Independent counsel as decisions evolve.
LENS
For CEOs, founders and investors facing recurring strategic decisions.
I stay close enough to understand your business, challenge new assumptions and help you anticipate how decisions may affect the direction you've chosen.
When decisions keep coming.
A new investor brings different expectations. Growth puts pressure on the leadership team. An acquisition, a key appointment or a shift in performance changes what needs your attention.
Each decision comes with its own trade-offs. Over time, they also form a pattern. With someone who knows the context and the decisions that came before, you can see those connections earlier.
Lens gives you continuity. I bring an independent view to each new decision, drawing on what we've already discussed, the commitments you've made and how the business is evolving.
01
Establish the context
We start with your business, your mandate and the decisions ahead. I review the relevant context so our conversations build on a shared understanding.
How Lens works.
02
Work through decisions as they emerge
Two strategic conversations per month to examine new decisions, challenge assumptions and explore possible scenarios. Between sessions, I'm available for shorter, time-sensitive questions.
03
Keep the bigger picture in view
We revisit earlier decisions, examine new developments and assess whether your priorities still make sense. Each conversation builds on the last, keeping the longer-term direction in view.
RHYTHM
2 sessions/month
ADVISORY TIME
Up to 8 hours
INVESTMENT
€2,500/month excl. VAT
Excluding VAT
Confidential, independent advice delivered remotely. In-person meetings by arrangement.
Initial three-month commitment, followed by a joint review and renewal by agreement.
An independent perspective, grounded in experience.
I've advised more than 250 leaders over 25 years and have built, led and exited my own company.
I understand what it means to make difficult decisions and live with their consequences.
I combine that experience with scenario and script thinking, examining how people, interests and unexpected developments could change the outcome.
You work directly with me, in confidence, with no preferred outcome or implementation project to sell.
THE FIRST STEP
Looking for an independent perspective that stays?
Let's discuss the decisions you're facing and whether an ongoing advisory relationship would be useful.
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Steven Piessens
Independent strategic adviser to CEOs, founders and investors.