How Engagement Works

Executive Leadership, Advisory, and Coaching

I take on executive ownership when product, platform, and delivery must hold under regulatory and growth pressure.

Ebullient Advisory is the vehicle through which I engage—executive mandates, strategic counsel, and coaching that strengthen how leaders decide under pressure.

The form of engagement depends on what the moment demands.

Executive Leadership

CPTO and CPO roles where I own product, platform, and technology strategy. Multi-year commitments where platform decisions, product discipline, and organizational capability determine whether value creation happens or stalls. Reporting to CEO, board, or investors in regulated B2B platforms and complex SaaS businesses.

When portfolio consolidation determines value creation. Five separate acquisitions. Eight overlapping products. 150 engineers. Platform integration that determines whether growth continues or fragments.

When boards and investors need direct accountability. Integration progress, platform risk, technical debt, value creation milestones. The clarity boards demand without translation layers.

When platforms must scale without breaking. Technology strategy that aligns with commercial outcomes. Product portfolios that need rationalization and focus. Engineering organizations that need building or rebuilding for predictable delivery.

I build operating discipline that survives after the mandate ends. Teams execute. Leaders decide. Performance becomes predictable.

Interim Leadership

Six to eighteen months where executive ownership is required. Integration, carve-out, or leadership transition. Direct accountability for product, platform, and technology during periods where continuity and momentum determine outcomes.

I ensure operating discipline is established and teams can execute after the mandate ends.

Strategic Advisory

When the decision is critical and requires executive judgment. Platform architecture that locks in risk or unlocks scale. Vendor strategy that determines five years of capability. Integration approaches that work or create permanent fragmentation.

When boards and executive teams need counsel they can trust. Direct strategic judgment from someone who has owned these outcomes in regulated environments where execution quality determines valuation.

When you need to move faster than a hiring cycle allows. The decision cannot wait six months. You need senior perspective now, without the overhead of onboarding an executive.

Coaching Under Pressure

Coaching focused on how senior leaders frame trade-offs and decide when outcomes are irreversible. Not career coaching. Not general leadership development. Working with executives on decision performance in moments that matter.

When the stakes are highest and the path is unclear. Board presentations where framing determines outcome. Portfolio trade-offs where every option has cost. Organizational decisions where people will leave or stay based on what you say and how you say it.

When you are carrying weight you cannot share with your team. Sometimes you need a thinking partner who understands the pressure, sees what you cannot see alone, and helps you find clarity without softening the difficulty.

You become more effective in moments that matter because you learn to separate signal from noise, decide without perfect information, and maintain presence when everything feels urgent.

What Determines Fit

The environment is regulated B2B platforms or complex SaaS. Growth, integration, and risk must scale together. Financial services, energy, mobility, telecom, data platforms.

Leadership is committed and accountable. I work with executives who own outcomes, not delegate blame. Boards and executive teams understand that execution quality determines valuation.

The challenge is material. Platform decisions that lock in years of consequence. Leadership teams splintering under pressure. Portfolio fragmentation threatening value creation. Problems that matter, not symptoms.

You value judgment over process. Better decisions. Stronger execution. Momentum that holds.

Ready to Move Forward

If your situation matches what you have read here, reach out directly. Available for executive leadership roles and select advisory engagements across Europe.

elmasry

I’m delighted to recommend Ebullient, whose guidance and impact have been pivotal to our success. Whenever we faced challenges that felt insurmountable, their calm confidence and steady support inspired us to push forward. Their structured approach to problem-solving and ability to create alignment had a profound effect on our growth. Much of our progress today stands on the foundation they helped us build. We’re deeply grateful for their contribution.

Mohamed Elmasry
CEO
tornquist

Over the past couple of years Chris has helped me to transform and improve our IT and project organisation. His human approach to challenge and coach everyone to grow through simplicity is super refreshing and effective.

Jonas Tornquist
Chief Operating Officer
falch

Frequently reflecting on your company is essential for any entrepreneur, yet it often gets lost in daily demands. Working with Ebullient’s simple business approach helped me clarify and refocus my thinking in a shifting business environment. The process is both straightforward and confronting, insightful and powerful. Ebullient guides it with precision, asking the right questions at the right time while creating a trusted and energizing space for meaningful outcomes.

Lars Falch
CEO
marlier

I hereby would like to fully and unconditionally recommend Chris Parker, as an executive Coach. He has been pivotal in helping me grow and remain solid, in the fundamental transformation of our community.  Chris is one of those very rare people capable of mastering the three levers of Logos (intellectual brilliance, thought leadership, and a rare intelligence), Ethos (behaviors, manners, ethics) and Pathos (Values and emotions) with rare success.  Far from the “Teflon Coach” model that we see too often, he is capable, whilst pushing his own ego and needs to the side, to be fully there for you, challenge and support you and disagree when he thinks your intellectual integrity is at risk.  Chris has a rare skill in coaching or being an agile “sparring-partner”.

Didier Marlier
Managing Partner

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