Strategic
Intensives
Time-bound engagements for specific inflection points where concentrated judgement support is required. Defined scope. Clear timeline. Singular focus on navigating a particular transition or decision with irreversible consequences.
Unlike ongoing advisory, these engagements have a defined scope, a clear timeline, and a singular focus on navigating a particular moment or decision with irreversible consequences.
The structure is intensive. We meet more frequently than a retainer would support, the work is concentrated around specific milestones, and the engagement concludes when the decision is made or the transition is complete.
Most Intensives reveal in the first session that the presenting problem is not the real problem. That is not a complication. It is where the work begins.
When to Engage
- Crisis or organisational fracture requiring rapid assessment
- Capital event with time pressure
- Leadership succession, restructuring, or major pivot
- M&A preparation and stakeholder management
- A consequential decision that cannot be undone
Structured around what the moment requires
One Day
The Executive Intensive
A single structured day for executives who need clarity at a defined moment. One consequential decision. Seven dimensions. The most common entry point into this work.
The Seven Dimensions
What is actually happening, beneath the presenting version of it.
How the decision sits within the broader structure of the organisation and its relationships.
What is actually being decided, and what the available choices genuinely are.
What this costs, what it returns, and what it trades.
How this decision will be explained — to the board, investors, the team, the market.
What happens if this goes well. What happens if it does not. What cannot be undone.
What the decision requires to become real, and who owns what.
The Executive Intensive often serves as the entry point into a longer advisory relationship for leaders who have not worked this way before. Many who engage an Intensive continue into an Advisory Partnership — the day provides the clarity of fit that makes that decision straightforward.
Two to Six Weeks
Multi-Week Intensive
Concentrated counsel across a defined period, structured around a specific high-stakes moment. Typically two to three working sessions per week, moving between diagnostic thinking, consequence mapping, decision preparation, and communication readiness.
For leaders navigating moments that are too complex for a single day but too bounded for an ongoing retainer. Capital events. Transactions. Restructures. The situations where the work has a clear beginning, middle, and end.
- Diagnosis first — establishing what is actually true before what is preferred
- Working sessions focused on specific decisions, trade-offs, and preparation
- Consolidating the thinking and preparing for the moment
Insight that moves work forward, not files that sit still.
- Consequence mapping of key decisions and trade-offs
- Decision frameworks aligned to the specific context
- Narrative preparation for investor, board, or public moments
- Documentation of agreed decisions and next steps
On Scope
Scope is agreed at the outset and does not expand without a deliberate conversation. Scope creep in advisory work usually signals that the original diagnosis was incomplete — and the right response is to name that, not quietly absorb it.
On Availability
Availability for Intensives is limited. If a significant decision or event is approaching, the earlier the conversation, the more useful the work can be.
If a significant decision or transition is approaching
Share the context. If a Strategic Intensive serves the situation, we will schedule a conversation to confirm fit and structure.
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