Kathi Laughman spent decades building decision infrastructure for organizations of every size — frameworks and processes that helped leaders make consequential choices under pressure, every day.

Then she had to do it alone.

Leaving a long career, selling a home of thirty years, moving, and reimagining her working life — she navigated every one of those decisions without a team or a safety net. Just the principles she’d spent decades refining.

What she discovered is that those same principles work as powerfully for one founder running their own business as for an entire organization — and that the biggest risk to a successful business isn’t failure. It’s drift: the gap that opens, often unnoticed, between why a business was built and what it’s actually doing.

Kathi is the author of Adjusted Sails: What Does This Make Possible?, available on Amazon.