A coach, consultant and connector, The Honest Advisor works with executives, boards of directors, and leadership teams, inspiring change and achieving results.

The Honest Advisor was founded by Laura Gilman on the premise that honesty is almost impossible to find in corporate and personal teams and settings, where your colleagues, family and friends are biased. Through experiential and exploratory conversations and experiences, objective, direct, and impactful interactions will move you and/or your team forward.

The Honest Advisor is a confidential and personalized approach to coaching, consulting, and connecting.

About Laura

Laura Gilman is an innovative and strategic advisor to C-suite executives, philanthropists, and Boards of Directors for Fortune 500 companies and high-profile nonprofits.  A native New Yorker and a natural connector, Laura has brought her direct and insightful personality to her professional endeavors and relationships throughout her career. 

Her diverse career began at Morgan Stanley in Equity Capital Markets managing Initial Public Offerings where she calmly led multiple roadshows during the historical technology boom of the late 1990s. Laura later held executive positions at Victoria’s Secret Beauty and Citigroup where she led client facing and revenue generation initiatives before moving to the nonprofit sector.  Laura built teams and innovative programs that raised over $50M to support groundbreaking cancer research initiatives by inspiring philanthropists, celebrities, executives, and cancer patients to harness their collect power to accelerate cancer research.   

Today, her clients are both corporate and nonprofit organizations as well executives who seek the honest advice that their colleagues, family and friends are often unable and/or unwilling to provide them.  Laura is currently pursuing her coaching certifications and co-authoring a book on Collaboration and Leadership.