Hi, I’m MAria yiannitsarakos

Private Advisor, Decision Architect

From Greek Roots. Built in New York City.

No one is coming to decide for you. You decide. You own the outcome.

I’ve spent over 25 years as a New York City attorney negotiating high-stakes deals where outcomes weren’t theoretical, they were immediate, financial, and consequential.

Much of that work sat at the intersection of business, risk and decision-making, advising not just on the legal exposure, but on positioning, leverage, structure, and consequence.

I wasn’t simply evaluating risk. I was shaping decisions, how they were negotiated, structured, positioned, and lived with afterword.

That’s where I learned:

A decision alone doesn’t win. Leverage does. Structure does. Risk, properly assessed, is part of the design.

Because outcomes aren’t determined by the decision alone. They’re shaped by positioning, negotiation, leverage, and structure.

Today, as a private advisor I work with leaders, founders, and operators making consequential decisions, where risk is real, leverage matters, and structure determines everything.

We don’t just decide. We design the conditions that determine how your decisions play out.

Judgment Matters.

And beneath it all, I’m a wife and a mother of three…. a reminder that decisions aren’t abstract.