See the rule.
Take one real situation apart. Find the operating rule and the conclusion about yourself it protects. Make visible what has been shaping your choices.
Inner Architecture Work
For founders, owners & CEOs
YOU KNOW.
AND STILL.
You do it again.
You can see what needs to change. Yet in the moments that matter, you end up in the same place.
Let's find the rule underneath.
Book your complimentary audit 70 minutes / Virtual / No pitch
"My emotions and reactivity have been replaced by a
calm confidence"
Kevin GrayCEO, Scotsman Guide
01 / RecognitionSame cycle. Different room.
The rule
sounds like you.
It rarely sounds like a rule.
It sounds like good judgment.
A reasonable explanation.
Something you have always known.
Inside the cycle
You hire capable people.
Then take the work back.
A rule worth examining
"If I'm not in control, something will go wrong."
What it keeps creating
Your people wait for you. You carry more. Their dependence becomes proof that you were right to step in.
An example to recognize, not a conclusion about you.
The question beneath the behavior
What is the rule
trying to protect?
02 / The workSee it. Meet it. Choose.
Knowing isn't
the same as choosing.
You can understand a behavior perfectly and still be unable to change it in the moment. Inner Architecture Work goes into that moment to uncover the rule narrowing your choices, recognize it while it is running, and build the capacity to act differently even when the old reaction is still there.
A map of what drives you
Meet it while it's live.
Learn your signature: the alarm in your body and the story in your mind. Recognize the rule as it fires, inside the very situations where you lose your choice.
Give it less say.
The rule may still speak. You practice hearing it without automatically obeying it. That is where a different choice becomes possible.
From Inner Architecture
"You will still hear the rule.
You will simply stop taking it as an instruction every time it speaks."
03 / Client voicesTheir words.
Life on the
other side
of the usual.
"Thanks to our work together, I'm already 10x more capable in situations that once felt overwhelming, and I'm only just getting started."
Alex FederationCEO, Talus Bio
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David HeapsFounder, Leadering
04 / The person in the roomI didn't find this
I didn't find this
in a boardroom.
But I've sat in that seat.
I'm a former COO and Vistage Chair. For 11 years, I've worked with founders, owners, and CEOs who can move almost anything in their world, except the thing inside them that keeps getting in the way.
10,000+
hours in isolation in the Amazon,
developing and doing this work on myself.
What came out of that was a way to see the mechanisms underneath my own decisions. And a way to work with them that doesn't require leaving your life.
I'm still doing the work, too.
Talk with me
Concept cover / ForthcomingThe book / For founders, owners & CEOsINNER
INNER
ARCHITECTURE
Finding and Freeing Yourself from the Invisible Rules That Are Ruling You
A method for seeing the rules that have been ruling you, and changing what they get to decide.
Work the process05 / Begin hereComplimentary. No pitch.
Bring the thing
that keeps
coming back.
70min
One session.
One real constraint.
A place to begin.
One real constraint.
A place to begin.
The Inner Architecture Audit
The conversation you keep not having. The decision that won't move. The reaction you can't quite get ahead of.
We take one live constraint and examine the architecture underneath it. You leave with a written map of what we found and something concrete to work with.
Book your complimentary audit Virtual / Yours to keep / No obligation- 01Name the constraint.
Make the recurring situation specific.
- 02See what's underneath.
Identify the conclusions and operating rules we uncover.
- 03Understand the cost.
To you, your relationships, and your business.
- 04Know where to begin.
Leave with a map and a next step.
Before we meetA few
A few
straight answers.
Do I need experience with inner work?
No. Bring a real situation from your life. We begin there, in plain language. No framework or special vocabulary required.
What should I bring?
One specific situation that keeps troubling you. A recent example helps. Bring a willingness to be open and honest.
Is this a sales call?
No. This is a working session with a written map to take away. No pitch. No obligation to continue.
What if I want to keep working together?
Individual work is offered in a defined six-month engagement. Work with partners and executive teams is also available. If you want to continue, we can discuss what fits.