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Enquiry · Succession & Transition Readiness

The seat, the successor, and the position being left behind.

A single session, three instruments, one written close.

Succession Readiness is a principal-led examination of three positions held together: the role as it is currently held, the person being considered to hold it next, and the work being set down. What follows is a short enquiry, read personally, used to understand the transition in view and whether this 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.

This is not a search exercise, a coaching plan for a named successor, or a governance review.

It tends to suit founders, principals, executives and partners working in the long horizon of succession, sale, retirement or departure — and who want one room in which the three positions are held together.

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.

The seat, the horizon, and — if known — the person being considered. Specifics over abstractions.

The readiness of the successor, the shape of the seat as it currently is, the work of setting it down — name the weight that has settled on you.

III.

Disposition

Read for readiness and timing.

What has changed — internally, in the institution, or in the horizon — that makes this the moment to examine the transition.

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

Engagement in view

Succession & Transition Readiness (single session, £2,250)

Statement

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