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Improve Decision-Making

At senior levels, your leverage isn’t output.
It’s the quality of your decisions — and the relationships that carry them.

This for executives and leadership teams who are navigating:

  • decisions bottlenecks

  • strong opinions with weak alignment

  • cross-functional friction that slows execution

  • leadership tension that never fully resolves

  • scale, restructuring, transitions, or M&A

Relationality provides a practical way to make decisions that create immense value — without forcing consensus or flattening difference.

Two Areas of Focus

This is not generic leadership coaching. It’s decision infrastructure + real-time reinforcement.

We focus on two things simultaneously:

  • Decision-Making: how decisions get made, who decides what, and what “good” means here

  • Relationship Management: how tradeoffs get negotiated, how tension resolves, and how alignment holds under pressure

Executive Leadership Retreats

Leadership Retreats are an ideal setting for installing an executive decision-making process unique to your company. Together, we’ll design a group decision-making process tailored to the team’s actual decision styles — then implement it so decisions are being made with ease throughout the retreat and ideally, long afterward.

This is much more than just a workshop. We offer end-to-end facilitation of your entire retreat so we can actively track decision dynamics and compatibility patterns as they emerge - helping the group move through deadlock, misinterpretation, or conflict while it’s happening in real time.

Typical retreat outcomes:

  • fewer re-decisions and cleaner follow-through

  • clearer decision rights and thresholds

  • faster alignment under pressure

  • more trust across different styles

  • a culture leaders can actually run, not just describe

Executive Coaching

1:1 coaching is available for executives who want to strengthen decision-making and relationship management where it matters most.

Receive practical support for leading inside real constraints — and making decisions that don’t unravel the moment the room gets complicated.

Expected Outcomes:

  • cleaner decisions under uncertainty

  • better negotiation across strong personalities

  • conflict that resolves instead of looping

  • influence without unnecessary friction

  • clarity around what to reinforce and what to stop rewarding

Group Coaching

For organizations scaling fast, manager coherence becomes the multiplier.

Group coaching for managers builds shared language and decision habits across the layer that most directly shapes day-to-day culture. It helps managers align on how decisions get made, how expectations are communicated, and how tension is handled — so the culture doesn’t fracture as the organization grows.

Great for:

  • rapidly expanding teams

  • new manager cohorts

  • post-reorg integration

  • reducing repeat people escalations

Keynote Speaking

Speaking is for moments when you need shared language fast — across a leadership group, a People org, or an executive audience.

Keynotes and executive sessions create the “lightbulb moment” for “how decisions are made here” - and why smart people can still collide. Leaders leave with a framework they can use immediately to reduce misinterpretation, speed up alignment, and improve decision quality.

Great for:

  • leadership offsites and summits

  • executive audiences + People org audiences

  • culture reset moments

  • change periods (new CEO, restructuring, integration)

  • post-M&A alignment

Book Now if You’re Experiencing:

  • repeat decision loops

  • misinterpretation or tension across styles

  • growth that’s outpacing alignment

  • post-reorg / post-merger integration strain

  • a team that “agrees” but executes differently

Testimonials

  • Marlee did a good job pointing out blind spots when it came to my natural communication style in comparison to the natural communication style of some of my direct reports. This helped me take things less personally and diffuse tension that arose from miscommunication.

    Robert - CEO

  • What really worked for me about Marlee’s communication style was her bluntness and willingness to challenge me. She didn’t sugarcoat things or dance around tough topics - she was clear, direct, and to the point. I appreciated that she didn’t hold back when I needed to be pushed or when my assumptions needed to be questioned. That kind of honesty helped me break through mental roadblocks and see things from a new perspective.

    Marcus - Head of Sales

  • Working with Marlee has made such a difference in my day to day interactions and allowed me to harness a confidence that I already had but was not using to my advantage.

    Romy - Team Lead

  • With Marlee as my coach I have learned how to be more assertive with maintaining my boundaries. I've also become far more intentional with my actions in life - particularly around money where I now have a completely different relationship and experience. I've also developed a more keen sense of goal setting and why I haven't accomplished my goals in the past.

    Matt - Middle Manager

  • I would recommend Marlee's coaching to those dealing with any stage of life as she is a breath of fresh air. She presents her topics with open and honest communication, tasks and homework that ensure you can properly process the information and return comfortable to dive deeper. Adding Marlee into your life as a coach means, adding a genuine friend!

    Tyler - Startup Founder

  • Marlee’s coaching was a game-changer for me. She helped me uncover blind spots and reframe challenges in ways I hadn’t considered before. One of the biggest areas of growth came from understanding how my own insecurities and fears influenced my decision-making. She gave me tools to navigate those internal obstacles, which ultimately helped me approach complex problems with more clarity and confidence.

    Mark - Chief Innovation Officer

  • The parts work Marlee guided me through was incredibly helpful. It gave me a deeper understanding of the different aspects of myself and how they influence my thoughts and decisions. Beyond that, her ability to truly listen and know exactly when to challenge me made a huge difference. She struck the right balance between support and pushing me outside my comfort zone, which helped me gain real clarity and growth.

    Emily - Head of People

Culture Mapping

Map Your Culture:

A Culture Map reduces decision friction.

It shows what to reinforce, what to stop rewarding, and where incompatibility will become expensive if left unnamed. For most organizations, preventing one mis-hire or one leadership deadlock cycle can pay for the work.