Direct Counsel

Executive & Board-Level Advisory

The highest-leverage work. Advisory counsel for senior executives and boards navigating consequential decisions. Time-bounded engagement, shaped entirely by context. High-intensity involvement at critical moments rather than ongoing presence.

The focus is organizational health, leadership structure, agenda clarity, and decision quality. The method is direct engagement with the people who hold accountability.

Recent work has included strategic partnership with a top-tier global alternative investment firm, advising on enterprise governance, cross-functional alignment, and leadership capability across technology functions.

Characteristics

  • Senior-level counsel
  • Time-bounded
  • Context-specific

Focus Areas

  • Organizational health
  • Leadership structure
  • Agenda clarity
  • Decision quality

Team Sessions

Leadership Workshops & Programs

Facilitated sessions that translate judgment into shared understanding. For senior leadership teams working through real challenges with real stakes.

The outcome is alignment: common language, coherent medium-term strategy, and clarity about where attention should go. Structured work on consequential questions that require the full room.

Tracking Success

The flagship team program. An immersive experience rooted in the ancient art of wildlife tracking, placing participants in the footsteps of expert trackers working in conservation. Through branching decisions and vivid storytelling, teams develop five critical leadership mindsets: Discernment, Curiosity, Practical Imagination, Adaptability, and Reverence.

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Recent programs delivered for senior teams at global banks, professional services firms, high-growth tech companies, and non-profit organizations. Virtual or in-room, from 6 to 300+ participants.

Characteristics

  • Senior leadership teams
  • Live, facilitated
  • Built around real challenges

Outcomes

  • Strategic clarity
  • Collaboration and trust
  • Adaptive thinking
  • Execution on shared goals

Keynotes

Speaking & Thought Leadership

One-to-many amplification of core ideas. Keynotes and leadership events for senior audiences. The purpose is to shift perspective—giving leaders new ways to see the challenges they face.

When The Buffalo Turns

A keynote on risk mindset. Transforming how leaders see, interpret, and act on risk—moving from avoidance to ownership. Built around an unforgettable wildlife encounter that reframes risk as the terrain of progress, not something to push onto a framework.

The Healing Is in the Care, Not the Scalpel

A keynote on accelerating performance after change. After the restructure, the merger, the strategic pivot—the real work of recovery begins. This talk reveals how to identify and empower Recovery Catalysts: the steady, trusted influencers who drive organizational healing.

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Recent engagements include a national risk leadership conference for a leading global professional services firm (700+ senior leaders), executive technology leadership of a major North American bank, and senior leadership teams at top-tier global hedge funds.

Format

  • 45-60 minutes
  • Senior audiences
  • Leadership events and conferences

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