I work privately with a small number of CEOs, creative directors and founders, most of whom arrive by referral, usually at a moment of transition: a new role, a succession, a repositioning, a decision that cannot be discussed inside the organisation.
The format
Private Advisory is a confidential, three-month mandate with a defined scope. We agree at the start on what must be clearer, decided or resolved by the end. Sessions are held in person in London or Milan, or remotely, at the rhythm the mandate requires. I take a limited number of these mandates at any one time.
What clients bring to this work
The first hundred days. A creative and commercial conflict at the board level. A succession, offered or feared. An exit, an acquisition, a founder’s next chapter. The decision behind the decision.
What I bring
Twenty years advising luxury houses, two national government programmes designed and delivered, and the pattern recognition that comes from having sat on every side of the table: consultant, studio, boardroom and ministry. I am an accredited Master Executive Coach (Association for Coaching, UK); in this work, that accreditation is a tool, not the product. The product is judgement.
Discretion
No client of this practice is named, referenced or implied.
How it begins
With a single confidential conversation to establish whether the fit is right, followed, if we proceed, by a short Diagnostic that defines the mandate’s scope.