Clarity Boutique — Private Strategy Counsel & Execution Partnership

15 yrs

at the intersection of business strategy and human complexity

100s of leaders

guided through strategy and innovation work, 1:1 and in teams

8 countries

in private sessions in the last two years alone — corporate years reached far more

A handful

of clients at any time — a deliberately small practice, by design

The situations I'm brought into

The pace keeps rising. The space to think keeps shrinking.

More options, more speed, more output — you can get all of that from AI now. What you can't get from it: the deliberate hour where you zoom out, decide what actually matters, and commit — with a partner who holds the whole picture and holds you to it. The work starts where the stakes are highest:

The decision

"Things are getting serious — bigger stakes, bigger decisions — and I'm afraid I'll get it wrong."

"Two good options. Six months of circling. I need this settled."

"Should I raise another fund — or is this the last one?"

"The role ended. What comes next shouldn't be automatic."

The overload

"I have fifteen priorities and no sequence. I know what to do — I can't seem to start."

"There's a lot going on, in no focused direction. I need a forcing function."

"I don't have anyone who sees the full picture — the business, the personal stakes, all of it — that I can think out loud with."

The build

"The strategy is agreed. The execution keeps slipping."

"I'm taking on a bigger mandate, and the way I've operated so far won't carry it."

"We're building something new — and I want a partner who has built before."

If any of these sound familiar, you've probably been circling for a while — weighing the same trade-offs, restarting the same plans. What changes things is a forcing function: everything mapped, the bottleneck named, a concrete plan — and someone alongside you until it's done.

The approach

Strategy with the person at the center of it

Most strategy work optimizes the plan you already have. This practice starts one level earlier: what do you actually want — and why hasn't it happened yet?

Strategy consulting works on the business and leaves the person out of it. Coaching works on the person and leaves the strategy to you. This practice holds both — because at this level, the plan and the person carrying it are the same system.

Map everything.

You bring it all — the business, the opportunities, the personal stakes, the things you haven't said out loud yet. I build a live visual map as we talk: your whole situation on one page, organized so you can finally see it.

Find the bottleneck.

Through sharp questions and deep listening, we surface the thing holding everything else back — the decision being avoided, the belief running the show, the pattern you can't see from inside your own situation.

Build the plan.

Three to five structured objectives with concrete next steps for the next 90 days. What to prioritize, what to defer, what to stop. Not a summary — a plan you'll actually use.

Execute together.

This is where most advisory work stops, and where this practice keeps going. Working sessions on each front of the plan, a living roadmap, async access between sessions — and when it's useful, hands-on help building the thing itself.

Scattered→Structured

Overloaded→Sequenced

Circling a decision→Decided

Planning→Shipping

In practice

What working together actually looks like

An engagement is a working rhythm: your thinking becomes drafts, drafts become decisions, and decisions become things that ship.

Before we meet

I send a short set of questions aimed at your situation. You answer them however thinking works best for you — many clients record a voice conversation, alone or with a partner or co-founder. I turn it into a structured working draft: your own thinking, organized and handed back to you.

In session

We go deep: sharp questions, drilling past the first answer, the kind of listening that surfaces what you actually think — and what you actually want. Then we land it as decisions: what to prioritize, what to defer, what to commit to and by when. The draft becomes a plan with milestones and owners.

Between sessions

I build alongside you: the program overview, the invitation, the memo, the pitch structure — whatever the plan needs next. You stay in motion; the artifacts keep pace. And I'm a voice note away when something shifts.

At the milestones

On the day the thing is supposed to ship, I check in. Not surveillance — a partner who remembers what you committed to, and asks. Clients tell me this is worth the whole engagement.

Expect to be challenged.

On the patterns, the avoidance, the priority that's actually a hiding place, the thing you're not saying out loud. I hold the full picture without flinching.

Expect to be backed.

When the plan is set and it's time to act, you have someone certain alongside you — through the resistance, the doubt at the milestone, and the moment you press send.

What this is not Organizational consulting. No culture programs, no business-unit strategy, no transformation decks. I work with the person who carries the decisions — their clarity, their portfolio, their execution. For funds, accelerators, and leadership teams, that same work, leader by leader.

Engagements

Closed shapes. Named outcomes. Nothing open-ended.

Every engagement has a named objective, a fixed scope, an end date, and a defined outcome — so you always know what you're deciding on, and what "done" means.

The Session

One decisive intervention.

$1,500 · incl. integration call

3-hour private working session (virtual or in person)
Clarity Roadmap within 48 hours — objectives, key results, action tables, and a conscious shelving list
Full visual map of your situation (Miro artifact)
60-minute integration call at week three

Done meansYour whole situation mapped, the bottleneck named, and a 90-day plan you're ready to move on.

The Arc

One front, settled.

From $4,500 · 3–4 sessions over 6–10 weeks

A sequenced series of working sessions around one named objective — the fund decision, the reorganization, the succession, the new venture
Drafts, structures, and decision memos built between sessions
A living roadmap, updated as the work moves
Async access throughout — a voice note away

Done meansThe decision made, the plan sequenced, and the first moves already shipped — on a date we set at the start.

The Partnership

Embedded, hands-on.

From $3,500/mo · three-month arcs

Weekly working rhythm on one or two named projects
I build alongside you — strategy, digital and innovation projects, new ventures: the work I led in my corporate years
Living roadmap and priority async access
Renewed by decision at each gate, never by default

Done meansThe named projects shipped, staffed, or consciously stopped — with the momentum system to carry what's next.

Engagements typically run $5,000–$20,000 over a quarter to half a year, depending on depth and how hands-on you want me. Every engagement begins with a 20-minute fit conversation.

For organizations

I also work with funds, accelerators, and leadership teams — portfolio founder sessions, innovation strategy and portfolio triage, and strategic offsites. One mandate, one invoice, one defined outcome.

Discuss a mandate

Example session artifact — a full situation mapped and annotated in a visual board

An actual session artifact — a complete situation mapped, organized, and annotated in real time.

Sample deliverable

Clarity Roadmap — objectives, key results, and pattern insights

Click to preview an anonymized example

Results

Decisions that had waited months — made within days

I've worked with serial entrepreneurs, VC operators and fund leaders, C-suite executives, solo SaaS founders, executive coaches, and bestselling authors across 8 countries. The work produces more than a plan — it produces the clarity to act, and the confidence of having thought it through with someone who holds the full picture.

Replaced the CTO after months of hesitation — clarified ownership and restored execution velocity within a quarter

Fired their biggest (toxic) client — recovered the revenue from better clients within three months

Hired an engineer and reduced key-man risk — same founder, two sessions, two years apart: from survival mode to "everything works"

Cut fifteen open fronts to three priorities with a sequence — and shipped the first within weeks

Restructured the portfolio around the one project that mattered — and consciously shelved the rest

Had the conversation he'd been avoiding for a year — within days, the dynamic shifted and freed up tremendous energy

Sent the invitation she'd been circling for months — the community gathering she'd envisioned happened two weeks later

Turned a two-year "someday" vision into a September pilot — program drafted, milestone set, fallback plan in place

Published case study

Paul Millerd — author of The Pathless Path — wrote about his session in his newsletter: how we mapped everything he was working on, what became obvious, and the plan he built from it.

What clients say

In their words

"His ability to synthesize ideas in real-time made him a wonderful thought partner. He used Miro to turn my words into a clear visual map — it became obvious what to focus on and what to let go."

— Paul Millerd, Author of The Pathless Path

"The amount of clarity generated was enough to u-turn my life. I could never have done this by myself. I am regaining control."

— Dan G., Founder

"The best investment in my professional development I've made all year. Georg highlights things I barely remembered I said — the subtle comments that actually illuminate the true feelings."

— Jay Mac, Consultant

"Laser-sharp questions and powerful visual tools not only crystalized my path forward but infused it with excitement and joy."

— Armando V., Consultant

"Six weeks after my session, I return to my prioritised objectives as a way to ground myself during times of busyness and overwhelm."

— Jit, Founder

About

Fifteen years where strategy meets the people who carry it

Georg Tanner

Founder, Clarity Boutique
Swiss-founded · working globally

I'm a strategic partner to senior founders, executives, and investors — for the decisions that carry the most weight, and the execution that follows.

I've spent fifteen years at the intersection of business strategy and human complexity — digital transformation and innovation leadership (I built and ran the digital innovation accelerator of a four-billion-dollar group), corporate development, and strategy facilitation for hundreds of people across corporate, startup, and investment environments. Today I run private strategy sessions, multi-month engagements, and organizational mandates.

What clients buy is the combination: someone who holds the full picture without flinching — the business mechanics, the personal stakes, the things not yet said out loud — and then stays in the work until the plan is real.

The same things I help my clients find — clarity, conviction, the discipline to act — are things I practice in my own life.

Ready to think this through?

People usually reach out in the middle of something — a decision, a transition, a restructuring, a deadline. That's the right time.
Book a 20-minute fit conversation. No pitch — a focused look at where you are, and whether an engagement makes sense. If it doesn't, I'll say so.

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