “right” strategy is chosen and executed.
Successorship & Leadership
C-Suite Strategies advises boards, private companies, and executives on strategies for a smooth successorship of management and leadership. Whether through a sale process, retirement, or an exit strategy, change in leadership is a complex and multifaceted process that profoundly affect the CEO and management team.
Compensation & Equity Negotiations
C-Suite Strategies knows and follows the marketplace trends in short and long-term executive compensation and equity. Developing the right plan for a particular situation is critical in contemplating a promotion, new investment, sale or transaction. Whether compensation decisions are part of a public or private company plan or a private equity transaction, C-Suite Strategies has the knowledge and the vision to advise on the total package for the executive to achieve career value.
Multinational Law Firm Consulting
European, UK, and US law firms value C-Suite’s independent advice, with Lazar as an authoritative global strategist. Leveraging deep cultural fluency, she effectively translates and reveals advantages, facilitating successful negotiations, transactions, and dispute resolutions for foreign clients in the US, and US clients abroad. Her proven global network of legal advisors ensures access to specialized expertise when needed.
Wendi is a tenacious and highly strategic adviser to have on your side in complex, cross-border C-Suite negotiations.
U.S. Law & Policy Strategy
While there are similarities between foreign and US employment law and executive compensation, they are not the same. EU Clients in the US cannot rely on their EU counsel to strategize for their success in the executive suite or to guide them through difficult US human resources or policy issues. Lazar understands and translates these strategies and works to advise clients in negotiation, compensation, and transitions.
Cross-Border Dispute Resolution
While the world is international and companies and executives work globally, often in multiple jurisdictions, the laws and policies they follow remain local. Strategies for multinational disputes require multijurisdictional knowledge, skill, and perspective, which Lazar possesses and has put into action as an expert for European and UK attorneys. She has proven success resolving multi-million dollar disputes in the US and abroad.
Women's Leadership, Compensation and Negotiation
Negotiation is critical for women executives, law partners, and entrepreneurs – leading to better outcomes, career choices, and leadership. While women are excellent negotiators for others, they often fail when negotiating for themselves. C-Suite Strategies has the skills, knowledge, and experience to empower women with the confidence and skills they need to enable their success, achieve career goals, and achieve compensation objectives. C-Suite Strategies advises senior women in all career leadership and negotiation phases and helps them achieve the value they deserve.
As a leader, I find it invaluable to have Wendi’s smart, strategic counsel. She’s always championed and empowered women, proving that we women should indeed have a seat at the Boardroom table.
Negotiation
Preparing senior women to negotiate effectively is a key area of our strategic advisory services. Whether you are a law firm partner, a CEO, or a new manager, our techniques developed after years of advising executives in negotiations have empowered women across industries and critical career events. Utilizing strategies such as role-playing with different pairing models, deep listening techniques, and creative presentations, C-Suite has empowered women to achieve success at the highest levels.
Compensation
Women in leadership positions often fail to achieve comparable compensation to their male counterparts. Lazar has market knowledge of compensation and equity models after years of negotiating for senior executives to confidently lead female executives through compensation reviews. C-Suite empowers women executives to negotiate complex short and long-term compensation that will create wealth in their careers.
Career Transitions
Change due to a sale, a merger, reorganization, or downsizing often has after-effects for women leaders. It can wreak havoc on a career unless the proper strategy for success is employed early in the process. Navigating organizational shifts and realigning positions takes thoughtful advice, intervention, and an independent perspective that Lazar offers. Years of advising thousands of senior executives through these processes make C-Suite the ideal partner to engage with.
Speaking Engagements
Wendi Lazar is an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer on international workplace, compensation, and gender equality issues—including women’s leadership and empowerment. She has spoken as a keynote, a panelist, and a moderator on hundreds of podcasts, webinars, and live programs globally.
A leading law firm partner and leader in her field for over 25 years, Lazar has been recognized and quoted by organizations and media outlets alike as an expert in employment matters, corporate transactions, executive compensation and gender equity, including the New York Times, the New York Law Journal, Fortune Magazine, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.
She developed a column for the New York Law Journal and Reuters called “Employees in the workplace” and has been the editor in Chief on several books and numerous chapters including “Zero Tolerance” about sexual harassment in the legal profession.
She has been recognized with honors and awards by her peers and industry groups as well. In 2020 she received the esteemed Margaret Brent Women of Achievement Award by the American Bar Association, an award previously given to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Topics Include
Women and Leadership, Women and Empowerment, International Employment Issues, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, Employment Agreements Multinational Transactions, Private Equity Transactions, Founders and the C Suite, Employment Rights, Employee Transitions and Reorganizations.