Executive Counterparts
A senior counterpart holds your seat, prepares the decisions in front of you, and answers to no one else. Your first Board-ready dossier within 30 days, then a monthly rhythm built around the decisions you face.
Set up in 30 days. Reports to you, not on you. No vendor commissions, ever.
Built for you alone. It goes no further unless you take it there.
Your most important recurring decisions, with the data and people behind each.
One for each decision type, so the next one starts half-prepared.
A real decision you face now, fully prepared. Not a sample.
For that decision, under your name.
Sixty minutes each, on the decisions in front of you.
A material decision, with its Board-ready pack.
In writing, when a matter crosses a threshold you set.
Every decision, assumption and follow-up, kept for you.
Each executive has their own senior counterpart, working for them alone.
Strategy, major investments, organisational change, the Board relationship.
Capital allocation, investment cases, forecasting, financial risk.
Workforce planning, restructures, remuneration, culture.
Decision types are defined with you in week 2, not assumed.
Too many decisions wait for one person, and material decisions accumulate faster than the analysis behind them.
Board papers are written in the gaps between operational demands.
Internal support answers to a function; external advice answers to a committee or a vendor.
The hardest calls are thought through alone, and the reasoning lives in your head and your inbox.
A Board-ready pack is drafted for you to refine and present, rather than written late at night.
Every material decision receives a full dossier: options, evidence, risks, thresholds and recommendations.
A written record is kept of every decision and key assumption, ready if it is ever questioned.
You have two structured sessions each month with a senior counterpart who knows your context.
Why it stays yours
The seat belongs to you, not the organisation or the Board.
Nothing about your work is reported to anyone else.
Dossiers and Board papers go out under your name.
It sharpens your thinking. It does not grade it.
Interview with you and one or two key stakeholders. Strategy, risk registers, Board packs and key reports gathered.
Your top ten recurring decision types defined, with the data and people behind each.
Dossier structures built for you. First dossier prepared on a real upcoming decision.
First Decision Session. Full dossier and Board-ready pack delivered. Monthly rhythm agreed.
If it's working for you, the monthly rhythm carries on from there.
30 days runs from the intake interview.
Make time for the week 1 interview and a sixty-minute session in week 4, so the work is built around how you actually decide.
Share your Board papers and key reports in week 1, so your counterpart starts from your context, not from scratch.
Bring a real decision to prepare in week 3, so your first dossier carries weight from the start.
A Counterpart works best when every member of the executive team has one. Every executive gets their own Counterpart, working only for them. What one sees stays with them unless they choose to share it. Decisions reach the leadership table better prepared, from every direction. If a decision turns out to be a strategy question, Digital Strategy is there when you need it.
Map which decisions sit with you, which you share, and which you have quietly been carrying for others.
Your name, work email and organisation. We email the document to you.
A strategy call to test whether a Counterpart would take real weight off the decisions in front of you.