The Clarity Intensive
£3,750· One crucial problem. One focused intervention. A clearer route forward.
There are times when six months of executive coaching is not what you require.
You may be facing a situation that has become sufficiently arduous, significant, or complex that you need to step away from the daily routine to reflect properly.
Perhaps you are navigating a major leadership decision.
Perhaps a relationship at board or senior level has become strained.
Perhaps you have inherited a role or organisation that differs from what you anticipated.
Perhaps you are pulled between competing priorities, stakeholders, or obligations.
Or perhaps you simply recognise that you are too involved in the situation to see it with objectivity.
The Clarity Intensive is designed for that specific moment.
It is a concentrated executive thought partnership centred on one significant leadership challenge.
Instead of diluting the process over months of scheduled sessions, we carve out the time and space to grasp the underlying truth, analyse competing pressures, challenge your assumptions, and establish your next steps.
The objective is not to provide a generic formula. It is to help you perceive the situation with clarity and depart with a well-considered way forward.
The Clarity Intensive suits a specific, vital issue requiring concentrated attention immediately.
Room to Think Monthly is for ongoing leadership duties where you need a regular, private space to think.
The Depth Partnership is for major periods of leadership or organisational change with sustained support over six months.
The Clarity Intensive is a concentrated piece of one-to-one work built around one significant leadership challenge.
You are not merely paying for a day of conversation only to be left to determine how to apply it. The £3,750 investment covers the initial preparation, a full private Intensive day, the post-session thinking and synthesis, and a further conversation to review the outcome once you have put the thinking into practice.
The purpose is to give one critical issue your undivided attention and to depart with a clearer understanding of the context, your options, and your subsequent actions.
Before the Intensive: getting properly prepared
We commence with a 45–60 minute private diagnostic conversation, usually about a week before the Intensive itself.
This is where I get beneath the initial description of the problem. We explore what is happening, how the situation developed, which stakeholders are involved, why it matters, and what makes it difficult.
We examine what you have already attempted, what you perceive the problem to be, where you feel stuck, and the consequences if nothing changes. We also establish your desired outcomes for the Intensive.
You will then complete a brief Clarity Audit before the day. This provides an opportunity to reflect on the situation away from immediate pressure and consider the issue from several perspectives: the problem itself, the underlying factors, the wider system, your own position, and what you actually want to achieve.
I review this before we meet. This ensures the Intensive day is not spent using the first few hours merely establishing the background. We arrive ready to work.
The Intensive day: one day devoted entirely to the issue
You then have one full private Intensive day, typically from 09:00–16:30, with appropriate breaks included.
There is no rigid coaching programme to follow. The structure is shaped entirely by your specific circumstances.
We start by establishing what is actually happening. We separate facts from assumptions, perceptions and interpretations, identifying the aspects of the situation that require greater clarity.
We then look beyond the immediate problem. Who else is involved? What pressures are they operating under? Where does formal authority sit, and who holds informal influence?
What is being discussed openly and what is being left unsaid? What competing interests are shaping the situation? What would happen if you changed your behaviour or approach?
This allows us to consider the problem as part of a wider organisational system rather than treating it as something that exists solely within you.
We then examine your own position
A significant part of the Intensive involves understanding how you are positioned within the situation.
What are you assuming? What are you protecting? What are you reluctant to confront? Where might your previous experience be assisting you, and where might that same experience lead you to approach this in a familiar way that no one longer works? What are you responsible for, and what sits outside your remit?
What are you tolerating or avoiding? The purpose is not to assign blame, but to ensure we examine the whole picture, including the areas where you have influence.
We turn the problem into choices
Once we have a clearer understanding of the situation, we examine the choices available to you. These are not theoretical ideas, but realistic options.
We test the assumptions behind each one and consider the likely consequences. What happens if you act, and what happens if you do nothing? What would each option require of you? What are you prepared to accept, and what is non-negotiable?
What conversation needs to happen? What decision needs to be made? What might you be overlooking? The aim is to move from uncertainty towards a much firmer grasp of your actual choices.
We finish with a practical way forward
The final part of the day involves translating thinking into action. We identify what you are going to do, what must happen first, which decisions matter most, and what you need to monitor as you move forward.
Where appropriate, we establish a 90-day direction of travel. This is not a rigid action plan of tasks for the sake of it, but a practical framework for what you have decided to do and how you will judge if the approach is working.
After the Intensive: the thinking does not simply stop
Within 3–5 working days, I provide a written synthesis of the Intensive. This captures the principal themes we explored, the key conclusions reached, the choices identified, and the agreed direction.
It gives you something concrete to return to, rather than relying on your recollection of a long and intensive conversation.
A follow-up conversation
Around 3–4 weeks later, we have a further 60-minute review conversation. This is where the thinking meets reality.
We look at the outcomes following the Intensive. What did you do, and what happened as a result? How did others respond? What changed, and what proved harder than expected?
What did you learn? Has your understanding of the situation evolved? Does the original direction still make sense? If something requires reconsidering, we can work through it.
This follow-up ensures the Intensive is not just an interesting day of reflection, but an opportunity to test the thinking against real-world results.
In total, your £3,750 includes:
Before the Intensive:
45–60 minute private diagnostic conversation.
Clarity Audit to structure your thinking before the day.
Review and preparation based on the information you provide.
The Intensive:
One full private one-to-one Intensive day (09:00–16:30).
Detailed exploration of the situation and stakeholder context.
Challenge to assumptions and existing ways of thinking.
Exploration of your own position and influence.
Development and testing of realistic options.
Clear decisions and priorities.
A practical 90-day direction of travel.
After the Intensive:
Written synthesis within 3–5 working days.
60-minute follow-up review approximately 3–4 weeks later.
What you are actually buying
You are buying a period in which one important problem gets your undivided attention. You receive preparation before we meet, rather than starting from scratch.
You get a full day rather than a series of short conversations squeezed around other commitments. You get challenge as well as support.
You get time to examine the wider system rather than looking only at the immediate symptom. You get the written record of the thinking afterwards and a follow-up conversation once you have had the opportunity to act.
The result is not a promise that every difficult situation can be solved in one day. It is something more practical: a properly examined situation, a clearer understanding of what is really going on, a tested set of choices, and a considered direction for your next steps.
£3,750. One significant issue. One focused day. Preparation, deep work, and follow-through.