The work has evolved. The standard has always been personal.
Beyond the Boardroom is an executive and organizational experience firm that helps organizations intentionally design and deliver the moments that matter most. Our work brings together strategy, operations, hospitality and senior oversight across corporate and leadership experiences, executive arrivals, VIP experiences and ongoing fractional CXO partnerships.
The business grew from the professional foundation of Alexander Recruiting, LLC, where years of executive search, relationship management, discretion and high-touch service shaped a deep understanding of leaders, organizations and important moments.
Beyond the Boardroom operates as a DBA of Alexander Recruiting, LLC.
Executive search taught us to understand the room before entering it.
Alexander Recruiting, LLC was built around consequential leadership decisions: understanding what organizations needed, identifying exceptional people, navigating confidential conversations and guiding senior candidates and clients through high-stakes decisions.
That work created deep familiarity with executives, boards, culture, stakeholder expectations, discretion and the often-unspoken dynamics surrounding leadership.
The search business taught us who belongs in the room. Beyond the Boardroom focuses on what happens next: how leaders arrive, how teams gather, how VIPs and clients experience the organization and how important moments are designed to support the organization’s goals.
Today, that executive fluency remains part of the foundation of Beyond the Boardroom while the work has expanded across corporate and leadership experiences, executive arrivals, VIP experiences and ongoing fractional experience leadership.
The room should reflect the importance of why people are there.
From an intimate leadership dinner to a companywide gathering, executive retreat, arrival experience or career-defining honor, the setting, hospitality and details should support the purpose of the moment and help people feel connected to one another.
Different ways to engage. One standard of experience.
Beyond the Boardroom works where people, purpose and important organizational moments come together.
Corporate & Leadership Experiences
Leadership offsites, strategic convenings, company gatherings, executive programs, distributed-team experiences, board and client experiences and other organizational moments designed around a defined business objective.
ArrivalExecutive Arrival Experiences
Thoughtful welcome and integration experiences surrounding a consequential new leader, from acceptance through the first critical weeks of connection and belonging.
Recognition & LegacyVIP & Milestone Experiences
Highly considered experiences surrounding significant leaders, achievements, honors, installations, retirements and select private moments.
Executive LeadershipFractional CXO
Ongoing senior experience leadership for organizations that want one strategic partner shaping and overseeing a comprehensive portfolio of corporate, leadership, executive, client and VIP experiences across the year.
Some organizations need more than a one-time project. They need an ongoing experience partner.
Beyond the Boardroom can work alongside CEOs, CHROs and leadership teams as an ongoing Fractional CXO partner, providing senior leadership across a comprehensive annual portfolio of corporate, leadership, executive, client and VIP experiences.
Where an internal events, communications, people or executive operations team already exists, BTB can provide portfolio leadership, strategic alignment and experience standards across the work. Where no dedicated experience function exists, BTB can serve as the organization’s embedded senior experience function, leading the portfolio from strategy and planning through partner coordination, production oversight and delivery.
One senior partner. One experience standard. Flexible leadership across the full portfolio.
Concrete support for moments organizations cannot afford to treat as ordinary.
A new CFO is relocating from another state.
HR handles employment onboarding and the relocation provider moves the household. Beyond the Boardroom looks across the full arrival experience: key relationships, welcome, first-week experience, stakeholder introductions, leadership hospitality, family considerations and 30/60/90 milestones.
The executive team needs a retreat that produces more than a nice weekend.
We begin with what the organization needs the retreat to accomplish, then shape the environment, agenda, hospitality, facilitation support, flow and follow-through around that outcome so leaders leave with greater clarity, alignment and ownership.
An organization has a full portfolio of important experiences across the year.
Rather than managing each meeting, gathering or executive moment as a separate project, the organization retains Beyond the Boardroom to provide senior leadership across the portfolio. BTB may guide an existing internal team or function as the organization’s dedicated experience office, leading strategy, planning, partners and delivery across leadership gatherings, executive arrivals, board experiences, client and VIP engagements, recognition moments and other consequential experiences.
Lindsay Maxwell-Stewart
Lindsay Maxwell-Stewart is the Founder and CEO of Alexander Recruiting, LLC and Beyond the Boardroom. Her career has consistently centered on bringing people, environments, details and relationships together around moments that matter.
Her hospitality and event experience spans more than two decades, beginning with professional event planning at B. Smith's restaurant and expanding across higher education, institutional environments, galas, executive-facing engagements, leadership gatherings, VIP moments and other high-touch experiences requiring discretion, coordination and thoughtful hospitality.
Over time, that work has evolved beyond individual events into broader experience leadership: shaping the strategy behind important gatherings, aligning stakeholders, coordinating complex workstreams, overseeing external partners and ensuring the experience reflects the priorities and standard of the organization.
Through Alexander Recruiting, Lindsay has also recruited senior leadership talent, conducted confidential executive searches, advised organizations navigating important hiring decisions and built trusted relationships with executives, boards and institutional leaders. That work sharpened her understanding of leadership, culture, stakeholder dynamics and the human experience surrounding consequential decisions.
Lindsay also brings her experience across executive search, education and organizational leadership to career-connected experiences for high school and college students. Her work brings together educators, employers and community partners to create meaningful career exposure, leadership development, professional readiness, mentorship and stronger pathways between learning and the world of work.
She also contributes this expertise through select philanthropic initiatives focused on expanding access, opportunity and career exposure for young people.
Today, she brings those disciplines together through Beyond the Boardroom, providing senior leadership across corporate and leadership experiences, executive arrivals, VIP engagements and ongoing experience portfolios. For larger or more complex scopes, Lindsay leads the client relationship and strategic direction while assembling and directing experienced event planners, producers, facilitators and specialist partners around the work.
Her work is grounded in orchestration: understanding the objective, seeing the full experience, anticipating what may go wrong, aligning the right people and partners and ensuring the final experience reflects the importance of the moment.
Service is also part of her professional foundation. Lindsay currently holds executive board and active board positions and contributes her time, leadership and experience to philanthropic, educational and community-focused initiatives centered on service, stewardship and meaningful impact.
- 20+ Years in Experience, Hospitality & Operations
- Executive Search & Leadership Advisory
- Annual Experience Portfolio Leadership
- Corporate, Leadership & VIP Experiences
- Executive Integration & Strategic Initiatives
- Career-Connected Youth & Student Experiences
- Partner & Production Oversight
- Executive Board & Active Board Service
- Certified Concierge Professional
Senior leadership at the center. The right expertise around every experience.
Beyond the Boardroom is intentionally structured to flex with the needs and scale of the organization. BTB remains accountable for the client relationship, experience strategy, portfolio direction and overall standard while the right internal teams, planners, producers and specialist partners are aligned around the work.
BTB Experience Leadership
Beyond the Boardroom maintains the client relationship, experience strategy, portfolio direction, planning standards and overall delivery, giving the organization one senior point of leadership across the work.
Event & Production Partners
For larger or more complex experiences, BTB can assemble and direct experienced event planners, producers, registration teams, technical production partners and other execution specialists based on the scale and requirements of the engagement.
Specialized Experience Partners
Facilitators, speakers, coaches, venues, culinary teams, travel and transportation partners, designers, photographers, entertainment, gifting and other specialists are engaged when their expertise strengthens the experience.
Our model is intentionally flexible. For some organizations, BTB leads alongside an established internal events, communications, people or executive operations team. For others, we function as the dedicated senior experience office, assembling and directing the people and partners required to deliver the portfolio.
Specialists and service providers are selected according to the needs of each engagement. Credentials, licensing and professional qualifications are considered where applicable to the discipline.
To make the moments that shape how people experience an organization intentional.
Our standard is simple: understand the purpose, consider the people, design around the desired outcome and make the complexity feel effortless to the client.
An evolution built on established experience.
Beyond the Boardroom is grounded in executive search, entrepreneurship, hospitality, professional service, board leadership, business certification and trusted client relationships established through Alexander Recruiting, LLC.
Marquis Who's WhoHonored Listee
Certified ConciergeProfessional
National Concierge AssociationEndorsed Partner
Women's BusinessEnterprise
Women-OwnedSmall Business
WBEA
SBE
WOSB / SBA
Leadership & Service
Leadership
Hospitality & Experience Work
Beyond the Boardroom is a DBA of Alexander Recruiting, LLC.
The moments that matter deserve to feel like they matter.
Experience.
Operations.
Integration.
Execution.
Beyond the Boardroom partners with organizations across Corporate & Leadership Experiences, Executive Arrivals, VIP Experiences and Fractional CXO leadership, bringing strategy, operations, hospitality and senior oversight to the moments that matter most.