CEO Partner
The higher the role, the costlier the mistake — and the fewer people you can speak to honestly. I am a thinking partner with no stake in your decisions.
Every word a CEO says inside the company becomes a signal. So there is almost nowhere to think out loud.
The board expects results, the team expects decisions, partners expect you to know what you are doing. A doubt voiced at a leadership meeting is discussed in the corridors the next day.
Every week we work through what is happening: decisions, people, the board and shareholders, and how much energy you have left for all of it. When you need an operator’s experience rather than questions, I share it directly.
Sometimes you come back from vacation, open your laptop — and within days the same weight is back. Not because there was too much work, but because work had become too large a part of who you are.
From my post on burnout. Burnout is the most frequent topic in my sessions.
What a month includes
- Weekly sessions90 minutes, online or in person in Moscow
- Available on working daysWhen a decision is needed today
- Preparation for key meetingsBoard meetings, executive exits, deals, hard conversations
- Review of decisions and documentsStrategy, org design, letters to the team
- Work with the leadership teamIf needed, one session per quarter
- Technology questionsThrough Anton Tupikov, CTO, when strategy runs into engineering
How it works
- Before we start
Intro call
Thirty minutes to see whether we are a fit.
- Weeks 1–3
The picture
360° review, interviews with your leadership team, goals for the quarter.
- Every week
The work
Sessions, contact in between, preparation for what matters.
- Every quarter
Review
What changed across the five VITAL pillars, what next, whether we continue.
On requestmonthly, minimum 3 months
- A small number of clients at a time
- NDA on request
- Paid personally or by your company
- Every quarter we decide together whether to continue
- Compare it with the cost of one wrong executive hire or exit
Let’s start with a conversation
Thirty minutes, free of charge, online in your time zone.