04Results
Every engagement is measured by the principal's own team — before, midway and after. These are their numbers, not mine.
Case notes
Every engagement is scored by the principal's own team, before and after. These are their numbers, not mine.
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.
Technically brilliant, politically invisible. We built a way of being heard in rooms where the loudest voice usually won.
Forty people, every decision through one inbox. A year later the exec team runs the week and the founder runs the next three years.
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.
In their words
Names are shortened at clients' request. References are available after a chemistry call.
05 voicesShe is the only person who tells me the truth before the board does.
Six months in, my exec team stopped managing me and started arguing with me. That was the point.
I came for a promotion plan. I left with a different way of running a room.
Helena does not give advice. She asks the question you have been avoiding for a year, then waits.
The 360 was brutal and she made it useful. My team noticed the change before I did.
