The Decision

Bigger decisions require better judgement.

Career. Leadership. Business. Transition. Get clear on the decision. Make the move.

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Four ways to start.

Start with a clear read of your position, work it in a small group, or take it private. Begin where the decision in front of you calls for.

Diagnostic™ Start here

Ten questions to identify your position, your constraint and your next move. The tenth is written in your own words, so the diagnosis reflects your real situation.

Time CommitmentAbout 20 minutesten questions
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The Session One to one

A one-hour private session built around a single outcome. We agree the outcome beforehand, then work to it: a decision made, a position clarified or a next move defined.

Time Commitment£5001 hour · outcome-based
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The Cohort Small group

A ten-week, small-group programme to clarify your direction, make the decision and build your next move, with structure, pace and independent challenge.

By application and assessment. Every application is reviewed personally, and acceptance is not automatic.

£4,00010-week programme
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Higher Ground Partnership™ Private advisory

Six months of private strategic advisory for consequential decisions. For executives, founders and leaders who need judgement, challenge and practical support through the move.

By application and assessment. Places are limited, and acceptance is not automatic.

£3,000/mo6 months · by application
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Most start with the Diagnostic™, see the real constraint, and choose from there. The Cohort and the Partnership are by application and assessment: I review each one personally, and acceptance is not automatic. Places are deliberately few, because depth cannot be done at scale.

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Do not know which path is right?

Start with the Uplevel Diagnostic™. Ten questions, and one clearer view of your position and your next move.

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The Cohort · Small-group programme

The Cohort

A structured ten-week programme through your two hardest stages, worked live alongside a small group facing the same thing — with me leading.

£4,000 · ten-week programme · by application and assessment

What it is

A small group, meeting fortnightly over ten weeks, working the method together in real time. You get my guidance and the discipline of a shared timetable — plus the honest scrutiny of peers who are in the same position and will not let you drift.

How you join

The Cohort is by application and assessment. You apply, I review your situation personally, and we speak before any place is offered. Acceptance is not automatic: the group works only when every member is a good fit for it, and for the method. If the Cohort is not right for you now, I will say so and point you to a better first step.

Who it is for

The person who has the clarity but not the momentum. You know roughly what you need to do; what is missing is structure, pace, and people to hold you to it. Also for those who do their best thinking alongside others.

How it works

Five fortnightly live sessions over ten weeks
A small group — never a crowd
Work set between sessions, reviewed openly
My guidance, shared across the group

What you walk away with

Real movement through your two hardest stages
A plan you have begun to act on
A small group of peers who know your situation

Honest note

The Cohort gives you my guidance, but shared — not private. If your situation is confidential, unusually complex, or demands undivided attention, one of the private engagements below will serve you better.

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The Partnership · Private advisory

The Partnership

Six months as your private thinking partner through the full arc of a transition — across both the personal and organisational tracks. The deepest of the individual engagements.

£3,000/month · six-month engagement · by application and assessment

How you join

The Partnership is by application and assessment. You apply, I review your situation personally, and we hold a conversation to test the fit on both sides. Acceptance is not automatic. I take a small number of partners at a time, and only where I believe the work can genuinely move your position.

What the fee is for

Not hours, and not information. Four things you cannot buy off a shelf:

Judgement — a second mind on decisions that are expensive to get wrong, from someone who has made and watched these calls before.
Accountability — being walked through the doing, not handed a plan and left alone, which is exactly where most people falter.
Access — me in the room when it matters, between the scheduled sessions, at the moments that decide things.
Honesty — someone with no stake in flattering you, who will tell you the truth about your position when others will not.

What it is

The Partnership walks the whole journey with you — from the honest first look, through finding your footing and your opening, to building the next level and consolidating it. A steady monthly rhythm of private sessions, with access in between for the moments that matter, because the real work happens between the conversations, not only in them.

Who it is for

Someone facing a transition too consequential to navigate alone or settle in a single decision — a genuine change of level, direction, or circumstance — who wants a dedicated partner across the full arc, not just at the start.

How the six months run

Month 1

See where you stand

The honest audit. Where you stand, without the flattering or fearful story. Everything is built on this.

Month 2

Get steady enough to decide

Footing and clarity, so the next move comes from strength rather than fear or the comfort of standing still.

Month 3

Find your real opening

Where the value is moving, and what you already hold to claim it. "I want more" becomes a clear direction.

Month 4

Build it — part one

The direction becomes real moves. First action, with someone beside you as you make it.

Month 5

Build it — part two

Through the messy middle, where momentum fades and most people quietly stop when they are alone. You will not be.

Month 6

Become someone who keeps rising

Consolidate what is changed, set the next horizon, and close well — with the capacity to keep going without me.

What you walk away with

A transition navigated in full, not just begun
A consolidated position and a clear next horizon
The capacity to keep rising on your own

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