Sean DeLaney Private Advisor Discuss working together

Year-End Strategic Counsel

For founders, senior executives and investors

Make time for the decisions that will shape your next year.

I’ll work with you personally from December through early February. Together, we’ll figure out what you want to change and what it will take, and I’ll stay with you through the conversations and choices that follow.

Discuss working together

You’ve spent much of this year being the person others turn to.

The decisions that matter most are often the hardest to talk through with anyone around you.

Talking through a possible change with your team could create uncertainty. Your board has its own expectations. A family member may know you well without seeing the full picture of the business.

As you close out the year, you’ll have somewhere to bring what’s been on your mind, without needing to have it all figured out first.

Someone who takes the time to understand you and your situation.

I’ll get to know what you’ve built, what depends on you, and what you want for yourself. That context matters when we’re deciding what needs to change.

We’ll look closely at the year you’ve had. Where did your effort make a difference? What kept occupying your attention without getting resolved? Which commitments still make sense, and which deserve another look?

I’ll bring my judgment to those conversations. I’ll ask questions, challenge assumptions, and tell you what I see, including where I think you may be overlooking something important.

You might want to think through a change in your role before raising it with your team. Prepare for a consequential conversation, then return to what it revealed. Or examine an opportunity that looks attractive but would pull your life in a direction you might not want it to go.

Then we’ll work through what you want to do about it. As you act, you’ll have someone who remembers the reasoning and can help you respond when things don’t unfold as expected.

How we’ll work together

We’ll work together from December through February, with four scheduled conversations and email access between meetings for developments connected to our work.

  1. EARLY DECEMBER

    The Diagnosis

    We’ll examine your year closely. Where your effort made a difference, what kept occupying your attention without getting resolved, and which decisions the year has left in front of you.

  2. MID DECEMBER

    The Decisions

    What needs to change. Which commitments carry into next year, and which deserve another look. What you will act on first.

  3. EARLY JANUARY

    In Motion

    You begin putting the decisions into practice. We talk through what is happening, what the first moves revealed, and where you need to think further.

  4. EARLY FEBRUARY

    The Roadmap

    We return to your decisions with the benefit of what you learned. We address what did not unfold as expected, adjust what needs adjusting, and decide what comes next.

Each conversation is virtual and lasts 90 minutes. I prepare for every conversation and hold your context across all four. You will leave with a written synthesis of the decisions, commitments, and questions we uncovered, delivered within five days of our final conversation.

Investment

$7,500

for the complete engagement.

This engagement centers on your year-end review and the priorities we agree to work through together. 

For those seeking continuing counsel across their business and life, I also offer a separate annual advisory relationship.

Portrait of Sean DeLaney

I serve as private advisor and long-term counsel to founders, senior executives and investors.

Over more than a decade of advisory work, I’ve guided more than 100 year-end reviews with leaders. The most common thing I see is that capable people rarely give themselves time to diagnose what worked and what didn’t, so the same patterns follow them into the next year.

Through more than 400 conversations on my podcast, What Got You There, with people like Howard Marks, Frank Slootman and Annie Duke. I’ve also explored how accomplished people think through difficult choices, including the doubts and tradeoffs that aren’t apparent from the outside.

I take time to understand the person behind the decisions, the responsibilities they carry, and what they want for themselves. As we work together, I bring that understanding and my honest judgment to the situations they’re navigating.

Sean DeLaney

More about my work at SeanDeLaney.co
“Sean is a force for good for all of those fortunate enough to be in his orbit. He is a game changer for people looking to learn, grow and become the best versions of themselves. Sean is the real deal.”
Scott O’Neil CEO, LIV Golf — Former CEO, Philadelphia 76ers & NJ Devils

Begin with what’s on your mind.

I am accepting up to six engagements for this season, and I work with each person directly.
Applications close December 1st, or when the six engagements fill.
I reply personally to every application within one business day.