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Enquiry · The Diagnostic

One decision, examined with the seriousness it warrants.

A single, principal-led session — by written enquiry.

The Diagnostic is a ninety-minute examination of one decision, position or transition, with a written close within seven days. What follows is a short enquiry, read personally, used to understand what is in front of you and whether one session is the right shape for it.

For review

A short overview of the work, its structure and investment — for you or a colleague to review before applying.

After ninety days

What is different.

Ninety days in, the change is not that you are busier, sharper, or better resourced. It is that the decision you arrived with has been made — cleanly, on your own authority — and the next two or three behind it are already visible in outline. The internal noise that made the brief feel urgent has quieted; what remains is a steadier read of your own judgment, a thesis for the next decade you can defend in a single sentence, and the unmistakable sense that the compounding question is no longer what to do but who you are now becoming as the person making the call.

The arc

What happens after you submit.

01

Private review

Your application is read personally by Irene within seven days.

02

A conversation

If there is mutual fit, you are invited into a confidential conversation to understand the brief in depth.

03

Scoping

If we proceed, the engagement is privately scoped to your decision, cadence and arc — and shared in writing.

Application

Reviewed personally.

All applications are confidential. A response is offered within seven days.

The Diagnostic is not a discovery call, a sample of a longer engagement, or a sounding board for a decision already made.

It tends to suit leaders holding one decision that has begun to outsize its weekly conversation — and who want it examined cleanly, once, in a private room.

For review

What follows is a short written enquiry. It is read personally and used to judge fit, readiness and the seriousness of the brief. There is no preferred length — considered answers are weighted more heavily than long ones.

This is not a test. It is the beginning of the conversation. Write as you would speak — directly, and without performance.

I.

Identification

For correspondence.

A short line. Title, company or context — whichever locates you most precisely.

II.

The brief

Read for clarity of situation, not for polish.

Name the one thing. Specifics over abstractions.

A clean read on the decision, a frame for the trade-offs, a structured set of questions to take into the room — be precise.

III.

Disposition

Read for readiness and timing.

What has changed — internally or externally — that makes this the moment to put the decision under examination.

The question, tension or unknown you have not yet been able to resolve on your own.

Engagement in view

The Diagnostic (single session, £750)

Statement

What is written above is submitted for review, not for reply. If a conversation follows, it will be private and candid in kind.