Test the move before you make it.
Expose a weak assumption before a steering committee, challenge your reading of a stakeholder, or work through a decision with someone outside the engagement.
A more defensible next step.
From practitioners. For practitioners.
Your clients rely on your judgment.
Who sharpens yours?
A free community for former corporate leaders now working independently. Find peers who understand executive responsibility and can help you test a decision, strengthen an approach and move client work forward.
Founding circle now forming · Membership is free
FOR EXPERIENCED LEADERS IN INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
Independent consultants · Interim executives · Transformation practitioners
A return on your attention
Free to join.
Still has to earn its place in your week.
The value is in what changes in your work afterwards: a decision you can defend, a method you can use, or a peer you know you can call.
Build on someone else’s hard-won experience.
Exchange a workshop structure, a decision brief or a way of explaining change. Discuss where it worked, where it failed and what you would adapt.
A method you can put to work.
Know how a peer thinks before you need them.
Working through a real problem reveals judgment, depth and discretion. That is a useful basis for a second opinion—or a future collaboration.
A relationship grounded in the work.
The community, in practice
Recognise the situation?
Explore three examples of the questions we want to work on together. Each illustrative case includes a sample output you could take back to a client.
The question you bring
“The sponsor wants progress. The functions won’t agree on the trade-off.”
Another round of alignment may consume a week without producing a decision.
What peers could testIs the disagreement about evidence, authority, or who bears the cost?
Example output / Decision brief
- Decision required
- One shared process, or local exceptions?
- Trade-off to make visible
- Consistency of control versus local flexibility.
- Next conversation
- Put both options and their consequences in front of the person accountable for the outcome.
A clearer decision for the sponsor to make.
The question you bring
“The last workshop ended in agreement. Nothing changed afterwards.”
The next session needs to uncover what the polite consensus is hiding.
What peers could testDid participants agree on the principle, or on how to handle the first difficult exception?
Example output / Workshop design
- Start with evidence
- Walk through a recent exception and the handoffs it exposed.
- Make the choice explicit
- Ask who acts, who decides and which constraint prevents action.
- Close with a test
- Name an owner and a date to check whether the agreed handoff works in practice.
A session designed around a decision, with a way to test it.
The question you bring
“The process is documented. The team still needs me to run it.”
A deliverable can be complete while the organisation remains dependent on the consultant.
What peers could testCan the owner explain the next action, handle an exception and find the evidence without you?
Example output / Handover test
- Demonstrate ownership
- Ask the process owner to run one case without the consultant leading.
- Expose the gaps
- Record missing decisions, unclear responsibilities and knowledge that lives only in conversation.
- Leave usable support
- Turn the gaps into a short guide and an agreed escalation path.
Evidence that the team can carry the work forward.
A useful peer conversation should produce something you can take back into the engagement.
Explore the proposed case clinics ↗The standard for the room
Senior peers.
Specific questions.
Useful challenge.
You’ve led teams, managed budgets and been accountable for difficult decisions. Now you bring that experience to clients. We’re building a circle of peers who understand those responsibilities and can challenge your thinking as equals.
See whether it fits your practice ↗Peers who understand the responsibility
Work through the commercial consequences, organisational politics and delivery constraints with people who have had to own decisions themselves.
Discretion as a working rule
Discuss only what you have permission to share. Remove identifying details and respect the boundaries of each engagement.
Time with a clear purpose
The proposed clinics centre on a defined question, relevant peers and a practical next step. Participation should serve your work.
The practitioner behind it
Bjoern Greiff
Executive consultant
International IT executive
Built by someone who has carried the responsibility.
Bjoern’s background spans CTO, CIO and COO roles, with experience across IT, operations and multichannel retail. The Solo Project brings that experience into a community for practitioners working through the realities of change.
The premise is simple: independence works better when you have access to other experienced minds—and something useful to contribute in return.
Read Bjoern’s professional background on LinkedIn ↗Where we are today
We’re forming the founding circle. Small practitioner case clinics are the proposed first format. Join the conversation to help shape the first sessions.
The founding circle · Free to join
Bring the question you would value a second opinion on.
Start with a short introduction. Let’s see whether the work you do and the circle we’re building are a good fit.
Join the founding circle
A direct conversation with Bjoern.
No membership fee.