
Running a business can be rewarding—but also isolating. That’s where The Alternative Board (TAB) comes in. TAB connects business owners, CEOs, and key leaders in non-competing industries to exchange insight, accountability, and proven strategies for sustainable success.
In Tampa Bay, Nir Samuel has become a trusted resource for entrepreneurs who want to strengthen their leadership, sharpen their strategy, and grow their businesses with confidence.
Nir brings more than 2 decades of executive leadership, operations, and advisory experience to the region, helping business owners turn vision into execution through TAB’s peer advisory boards and executive coaching programs.
TAB members join small, confidential groups of peers to discuss challenges, share insights, and hold one another accountable. Each group is guided by a certified TAB facilitator like Nir Samuel, who ensures every session produces practical solutions and strategic clarity.
Monthly Peer Advisory Board Meetings | Gain diverse perspectives from fellow business owners who understand your challenges.
One-on-One Executive Coaching | Work privately with Nir to set goals, prioritize actions, and navigate complex leadership decisions.
TAB's Blueprint | Develop a strategic blueprint for focused execution, hosted on our exclusive platform to track strategy with structure and flexibility as your business evolves.
StratPro | Finally unlock your leadership team’s potential by aligning your top performers around a shared vision, clear priorities, and disciplined execution.
HI-MAP Implementation | Build strong leaders with structured, focused, real-world training that strengthens skills, confidence, communication, and leadership capacity.
TAB Tampa area serves entrepreneurs and CEOs throughout a diverse and dynamic region, including:
Tampa
Clearwater
Each TAB board brings together leaders from different industries and stages of growth. That diversity fuels better conversations, fresh thinking, and insights that members rarely encounter within their own industry circles.
trusted environment where leaders connect, collaborate, and support one another.
Each board is made up of leaders from different industries, ensuring unbiased perspectives and creative problem-solving.
Monthly goal-setting and progress reviews create momentum—and ensure plans don’t stall at the idea stage.
Nir blends TAB’s global framework with a deep understanding of Tampa Bay's business environment, helping leaders focus on what matters most: people, process, and purpose.
Global finance and operations visionary known for transforming complex, high-growth organizations through cross-border leadership, inclusive culture building, and enterprise-wide process redesign. Multifaceted change agent experienced in managing P&Ls exceeding $200M across North America and international markets. Expertise in business transformation and operational scale-ups across manufacturing, CPG, logistics, and engineering sectors—as both senior executive and trusted advisor.
Resilient systems thinker driving supply chain modernization, financial planning rigor, and KPI-led accountability across diverse global teams. Skilled at adapting U.S. market footprints with experience launching production sites and integrating international operations with deep fluency in Lean Six Sigma, CRM deployment, and shared services restructuring.
At TAB, we enhance business operations through peer advisory boards, personalized executive coaching, and practical business tools that empower you to achieve your goals. Through TAB, I bring together non-competing business owners to collaborate and share real-world insights, provide one-on-one executive coaching to help leaders gain clarity and confidence, and offer proven frameworks and tools for strategic planning, performance tracking, and long-term growth.
I work with business owners across Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and surrounding communities, helping them achieve greater balance, focus, and results.
As a lifelong learner and connector, I’m passionate about helping leaders turn challenges into opportunities—and creating lasting impact in their businesses and communities.
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