Kathi Laughman

Decisions Don’t Fail Randomly—They Fail Predictably

Decision strategist with 40+ years in high-stakes business environments

Understand why decisions don’t break down randomly—and how recognizing recurring patterns gives you an advantage.

Why most failed decisions follow predictable patterns

Learn six predictable ways decisions go off track—so you can diagnose breakdowns and avoid repeating them.

The six most common breakdown points in decision-making

Discover how to identify friction, blind spots, and hidden constraints when you can still adjust your approach.

How to spot risk before you commit

Walk away with a practical way to begin making clearer, more aligned decisions—using what’s already in front of you.

Your first step to improving your decision quality

Confidently lead with clarity in increasingly uncertain times.

Cohort 2

Transformational Leadership Partner

Enspiral

Consensys

Susan Basterfield

Partner to leaders transforming how power, teams, and systems work

Decision-Making in Complexity

Stefan Morales

Leadership strategist with +15 years helping teams navigate uncertainty.

Cohort 1

Cohort 3

This isn’t leadership theory - it’s a rewiring.You’ll learn how to stay clear, composed, and creative when everything around you is shifting.Over three focused weeks, you’ll explore what great leaders do when there are no easy answers - how they think, decide, and move with others when the stakes are high and the path isn’t clear.You’ll walk away with:A sharper way to see what’s really happening beneath the noise.Simple moves that turn confusion into momentum.A calmer, steadier center - no matter what’s unfolding.A network of peers who lead with courage instead of control.This is about learning to thrive where others freeze - to become the kind of leader people trust when things get uncertain.

Lead with clarity in increasingly uncertain times.

Make clear decisions in uncertain conditions

Build strategies that stay useful as conditions change

Guide groups to decisions they can commit to

Create containers for coordinated experimentation

Spot early signals so you can intervene before issues escalate

Lead from a steady center that builds trust and follow-through

Leaders in motion guiding your teams through rapid growth, transformation or constriction while the ground keeps shifting.

Leaders in corporate, nonprofit, or public sectors facing external pressures that shape decisions and resources, requiring adaptive change.

Experienced leaders evolving their presence moving from control and certainty to calm, adaptive confidence.

Design a repeatable decision system to reduce noise, protect focus, and lead with clarity under pressure. By the end of the course, you'll:

Entrepreneur, CEO Coach & Board Advisor

Harvard Business School

New York University

Techstars

Strategic Coach

Expo 2020 Dubai

Aman Merchant

Serial Entrepreneur, CEO Coach, Board Advisor, NYU Faculty, YPO & EO Leader

You made 47 decisions before 10am today. You remember maybe six of them.The rest quietly drained your energy without moving anything forward.That’s decision overload - and it’s costing you clarity, focus, and leadership presence.The problem isn’t your judgment. It’s that you’re treating every decision as if it deserves your full attention - because you don’t have a system to decide what actually does.AI and constant acceleration didn’t create this pressure. They exposed what was already breaking: leaders operating without clear rules for what to decide, when, and how.When everything feels important, focus erodes. Energy drops. Leadership becomes reactive instead of intentional.This course addresses the real problem: decision load without architecture.You’ll build a practical decision system that helps you eliminate noise, clarify priorities, and protect attention - so you can lead with steadiness in an accelerating world.If everything accelerates, human steadiness becomes a competitive advantage.Decision clarity is how you build that steadiness - starting this week.And just because this is so needed at the start of 2026, I've extended early bird pricing ($225 off) until Jan 26th.

Most leaders don’t need to make better decisions. They need to make fewer.


See Your True Decision Load

Eliminate Noise Before It Becomes a Decision

Separate Strategic from Operational Decisions

Build a Weekly Decision Rhythm

Turn “No” into a Leadership Habit

Move from Insight to Action

The Scaling FounderLeading growth while carrying too many decisions. Strategy, hiring, customers, and operations all land on you.

The Senior Executive/OperatorAccountable for outcomes, pulled into everything, struggling to protect strategic focus amid constant urgency.

The Portfolio or Multi-Role LeaderJuggling boards, ventures or functions where decisions blur together &amp; attention is constantly fragmented.

Make ambiguous decisions quickly, reduce risk, and sell the direction you choose

Former Amazon VP; 70+ patents; led 800+

OpenAI

Netflix

Anthropic

NVIDIA

Stripe

Ethan Evans

Former Amazon VP (15+ years); 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+

Most professionals don’t struggle because they “can’t decide.” They struggle because decisions are messy: incomplete data, loud stakeholders, moving targets, and the fear of being wrong. The result is hesitation, endless analysis, or rushed calls that create churn and erode trust.This workshop gives you a practical system to make high-quality decisions fast, without gambling.You’ll learn a repeatable decision loop you can use immediately: Decide → Ship → Watch → Adjust. You’ll learn how to decide at ~70% certainty — moving with speed while staying grounded in signals, risk framing, and reversibility. You’ll leave with a monitoring plan for your next real decision so you know exactly what to watch, when to revisit, and what “success” looks like.And when things go sideways (because they will), you’ll have a crisis recipe that builds trust: clear ownership, clean communication, and fast learning instead of blame.Finally, you’ll get specific ways to use AI as a decision accelerator — to sharpen options, pressure-test assumptions, and surface risks — without outsourcing your judgment.

Become a trusted decision-maker: decide at 70%, ship, monitor, adjust — effectively handle crises and use AI to strengthen your judgment.

A repeatable decision loop

How to decide at ~70% certainty (without gambling)

A clear monitoring plan for your next decision

A “crisis recipe” that builds trust

Specific ways to use AI without outsourcing judgment

High-velocity ICs: Owns ambiguous work. needs a fast, safe decision loop to ship, monitor, and adjust without overthinking

People leaders: Makes calls with imperfect info, wants a repeatable system to decide, align stakeholders, and handle crises with trust

Cross-functional leads: PM/ops/eng/sales/etc, needs better decisions across teams, clear monitoring, and AI leverage without losing judgment

Strengthen inner confidence, inspire others, and sharpen leadership skills through hands-on exercises and real-world tools

Leadership Coach 

Ha Tran

Founder, Ex-Google, Chief of Staff, U.S Department of State Professional fellow

In high-stakes moments, three things show up at once: 1. what you know is true2. what it might cost3. what you think you should do Most people try to resolve this by thinking harder or speaking better.It does not work. Because the problem is not clarity. The problem is authority. When no one is clearly leading, you: - hesitate even when you know the answer- over-explain to justify your position- say something, then walk it back- leave conversations feeling misaligned This is not a confidence issue. It is a governance issue. What changes after this workshop- You speak without over-explaining or softening your position- You make decisions faster without needing full certainty- You stop negotiating against yourself in real time- You handle pushback without collapsing or escalating- You stay aligned with your decision after the conversation ends This workshop is for you if: - You know what you want to say, but change it in the moment- You make decisions, then second-guess them after- You feel tension between what is true and what is acceptable- You are seen as capable, but do not feel fully in control under pressure

You are not confused. You are running multiple leaders.

Make decisions under pressure without internal conflict

Senior leaders and managers looking to lead with conviction and assurance.

High-performing professionals who want to build stronger, more confident leadership skills.

Emerging leaders who seek to develop self-assurance, overcome self-doubt, and project confidence in high-stakes situations.