Let me be your strategic advisor.
Not everyone wants a coach. Most senior leaders do want an advisor — someone with decades of pattern recognition who will tell them the truth, in confidence, before the decision gets made.
The chair beside yours.
The higher you go, the fewer people tell you the truth. Peers become competitors, the board wants confidence, and your team needs you to be certain. That leaves very few places to think out loud.
Strategic advising is that place. You bring the real situation — the acquisition, the co-founder problem, the leader you should have replaced two quarters ago — and you get a seasoned outside read on it before it becomes irreversible. Dr. Wayne has been in the room for decades of these conversations, at Schwab, Whole Foods, Pfizer, AAA, and PG&E, and with hundreds of growth-stage organizations.
Best fit: CEOs, founders, and senior executives carrying decisions they can't fully discuss internally.
- Fully private and confidential — nothing gets back to your team
- Judgment on your actual decisions, not generic frameworks
- Available between sessions when something breaks
- MindState® tools underneath, applied to the decision in front of you
What changes when you have an advisor.
Specific, measurable, and yours.
Better decisions, sooner
The expensive calls get pressure-tested by someone with no stake in the internal politics — before you commit, not after.
A place to be uncertain
You don't have to perform confidence. Working the doubt through in private is exactly how you walk back in with a clear position.
Four decades of pattern
Most of what feels unprecedented isn't. Someone who has watched it play out a hundred times can tell you which version you're in.
Common questions about Strategic Advising.
Good to knowHonestly? It's the same seat, entered through a different door. Some leaders want a coach and think in terms of their own growth. Others don't want coaching at all — they want an advisor for the decisions in front of them. Same private format, same expertise behind it. Pick whichever framing fits how you think, and we'll shape the engagement around it.
No. Dr. Wayne earned his doctorate in clinical psychology and went straight into organizations rather than into practice. That training is why the counsel accounts for the human dynamics most business advisors miss — but this is strategic work, aimed at outcomes.
Typical engagements run 6 or 12 months, with a standing cadence plus access between sessions — because the decisions that need an advisor rarely wait for the calendar.
Often, yes. Many organizations bring Dr. Wayne in for culture and leadership work while the CEO keeps a separate, confidential advising track. The two are kept deliberately distinct.
Other MindState® Coaching programs.
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No pressure. No obligation. Just an honest discussion about where you are and where you want to go.