Work with Jim
The future is too precious to leave to chance.
Shape or be Shaped.
Shift
UNLOCK session
One focused session. Three hours. One challenge unlocked
Most leadership teams don't lack intelligence, experience, or ambition. They lack the focused time and the right outside perspective. UNLOCK is built for the challenge your team keeps circling and can't quite crack.
A design collaborator in the room with you, surfacing what's stuck, naming the real question beneath the presenting one, and finding the move you all need. You leave with the challenge unlocked and the first move designed.
BOLDER
Start-up plus follow-through sessions
Some bold moves need more than a single session. BOLDER starts with three hours of focused design work and a working lunch — then converts into a retainer, two hours a month or bi-monthly, on-site wherever possible. Working alongside you as you build, experiment, and navigate what comes next. Not by someone who disappears, but someone who stays in the game until the bold move is made.
Stance
SHAPE or BE SHAPED
Half a day - assess, reshape and align
Every stance you hold is designing something. The decisions made, the ones avoided, the futures imagined and quietly ruled out — all of it shaping what comes next. The only question is whether it's intentional.
This session makes that visible.
Your team will see — possibly for the first time — which stance their leadership is actually operating from. Not the one they'd like to be in. The one their decisions, habits, and defaults are quietly building.
That clarity opens the gap between where you are and where you could choose to be.
Are you shaping the future — or is it shaping you?
Focus
SHAPER mentoring
Every leader is a designer
Every decision you make, every structure you build, every policy you design, every signal you send is shaping something — culture, conditions, the futures your people can and can't imagine. Most leaders don't call it designing, which means they're doing it by default rather than by intention. Shaper is a mentoring relationship built to change that. About who you're becoming as a leader and what you're designing.
Some leaders don't need a programme. They need a design partner who knows their context, holds their longer arc, and will tell them what they actually see — not just what's comfortable to say. A collaborator who has stood where you're standing, made the hard calls, and knows the difference between the problem you're describing and the one you're actually facing.
Shaper is available by invitation or request, typically following UNLOCK or BOLDER, when the fit is real and the readiness is there.
Let’s Chat!
Let’s chat about your aspirations, how you are tracking, and we can use design to power you up!