Practical learning for tangible results.
If you’re like me, you will want to know what return you will get from any investment of time, effort, and money. Here is the detail.
What you will be able to do
Get proposals moving that have been stalling for months.
Stop being caught off guard by the manoeuvring that has been quietly undermining your efforts.
Become visible to the people whose recognition matters, for the right reasons and in the right way.
Understand what is actually driving the decisions that affect you, and how to position yourself within them.
Build the kind of relationships that make influence sustainable rather than exhausting.
Stop relying on effort, persistence, and capability as your only routes to progress.
Do all of this in a way that compounds rather than erodes. Ethical strategic influence is not the cautious path to the same destination. It is the more effective path over any time horizon that actually matters.
The professional who builds influence this way does not have to manage what they have said or protect what they have done. The work holds because it was done well.
How the programme works
Every week for twelve weeks an email arrives in your inbox. Written by me, directly to you, in plain language.
Each lesson builds on the last. The frameworks you develop early become more sophisticated as we progress. I will guide you through the material the way a mentor would, picking up what is relevant at the right moment, always returning to the core process with a clear sense of why each step matters.
Alongside the core lessons I have woven in bonus material including a conversation with one of the world’s leading thinkers on influence, a webinar on handling office politics with integrity, and more besides. All designed to stimulate your learning and application, drawn from two decades of direct client work.
By week twelve you will have worked through a complete strategic influence process applied to your own situation. Not a hypothetical exercise. Your actual working life.
The twelve lessons
- Why Capability Alone Is No Longer Enough
- The Strategic Influence Process
- Why Good People Keep Getting Ignored
- Mapping the Real Decision Network
- Building Strategic Alliances
- Understanding What People Actually Want
- Navigating Hidden Agendas
- How Power Really Works
- Moving Complex Decisions Forward
- Developing the Strategic Influence Mindset
- Becoming Visible Without Self-Promotion
- Embedding Ethical Strategic Influence
Special bonuses
Along the way I’ll also be dropping in bonus material, including my full conversation with Allan R. Cohen, co-author of the classic book, Influence Without Authority.
Allan and I discuss the nature of influence, why ethics is not a constraint on effectiveness but the foundation of it, and what it takes to build genuine influence in complex organisations.
What you receive
Each email lesson will arrive complete with all you need to learn and apply the material.
Some weeks you’ll get exercises to complete, or processes to follow. Other weeks it’ll be templates you can use or models to apply.
With over twenty years of experience helping decent people to become more influential, I’ll select the right tools for the job.
All of this will be yours to keep, for your personal use, so you can keep refining your practice as an ethical strategic influence practitioner.
Launching in July 2026
You could say this has been a long time coming, and you’d be right. For the last eighteen months I’ve been creating new and original thinking in the domain of power and influence, and now is the right time to consolidate twenty years of work into something directly accessible.
Preparation is moving fast, and the programme will be ready for access in July.
The full launch price will be £197. If you want to get priority access, you can join the waitlist now and lock in the one-off price of £147. Yes, everything. All the lessons, all the tools, all the bonus material, for one single accessible payment.
So if you want to continue the conversation, and start building the kind of influence that holds over time, you know what to do.
For most professionals this programme provides everything needed to begin applying ethical strategic influence immediately. For unusually complex situations, significant transitions, or high-stakes challenges, private work is also available for a small number of clients each year.