Common Questions

Is this right for me?

Short answer: yes, if the cost of getting the decision wrong already exceeds the cost of this work.

Most clients come to me when a decision materially affects compensation, trajectory, reputation, or future options.
That includes delayed promotion, compounding underpayment, exiting too early, or staying too long in a role that is quietly eroding leverage.

This work is not about confidence or reassurance. It’s about avoiding expensive mistakes in high-stakes decisions.

If the decision is contained and low-risk, the Decision Library is usually sufficient. If the consequences are material, Strategic Advisory is designed for exactly that.

How is Strategic Decision Support different from coaching, therapy, or AI?

Strategic Decision Support is a clinical advisory service.
It is designed for moments where “thinking about it” is no longer enough and a decision needs to be made.

• Coaching develops you over time through reflection and facilitation.
  I provide expert judgment on a specific, time-sensitive decision.

• Therapy focuses on emotional processing and mental health.
  This work focuses on organizational dynamics, power, risk, and execution.

• Public AI tools generate generic options based on averages.
  I use AI for structure, but the strategic verdict is mine, informed by 15 years inside global finance where timing and perception matter as much as performance.

• Mentorship is advice based on one person’s career path.
  My work is based on systematic pattern recognition across thousands of observed outcomes.

I don’t help you explore endlessly. I help you decide.

Will you actually tell me what you think I should do?

Yes.

I don’t facilitate open-ended exploration or ask reflective questions for their own sake. I provide a clear recommendation based on risk, leverage, timing, and consequences.

You always make the final decision. But you will not leave without a point of view and a contained next step.

What is the HNP Strategic Decision Framework?

It’s a decision methodology developed over 15 years in high-stakes environments at UBS and Credit Suisse.

It strips away emotional noise to reveal structural reality across five pillars:

1. Context Audit – who actually holds power and incentives

2. Positional Readiness – your real versus perceived ability to move

3. Risk Filtration – structural constraints versus psychological friction

4. Leverage Mapping – where influence actually sits

5. Containment Strategy – how to act while limiting downside

This framework underpins every diagnostic, brief, and advisory engagement.

What kinds of patterns do you identify?

High performers often misread systems they are deeply embedded in. Common patterns include:

• The Competence Trap
  Senior-level output without senior-level protection or title.

• The Loyalty Trap
  Over-functioning for leaders who are structurally incentivized to keep you where you are.

• Wished-For Context
  Acting on promises instead of evidence.

• Asymmetric Risk Perception
  Overestimating the cost of action while ignoring the compounding cost of inaction.

What if I already know what I want to do?

That’s common.

Wanting something doesn’t make it strategically sound. Doubting something doesn’t make it wrong.

My role is to pressure-test your instinct against reality. Sometimes it confirms it. Sometimes it sharpens it. Sometimes it changes it.

The value is not persuasion. It’s verification.

Which service should I choose?

• Decision Library (CHF 250)
  For contained questions where you want structured clarity and can act independently.

• Strategic Brief – Async (CHF 1,200)
  For defined situations where the stakes are real and you want a written recommendation, rationale, scripts, and execution plan.

• Strategy Session + Brief (CHF 2,400)
  For complex decisions where real-time dialogue and pressure-testing materially improve the outcome.

• High-Stakes Advisory (CHF 3,500)
  For evolving situations over weeks, multi-move decisions, or material financial or reputational risk.

If you start with the Decision Library, you receive CHF 100 credit toward any advisory service.

What if the Brief doesn’t fully resolve my concerns?

Every Strategic Brief includes a follow-up layer to ensure conviction:

• 14-day written follow-up window for clarifications and refinements

• Optional 15-minute tactical deep-dive if a critical angle needs human judgment

You don’t receive a document and get left alone.
The goal is certainty before execution.

Do you work with job insecurity, restructures, or potential redundancy?

Yes.

Many clients come to me when a role that once felt secure no longer does. That might be a restructure, leadership change, budget pressure, or a series of subtle shifts that don’t yet have a formal label.

These moments require different decisions than business as usual. Timing, optionality, and containment matter more than reassurance or optimism. I help you assess risk early, preserve leverage, and decide when to hold position and when to move.

What if my manager is supportive, but nothing is actually moving?

Verbal support without timelines, criteria, or trade-offs is not neutral. It often benefits the system more than it benefits you.

I help you determine whether support is backed by power and urgency, or whether you’re absorbing risk while waiting.

How long does the process take?

• Decision Library: immediate access

• Strategic Brief: 5–7 business days from completed intake

• Strategy Session + Brief: session first, written plan delivered 3–5 days after

• High-Stakes Advisory: 6-week engagement

All services are delivered remotely via written analysis and private voice memos.
This ensures speed, discretion, and a permanent strategic record.

Why not just use ChatGPT?

Public AI tools are designed to avoid judgment.

I use AI for structure and completeness, but the strategic verdict is mine. That includes political nuance, institutional dynamics, and second-order consequences that generic tools explicitly avoid.

Your data is processed via private API instances and is never used to train public models.

Do you guarantee outcomes?

I can’t control other people’s behavior.

What I guarantee is strategic leverage.
If an engagement does not surface a structural insight or point of leverage you hadn’t considered, we trigger a follow-up deep-dive to find it.

Can I expense this? Is it confidential?

Yes. Most clients expense this as professional development.

Confidentiality is treated like a private advisory or legal engagement.
Your data is never shared or reused.

What is the refund policy?

• Decision Library: refundable before use

• Briefs / Sprints: non-refundable once analysis begins

• High-Stakes Advisory: first month is a trial, then rolling

Full details are in the Terms & Conditions.

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