The Advisory Seat

The Chair

A seat at your table for the decisions that don’t allow a second draft. Private, confidential, and reserved for a small number of leaders at a time.

You have people who report to you, people who sell to you, and people who want something from you. What you rarely have is one person in the room whose only job is to help you think clearly — who has sat where the stakes were national, and who owes you nothing but the truth.

That is the Chair. A standing advisory relationship for the calls that are yours alone to make: an acquisition, a succession, an exit, a crisis that has to be handled before Monday. You bring the decision. I bring three decades of having made them under fire.

Engagement   Sessions from $1,500  ·  Retainers from $5,000 / month
What the seat is for
Three kinds of rooms.

High-Stakes Decisions

Acquisitions, successions, repositioning, exits — the irreversible calls where being right the first time is the whole game.

Crisis & Transition

Reputational crises, stalled leadership, precision transitions — handled by someone who has done it when the country was watching.

Government & Access

Translating between the worlds of government and business, and opening rooms most operators never reach.

Whether the seat is for you
This is a small practice on purpose.

I take a limited number of engagements so that each one gets the attention it deserves. The Chair tends to fit leaders who are within one to five years of a transition, carrying real assets and real revenue, and facing a decision they can’t afford to make alone. If that is you, the next step is a conversation — not a pitch.

Request a conversation
Start here.

Tell me what’s on your desk. If it’s a fit, we’ll book a private, confidential call. If it isn’t, I’ll tell you that too — and point you somewhere better.

Held in strict confidence. You’ll be taken to my private calendar to choose a time.