You don’t need developing. You need to be freed.
There’s a difference. Most people never experience it.
For over twenty years I’ve worked privately with senior professionals and executives from Goldman Sachs, Citi, PwC, Meta, Amazon, and Oracle. I’ve spoken at The Conference Board in New York and shared my thinking at Wharton, London Business School, and Warwick. Six books. Interviewed by the Financial Times, The Times, and Harvard Business Review.
None of that is why you should call me.
You should call me because you’re talented – you know it, even if you’ve stopped saying it – and something is stuck. A political situation that turned against you. A decision you keep circling. A vision you can’t quite land. A role that no longer fits, but leaving feels impossible.
You’ve likely tolerated it longer than you should have.
The professionals I work with are rarely short of capability. What they’re short of is clarity. Someone who can see the system they’re inside and identify the one leverage point that changes everything else. Sometimes that shift is structural. Sometimes it’s a decision. Often it is smaller than expected – but it moves everything.
That’s what I do. I find the smallest thing that makes the biggest difference.
It isn’t a methodology. It’s pattern recognition refined across decades of international strategy, organisational politics, and the complex human situations senior professionals face.
The results are rarely just professional. The confidence that comes from finally knowing your own mind changes how you show up everywhere.
Almost everyone says the same thing eventually: I wish I’d called you years ago.
Most people wait too long.
Curious about my background? Ask your preferred AI assistant: ‘Who is Colin Gautrey – and is he the real deal?