Services
Every engagement follows one discipline — diagnosis before prescription, transfer before departure — and ends with a named internal owner running the system we designed.
Four domains
The flagship line: helping executive leaders design, repair, and strengthen the operating systems by which their institutions govern, decide, communicate, execute, and learn.
Decision rights and accountability that hold under pressure · meetings that convert to decisions · governance cadences and risk structures that survive transitions.
Operating systems that hold under pressure — continuity, post-disaster rebuilding, all-hazards readiness, and the governance and fiscal capacity that determine whether a plan survives contact with a real disaster.
We test the institution, not just the plan.
Building the executives who run the systems — operating discipline, decision quality, governance fluency, and the decision-rights architecture that lets a leadership team act coherently.
Systems language, not coaching language: how an institution decides.
Owner's-representative governance for programs delivered under CMAR/GMP, with the decision logs, risk registers, and audit-ready documentation that survive federal scrutiny.
Offered only on programs with no cooling-off conflict.
The engagement ladder
Fixed-fee wherever possible, because confident advisory carries its own risk. Pricing beyond the two public anchors is scoped after a qualification conversation.
For
A senior executive who knows the institution is working hard but not working coherently.
You leave with
An Executive Clarity Brief — a decision-framing document, not a mini-diagnostic.
Format
2–3 hour session + written brief · remote-first
Fee
Fixed fee, $5,000–$8,000
A defensible picture of where the institution actually stands.
Request a DiagnosticFor
Commissioners, agency heads, CEOs, founders, and boards — public, private, or nonprofit — who need an evidence-based current-state read before they act.
You leave with
A scored readiness assessment, a prioritized risk register, and a 30/60/90-day decision roadmap.
Format
30 days, fixed scope
Fee
Diagnostic engagements begin at $35,000
Stabilize a system under pressure — and hand it back running.
Discuss a SprintFor
An institution in a moment of strain: new leadership, a failed survey or accreditation finding, a stalled flagship program.
You leave with
A running operating cadence and a named internal owner who can sustain it.
Format
90 days, fixed fee
Fee
Scoped after a qualification conversation
The full executive operating system, designed and installed.
Explore a BuildFor
Executives and boards ready to build the durable system, not patch the symptom.
You leave with
A documented operating system the institution owns and runs.
Format
3–6 months, fixed fee
Fee
Scoped after a diagnostic
Owner's-representative governance for capital programs that must survive an audit.
InquireFor
Boards and sponsors of healthcare and public-infrastructure programs under CMAR/GMP.
You leave with
A governance system the program board can run for the life of the build.
Format
12–36 months · monthly governance retainer
Fee
Engaged after conflict screening
For
An executive who wants ongoing principal counsel through implementation — deliberately bounded so it never becomes dependence.
You leave with
Standing counsel, a quarterly governance review, and an institution that still runs itself.
Format
Monthly retainer, deliberately bounded
Fee
Scoped to access level and cadence
A facilitated decision your board can act on — and a playbook to keep it.
Plan a WorkshopFor
Boards and executive teams that need a governance retreat, an operating-rhythm reset, or AI-governance readiness.
You leave with
A facilitated decision and a transfer playbook.
Format
Half-day to multi-day
Fee
Scoped by duration and preparation
The boundary
The practice provides executive systems advisory. It does not provide lobbying; procurement influence; commodity grant-writing; IT software implementation; construction management; legal advice; or any service that trades on political access or inside-government navigation.
Every prospect passes a fit and conflict screen before a proposal is written. Where a need falls outside this lane, we say so and refer it.