Founded in 2014, Black Hawk Financial provides strategic advisory and fractional leadership support to growing companies, investment firms, and professional services firms across business development, relationship management, investor engagement, and market positioning.

Black Hawk Financial helps leadership teams strengthen their positioning, deepen strategic relationships, and create opportunities for growth.

Black Hawk works across business development, relationship management, investor engagement, and market positioning, helping organizations clearly communicate their value and navigate the relationships that matter to the business.

That includes engaging investors, strategic partners, clients, and other key stakeholders, while helping leadership teams identify and pursue opportunities that support long-term growth.

LEANNA HAAKONS

Leanna Haakons is a strategic advisor and fractional executive with nearly two decades of experience in business development, institutional relationship management, investor engagement, and market positioning.

Through Black Hawk, Leanna works with investment managers and growing companies on corporate strategy, strategic relationships and partnerships, investor and stakeholder engagement, and market positioning. She also helps leadership teams articulate complex businesses, investment strategies, and technologies in ways investors, partners, and other audiences can understand and act on.

Leanna founded Black Hawk to serve an international client base and has since worked alongside multi-billion-dollar funds, public and private companies, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds on business development, investor engagement, and strategic relationship initiatives.

Leanna has been featured extensively in financial and business media, including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo Finance, ABC, NBC, and Fox News.

Leanna studied journalism at Harvard and has served as a moderator, host, and panelist at global conferences and events focused on investing, family offices, sovereign wealth, entrepreneurship, and the business of professional sports.

Black Hawk Financial Services

Building strategic relationships that drive growth.

Strategic Advisory & Fractional Leadership

Black Hawk works alongside leadership teams on corporate strategy, market positioning, business development, and identifying and pursuing the clients, partners, investors, and other stakeholders most important to the business.

Business Development & Relationship Management

Black Hawk helps clients determine where to focus business development efforts, how to approach important relationships, and which opportunities are worth pursuing, while managing the development of those relationships.

Investor & Stakeholder Engagement

Black Hawk helps clients manage investor and stakeholder relationships, structure how and when to engage key audiences, and navigate important conversations around the business, strategy, and opportunities.

Positioning & Messaging

Black Hawk helps clients clarify and articulate complex businesses, investment strategies, technologies, and value propositions so investors, partners, clients, and other audiences understand what they do and why it matters.