Your decisions
define your organisation
decide intelligently.
Work with founders, CEOs, and senior executives at decisive moments. When the quality of thinking available in the room is the only variable that matters.
Why leaders engage
"The need to have an honest soundboard. It is the quality of thinking available at the moment the decision has to be made."
- 01 Board and executive decisions that cannot be revisited cheaply once made
- 02 Capital, transition, and governance moments where narrative and structure matter as much as numbers
- 03 Leadership pressure that has outgrown conventional coaching or consulting
"I do not deliver advice. I improve the quality of the decisions that get made — in the room, at the moment they matter most."
Executive Advisory · Speaking · The Quorum"Founders, CEOs, and senior executives navigating inflection points — where the cost of a poor decision is measured in years, not quarters."
Capital · Governance · Transition · ReputationFour arenas where
decision quality breaks down.
Each domain is a distinct pressure point. Most senior leaders are operating in at least two simultaneously. The work is designed for all four — and for the moments where they converge.
Capital decisions are not financial decisions. They are decisions about identity, risk appetite, and future optionality — dressed in financial language. The narrative around capital is as consequential as the capital itself.
Board dynamics and collective decision-making under scrutiny. The quality of what gets decided in the room is determined by what is brought into it, how it is framed, and who is trusted to push back.
Leadership transitions — in role, in identity, in authority — are the moments when most derailment occurs. The external event is rarely the issue. The internal architecture that hasn't been updated to match it is.
Your reputational capital determines whether boards back you, capital follows you, and talent wants to work for you. Most executives leave it to chance. That is a strategic risk — not a communications problem.
For a decision that cannot wait, or a question that has been running without resolution. One structured conversation. Clear output. Defined next steps.
A structured day to diagnose the real problem, stress-test the options, and design the approach. Leaves with a framework, a decision architecture, and a narrative.
A sustained advisory relationship across one or more of the four domains. Monthly structured sessions and direct access for high-pressure moments in between.
The first conversation is always
about your situation.
No pitch. No proposal sent in advance. A direct conversation about where you are, what the decision actually is, and whether this is the right work for this moment.
Engagements begin with an Intensive, a Strategic Day, or a retained arrangement — depending on what the moment requires.
How I think about
the work between
engagements.
A publication for senior leaders navigating the decisions that carry real consequence. Essays, frameworks, and applied thinking — not inspiration. A place to think before you need to act.
Read The Quiet WorkA closed peer council
for established
CEOs and Founders.
Not a programme. Not a networking group. A working body — small by design, selected by application, and structured around the decisions that actually matter at the top.
Six principals. Monthly working sessions. Quarterly residential day. David McQueen as convener and senior thinking partner. The group runs on trust, candour, and the quality of what people bring to the room.
Register your interestFrameworks that stay in the room
long after the session ends.
Keynotes and masterclasses that deliver thinking frameworks senior leaders can apply immediately. Not inspiration that evaporates — infrastructure that travels.
Most senior leaders are not making poor decisions because they lack information. They are making them because the quality of thinking available in the room — at the moment of consequence — is not sufficient. This keynote addresses what that actually means, and what to do about it.
The first conversation
is always about
your situation.
No pitch. No proposal sent in advance. A direct conversation about where you are, what the decision actually is, and whether this is the right work for this moment.
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