Frequently Asked Questions

Senior professionals with deep expertise who face complex career decisions that don't have obvious answers. You're already accomplished. You've built teams, delivered results, and earned credibility. But you're at a point where the next move requires more than hard work or domain excellence. You need pattern recognition from someone who has seen hundreds of similar situations and can identify opportunities others miss.

Typically, you're a Director, VP, or senior specialist contemplating advancement to VP, SVP, or C-suite roles. Or you're navigating organizational complexity like mergers, restructures, or leadership transitions where dynamics matter as much as performance.

We start with a brief assessment that helps us both understand if there's a fit. You answer questions about your current situation, career objectives, and the specific challenges you're facing. We review your responses and, if there's alignment, we schedule a qualification conversation.

This isn't about gatekeeping for the sake of exclusivity. It's about ensuring we can actually help. Our approach works exceptionally well for certain situations and profiles. For others, there are better resources. The qualification process protects your time as much as ours.

Three factors matter most: complexity of the challenge, readiness for strategic thinking, and mutual respect for the partnership approach.

Complexity: You're facing decisions where the right answer isn't obvious. Multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, organizational politics, or market dynamics create genuine strategic challenges.

Readiness: You're open to examining assumptions and exploring perspectives you haven't considered. You value insight over validation.

Partnership mindset: You understand this is collaborative strategic thinking, not advice delivery. You're comfortable with a relationship where we challenge each other's thinking to get to better outcomes.

We work with senior professionals who have deep domain expertise and face complex organizational dynamics. While our pattern recognition is strongest with professionals in technology, operations, product, and business leadership roles, the principles of identifying and positioning your skills, knowledge, and experiences apply universally.

What matters most is the complexity of your situation and your readiness for strategic thinking partnership, not your specific functional background. If you're a senior professional facing the challenges we describe throughout this FAQ, we consider those situations case by case.