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Results
Scored by the people around you.
Every engagement is measured by the principal's own team — before, midway and after. These are their numbers, not mine.
92 percent renew or refer
86 executives
Scored by their teams
Case notes
Four rooms, four outcomes.
Every engagement is scored by the principal's own team, before and after. These are their numbers, not mine.
92%
of sponsors renew or refer
+31
average shift in team trust score
13 yrs
of fortnightly rooms
CFO — Series C fintech
From the numbers person to the second voice in the room.
Promoted from finance director eight months before an IPO process. We worked on presence with the board and on letting a strong team be strong.
+41
team trust score, 12 months
9 of 9
direct reports retained
Founder & CEO — climate hardware
A founder who stopped being the bottleneck.
Forty people, every decision through one inbox. A year later the exec team runs the week and the founder runs the next three years.
62%
fewer decisions escalated
2.3×
revenue, same headcount
VP Engineering — public SaaS
Promoted twice in eighteen months.
Technically brilliant, politically invisible. We built a way of being heard in rooms where the loudest voice usually won.
2
promotions in 18 months
+27
engagement, 140-person org
Chief Executive — hospital trust
Leading eleven thousand people through a merger.
Two cultures, one winter. The work was about tempo: what to decide this week, what to refuse to decide, and how to say both out loud.
11k
staff through the merger
−18%
senior turnover
In their words
What principals say when I am not in the room.
Names are shortened at clients' request. References are available after a chemistry call.
05 voices
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She is the only person who tells me the truth before the board does.
Priya N.
CFO — Series C fintech
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Six months in, my exec team stopped managing me and started arguing with me. That was the point.
Tomas R.
Founder & CEO — climate hardware
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I came for a promotion plan. I left with a different way of running a room.
Dana K.
VP Engineering — public SaaS
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Helena does not give advice. She asks the question you have been avoiding for a year, then waits.
Sir Alan W.
Chair — national charity
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The 360 was brutal and she made it useful. My team noticed the change before I did.
Marguerite L.
COO — retail group
Accepting three principals — Q4 2026
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Helena Marsh