EP135 Ditch Your Corporate Armor: Leading Authentically in a World Disrupted by AI and Change with Serin Silva

In this episode of Your Leadership Legacy, host Tina Krause interviews strategic advisor Serin Silva, who works with women founders and CEOs navigating business growth and complexity. Serin shares her journey from building "corporate armor" in the telecom industry to helping leaders embrace authentic leadership. She introduces her "three wisdoms method," integrating intellect, intuition, and somatic awareness to guide leaders through uncertainty. The conversation explores how AI and disruption are reshaping business, why nervous system regulation matters in leadership, and how trusting one's intuition (often dismissed as "woo woo") can be transformative for both leaders and their teams. Serin Silva is a strategic advisor to women founder-CEOs and leadership teams running $15–$50M companies who are in the thick of growth, complexity, or outright chaos. She's the person they call when something big has to change—restructuring a production company for the AI era, turning "accidental" agencies into real businesses, or helping a team go from $10M to $25M in under a year without burning the place down. Before advising founders, Serin spent two decades inside high-pressure corporate environments where the stakes were very real. She led integration communications for eight acquisitions in a single year at a billion-dollar telecom; helped bring Oracle's first CRM and Human Capital Management platforms to market; launched the original MSNBC digital brand for Microsoft; and drove strategy for an early food-delivery robot long before it was cool. At a major consumer brand, her digital marketing work generated $500M in revenue in one year across five product lines. She's led five restructures and turnarounds for mid-sized companies, doubled revenue for a midmarket tech firm, and delivered a 150% business increase in eight months by forcing the right business and mindset pivots. Born in Silicon Valley to Turkish-Cypriot immigrants who fled civil war, Serin grew up reading rooms, managing volatility, and spotting patterns other people miss. Her approach is simple: set the strategy, align the people and incentives, name the truth, and get moving. She blends sharp strategic frameworks with deep human insight and intuition—what she calls "wild love": fierce care plus clear calls. Her creative work has been published twice, and she designs retreats and ceremonial spaces for high-performing women who need somewhere honest to fall apart and reassemble. https://www.serinsilva.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/serinsilva/