Executive Services
Everyone comes to you. Who do you go to?
The biggest decisions in your company have one person thinking about them. We become your senior right hand, someone to think it through with, and someone to take the follow-through off your plate.
On the CEO's mindThis month
"Is the Head of Delivery the right person for the next stage?"
Exit"Do we hire a COO, or promote from within?"
Structure"My co-founder wants to step back."
Leadership"Five priorities. Room for two."
Priorities
Six decisions. Nobody to think them through with.
- If you're the founder or CEO
- The decisions only you can make are piling up, and the people you'd normally ask are part of them.
- If you're on the leadership team
- You can see decisions stuck at the top, and you're not in a position to unstick them.
- Usually
- 8–25 people. Founders and CEOs who don't yet have, or can't yet justify, a full-time COO or chief of staff.
Recognition
You may be here because…
Six signs the company's most important decisions are waiting on one person with no one beside them.
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See itSound familiar
You're weighing a senior exit and can't talk it through with anyone inside.
UnderneathThe people you'd normally ask are part of the decision.
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See itSound familiar
Big decisions have been open for months.
UnderneathNobody owns getting them to a decision.
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See itHow it works
The leadership team agrees in the meeting, then does something else.
UnderneathDecisions aren't written down with owners and dates.
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See itSound familiar
The board asks for a plan, and you build it the week before.
UnderneathPlanning runs on the board's calendar, not the company's.
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See itSound familiar
You're about to hire a senior role nobody has defined.
UnderneathThe org design question came before the hiring question.
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See itHow it works
Everything is a priority.
UnderneathNobody is holding the trade-offs.
If three of these sound familiar, you don't need more advice. You need someone inside the work with you.
Sound familiar?
Click one. See what it becomes.
Every one of these gets the same thing: a straight answer, and the follow-through so it actually happens.
How it works
We take it. We fix it. We run it.
Call us with whatever is on your mind. Messy is fine.
We help you sort out what matters, and tell you what we'd do.
We handle the follow-through, and stay in your corner for the next one.
What it looks like
See it in action.
A scenario, not a case study, this is the shape of the work.
The founder of a 12-person agency has been losing sleep for a month over whether to promote her strongest designer or hire a creative director.
One 45-minute call. She makes the call, we write the promotion plan and the conversation for her.
Done that week.
No separate contract, no surprise invoice, billed as you use it.
Start with the situation
You don't need the decision framed yet. Bring us the one you keep putting off.
Being the person everyone comes to gets lonely. You don't have to carry it alone. We'll tell you how we'd frame it, who needs a say and what it would take to decide it this month.