Your First Domino. Moving in 4 weeks. Without you as the bottleneck.
You weren't promoted to be the bottleneck.
This isn't a motivation problem or a talent problem. It's a structural problem.
The operating system that made you excellent at your last level is the same one that's slowing you down at this one.
Not coaching. Not frameworks. A working system built for your specific seat.
The umbrella method is The Momentum Engine: three pillars called the 3D's. Direction. Decisions. Delivery.
The Private Role Reset delivers Pillar 1, Direction, standalone, in four weeks. It is not the whole methodology. It is the first pillar, complete on its own.
Four weeks, four modules
Map the operating reality. Select your First Domino.
Draft the one-page Compass. Hand the Domino to an owner.
Align your manager on the Compass and the plan.
Assemble the system. Install the rhythm you run yourself.
Your First Domino. Moving in 4 weeks. Without you as the bottleneck.
Inclusions
- Pre-work call (30 minutes, founding cohort) locks your First Domino before Week 1 begins
- Four 1:1 working sessions (the four modules above)
- The Executive Compass, one page, yours to keep
- The First Domino Plan
- The Manager Conversation Framework
- An Operating Rhythm you run after PRR ends
- A direct line for questions between sessions
- Day 45 audit (30 minutes, founding cohort) verifies the work held
Your colleagues, your manager, your C-suite don't need to know you're doing this work. They'll notice the results.
The operator behind the work
I've spent 20+ years in operating roles across SaaS, media, and manufacturing, most of it with full P&L and a board to answer to. As Managing Director of a VC-backed fintech, I ran the turnaround: revenue up 150%, EBITDA margins doubled from 15% to 30%. Running operations for a scaling B2B business, I installed the operating rhythm that took a delivery center from 23 to 90+ people in eight months, alongside a 350-person global workforce. I've flattened a corporate hierarchy into a matrix and cut executive meeting time in half.
The Private Role Reset is the structure I've installed seat after seat to stop the work snapping back to the person at the top. Built from inside the seat, not from the outside looking in.
The method isn't something I read about. It comes from how operators actually describe what's breaking, not how coaches describe it. PRR installs the first part of it, Direction, in four weeks.
You work directly with the operator who built this. Not a junior coach, not a program. Me, in your specific seat, for four weeks.
What it's like to work with me
You won't see names, photos, or logos here. This work is confidential by design, and I hold the same standard for everyone I've worked with. What follows are real, unedited recommendations from people who reported to me and worked alongside me in operating roles. Anonymised on purpose: if I won't put your name on my website, I won't put theirs either.
"He thinks long term, not only in numbers, but in how to strategically tackle small wins, while executing change management, without losing the morale of staff that usually accompanies any organisational changes."
"Career changing mentorship. His thought process into managing an organisation's operation is admirable, and has always done best for the business. I would be honoured to work with him again."
"A rare find in a Director. He combines excellent operational efficiency with a keen interest and understanding of his team. He inspires those who work with and for him to achieve more than they ever thought they were capable of. He brings out greatness in teams."
Weigh that against what the problem costs. A strategic initiative worth $1M, frozen for three months, is a quarter of a million in lost progress, and that's one initiative, one quarter. $1,500 is a rounding error against the cost of the thing staying stuck.
The price is what it is because the work is bounded: four weeks, one to one, direct. Not a retainer, not an open-ended engagement.
Your protections
If after the first session you don't see clearly what's breaking in your operating structure, you get a full refund. No questions.
If you can't name a stuck initiative to work on in the pre-work call, the engagement doesn't begin and you're not charged.
You keep the Executive Compass regardless of outcome.
The Day 45 audit verifies the work held; if it didn't, I keep working with you until it does.
Ten founding-cohort spots, ever. When they're filled, the price moves up and the next cohort begins.
And the timing is structural: months four to twelve in a new role is the window where this work has the most leverage. After that, the patterns calcify. The longer the initiative sits frozen, the more the role calcifies around the freeze.
The Private Role Reset is complete in four weeks. You leave with the Direction pillar built: a one-page Executive Compass, a First Domino Plan with a real owner who isn't you, a Conversation Framework that aligns your manager, and an Operating Rhythm you run yourself. That's a standalone outcome. You can stop there and keep all of it.
A continuation exists. The Momentum Engine Accelerator builds the other two pillars: Decisions, where decisions start resolving below you, and Delivery, where work moves through the team instead of through you. It's $3,000 if you continue directly from the Reset, $4,500 standalone, and it's scoped in week four, not before.
It isn't pitched in cold outreach. It isn't the reason the Reset exists. If the Reset does its job, you'll know in week four whether you want to keep going. Most people decide on what the four weeks actually produced, not on anything I told them up front.
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