For CHROs and senior L&D leaders

The pattern running your leaders isn't visible to them.

Seventy per cent of leaders are operating from an identity formed in response to other people's expectations. Not their own. The engine underneath the vision statement, underneath the coaching programme, underneath the 360 — is fear. You cannot think your way out of a pattern you cannot see.

What is ssc

Single Session Coaching is a 90-minute intervention built to surface the pattern itself — not add new behaviour on top of it. One leader. One session. The loop, finally visible.

This is not another development programme. It operates below the presenting behaviour — at the structure generating it. That's why it works where programmes don't.

the science

The 70% figure draws on two converging sources: Robert Kegan's adult development research at Harvard, and Leadership Circle's assessment database — 2.5 million surveys, 175,000 leaders assessed over 25 years.

Their data consistently shows 70–80% of leaders operating from a reactive, fear-driven orientation. The pattern is not a minority problem.

$7,500

average cost of a single avoided conversation

7 days

lost per unresolved conversation

1 in 5

employees estimates their silence has cost their organisation $50,000+

Questions we hear

This sounds too good to be true. 90 minutes can't do what programmes can't.
Programmes operate at the level of behaviour. SSC operates at the level of the structure generating behaviour. The 90 minutes don't fix everything. It makes the pattern visible, which is where everything that genuinely changes begins.
We've invested heavily in leadership development. How does this sit alongside that?
SSC doesn't replace what you have. It works at a level most programmes can't reach — and often unlocks the value already invested. Leaders who can see their pattern get far more from everything else.
I haven't seen this before. How do I evaluate something with no category?
You evaluate it the same way you'd evaluate any serious intervention: does it change something real? Start with a conversation. Bring your scepticism. That's exactly where we want to begin.

book a conversation

30min. no pitch.

We'll explore whether SSC is the right fit for your leaders — and what that would look like in practice.

Or call/email Ben on +31 638 638 067