In the Room · Eight companies a year
A year with my voice in your company.
For CEOs and division leaders who can feel the culture starting to slip, and would rather get ahead of it than repair it later.
It isn’t coaching and it isn’t a consulting project. It’s access: me, in the conversations that decide how your company works, for a year, so you build a high-accountability culture, built on direct and kind conversations.
What I hear
It usually starts as a feeling you can’t quite name.
Somewhere past a hundred people, a culture is still moldable. Past a thousand, it has hardened. The window is now.
- “I feel like I’m losing the culture.”
- “Not everybody knows everybody anymore.”
- “Disagreement has gone to the back channels.”
- “It doesn’t have the same vibe as when we started.”
The year
Light on the calendar. There when it matters.
No standing Zoom calls to dread, and you’re not paying for hours. You’re paying to get there first: before a key leader decides to leave, before a co-founder conversation goes sideways, before you walk into the town hall. Whatever the most important conversation in your week is, you’ve talked it through with me before you have it.
On site
Two days to start, one day mid-year. Months 1 and 7.
The same-day line
You, whenever something comes up. All year.
Your leadership team
On video when it’s worth it, not because it’s on the calendar. When it matters.
Ren, for everyone
Shaped to your company first, then in everyone’s hands. All year.
The table
All eight companies, one dinner. Month 12.
On site
Two days to start, one day mid-year · Months 1 and 7
The same-day line
You, whenever something comes up · All year
Your leadership team
On video when it’s worth it, not because it’s on the calendar · When it matters
Ren, for everyone
Shaped to your company first, then in everyone’s hands · All year
The table
All eight companies, one dinner · Month 12
On-site visits are planned around the dinner cities, so travel stays sane on both sides.
The same-day line
Text me or send a voice memo. You’ll hear back the same day.
On site when it counts
Two days to start the year, with your leadership team and a talk to the whole company. One more day mid-year to see what’s changed.
The table
Once a year, the leaders of all eight companies sit down to dinner together. It’s the one dinner you can’t request a seat at.
The method
What the year runs on.
The same method runs through everything we do together, so it keeps working when I’m not in the room.
- 01
The book
Good Authority is where the method comes from: how a leader uses enough authority to be useful, and not so much that people disappear.
About the book - 02
The Accountability Dial
How direct and kind works in practice, one conversation at a time. Mention, Invitation, Conversation, Boundary, Limit. Most things resolve in the first two.
How the Dial works - 03
Ren
The method in software, shaped to your company before it reaches everyone, so it keeps working in the conversations I’ll never be in.
When I’m not in the room
The AI part, done with care.
Yes, we built a tool. Ren is the Good Authority method in software: getting ready for the hard conversation, working out what to say, the way I’d put it if I were there.
We don’t start by rolling it out to everyone. We start with what your company actually needs, and shape Ren around that. When it fits, it reaches your whole company.
It doesn’t replace anyone’s judgment, and it doesn’t replace the conversation. It gets people into it.
“Yes, the numbers have gotten better, but this work does so much more than that. Jonathan has helped us become more resilient as leaders and as an organization. We’re able to work together and have the conversations that matter, even under stress. It changes everything.”
“I just want Jonathan’s voice in the room.”
The investment
$250,000
a year, all in, for companies up to 300 people.
That covers everything on this page: you, your leadership team, and Ren for your whole company. No add-ons and no hourly meter.
Bigger than 300? We’ll work out the shape of it together.
Who it’s for
You run a company, or a big part of one, somewhere past a hundred people. It’s working. The numbers are fine. But you can feel the thing that made it special getting thinner as you grow.
You don’t want a program rolled out to your people. You want someone in your corner who gets the business and gets the human side, and who will tell you the truth about both, including your own part in it.
How we meet
Most people find me by word of mouth.
A dinner is a relaxed way for us to meet, and to meet other leaders working on the same things. However we meet, the next step is the same: an honest conversation about what a year together would look like.
Eight companies a year
The first step is an honest conversation.
About where things are, what you’re feeling, and whether a year together makes sense. With me, not a salesperson. If it doesn’t make sense, I’ll tell you.