Private engagement for leadership teams, boards, and ownership groups carrying decisions that span multiple seats. The dynamic that makes the decision hard is almost always the dynamic inside the room itself. Individual advisory addresses one person. This addresses the structure everyone in the room is operating inside.
Succession. Restructure. Recapitalization. Co-founder alignment. Board transition. Multi-party governance. The decisions priced at $15,000 and above share one thing: they do not close with one person.
Weekly leadership meetings end with "we are aligned." Two days later the same questions are still open. The decision is being quietly re-made through individual decisions across the week. Consensus in the room, divergence in execution.
Every meeting has the agenda. The agenda is fine. The real question, the one that sits under the agenda, gets deflected whenever it comes up. Three quarters pass. The real question is still under the agenda.
Two people who built something together cannot agree on direction. Neither wants to name the conflict. The business moves sideways while both look for neutral ground that does not exist.
The CEO thinks the team is executing one strategy. The team is executing four slightly different interpretations of it. Nobody has said so out loud because nobody is sure which version is the real one.
Succession, exit, restructure. Multiple owners, different timelines, different risk tolerances. Nobody is willing to be the person who forces the decision. The window narrows while the group waits.
The team is too close. Stan is not. The outside read is the product, and it addresses the structure every member of the room is operating inside.
The work happens during the actual meeting. The team watches the structural mistake get named in real time. That is the product. No parallel individual sessions.
No report. No follow-up email with action items. The decision closes during the engagement, or the reason it cannot is named. The sponsor knows which one before the engagement ends.
Nothing written down unless the sponsor requests it. Nothing shared outside the room. Conflict check before every engagement. Detailed protocol below.
Two to six months. Longer than individual engagements because the room is more complex.
Every two to four weeks. In person where geography allows.
The meeting is the work. Stan sits in the team's actual meeting. Not a separate offsite.
Anchored to one specific transition or decision. When the decision closes, the engagement closes.
From $15,000 for a defined scope. Priced against the decision being carried, not against hours.
If the decision is individual and has been open for months, start here. Tier 01 Private Engagement is the usual shape.
Adjacent pathIf the CEO is carrying a structural pattern alone and the team has not yet been brought in, start here. Tier 02 Principal Circle is the usual shape.
Adjacent pathIf one person is carrying more than can be processed cleanly and the issue is not yet multi-party, start here. The newsletter is the entry point on that path.
When the decision spans more than one seat. The dynamic that makes the decision hard is almost always the dynamic inside the room itself. A leadership team, a board, or an ownership group each carry weight that individual engagements cannot address structurally.
No recording of any conversation. No written deliverables unless the sponsor requests them. Where fiduciary duty applies, Stan respects the chain of responsibility and does not substitute for board process. A conflict check precedes every engagement. Full protocol detailed above in the confidentiality section.
Two to six months. Longer than individual engagements because the room is more complex. Cadence is every two to four weeks. In person where geography allows. The engagement closes when the decision closes.
Starts from $15,000 for a defined scope. Priced against the decision being carried, not against hours. Scope, cadence, and terms are set in the first conversation. Not every application converts to engagement.
When the decision lives across multiple seats, the conversation belongs in the room.