Case studies

What the work actually looks like, with the names taken out.

Every engagement is confidential by default. The three capsules below are real client situations from inside the practice, anonymized - role, sector, length of engagement, and outcome stay accurate; identifying detail is removed. Structure is the same every time: situation, move, outcome, time.

Three engagements

Same structure. Different starting point.

Leadership Identity Recode™

The VP who delivered $1M and watched her peer get SVP.

How she came to hold the authority her title already implied, with the promotion, comp, and decision rights that followed.

VP EngineeringEnterprise SaaS, public companyLeadership Identity Recode™ · 14 weeks
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Leadership Identity Recode™

Two cycles missed. One VP offer at the next one.

How a Director stopped waiting for the work to speak and started holding the authority the title already implied, with the promotion and comp that followed.

Director of EngineeringFinTech, Series DLeadership Identity Recode™ · 12 weeks
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Senior Landing Program™

Three competing offers in 11 weeks, $40K above the original ask.

How a VP who had not interviewed in seven years landed a senior role with 1–3 competing offers in 90 days, with a done-for-you search built for Managers, Directors, VPs, and senior professionals at Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic and many more.

VP EngineeringBig Tech adjacent · prior role at a household-name platformSenior Landing Program™ · 11 weeks
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Executive Advisory

The CTO with a reorg, a hostile board, and a CEO succession stacking in the same quarter.

How a peer-level operator on call made the next reorg, board conversation, and exit decision the right ones, without a peer above the line to think out loud with.

CTOEnterprise SaaS, PE-backedExecutive Advisory · confidential monthly retainer, 9 months and open
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Sources, sample size, and what counts as a competitive offer are documented on the methodology page.

If one of these looks familiar, we should talk.

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