
Based in North Carolina, The C-Suite Edge partners with small- and mid-sized businesses across the Southeast—from Raleigh and Charlotte to Atlanta and Nashville—to help local leaders develop effective business growth strategies and build resilient, profitable companies that endure.
Founder & CEO
I’ve spent my career providing CEO support and helping business owners transform chaos into clarity. As a COO and business advisor, I’ve witnessed how the first $10M can be both the most exciting and the most overwhelming stage of growth. At The C-Suite Edge, we assist founders and small business CEOs with small business consulting to establish systems that scale, teams that perform, and operations that run with confidence.
-Stephen Hathaway
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Kelsey Hathaway is a licensed North Carolina attorney with more than 16 years of experience at the intersection of law, business strategy, and client advisory. At The C-Suite Edge, she serves as In-House Counsel, ensuring that our clients receive not only executive-level strategic guidance but also the legal clarity to execute with confidence.
Kelsey earned her Juris Doctor from Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elon University, where she graduated magna cum laude. Her professional background spans commercial real estate transactional law, title insurance underwriting, compliance, and strategic business development. Kelsey brings a practitioner's precision to every engagement. Her courtroom foundation, combined with nearly two decades of complex transactional work and relationship-driven business development, gives her a unique ability to translate legal complexity into clear, actionable guidance for executive teams and business owners.
A former professional actor and longtime advocate for collaborative leadership, Kelsey brings both precision and presence to every room she enters.











