ARETIA · ADVISORY
The Threshold
Twelve weeks with someone who has been where you are.
You already know what you're circling.
You've been turning the same question over for months. Maybe longer.
Everyone you'd normally ask has a stake in the answer. You've read the things everyone reads. You've made a list of options and moved the items around.
And it's still there, most nights, in the same place.
What you don't have is someone who cares what happens to you and doesn't care which way it goes.
It might sound like any of these:
You're leading something, and carrying a version of it you can't say out loud at work.
You're looking at your career and wondering whether the next obvious step is actually the one you want.
You built the business, and lately you've been asking yourself whether you still want to be the person running it.
Three different topics. One situation.
You're standing at a threshold, and the deciding is the hard part.
TWELVE WEEKS · EIGHT CONVERSATIONS
Front-loaded, on purpose.
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WEEKS 1 TO 4 · WEEKLY
Find the real question.
Four conversations in four weeks. We name what's actually going on, rule out what isn't it, and decide what has to move. Most people discover in the first month that the thing they came in with wasn't the thing.
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WEEKS 6, 8, 10 · EVERY OTHER WEEK
Move on it.
You're acting now, not discovering. The space between conversations is part of the design. Nothing changes in the room. It changes in the two weeks after it.
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WEEK 12
Land it.
What changed, what's still unresolved, and what the next stage asks of you.
The first four weeks are weekly because that's where we find out what you're actually working on.
WHAT YOU GET
Eight conversations across twelve weeks. The first and last run longer.
After each one, I'll send you something in writing. What we decided and what you said you'd do. Not a report. It's so you're not relying on memory, and so nothing quietly disappears between sessions.
You'll have my direct line.
WHAT’S DIFFERENT AT THE END
From circling to deciding. You've tested the assumptions, faced the trade-offs, and made the call.
From carrying it alone to having somewhere to put it. A confidential place to say the unfinished thing out loud and hear what people around you won't say.
From intention to evidence. Something actually moved. You can point at it.
You'll have decided something, rather than thought about it for another year.
“When I started, I felt stuck in my career and had allowed fear and complacency to drive many of my decisions, or lack of decisions. If someone had told me at the beginning the decisions I would make during it, I probably wouldn’t have believed them. Ultimately, I made a very difficult but right career change for that season of my life, and I did it with confidence, because she empowered me to come to that decision for myself.”
Tracey Seward
I've walked away from a career that was working. Twice.
The first time in the nineties, to build my own firm before anyone called it remote work. The second time three years ago, after more than two decades at Accenture, most of them as a Managing Director.
Both times I took longer to decide than I should have. I know what it costs to sit inside a question you already know the answer to, and to keep finding reasons it isn't the right moment yet.
What you get is someone who has run large, complicated things and led people up mountains, who is completely on your side and will still tell you what she sees.
Accenture Managing Director. $122M in annual investment funding. Knowledge systems connecting 700,000 people. Work that produced $1.1B in qualified opportunities. CPCC and ICF-credentialed coach. Kilimanjaro, the Peruvian Andes, Iceland, Alaska, and the Camino twice.
“She builds deep trust and sees the good in others, while also asking the hard questions that help you think differently about where you are and where you want to go.”
THE TERMS
The investment for the twelve-week engagement is $4,000.
The Threshold is where many relationships with Aretia begin.
Some become longer. Six or twelve months of sustained counsel, or work with the leadership team around you. Those are designed individually.
HOW IT STARTS
Book your complimentary conversation
We’ll talk about what you're carrying and whether The Threshold is the right shape for it. If it is, we’ll get started as soon as calendars align. If it isn't, I'll tell you that, and point you somewhere better.
Conversations happen by video, wherever you are. In person when that works.