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.
Same structure. Different starting point.
The VP who delivered $1M and watched her peer get SVP.
Three flawless migrations. The most stable platform in company history. The promotion still went sideways.
Three years letting the work speak. The work whispered.
A Director who had been passed over twice, on track for a third, before we changed what leadership was actually hearing.
Three competing offers in 11 weeks, $40K above the original ask.
A VP Engineering who had not interviewed in seven years walked into a leveraged negotiation with three live offers on the table.
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.
15 minutes. No pitch. You'll leave with at least one useful observation whether we work together or not.