The Room That Decides
An eight-week consulting cohort for executive teams who need the meeting to produce a decision, not a mood. We observe two real meetings, then practise the missing moves with the same people.
Modules
Who actually owns the vote
A map of informal vetoes, including the person who never speaks and still stops the paper.
Dissent that can be used
Live practice of a minority view that is specific enough for the chair to work with.
Time, not theatre
Cutting the opening round of status so the decision sits in the first twenty minutes.
After the room
What gets said in the corridor, and how we bring it back without a witch hunt.
Outcomes we will hold you to
By week eight the team should be able to name the decision, the owner, the dissent that was heard, and the date the decision can be reopened. We will not claim culture change in two months. We will claim a cleaner paper trail.
Instructor
Helen Page designs the flagship. She has sat with Australian executive teams since 2007, first as an internal OD lead in a listed industrial, then as an independent consultant from Bellbrae. She writes the session notes herself; associates only join for observation, not for delivery of the core modules.
Informational fee
AUD 42,800 for one executive team of up to eight people, including two observed meetings and six practice sessions. Travel within Victoria is included. Interstate travel is quoted separately. This site does not take payment.
Questions we hear
Can we send only the high-potential directors?
No. The programme is built around the actual decision table. Substituting a talent pool for the people who vote is a limitation we will not work around.
Do you record sessions?
Only with written consent from every person in the room. Recordings stay on our encrypted drive for 30 days and are then deleted.
What if the CEO will not attend?
We pause. Without the chair of the executive in the room, the practice leaks into theatre again.
Notes from past cohorts
Module 02 made me look slow in front of people I manage. I would still book it, because the alternative was another year of polite deadlock.
Rated 4/5 on our internal panel. The missing star is because we wanted a toolkit PDF and Helen refused to issue one.