Toni Ronayne
Toni Ronayne is a Fractional Chief Executive Officer specializing in enterprise and brand transformation for growth-stage and scaling hospitality brands. She partners with founders, boards, and executive teams during moments of complexity, helping organizations align brand, operations, people, and strategy to drive sustainable performance.
Over the course of her career, Toni has served in senior leadership roles across restaurant and hospitality organizations, including brand president and enterprise operator positions. Her experience spans brand strategy, franchising, operations, and organizational transformation during periods of rapid growth, reinvention, and change. She is known for stepping into high-stakes environments and translating complexity into clear priorities and decisive execution.
Toni brings a systems-level perspective to leadership, seeing how brand, consumer, people, operations, and capital interact. Her work focuses on helping teams move faster without sacrificing culture, alignment, or long-term value creation. She is frequently engaged when leadership teams need clarity, momentum, and experienced judgment at critical inflection points.
In addition to her fractional CEO work, Toni is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The C Society, a modern executive collective designed to give hospitality brands access to elite fractional C-suite leadership. Through the platform, she curates and deploys seasoned executives across finance, growth, operations, culture, culinary, technology, and commercialization, ensuring brands have the right leadership at the right time.
Toni is a trusted advisor to founders and leadership teams navigating scale, turnaround, franchising, and expansion. She is also a speaker, writer, and convener focused on the future of leadership, talent, and organizational design in hospitality and consumer brands.