i.Honest, not comfortable
The value is a room where the hard version of the question can be said out loud. Confidentiality is absolute; flattery is not on offer.
Executive coaching & counsel
Counsel for the people in the chair.
Raed Saber Elaydi, PhD, has spent nearly three decades in the room with CEOs, founders, and senior leaders — on the decisions that don't go to plan, and the ones that define a tenure. This is where that work is offered directly.
30 yrs
advising leaders across industries and stages
The Chair
a seven-month coaching engagement, one leader at a time
Scholar
management PhD — practice grounded in research, not slogans
What I offer
Three ways to work together — each built around the weight of the seat you hold.
01
The Chair — Executive Coaching
One leader · seven months
A sustained, confidential engagement for a single leader carrying real consequence. We work the decisions in front of you and the patterns underneath them — not a curriculum, but your actual chair, held to over time.
02
Workshops & Intensives
Teams & leadership groups · one to two days
A focused session for a leadership team or cohort — accepting the situation honestly, staying accountable, and doing the best you can with what you got. Designed to your situation, not delivered off a shelf.
03
Keynotes & Speaking
Conferences, offsites, boards
A talk that treats an audience like adults: accepting where you've been, being accountable, and doing the best you can with what you got. Drawn from the books and the classroom, shaped to your room.
The premise
Leaders are not short of information. They are short of a place to think honestly about the decision in front of them — and someone who has seen the shape of it before.
— Raed Saber Elaydi
How the work goes
Grounded in research. Kept quiet. Measured over time, not by the hour.
ii.The best you can with what you got
You start from where you actually are: accept the situation, stay accountable, and do the best you can with what you got — the same practice at the center of the books.
iii.Attention as discipline
Leadership is where you put your attention over years. The engagement is built to protect and direct it, not to add another dashboard.
About
Raed Saber Elaydi, PhD
A management scholar and executive coach. For nearly thirty years he has advised CEOs, founders, and senior leaders on the moments that don't go to plan — and the ones that decide a tenure.
He is the author of the Best You Can Trilogy — Failure Resume, Little Failures, and All-Ready — and of Startup Anarchist, published by RAED Press. His writing and his counsel come from the same place: a long, unsentimental attention to accepting where you are, staying accountable, and doing the best you can with what you got.
Elaydi Consulting is where that work is available to leaders and organizations directly. He lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In the room
"The chair is the loneliest seat in the building. This is the work of making it less so — without making it any softer."
Start a conversation
If you are carrying a decision, let's talk about it.
Engagements begin with a conversation, not a contract. Tell me a little about the chair you're in and what's in front of you.