If the stakes are real, the thinking should be too
You're here because the usual forms of support aren't sufficient for what you're carrying. The decisions are too consequential, the pressure too sustained, or the consequences too far-reaching for generic advice or motivational reassurance.
I work with leaders who need more than coaching or consulting can provide — where the cost of drift is material, the quality of thinking determines outcomes, and responsibility cannot be delegated. That work takes different forms: advisory partnerships for ongoing support, strategic intensives for bounded moments, executive coaching for sustained pressure, and facilitated sessions when teams need to think seriously together.
Not every situation warrants this level of work. But if you're navigating conditions where clarity, consequence, and judgement matter more than speed or consensus, you're in the right place.
Judgement. Consequence. Responsibility.
This work is organized around three disciplines. Not skills to acquire, but practices that require structure, partnership, and sustained attention.
The capacity to think clearly when stakes are high and time is scarce.
Understanding what your decisions actually cost, beyond the visible and immediate.
Leadership that does not centralize all risk in one person's thinking.
Built for the decisions that actually matter
You already invest in coaching and consulting. Coaching improves performance. Consulting brings structure and insight. Both have their place.
But neither is designed for moments when the cost of being wrong is high and the decision cannot be revisited.
In those moments you need judgement support
- Not another framework. Consequence mapping.
- Not reassurance. Clarity on what is truly at stake.
- Not consensus. Disciplined thinking when outcomes are irreversible.
What this work is built to do
This work operates at the point where decisions carry weight, time is compressed, and second-order effects matter. It is designed to support clear thinking when leadership is tested and outcomes cannot be undone.
Four formats. One organizing principle.
The work takes different forms depending on what you are carrying:
Retainer-based counsel for CEOs, founders, and executives carrying board-level accountability. The focus is decision cadence, capital discipline, authority alignment, and structural clarity over time.
For owner-founded businesses, PE-backed leaders, and executives navigating sustained complexity.
Concentrated counsel for specific high-stakes moments, structured around the decision, delivered over a contained period, and concluded when the work is done.
For capital events, M&A, restructuring, crisis preparation, and major strategic transitions. One day or multi-week.
Judgement work for leaders under sustained pressure. Not performance coaching — senior coaching for CEOs and executives who must remain credible, decisive, and coherent when responsibility cannot be delegated.
For leaders navigating sustained complexity, high-stakes communication, or the internal patterns that pressure reveals.
Facilitated advisory for executive teams and boards. Every session designed in response to what the team is actually carrying — the decisions pending, the tensions unresolved, the clarity the organization needs but hasn't found yet.
For away days, board retreats, and the moments when senior leaders need to think seriously together rather than just be in the same room.
Speaking for leaders who want substance over spectacle
Keynotes and masterclasses built for senior audiences navigating complexity, change, and consequence. Not inspiration. Application.
Four keynotes for senior leadership
60-minute addresses on the leadership disciplines that matter when stakes are high and outcomes are irreversible.
- Leading Under Pressure — How leaders show up when pressure reveals the operating system
- The Invisible Shift — Governing what's already in motion when clarity is incomplete
- Critical Decision Making — Judgement under scrutiny and social pressure
- What Capital Costs — The organizational and human price of growth decisions
Interactive working sessions
2-4 hour deep dives for senior leadership groups who want to apply the frameworks to their own context, not just hear about them.
- Leadership Under Pressure: Applied — Working session on patterns, presence, and pressure discipline for teams
- Critical Decision Making: Applied — Live session on decision quality and shared criteria for judgement at senior level
If your leaders need reassurance, there are easier rooms to be in. If they need clarity, we should talk.