Stay or Leave Decision Tool

What This Is:

• A self-directed decision framework to determine whether staying in your current role still makes strategic sense, or whether leaving is the more rational move given what you know today.

• This is not coaching, exploration, or career advice.

• It is a structured decision instrument designed to produce a clear, defensible conclusion you can act on.

How It Works

You work through a fixed sequence of decision lenses:

• What is real versus wished-for in your current situation

• The risk asymmetry between staying and leaving

• Whether you have real leverage to change the trajectory

• A synthesis step that forces a directional conclusion

• Execution implications to test whether the decision can realistically hold

Nothing is optional once started. The process narrows to one position.

Time required: 90–120 minutes, completed independently.

What You Leave With

One documented strategic position, not a set of options:

• Stay and push

• Stay and stabilize

• Prepare exit

• Exit now

Along with:

• Explicit reasoning behind the decision

• Evidence and assumptions used

• Predictions and reassessment triggers

This is your decision, recorded clearly.