What you are buying is better executive judgement. The engagement is the vehicle.
We do not ask you to select a programme. We establish the situation, and then propose the vehicle that fits it — which may be none of them. What follows is a description of the vehicles, not a menu.
A situation is live. The cost of a poor decision is immediate.
A discreet, senior, short-duration intervention delivered by the founder. Typically two to four weeks. We stabilise the situation, establish what is actually happening, test the prevailing account, support the decision, and leave the team better able to make the next one.
Fitted to: Leadership transition · Executive team conflict · Restructuring · Post-merger integration
Something is wrong and the executive team does not yet agree on what.
A single day with the executive team, structured to establish what is genuinely in front of it. The most common outcome is clarity about the situation; the second most common is a clear conclusion that no further engagement is warranted. Both are acceptable results.
Fitted to: Any of the six situations, at an early stage
The team will face consequential decisions repeatedly, not once.
Twelve months of in-house collective development for an executive team whose judgement is a strategic asset. Structured, cadenced, and designed so that the capability remains in the organisation after we have gone.
Fitted to: Organisational transformation · Post-merger integration · Sustained pressure
One leader is carrying disproportionate weight.
A confidential individual pathway for a senior leader whose judgement is under strain, or whose strengths have begun to work against them. Entirely private. The sponsor knows the engagement exists; the sponsor does not know what is said in it.
Fitted to: Executive derailment risk · Leadership transition
A leadership group must hold its judgement through a sustained period of strain.
A focused in-house intervention for a defined leadership group. Concentrated, practical, and built around the specific pressure the group is actually under rather than pressure in general.
Fitted to: Organisational transformation · Restructuring
The chief executive has nobody to think with.
Retained senior counsel over a longer horizon, to a chief executive or an executive team. Not a board seat, not a coach, not a consultant with a deliverable. A person whose only interest is the quality of your thinking.
Fitted to: Any situation, on a continuing basis
Offer-based, and set against the situation.
We do not publish fees. Engagements differ substantially in scope, duration, seniority and consequence, and a published rate card would tell you almost nothing useful about what your situation requires.
Fees are proposed in writing after the first conversation, once we understand what is actually being asked of us. If the scope changes, the fee is renegotiated openly rather than absorbed quietly.
If something is happening in your organisation where the quality of executive judgement will decide the outcome, the useful first step is a private conversation about the situation itself. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.
