Independent advice. Your decision.
You bring the decision. I find out what is really happening inside your organisation, including what your reports leave out, so you can decide well and see it through.
Which is closest to you?
When chairs and boards call me.
- Your board is divided and work is stalling because of it.
- A chief executive succession is coming.
- The reports say green and you are not sure they should.
- The board is about to approve an AI system, or one has gone wrong.
- A decision will be hard to undo: buying, selling or replacing a leader.
- The same problem has survived more than one fix.
King V and the decisions AI now makes
South Africa’s King V Code asks boards to govern technology and information, AI included, as part of their own work. Precisely Wrong helps a board settle the right question before it approves an AI system. If something has already gone wrong, FranklySpeaking’s AI Decision Review finds out why.
See Precisely WrongWhen chief executives call me.
- A plan was agreed, but it is not happening.
- A decision will be hard to undo: buying a company, selling one or replacing a senior leader.
- Your leadership team is divided and nobody says so out loud.
- You are new in the role and every report comes from people inside.
- You are the first in your family to lead at this level.
- Your chair or board has suggested we speak.
If your board suggested you call
It is still your conversation. We agree at the start what stays between us and what, if anything, is shared.
When executives call me.
- You own a result that depends on people who do not report to you.
- Two of your priorities cannot both be met and nobody has said so.
- You have a big proposal to take to the executive team or the board.
- You are new in the role and inherited a story that does not add up.
- You are the first in your family to lead at this level.
Often agreed with your chief executive
Many engagements with executives are agreed with the chief executive and paid for by the business. We set out at the start what stays between us.
What an engagement includes.
Sessions with you
We work on your decision and nothing else, as often as it needs.
Help between sessions
If something happens between sessions, you can call me.
Frank conversations with your people
Where it helps, I talk to your people one to one and sit in on meetings. I read what already exists: board papers, minutes and exit interviews. I never tell you who said what.
Board sessions
When the board needs to work a decision through together, I run the session, in confidence.
Your team, together
When your leadership team needs to work a decision through, I bring them together and run the session.
A candid briefing
I tell you plainly what I found, in person or online, with a short note of 1 or 2 pages. Then we decide together whether to stop or continue.
It is advice, not a report. A problem that keeps coming back needs a full investigation with a written finding. That is the work of FranklySpeaking, the firm I founded.
Priced on the value of the decision.
One fee, agreed before we start, set by what the decision is worth to you, not by the hours it takes.
You know the full cost before the first session. An engagement lasts as long as the decision needs. I work with a small number of clients at a time, so I am available when you need me.
Start with a conversation.
We talk about you and the decision in front of you. By the end, you know the right next step, even if it is not me.
The first conversation is on me.