I run a high-growth brand consultancy. The work moves fast, the stakes are real, and for a long time I thought the answer to most problems was to work harder, ruminate on whether I was doing a good enough job, and wonder what everyone needed of me. That approach has a ceiling, and I was bumping against it in ways I couldn’t fully see from the inside.
I brought Andrew in when our leadership team had fallen into patterns that were draining everyone and quietly pulling us away from what we were actually trying to build.
He worked with each member of our leadership team individually and with us as a group, earning trust with his understanding of the business and asking insightful questions. The team dynamics changed. The way we collaborate changed. The safety in the room changed, and I started to think of my position with renewed clarity.
I began to find my leadership style, becoming clearer on how I needed to show up and where I was getting in my own team’s way rather than supporting them. That distinction changed everything. I started working on the business instead of disappearing into it. Our leadership group’s potential started getting fully tapped in ways it hadn’t before.
Andrew cut through to the real issues, not the imagined ones, and galvanized the team around a renewed focus and strategy. We have not stopped moving forward since.