About Russo Leadership

Leadership that holds starts with understanding what the work requires.

Russo Leadership connects leadership development, team effectiveness, and organizational design to help you strengthen what’s needed and address what’s getting in the way.

Meet our founder

An operator before an advisor.

Nayli Russo · Founder, Russo Leadership

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Nayli’s experience spans clinical healthcare, operations, enterprise strategy, and executive leadership. Her work in the Office of the President at Highmark and as Vice President of Strategy and Vice President of People & Strategy with the Pittsburgh Pirates brought her into decisions about business direction, resources, people, and execution.

That operating experience informs Russo Leadership’s approach. Developing a leader may be part of the answer. So may clarifying who makes a decision, changing how a team coordinates, or redesigning responsibilities that no longer fit the work.

Across leadership development, team effectiveness, organizational work, and direct advisory, Nayli starts with a practical question: what does your organization need to accomplish, and what is missing today?

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How we work

The work starts with your situation.

Whether you need a development program or support with an organizational challenge, we shape the engagement around what you need to accomplish.

Understand the situation.

Clarify the purpose, examine what is already understood, and identify questions that need further exploration.

Match the support.

Determine where development, team work, organizational design, or advisory can address the need.

Make it useful.

Connect learning to real responsibilities and recommendations to decisions. Define what the work will produce and how you will use it.

Agree on responsibilities.

Set the scope, involvement, and measures of progress. Be clear about what Russo Leadership contributes and what your organization owns.

What we stand for

Responsibility is at the heart of our work.

Our mission

Help organizations equip their leaders and teams to carry responsibility and accomplish the work they share.

Our vision

Organizations where the responsibility people carry is matched by the capability, authority, and support to carry it well.

Our values

Responsibility for fit.

Before committing to an engagement, we take responsibility for the fit between your need and the work we propose. We reshape or decline that work when the fit is missing.

Context before conclusions.

We separate what we heard, what we saw, and what we’re concluding. We use assessments for the questions they can help answer and make clear what remains uncertain.

Candor with care.

We name difficult realities and challenge assumptions with respect for the people involved, including when our conclusions are uncomfortable or commercially inconvenient.

Integrity in the work.

Throughout an engagement, we honor our commitments and stay within our expertise and agreed role. When the work requires a different scope or responsibility, we address that change before proceeding.

Let’s talk about your organization

What do you need to make possible?

Tell us what you’re working toward and where you need support. Together, we’ll explore whether Russo Leadership is the right fit and identify a useful next step.

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