04 · In Their Words
Working with John has been transformative. I came in overwhelmed and stuck; I left with a clear structure for how I lead and make decisions under pressure.
Ralph Shorthose, Redhouse Bank
Strategic thinking, out loud, at a whiteboard. Another mind in the room with you. For senior leaders.
The first word goes on the board.
Everything that matters happens after that.
Nothing in your week is designed for thinking.
Meetings are designed for decisions. Email is designed for response. The calendar is designed for time-blocking. Your assistant is designed for protection.
Every system around you is optimising for output. None of them are optimising for thought.
The result: you make decisions in the cracks. You arrive at the most important meeting of your quarter without having actually sat with the question. You leave the most expensive moments of your week to be navigated by reflex.
Whiteboard Sessions are the thing the rest of your week is incompatible with.
You arrive. The board is empty. We start with whatever's actually live for you, and we think it through together, out loud, until it's clear. I'm not there to watch you work. I'm the other mind in the room, asking the question you'd stopped asking, catching the thing you've gone blind to because you see it every day.
Sometimes that takes an hour. Sometimes three. The work is finished when the question is answered, when the next move is clear, the decision made.
Your thinking, out of your head, onto the board, into a solution.
The strategic question you've been carrying without having sat with. The thing you keep meaning to think about but haven't.
The mid-altitude problem that's stuck. Where the system is producing the wrong output and you can't see where the leverage is.
The tactical decision you've been over-thinking. Where you know what to do but haven't given yourself permission to do it.
These are the three altitudes. Most weeks have at least one of them building up. We find which one needs the work, and we think it through together.
Working with John has been transformative. I came in overwhelmed and stuck; I left with a clear structure for how I lead and make decisions under pressure.
Who John isFifteen years across organisational consulting and executive coaching. Gallup certified in CliftonStrengths and a FITT16 practitioner (a 16-type profile built from your CliftonStrengths results). The credentials in full
Who John works withIndividual leaders coached from AWS, Toyota, Volkswagen Financial Services, Convatec, Nexans, Bassett Mechanical and the University of Oxford, among others, across industries and countries. What the work looks like in the room
The fastest way to know if this is for you is to be at the board for an hour.
You'll know whether the practice fits you.
Book a Whiteboard SessionOne hour. No charge, nothing to prepare.
