The Executive Bench
Meet Your C-Suite
One team, one philosophy, built to lead your business as if it were our own.
Between us, we have spent decades inside growing businesses, leading them, advising them, and building profitability into the way they operate. And we kept arriving at the same moment. A business would grow to the point where it needed leadership it did not yet have.
So owners would go and hire contractors to fill those roles. More often than not, those leaders showed up with an entirely different philosophy of business, and steered the company toward decisions that ran directly against the strategy already in place. We watched good businesses get pulled in two directions at once, one too many times.
From Our Founders
Our Mission
So We Asked A Different Question
What if every leader sat on the same team, working toward the same goal, from the same philosophy of business instead of strangers with competing agendas?
Your C-Suite is our answer to that question.
We built it so that the leadership around your company would never again work at cross purposes.
One team, one philosophy, one plan.
Five Executives, One Bench
Your Executive Team
Every leader here operates from that same philosophy. Which of them leads your engagement, and which support it, is determined by where your business's real constraints sit, not decided in advance.
Ciara Stockeland
Chief Financial Officer, Co-Founder
Ciara co-founded Your C-Suite on a conviction she has spent more than twenty years proving true: revenue is never the real problem, profitability is. She built her career in retail and product-based business ownership, growing and ultimately selling her own boutique, and she came up the hard way, through the kind of inventory debt that teaches an owner exactly where a business hides its cash and exactly how to get it back. That lived experience is the backbone of how she leads today. She is the author of Inventory Genius, host of the Inventory Genius Podcast, and has carried the case for small business into national rooms, speaking before Congress and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Inside an engagement, Ciara is the executive who makes the numbers tell the truth. She leads on cash-flow strategy, forecasting, and profitability, and she builds the financial visibility that lets a founder make growth decisions with certainty instead of hope.
Specialties
Jim Stockeland
Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder
Jim is the operational force behind Your C-Suite and, in a full engagement, the founder's day-to-day partner. He brings decades of executive experience across transportation, logistics, and related industries, with a track record in mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, and leading companies through significant change. His gift is turning strategy into execution, taking the plan everyone nods along to in the room and building the structure, systems, and accountability that make it actually happen. He works from a clear operating framework built on Sales, Sustainability, and Scaling, and he owns organizational structure, systems and process, capacity and resource planning, and the removal of the bottlenecks that quietly cap a company's growth. He is also the executive who keeps the rest of the bench coordinated, so the whole team stays pointed at the same outcome.
Specialties
Bethny Ricks
Chief People Officer
Bethny builds the leadership a company needs to reach its next stage, and she does it at a level most growing businesses never get near. Her career spans more than a billion dollars in mergers and acquisitions, and she has been recognized among the Top 100 African Americans in Business and twice named one of Ohio's Most Powerful and Influential Women. She understands that the people side of a business is not soft, it is structural, and that most growth stalls not for lack of strategy but for lack of the right leaders in the right seats. She leads on organizational design, leadership development, and executive development, building the team, the roles, and the accountability a company requires so its people grow in step with its ambitions rather than lagging behind them.
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Adrienne Richardson
Chief Marketing Officer
Adrienne is the growth engine of the bench. Across more than seventeen years in marketing she has driven over ninety million dollars in client sales, and she brings that same rigor to every engagement. She leads on marketing strategy, digital acquisition, full-funnel optimization, and the data and analytics that separate marketing that merely looks busy from marketing that actually produces revenue. Her focus is scaling done right, building demand systems as disciplined and measurable as the operations and finances behind them, so growth on the top line finally shows up on the bottom line.
Specialties
Jay Ferguson
Chief Financial Officer
Bio to come. This block is holding Jay's place in the lineup at the same length as the others, so the page reads correctly while his copy is written. Send his background, the disciplines he owns inside an engagement, and where Ciara wants him in the order, and it drops straight in.
Specialties
Take the Next Step
The right team, matched to your business
You've met the team, the next step is discovering which of them your business actually needs. Book a strategy session and we will look, honestly and without pressure, at where your profit is getting stuck and whether this is the right team to help you move it. We can't wait to meet you.
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