Something has shifted.
And you're the one who has to call it.
Independent sparring for the decisions you can't think through inside the business.
WHAT I DO
Most CEOs I sit with aren't short on answers. They have sharpened the strategy, adjusted the team, reframed the message. And still it does not move.
The problem is rarely the answer. It is the question underneath, the one no one in the room can name, because everyone has a stake in the old one.
Not a coach. A sparring partner. Independent, outside the system, with no stake except a sharper decision.
It usually surfaces in three places.
THE THREE AXES
Positioning, momentum, autonomy. When the role grows, the market shifts or the stakes rise, the friction tends to surface here first.
POSITIONING
How the market reads you. Is the direction still right?
AUTONOMY
Your room to decide. Is it narrowing without notice?
MOMENTUM
Is it still moving? Where is the real friction?
Whichever one it is, the shape of the work depends on the decision, not the diagnosis.
ONE PRACTICE, THREE WAYS IN
THE POSITIONING SESSION
One session, sharpened on one page. For when the story you tell no longer matches where you stand.
Which one fits depends on the decision you're facing.
THE RESET
Two intensive half-days near Málaga. For the one decision your next phase depends on. xxx
THE LENS
A standing arrangement across the year. For when the outside perspective needs to stay. Three places, never more.
Not sure which? Start with a conversation.
Some of that work stays with the people who have lived it.
WHO YOU'RE DOING THIS WITH
Steven Piessens. Strategic sparring partner to CEOs and founders. Based in Málaga, working across Europe.
Twenty-five years alongside CEOs and founders, through growth, transitions and the kind of pressure you can't show the people around you.
If a decision has been circling longer than it should, that is where we start.
No proposal, no quote. One conversation where we test whether this is the right moment.