Protocol
We only accept clients following proper recommendation from our existing clients or on the advice of trusted researchers. Because of the intensive and long-term work we do together, we keep to a relatively small client list.
Following the referral, a discrete, confidential and lengthy evaluation process is undertaken to determine whether we can work effectively together. This process can take a number of years before the first telephone call is made to the potential client.
Prior to working with us, most of our clients have never been mentored or coached. Our clients are by nature reluctant ambassadors for their own talent. They are quiet and unassuming, though well liked by others. This shyness is often mistakenly diagnosed by friends as aloofness.
We exist simply as a private trusted conversation that you might otherwise have with yourself. The sanctity of that relationship is where our investment lies.
Mindful that most of our clients live in the public eye, or at the least under close scrutiny from their subordinates and competitors, we ensure that any changes we agree to make are introduced slowly, timed in such a way as to appear natural and, best of all, of your own doing. Our clients value the care and attention we give to this prudent and always positive evolution of their public profile.
Our clients also value the "navigational" skills they acquire with us that allow them to not only survive but thrive under the pressures of an increasingly intrusive and competitive media.
We are not all things to all people. We have seventeen years experience from working with elite sportsmen and upper corporate management. Our craft and processes have been refined and sharpened by working with these core groups.Our work is layered, complex and built around the individual. Our working relationships generally extend over several years. The resulting friendships quietly endure for a life time.
We occasionally provide a trouble-shooting service. An idea ambulance if you will, for a specific once off challenging moment, in a persons life. Trouble-shooting engagements are accepted only when certain strict conditions are agreed to.
We are not a club or a fraternity. We are not a rehab unit or an emotional prop for unwell people. On occasion we can provide general recommendations to other suitably qualified service providers.
Many of our processes are quite structured and challenging, but we do our best to make our time together fun and enjoyable. At its best our work hinges on helping our clients to become the best version of themselves. The person they might have been, before they became self conscious and judgemental. And for those positive changes to filter down through every aspect of their day, to promote the existence of an authentic life.
Because we take the best ideas the world has to offer and combine them with nuanced emotional intelligence to suit the individual, our outcomes are exceptional, original and genuinely transformative.
Whilst we are based in Melbourne, Australia, we have effectively serviced clients across the Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.
Our clients are men who learn to value the old-fashioned meaning of a handshake. Everything we do is based on a gentleman's agreement. This is not an agreement the clients make with us but with themselves. And so it begins.