Immersions & Coaching for
Founders & Executive Leaders
Stańczyk by Jan Matejko (1862)—the jester who saw what others ignored
You’re not here to merely tick a box or hit a number.
You’ve done that enough times so as to be quietly dissatisfied with the trappings of conventional success.
And you’re savvy enough to know that the future doesn’t belong to those who wait for it to happen—it belongs to those who lead and quest amidst the emergent.
But it’s dangerous to go alone. Every leader ought to have a wizard-advisor.
Not someone who claims to have “all the answers” (chatGPT can pretend to handle that)—rather: someone you can spar with, as a trusted thinking partner and friend.
Someone rogue enough to match your wiles, with the wit to help you find the hidden paths to meaningful progress through change.
Without such, you might find yourself relying on external consulting firms to think for you. Or simply parroting consensus narratives and ‘podcast wisdom’* (like everyone else, with no strategic differentiation).
Perhaps a rare opportunity opportunity now awaits before you. At this junction, we meet.
*my podcast is good tho.
I work with those who seek to—
꧁ achieve complex goals ꧂
If this is what you seek, then—
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But first! It’s worth noting:
I work with those of us who likewise seek to co-create a world more curious and kind.
If you aren’t an advocate for a healthier world, then I’m not the wizard you seek. But if you are, then—great! Let’s make magic.
There are a few ways I can assist in your endeavours.
Immersions and Deep Dives
emergence evocation
Not quite workshop,
not quite masterclass
—but A Secret Third Thing.™
Immersions are contextual deep-dives to catalyse leadership, strategy, and knowledge development.
These are emergent experiences. I bring frameworks, knowledge, provocation and facilitatory wit—but the ideas and insight come from those in the room with us.
This is different to the usual approach of “starting with the end in mind”, wherein we manufacture the theatre required to bring people to a predetermined (and predictable) outcome. Rather, this is what you do when you want your team to be the originators, owners and initiators of new progress and change.
Potential Immersions
These immersions are profound additions to any leadership or strategy offsite. Spanning 3–4 hours, with plenty of room for discussion and dialogue.
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We traverse domains such as:
The hidden commitments and conflicting values holding us back.
The delusions of progress we must outgrow.
Guiding principles and keystone behaviours that will differentiate your team.
How to have each other’s back (even when things don’t work).
The taboo of the perverse incentives that distort our collective effort.
How to better coordinate amidst complexity at scale.
How we avoid self-sabotage and ineffective psychopathy.
The sincere-irony required to generate and maintain authentic propaganda (narrative strategy).
How to embrace and exemplify intentionally polarising values
How to be post-woke and integrate genuine wisdoms from diversity, equity and inclusion.
How to cultivate complexity savvy.
—and more!
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We hazard such ventures as:
“what are we pretending to not know?”
The quiver of strategic optionality we can maintain.
Qualitative sensemaking—and the role we are to play in this unfurling future.
Narrative strategy and perception management.
The cultivation of in-house intelligence and authentically differentiated strategy.
How to experiment and what we do when experiments fail.
How to learn and share knowledge.
What we incentivise (and who gets rewarded).
How authority works and how decisions get made.
How to provision for emergence and change.
How and where we monitor and embrace emerging technologies.
How to avoid multipolar traps, how to ‘see around corners’
How to adapt our new business model.
What meaningful progress looks like, what your organisation will be known for
—and more!
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We frolic within fields such as:
how to develop and distinguish our ‘thought leadership’ in this age of misinformation and artificial intelligence.
How to authentically differentiate from hacks and be recognised as warm authorities in our field.
How to cultivate the appropriate glamourie magics to make our relevant ideas more salient.
How to ensure we are effective sensemakers amidst complexity, whilst also being compelling communicators of the emergent.
How to cultivate knowledge gardens and tend to a growing and organic body of work.
How to confidently appear on any podcast or panel with deep and generous knowledge and warmth
—and more!
Let’s Immerse in the emergent
Each immersion is an opportunity to profoundly catalyse the conversations that need to be had, so as to ensure you remain at the forefront of what is emerging (and on the unfurling path to enduring relevance).
Your Narrative Catalyst
quickening magic for strategic events
As a generalist complexity practitioner and ‘rogue wizard’ with experience working alongside senior leadership teams across a range of industries—including deep tech, academia, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, government, defence, and more—I understand the power of events to act as catalysts for new narratives.
Together, we can bring about the narrative wedge that brings about the change you seek.
It’s one thing to have a strategy; it’s another to have people believe in it.
Narrative strategy is a subtle, delicate act. Too contrived and they won’t believe you. Too calculated and they won’t be inspired. It requires bardic savvy, and a deft penchant for quickening magics.
As an external speaker, I can support and amplify the strategic narrative you seek to manifest. We can also dance together in fireside conversation, so as to bring your strategic vision to life.
Your Wizard
Advisor-Accomplice
rogue confidant
I have exquisite advisor-accomplice arrangements with fellow infinite players who happen to play executive roles within Enterprise Land. You might be one such.
We infinite players play with boundaries—not within them. This makes it difficult for any one organisation to ‘contain’ you. It also means most conventional advice falls flat. For you are not playing to merely ‘win’—but rather: to bring about something altogether more mythic.
There’s something different these players share: a trickster-like glint coupled with a warm heart and a sense of the infinite.
“Trickster is among other things the gatekeeper who opens the door into the next world; those who mistake him… never even know such a door exists.”
― Lewis Hyde
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
You know such a door exists.
It starts with a conversation
Pen me a short note and let’s see what might be possible.
And so, I offer you a rare service that few others can provide. In essence, this looks like ‘executive coaching’—except not. In practice, it’s more like having a wizardly peer thinking partner. I’ve helped executives: host knowledge clubs, deliver keynote presentations, facilitate delicate conversations, develop narrative strategy, write their first book, cultivate mythos, and help teams find meaningful progress amidst the uncharted and unprecedented.
Essentially: I help you develop your thinking and look cool whilst finding meaningful progress towards complex goals.
This… is not something I take on lightly. Maybe get me in for an event first, and then let’s see if there’s alchemy betwixt.
Fun Fact:
my clients are often also secret agents of The Regenerati—an elite global organisation of shapeshifters and druids committed to planetary regeneration. But we don’t talk of that.
Whilst you are here—
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A semi-sporadic epistle, wherein I share wit, wisdom and wiles to help you be a more effective imposter within the mythical “future of leadership”.
Would you like to become one of my many happy clients?
For all bookings & enquiries, email Kim* via hello@drjasonfox.com
* Dr Kim Lam, aka dangerlam the veterinarian/illustrator
(also: my wondrous life partner & business manager)