Engagements
If you want more. Here's what that looks like.
This isn't the front door — the Substack and the exercises are. Occasionally I take on someone who wants the full version: one problem at work, worked for ninety days, with numbers at both ends. You buy it, you own it, and nothing here replaces your own practice.
The sessions matter less than what you do between them. My job is to point you at what's driving the problem, help you design the new behavior, and keep the score honest.
Book a call →One problem. Ninety days. Numbers at both ends.
- Week 0
List your problems.
List every problem at work you want help with, and what you'd want instead. Send the list to your boss, peers and direct reports, and ask two things: If everything else stayed the same, which one change would make the biggest difference? and How often do you see this now? You also take the Hogan Assessment (about an hour).
- Week 1
Debrief and pick one.
Ninety minutes. We put your Hogan results next to what your people said and pick the one problem that is high impact and within your control. We break one real example down in A-B-C terms, design the new behavior, and set your weekly measures.
- Weeks 3, 6 and 9
Check-ins.
Forty-five minutes each. We look at your scoreboard, dispute whatever belief got in the way, and adjust the practice. Email me any time in between.
- Week 12
Re-measure.
The same people answer the same question. We compare day 0 to day 90, and you decide what's next.
List everything. Work one thing at a time. The rest of the list waits for the next cycle.
Two kinds of numbers.
You control the first kind. The second tells you whether it worked.
- Lead: practice
- Did you run the planned move instead of the old reaction?
- You · Weekly, one line on your scoreboard
- Lead: disturbance
- How hard did the old reaction hit, 0–10?
- You · Weekly, same line
- Lag: what others see
- How often do they see the problem, 1–5?
- Your boss, peers and direct reports · Day 0 and day 90
| Measure | What it is | Who reports it | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead: practice | Did you run the planned move instead of the old reaction? | You | Weekly, one line on your scoreboard |
| Lead: disturbance | How hard did the old reaction hit, 0–10? | You | Weekly, same line |
| Lag: what others see | How often do they see the problem, 1–5? | Your boss, peers and direct reports | Day 0 and day 90 |
The lead measures are your goal, because they're within your power. The lag measure is the proof — the gap between how you see yourself and how others describe you, narrowing or not.
Your raters are asked twice. That's it.
How it's priced.
Priced per ninety-day cycle, because the cycle is what ends in a measurement. Current rates are on the call.
| Option | What's included |
|---|---|
| Debrief | Hogan Flash report, 90-minute debrief, your problem list. Credited toward a full cycle if you start within 30 days. |
| Full cycle | Everything on this page: Hogan Flash report, debrief, three check-ins, rater baseline and re-measure, email support. |
| Next cycle | The same, without a new Hogan — so it costs less. |
| Full Hogan reports | The detailed HPI, HDS and MVPI reports, added at cost. |
The practice deposit.
Part of your first full cycle is a deposit on your own practice. Do the work and it comes back.
- Attend all three check-ins.
- Log your practice on your scoreboard in at least 10 of the 12 weeks.
Your raters' day-90 answers have no bearing on it — the work is within your power; what other people notice isn't. Do the practice and your first cycle costs what every cycle after it does.
Payment
In full at signup, or half at signup and half at week six. Hogan fees are paid up front — I pay Hogan before your report runs.
Payment comes first on purpose. It's the first commitment, and it keeps the day-90 numbers honest: nobody has a reason to see progress that isn't there.
What I won't do
- I won't sell you a type. You are not a color, a letter, or an animal. The assessment is a starting point for designing behavior, not an identity.
- I won't promise personality change. Dispositions are stable across adulthood. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. Behavior is trainable; that is what we work on.
- I won't provide therapy. This is behavioral coaching that borrows from Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). If something clinical surfaces I will say so and refer you on.
- I won't report on you to anyone. Not to your manager, not to your HR team, not in aggregate. Your results are yours.
- I won't pay you for results. The deposit comes back for practice, never for ratings. The moment money rides on the numbers, the numbers stop meaning anything.
FAQ
How much of my time does this take?
About five hours of sessions across ninety days: the assessment (an hour, on your own), the debrief (ninety minutes), three forty-five-minute check-ins, and a closing review. Between sessions, plan on about ten minutes a day for your journal, fifteen minutes a week for your review and scoreboard, and ten minutes a month for your intention statement. The practice itself happens in the moment, at work — it doesn't need its own block on your calendar.
What do I ask the people I work with?
Two short asks, ninety days apart — the ones in Week 0 and Week 12 above. Ask three to five people who actually see you work. I give you the wording.
Does my employer find out?
Not from me. Everything is commissioned by you and delivered to you. The only people who know are the ones you choose to ask.
What if the ninety-day measure shows nothing changed?
Then it shows nothing changed, and you find out from data instead of from a feeling. That is the point of including it. Your practice deposit doesn't depend on it.
Which assessments do you use?
The Hogan Assessment suite — the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), the Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and the Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI). Certified directly by Hogan in 2020.
Do I retake the Hogan every cycle?
No. Personality is stable, so a retest would tell you nothing new. That's why the next cycle costs less.
Do you work with teams?
Occasionally, and it is a different engagement. Ask.