advisory role
Counselor's official capacity
An advisory role is a position where someone provides guidance, recommendations, or expertise without having decision-making authority.
The advisor offers counsel; someone else acts on it.
She stayed on in an advisory role after stepping down as CEO.
Common in business, government, and academia, where experience is valued but direct control isn't appropriate or desired.
- recommendationAdvised course of action
- consultantProfessional advice provider
- advisorOne who gives guidance
- sounding boardListener who gives feedback
- sounding offExpressing views forcefully
counselor · expertise · consigliere · gray eminence · mentor · executive coach · nonexecutive · arm's length · back seat driver · coach · brain trust · think tank · behind-the-scenes · guidance · seat at the table · foresight · collaboration · facilitator
- board rolesboard chair, board member, board president, chair, chairman
- Board Termsboard, committee, chairperson, president, CEO
- guerrilla warfareguerrilla, guerrilla tactics, guerrilla fighter, partisan, partisan warfare
- military interventioninvasion, military intervention, coalition forces, allied forces, ground forces
- thought leadershipkeynote speech, white paper, TED talk, podcast, blog post
- academic committeeschair, faculty senate, members, board of trustees, admissions board
advisory roledecision-maker
One with choosing power
executive authority · leadership role · executive power · controlling interest · final say