Come with a full head. Leave with a clear plan.
Who do you think with?
Private strategy work for people who run something — a company, a fund, a practice — and carry the business and the life in one head. Everything goes on one board. You leave with a ninety-day roadmap you’re excited to implement.
“Highly recommend working with Georg if you’re working on a bunch of stuff and want someone to help you make sense of it all as a sparring partner. The most valuable thing about the session was having Georg as an active thought partner helping me work through my current life priorities and work projects and helping me synthesize everything in real‑time.”
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People who want all of life to work, and a next chapter worth building.
People who run something — a company, a fund, a practice — and carry the business and the life in one head. Intelligent, used to figuring it out alone, with access to coaches, advisors, peers — but no one who holds the whole picture at once. Self‑aware, resourceful, and used to being right. That is exactly why blind spots survive.
The work is usually a next chapter that is already in motion but not clear yet:
- Too much going on at once, and the things that matter don’t move.
- The business works, and the life around it does not.
- Something was sold, left, or finished, and what replaces it is not clear.
- Five things are open, three need to stop, one needs more focus.
- Circling a move or a decision for too long.
Most people find me through referrals.
We usually start with the Clarity & Roadmap Session.
We meet online for three to four hours. Everything goes on a shared visual board as we talk: work, money, health, relationships, the next chapter. We organise what's on your mind, name the bottlenecks, find where the energy is, and turn it into a roadmap with clear actions for the next ninety days. Three weeks later we speak again to recalibrate.
You leave clear on what you have to do, with a full blueprint of priorities and the worries you can put aside for now.
The Clarity & Roadmap Session
Online, three to four hours. Everything on one board, a roadmap for the next ninety days, a written summary within 48 hours, and a call three weeks later.
After you pay: an email from me within a day, with three dates to choose from and the two pre‑work questions.
What the session looks like in practice
- Before: two questions, then a walk
No intake questionnaire. Two questions to define what success looks like, and a walk. You've done the analysis for years; the session is where it turns into decisions.
- Hour one: everything on the board
Work, money, health, relationships, the next chapter, the things you've been avoiding. I listen; the board fills up. Then we test what you believe against what you have actually done.
- The rest: what matters, in order
The clusters, the bottleneck, the three to five priorities with dated first moves, and what you're putting down. The horizon is ninety days, not ten years.
- After: the summary, then the call
Written summary within 48 hours. Three weeks later, a call to recalibrate.
The words clients use at the end of the session
Clear. Seen. Relief. Organised. Light. Safe. Hope. Excited. Excavated. Tired.
How we continue
Come back, for a quarterly session or when the time is right.
Same board, picked up where we left it. A quarter's worth of decisions in one sitting, or a single decision when it's due.
The Next Chapter
The Next Chapter does two things. We go deeper into what's underneath: the vision, the strategy, the mindset and beliefs, the routines that define your life. And it's a forcing function: you actually move. When a bottleneck shows up, we crush it. When something has to be built, we build it together. We meet regularly, about eight sessions across four to five months, with me on your side as your strategic thinking partner.
Decided after the Clarity & Roadmap Session, if we both want to continue.
How clients describe the session.
Clients named here are named with their permission. Most of the work stays private.
- FounderClosed loops that had been open for weeks — in a 6.5‑hour sprint the next day.
- Solo consultantLet go of his biggest client, also the worst one, and replaced the revenue in three months.
- Enterprise software founderSaw that one hire would buy him his freedom.
- AI platform founderStopped treating the elephant in the room as unsolvable, and left with a date for the conversation.
Most of my work is private and stays that way.
Eighteen years with people who carry a lot.
Thirteen years at Swiss Re, in Zürich, Amsterdam and Hong Kong: strategy with leadership teams, a global, company‑wide digital initiative built from scratch, and finally the digital innovation accelerator, running pilots from idea to proof. The part I cared about most was always the person carrying the decision. Since 2021, that's the whole job. Certified systemic coach (IOS); a master's in human movement science (ETH Zürich) long before any of it.
What clients come for, in private strategy work, is the combination: someone who holds the full picture without flinching, the business mechanics, the personal stakes, the things not yet said out loud, an opinion when you ask for one, and then stays in the work until the plan is real.
I have lived the questions many clients bring: moving across countries and continents (Switzerland, the US, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, South East Asia), leaving a corporate identity, building something of my own. I live between Asia and Switzerland with my wife and three children, and I run ultramarathons.
Tell me what's going on.
A few lines is enough — the situation, and why now. I'll reply with how I'd start. If I'm not the right person, I'll tell you who is.
Or book the Clarity & Roadmap Session if you already know. Three to four hours. I'll send dates and the pre‑work within a day.
Book the Clarity & Roadmap SessionI've also run this for a fund's portfolio, for communities, and for partners deciding together. If you want it for your founders, your members, your team or your partner — write me via the form, or directly at georg@georgtanner.com.