I came to this work after 15 years in oncology, 10 years in
corporate, and now five years with my own practice.
In oncology, I learned that what someone brings and what gets
recorded about them are two different things - and that the gap
has consequences. We were taught to close it. What you bring and
what you require to deliver was one conversation - educated in
from the start.
I also learned to hold the hardest conversations there are - the
ones where someone has to look directly at what is true, decide,
and keep moving - because the stakes did not allow for less.
In corporate, I found the opposite: the same gap in every senior
room, handled with a very different discipline - often very little
of it. Positions built to be defensible, not proactive. Leaders
who know exactly what they carry, but have never put it down as
evidence - too busy carrying it.
I sat in one of those seats. The scope kept arriving and I kept
absorbing it - at one point my pay went down while the work grew.
I knew it was not right, and I kept accepting anyway. The first
position this work ever built was my own: I used it to decide what
came next.
More than 130 senior leaders across financial services since.
I am not in your market. I am not in your network. And I spent
years in a profession where confidentiality was clinical, not
contractual.
It is why people talk to me.
