The full arc

Executive 1:1

Nine months · eighteen sessions · twenty-seven hours

The complete developmental arc, worked at the pace it actually requires, with nobody in the room but the two of us.

This is for a senior leader carrying something they cannot put down and cannot discuss anywhere — not with the team, who need certainty; not with peers, who are competitors; not with an executive coach the company appointed, who files a report.

Nine months is not an arbitrary length. It is roughly the time the developmental arc takes when it is worked honestly, and it is long enough that you cannot perform your way through it. Somewhere around month three, the version of yourself you brought to the first session stops being available. That is the point.

What actually happens

We begin with the elemental diagnostic and the Pressure Inventory — not to categorise you, but to establish where you lead from, where you do not, and what specifically happens to you when the stakes rise.

Then we work the arc. Dissolution of what has stopped serving. Clarity, which arrives before capacity and is uncomfortable for exactly that reason. The slow conversion of insight into something you can actually do under load. And finally integration — the point at which it is no longer a technique you are managing but a way you are.

Between sessions there is reading, and there is a structured reflection log. Neither is optional, and both are where most of the actual change happens.

Who it is for

  • A C-suite executive, EVP, SVP or VP, funding this themselves.
  • Someone who has already had the feedback, already done the programmes, and knows the problem is not information.
  • Someone approaching a transition — of role, of chapter, of self-conception — who wants to arrive on the other side as somebody they chose to be.
  • Someone with the nerve for it. This is not a comfortable nine months.
DurationNine months
SessionsEighteen private sessions — twenty-seven contact hours
CadenceFortnightly, adjusted to what the work requires
FormatVirtual, or in person in Budapest
DiagnosticsElemental self-diagnostic and Pressure Inventory, re-run at close with the delta
Between sessionsAssigned reading from the book series; structured reflection log
CapacitySix concurrent clients. This is a real constraint, not a device.
FeeSet out in full in the prospectus. Invoice and bank transfer.

What is not included

No organisational interface. No stakeholder input, and no report to anybody. Most clients fund this themselves; some are sponsored by their organisation, which changes nothing about how the work is done or what stays confidential — whoever pays, no third party shapes the work, sits in it, or receives anything from it.

This is also not therapy, and it is not crisis containment. If what you are carrying is clinical, I will say so at the fit call and refer you properly. That is not a failure of the conversation. It is the conversation working.

A fit call, not a sales call

Thirty minutes. We establish what you are actually carrying, and whether this work is right for it. If it is not — and sometimes it is not — I will say so and point you elsewhere.