Private Counsel — Suzanne Taylor-King
STK · Private Counsel
By Application · MMXXVI
MMXXVI By Application Suzanne Taylor-King

Private Counsel

For founders who have outgrown advice

You have built. You have led. You have made the decisions that define a career, and you have lived with the consequences of every one. The chapter you are about to begin will ask something different of you. Not more strategy. Not more output. More of you.

This room exists for that work.

— Established in the Tradition of Quiet Authority —
i. For Whom

You have built something. Now you are building yourself.

You have built a business that works. The systems are in place. The team is competent. Revenue is no longer the question. What is missing is a thinking partner who will tell you the truth about the next decision, not sell you the next program.

You are not looking for a coach. You have had coaches. You are not looking for a course. You have built courses. You are looking for someone who has sat where you sit, made the decisions you are about to make, and will hold the mirror without softening it.

This is for the founder who has stopped asking how do I grow and started asking who do I have to become to hold what I am building next.

ii. What This Is

A year of judgment. Applied to the decisions only you can make.

Twelve months. Twelve private sessions. Direct access between sessions when something is moving. No deliverables. No homework. No frameworks to install. The work is judgment, applied to your business, in real time, by someone who has built and exited her own.

iii. What This Is Not

The discipline of refusal.

Not
A coaching program. There is no curriculum. There is no group. There is no community.
Not
Done-for-you work. I will not build your funnels, write your copy, or run your operations. You have a team for that, or you should.
Not
Motivation. If you need someone to keep you accountable, you are not ready for this room.
Not
For everyone. Three founders per calendar year. When the seats are full, the application closes until the following January.

What you are buying is the orientation, not the activity.

iv. The Shape of the Work

How a year of private counsel actually moves.

The Cadence

One private session per month. Ninety minutes. Held by video, in person at my New Jersey studio, or at a location of your choosing if the conversation calls for it.

We use the sessions to think through what you are facing, not what you should be working on. The agenda is whatever is moving in your business and your life that month. There is no curriculum, because the curriculum is your year.

Between Sessions

You have direct access. Voice memo, message, or email. I respond within one business day, often sooner.

There is no portal, no platform, no app. The relationship is human. When something needs to be talked through before our next session, you reach me directly.

The kinds of conversations this room is built for:

  • Whether to launch the new venture, and what to leave behind to do it
  • Pricing and packaging decisions at the executive tier
  • Partnership, equity, and joint venture structures
  • Hiring at the executive level, and when to fire one
  • IP licensing, royalty terms, and rights structures
  • When to walk away from revenue that is costing you something else
  • What to do when the business has outgrown the founder
  • The reinvention question, and the cost of asking it honestly
v. Who I Am

Forty years of building. Six hundred founders. Several exits.

I have built businesses, sold businesses, walked away from businesses, and started over. I have raised capital, returned capital, and turned capital down when the terms cost too much. I know what I am looking at when I see your numbers. I know what I am hearing when you describe the decision you are avoiding.

That is what you are buying. Not a method. Not a system. Judgment shaped by four decades of consequence.

The clients who do well in this room are the ones who can sit with a hard answer for longer than thirty seconds. If that is you, you already know.

In Practice
40 years
Founders Coached
600+
Companies Built
Multiple, with exits
Specialty
The identity threshold
The Investment
$200,000
for the year
Paid in full at the start of the term, or in two equal installments at month one and month six. The seat is yours for twelve months from the date of acceptance.
Seats
Three per year
Term
Twelve months
Entry
By application
vi. Who This Room Is Built For

Three thresholds. All three required.

  1. Twenty years of standing in the fire. Two decades or more building businesses, or holding a C-suite seat inside a company of meaningful size. You know what it costs to lead. You have already paid the price.
  2. You have started and exited. You have built a company from idea to revenue, and you have brought a chapter to a clean close, whether through sale, dissolution, or transition. You understand that endings are part of the work.
  3. You are at the threshold again. You are founding a new venture, reinventing an existing one, or stepping into a chapter that requires you to become a person you have not yet been. The question on the table is identity, not strategy.
If you are still working out whether you are ready, you are not. Founders who belong in this room recognise themselves on the first read.
The Next Step

If this is the room
you have been looking for.

The work begins with a direct conversation. Reach out personally and tell me, in your own words, why this room and why now. If we are a fit for one another, we will speak. If not, I will say so plainly.

Request an Interview →
All correspondence answered personally within seven business days.
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Suzanne Taylor-King is the founder of Unlock Your Way with STK and creator of the Taylord AI OS™. Forty years of building businesses, six hundred founders coached, and several exits stand behind the practice.

Private Counsel is the highest tier of the practice. Three founders per calendar year, by application only.

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Suzanne Taylor-King ◆ Unlock Your Way with STK ◆ MMXXVI