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Advisory + Enforcement Retainer
The operating system that keeps the fix fixed.
What will you get?
An installed operating system, not a consultant on call. Three things stay installed: a weekly cadence working two or three named constraints; decision guardrails, meaning your conditions written down so managers can decide without escalating; and a ranked list of constraints (problems, not people), so the binding one gets worked first. Around them: I settle the conflicts your team can’t resolve alone, supervise execution, and act as a trusted relay to shareholders when useful.
How will you know it’s working?
The cadence produces its own evidence: decisions made, owners named, constraints retired. A written monthly note to shareholders if you want one. A quarterly review of results and scope.
How long?
Minimum three months, renewable. 30-day notice, both ways.
How it works
I’m on-site 2 to 4 days a month, across Europe and within a 2-hour flight of Vienna, reachable between visits. Your management keeps deciding. The scope is contractual; changes get signed.
The point
A diagnostic tells you what’s broken. A sprint fixes the first items. This is what keeps it fixed, month after month, against the quiet pull of people who preferred things as they were. You are not buying my days. You are buying what stays installed between them.
Enforcement here means: the cadence makes commitments visible, I name the misses to the people who made them, and I escalate to you when naming isn’t enough. No mandate needed. Sunlight does most of the work.
What I don’t do
- I don’t take a director mandate, legal or de facto
- I don’t replace your management. The client decides; I advise and make sure it executes.
- I don’t do fuzzy scope. The contract defines it; changes get signed.
Who it’s for
- A CEO who wants a permanent external lens and peer-level sparring
- A PE fund or family office wanting a trusted relay with management
- A company growing faster than its operating structure
Pricing: scoped at restitution.
The restitution is the session where a diagnostic’s or sprint’s findings land; most retainers start there, scoped by what was found. Coming in directly? The scope comes from one conversation.
You’re probably thinking...
The days are not the product. What changes the company runs between my visits: the weekly cadence, the guardrails, the ranked constraints. I’m there to install them, enforce them, and keep them honest.
That’s the most common failure mode, and it’s precisely the job. I name the resistance, escalate honestly, and keep pushing. What I won’t do is pretend progress where there is none.
Two mandates at a time, not a roster. If I’m at capacity I tell you, and we book a start date.
The exit is in the contract: 30-day notice, both ways, no penalties. The deliverable is an operating system your people run. If I’m still load-bearing after six months, I’ve done it wrong.
I take no director mandate, legal or de facto, and no signature authority. Deliberately. You get senior operating judgment without governance entanglement. Your management decides; I make sure decisions execute. The accountability I do take is contractual: scope, presence, enforcement.
Bring the two issues costing you the most time or money.
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