See what drives it.
Take one real situation apart. Identify what you expected would happen, what you felt compelled to do, and what that response was protecting you from.
Begin to see why the same problem keeps returning.
Inner Architecture Work
For founders, owners & CEOs
YOU KNOW.
WHAT TO DO.
You still can't do it.
Make the hard call. Have the honest conversation. Let capable people lead.
Build the capacity to act differently in the moments where knowing better has never been enough.
Schedule a 20-minute chat Virtual / No pitch
"My emotions and reactivity have been replaced by a
calm confidence"
Kevin GrayCEO, Scotsman Guide
01 / RecognitionSame cycle. Different room.
There is always
a good reason.
To step in. To wait another week. To keep pushing.
The reason makes sense in the moment. Then you find yourself carrying the same work, avoiding the same conversation, or paying the same cost.
Inside the cycle
You hire capable people.
Then take the work back.
What may be driving it
"If I'm not in control, something will go wrong."
What it keeps creating
Your people wait for you. You carry more. They get less opportunity to develop the judgment you need them to have. Their dependence becomes another reason to step in.
An example to recognize, not a conclusion about you.
The question beneath the behavior
What is this protecting?
What is it costing?
02 / The workSee it. Meet it. Choose.
Knowing isn't
the same as choosing.
You can understand exactly why you avoid a conversation and still go quiet when it is time to speak.
Inner Architecture Work helps you uncover what drives that response, recognize it as it happens, and build the capacity to make the choice the situation needs, even while the old reaction is still there.
Recognize it in the moment.
Learn the early signs: the alarm, the explanation, the urge to take over, stay quiet, or push harder.
Recognize what is happening while there is still an opportunity to choose.
Practice a different choice.
Say what you have been withholding. Hold the standard. Let a capable person carry the responsibility.
Practice taking the action that serves your aims, even while part of you wants to return to the familiar response.
From Inner Architecture
"You will still hear the rule.
You will simply stop taking it as an instruction every time it speaks."
03 / Client voicesTheir words.
What changed
for the people
who did the work.
"Thanks to our work together, I'm already 10x more capable in situations that once felt overwhelming, and I'm only just getting started."
Alex FederationCEO, Talus Bio
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David HeapsFounder, Leadering
04 / The person in the roomI didn't find this
I didn't find this
in a boardroom.
But I've sat in that seat.
I'm a former COO and Vistage Chair. For 11 years, I've worked with founders, owners, and CEOs who can move almost anything in their world, except the thing inside them that keeps getting in the way.
10,000+
hours in isolation in the Amazon,
developing and doing this work on myself.
What came out of that was a way to see the mechanisms underneath my own decisions. And a way to work with them that doesn't require leaving your life.
I'm still doing the work, too.
Talk with me
Concept cover / ForthcomingThe book / For founders, owners & CEOsINNER
INNER
ARCHITECTURE
Finding and Freeing Yourself from the Invisible Rules That Are Ruling You
A method for seeing the rules that have been ruling you, and changing what they get to decide.
05 / Begin hereComplimentary. No pitch.
Bring the thing
that keeps
coming back.
70min
One situation.
A written map.
A place to begin.
A written map.
A place to begin.
The Inner Architecture Audit
The decision you keep postponing. The work you keep taking back. The conversation with your partner that always ends in the same place.
We examine one specific situation: what happens, what drives your response, and what it keeps costing you.
You leave with a written map of what we uncover and a concrete place to begin practicing a different choice.
- 01Name the situation.
Get specific about what keeps happening and what you want to be different.
- 02Understand your response.
Examine what drives it and what it is trying to protect.
- 03See the cost.
Look at what the pattern keeps creating for you, your relationships, and your business.
- 04Find a place to begin.
Leave with a written map and a next step you can use in your life.
Before we meetA few
A few
straight answers.
Do I need experience with inner work?
No. Bring a real situation from your life. We begin there, in plain language. No framework or special vocabulary required.
What should I bring?
One specific situation that keeps troubling you. A recent example helps. Bring a willingness to be open and honest.
Is this a sales call?
No. This is a working session with a written map to take away. No pitch. No obligation to continue.
What if I want to keep working together?
Individual work is offered in a defined six-month engagement. Work with partners and executive teams is also available. If you want to continue, we can discuss what fits.