Ongoing thinking partnership for commercial leaders.
Counsel is the other half of how Bossey works. Most of what we do with clients is project-shaped — engagements with a beginning, a middle, and a deliberate end. Counsel is different. It's standing time with a small number of leaders who want a continuing thought partner on the decisions they can't talk through internally.
Not a retainer for more services. Not coaching in the behavioral sense. A monthly or quarterly conversation with someone who has been inside businesses like yours, has seen the patterns, and will tell you what he actually thinks.
Founders and executive leadership of idea-led firms navigating a stage they haven't been in before. Sales leaders who want a sounding board outside the chain of command. CEOs carrying decisions — a partner transition, a new offer, a leadership change, a sale — that can't be workshopped with the team.
It's for people who don't need to be taught. They need to be challenged, sharpened, and told when they're right.
A standing time, usually monthly. Sometimes quarterly. Prep is light; the value is in the conversation.
Most engagements start with a ninety-minute working session to orient around the business, and then settle into rhythm. Everything is confidential. Nothing is billed by the hour.
Counsel is deliberately small. The value of the offer depends on depth — knowing the business well enough to be useful without five minutes of re-context every call — so the roster stays limited by design.
If your situation calls for something more structured than standing time and you prefer a weekly rhythm and on-call access between sessions, Move the Ball may be the better fit.
Move the Ball is the subscription companion to Growth is a Choice, our weekly Substack, and it operationalizes the practice I have used inside every business I have run or advised. We focus on three things that moved the business forward this week and three things you are going to do next week to move it again.
I review your note every Friday, meet with you for an hour every month, and am available on WhatsApp between sessions for the moments that do not wait.
The thinking in Growth is a Choice is free, always, and Move the Ball is one of the ways the thinking becomes movement in a specific business, yours.
If your situation calls for project work rather than standing time, our four engagement types → are built for that. If you're looking for access to senior buyer perspective and introductions, see The Collective →.
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