Know exactly where your business is exposed before an investor, acquirer, or auditor does.

A 90-minute diagnostic with a senior operational advisor. You bring the business. You leave with a direct read on what is sound, what is at risk, and what has to be resolved before you raise, scale, or sell.

Founder-led businesses rarely stall from a sales problem. They stall from a structure problem, and most founders do not see it until a deal, an investor, or an audit forces it into view.

17+

Years of Experience

7+

LATAM Markets With Boots on the Ground

WBENC

Certified

This works the way a consultation with a specialist attorney works.

You bring the situation. You get a direct, qualified read on it from someone who has seen it many times inside real founder-led businesses. You leave with a diagnosis you can act on immediately. Execution is a separate decision, and it stays entirely yours. Nothing in the room is a pitch for a larger contract.

Revenue hides what the next stage reveals.

Reactive operations. A business that only runs when you run it. Compliance exposure nobody is tracking. None of it shows up on a P&L. It shows up when an investor walks, when a deal stalls in due diligence, or when an expansion breaks under its own weight. What carried the business this far will not carry it to the raise, the sale, or the scale.

79%

In $1M to $5M founder-led businesses, roughly four in five deals are closed personally by the founder. That makes the founder a direct revenue risk the moment they step back.

42%

When close to half of revenue runs through the founder’s personal network, founder dependency stops being a management issue and becomes a valuation issue.

One conversation. A complete read on where you stand.

The diagnostic runs on the Lumena Lens, a proprietary framework built across years of operational work inside founder-led businesses. It examines five dimensions of operational readiness, the same territory investors and acquirers examine in diligence.

01 Ninety minutes with a senior advisor, not an intake associate.
02 A direct read on where the business is exposed and how exposed.
03 An Executive Summary of findings you keep, structured the way diligence is structured.
04 A clear order of operations: what has to be fixed first, what can wait, what is already sound.
05 No obligation to engage further. What you do with the diagnosis is your call.

Every engagement starts with the diagnostic.

There is no long onboarding and no discovery phase billed as strategy. You book the session, you sit with a senior advisor, and you leave knowing what is working, what is exposed, and what your business needs before it can raise, scale, or sell. It is the same read investors and acquirers build in diligence, delivered before they are the ones building it.

A senior read, delivered straight.

A full range of advisory services designed to close structural gaps, strengthen operations, and prepare your business to grow, raise, expand, or exit.

You talk to the person doing the diagnosis.

No intake rep, no associate running a script. The first conversation is the advisor who does the work.

The diagnosis is the product.

You are paying for the read, not sitting through a sales call disguised as one. What you do next is a separate decision, and it is yours.

Built on the Lumena Lens.

A five-dimension framework developed inside real, founder-led businesses, not adapted from a corporate consulting template.

Cross-border operating experience.

Twenty-plus years across the U.S. and Latin America, spanning HR, compliance, and international operations. The perspective is built in, not subcontracted.

Advisors Who Stay in the Work

01 — Diagnose, Plan, Execute

Every engagement follows the same clear path: a full diagnostic, a prioritized roadmap, and — if you choose — hands-on execution alongside your team.

02 — Embedded, Not Theoretical

We don’t deliver a slide deck and disappear. We work inside your business, implementing the changes that move growth, funding, expansion, and exit readiness forward.

03 — Real LATAM Presence

Teams already on the ground across 7+ Latin American markets, with real compliance infrastructure and cultural fluency built in — not a subcontracted afterthought.

04 — Built on One Framework

The Lumena Lens — a five-pillar diagnostic methodology developed through years of embedded advisory inside real, founder-led businesses.

Steph Michelle Pimentel, Founder

A Dominican American entrepreneur with 20+ years working directly alongside CEOs of large enterprises across HR, compliance, and international operations in the U.S. and Latin America. Steph founded Lumena to give founders the honest operational read most companies only get after the cracks become a crisis. WBENC Certified.

Before you raise, scale, or sell, know where you actually stand.

One flat fee. One 90-minute conversation. A senior read you can act on the same week. No retainer, no upsell built into the room.

Growth is the movement. Value is the measure.

Lumena Global Advisory is an operational readiness and market expansion advisory firm founded by Steph Michelle Pimentel, serving founders, CEOs, and PE-backed companies across the U.S. and Latin America.