Organisations keep being surprised by the consequences of their own decisions.
Not because their leaders are careless, but because nobody examined what those decisions stood on before they were scaled. AI now shortens the time between assumption and consequence, so the examination matters more, and it matters earlier.
Nearly every business also sits inside one honest difficulty. The way it knows how to make money is linear: more units, more material passing through the business, more growth of the same kind.
The direction it needs is circular. This work does not promise to close that distance in a day. It separates growth from throughput, finds the places where money can already be made the other way, and starts there.
There are two doors into the work.
Choose the one that matches your situation.
Door One: You are planning an event or a leadership session
You need a speaker who changes what the room can see, not only what it knows. The lead keynote, Squaring the Circle, separates growth from throughput and gives a leadership team language it can act on the following week. The keynote, the design workshop, and the keynote with a morning-after executive session added are set out in full on the speaking page.
Keynotes are from $10,000 plus travel and expenses. When the morning-after session is added, the combined engagement, The Mirror Package, is from $12,500 plus travel and expenses.
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Door Two: Something needs examining before you rely on it
A document, a decision, a set of claims, or a whole position. Something in your organisation is about to be relied on, published, or scaled, and you want to know what it stands on first. The examination route begins with a conversation that sorts what needs examining: one artefact, the organisation itself, or one consequential AI-supported decision, document, or workflow.
Where the concern is the organisation, the aim is the Belief Gap Diagnostic, set out in the examination section directly below this one.
Not sure which door fits? Start with a conversation. A thirty-minute exploratory conversation, at no cost and with no obligation, will sort the situation and name the right door, including the honest answer that neither door fits yet.
For podcast hosts: Ken hosts the Circularity Catalyst, conversations with the people building the circular economy in practice, and appears as a guest on a small number of other programmes each season. If a Circularity Catalyst conversation would serve your audience, propose it through the Circularity Catalyst site.
Before you rely on it, examine it
The examination is a mirror held in private. A mirror does not argue, flatter, or accuse. It shows. What the reflection reveals is a belief gap: the distance between what an organisation believes and what it can actually substantiate. The diagnostic measures that distance, carefully enough to act on.
The first step is a conversation, and the conversation is the triage point. It sorts what actually needs examining. One artefact is examined as the diagnostic applied to that artefact. The organisation itself is examined as the Belief Gap Diagnostic. One consequential AI-supported decision, document, or workflow is the same diagnostic applied to that concern, not a separate product.
The Belief Gap Diagnostic: the organisation, examined
The Belief Gap Diagnostic examines the organisation. It begins with a private conversation with the person who holds decision authority for the concern. Afterwards, in private, the conversation is read against the twelve belief pairs and the Thirteenth Finding set out in Our Common Future – Now. Only after that read is the relevant public record set beside the conversation, and anything the record surfaces that the discussion did not evidence is reported as surfaced by the record, not evidenced in the discussion. The deliverable is a written report. A closing discussion works through what the report found and what it means for the decisions in front of you.
Where your focal concern is one consequential AI-supported decision, document, or workflow, that is this diagnostic applied there: the same examination, aimed at the place where an unexamined assumption would do the most harm if it were scaled.
The diagnostic exists so that leadership can see which of its beliefs it can substantiate before a decision, a claim, or a disclosure is scaled, and where an unexamined belief is quietly carrying a decision while there is still time to choose differently.
The fee is private. It is quoted after the exploratory conversation, once the scope is clear.
Retained Senior Advisor
Work beyond the diagnostic, including advisory support inside a team, is by invitation, after an examination or after a session in a room. It is not sold from this page.