Commercial Growth Consulting & Insights.
I’m Sona Jepsen — your fractional Chief Commercial Officer and commercial growth advisor. I help individuals, leaders, companies and Boards build growth ready organizations. Growth doesn't create capability, it reveals it.
Proof
Sona has a rare ability to walk into a complex commercial organization and see what others can’t. She quickly connects the dots across strategy, sales, marketing, product, operations, and leadership to identify the few issues actually constraining growth. More importantly, she knows how to turn that insight into action.
— J. Donovan, Board Member
Sona tells leaders the truth about their business before the numbers force them to see it. She asks the questions others often avoid, identifies the gap between what leadership believes is happening and what the commercial system is actually producing, and creates a practical path forward. Every CEO should have someone like Sona in the room.
—M. Byron, PE CEO
Four ways to grow with us.
One mission. Four ways to become ready for what's next.
Whether you're leading a company or leading yourself, start where you need it most.
Consulting
Commercial Growth Advisors
Build a growth-ready organization.
We help CEOs, founders, and leadership teams remove the constraints holding growth back and prepare their organizations for the next stage of success.
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Pink Dragon Dispatch
Grow from the inside out.
A weekly newsletter about courage, identity, leadership, and becoming the person your future requires.
Book
The Book
Lead without losing yourself.
A guide to finding your voice, making courageous decisions, and building a life and career that are true to who you are.
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Daily insights for leaders.
Practical ideas on commercial growth, leadership, organizational health, and the decisions that separate good companies from great ones.
Keynotes that prepare leaders for what's next.
From boardrooms to main stages, I speak about the leadership, decisions, and commercial capabilities that determine whether organizations are ready for growth—or overwhelmed by it.
Testimonials
Sona doesn't just diagnose commercial problems. She rebuilds the engine. Her leadership helped drive 55% year-over-year sales growth, build a 2.3x pipeline, and improve forecast accuracy to 93%. She brings an unusual combination of commercial strategy, operating discipline, and the courage to address what others avoid.
Women often get told to ‘project confidence’—code for speaking louder. Pink Dragon shows a different path.
World-class experiences look effortless only because leaders absorb the chaos before anyone goes onstage. Pink Dragon codifies that discipline—regulate first, read the room, then use fire sparingly to move people and outcomes.
Jepsen proves you can be kind without being compliant. The stories land, the tools stick, and the outcomes are measurable.
One of the best speakers we’ve had. Sona shared insights that apply to anyone, at any stage of life — relevant, actionable, and unforgettable.
Pink Dragon is the leadership upgrade I wish I’d had a decade ago.
Sona didn’t just share concepts — she gave us tools we could apply immediately. My team’s performance shifted in measurable ways after her session.
Sona tells leaders the truth about their business before the numbers force them to see it. She asks the questions others often avoid, identifies the gap between what leadership believes is happening and what the commercial system is actually producing, and creates a practical path forward. Every CEO should have someone like Sona in the room.
Her coaching created breakthroughs that mattered. What Sona teaches applies at every stage of life — practical, timeless, and deeply human.
Sona has a gift for turning big ideas into practical actions. My team left not just inspired, but equipped — and our performance has materially shifted since her session.
Pink Dragon captures the operating system I want on every job site and in every boardroom—regulate first, read the room, then use fire sparingly to move people and outcomes.
What makes Sona different is that she doesn't look at sales, marketing, product, or customer success in isolation. She sees the entire commercial system. She can identify the weakest point in the engine, show you how it is affecting growth, and align the organization around fixing it. That's an incredibly rare capability.
Pink Dragon is the rare book that makes you braver on contact. Less performance, more presence—then fire, used sparingly and well.
Sona has a rare ability to walk into a complex commercial organization and see what others can’t. She quickly connects the dots across strategy, sales, marketing, product, operations, and leadership to identify the few issues actually constraining growth. More importantly, she knows how to turn that insight into action.
If you lead in high-tempo, male-dominated environments, read this. It’s compassionate, unsentimental, and immediately useful.
Few leaders understand commercial complexity at the scale Sona does. She has worked across hundreds of products, large global teams, and highly complex client environments. Her strength is simplifying that complexity—creating clarity around where to focus, what to fix, and how to get an organization moving in the same direction.
If swagger is sparkles, Pink Dragon is craft. Less show, more substance.
Hello,
I'm Sona.
Principal
Sona Jepsen
Founder, Commercial Growth Advisor
I've led commercial organizations. Sat in boardrooms. Challenged forecasts. Told CEOs the number wasn't real. And I've watched the same pattern play out more times than I can count.
A company hits a ceiling.
Sometimes growth stalls.
Sometimes growth is accelerating faster than the business can handle.
Either way, leadership starts looking for someone to blame.
First, they replace the commercial leader. Then they reorganize the teams. Then they hire consultants to produce another strategy deck.
But the real problem was never a person. It was the commercial engine.
Growth doesn't create capability. It reveals it.
The companies that sustain extraordinary growth aren't luckier. They're more prepared. They build the leadership, commercial capabilities, and operating discipline needed to grow before growth demands it.
That's why I founded Commercial Growth Advisors.
We help leaders build organizations that are ready for what's next—whether that means breaking through a growth ceiling or preparing for rapid expansion.
If your company is ready for its next stage of growth, let's make sure your commercial engine is too.
