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//The Ninety

Ninety days to get the decisions moving again.

The fullest way to work with Margot: fortnightly sessions on the remit, the team and the calls you have been carrying, with the line open between them.

// AFTER 90 DAYS

A team that moves, a diary you recognise, and decisions that stop following you home.

An open notebook and fountain pen on a desk

Decisions made in days

One owner, one date, four sentences. The rest is admin.

Margot Ives writing at her desk

The conversations actually had

Written first, said on a Tuesday, not softened afterwards.

A week you recognise

The diary set by your priorities, not by whoever emailed last.

Notes on a glass wall in a bright office

Somewhere to be unsure

One hour a fortnight where you do not have to be the answer.

Two people talking across a meeting table

//THE METHOD

Four questions, asked in order, on whatever is actually in front of you. It is called The Decision Ladder because you cannot skip a rung and expect the next one to hold.

The question

The decision written as one sentence, so it can be argued with.

The cost

What yes costs, what no costs, and the price of another month of neither.

The people

Who loses something, who hears it first, and who tells them.

The date

The day it is decided by, in the diary, with your name against it.

Margot Ives at a glass wall covered in notes

// MEET YOUR COACH

Hi, 
I’m Margot.

Twenty years in operating roles, the last fourteen in the chair beside them. I ran a 400-person division before I started coaching, so I have signed the budget, made the redundancies and lost the sleep. I take on twenty clients a year.

READ MY STORY
Margot Ives in conversation with a client across a meeting-room table

240+

leaders coached since 2011

20

clients a year, no more

89%

stay for a second term

// faq

Questions, answered

01What happens after I get in touch?

We book the free call. Thirty minutes on what you are carrying, and if it is a fit you have a start date the same week.

02What if we are not a fit after the call?

Then we do not work together, and I will say so on the call. You still leave with one thing worth doing this week.

03Can a Strategy Day turn into The Ninety?

Yes. The day is credited in full against the programme if you start within sixty days of it.

04How private is this?

Nothing leaves the room. No notes are shared, no board updates, and I do not use client names as references.

05Do you guarantee results?

No. I guarantee the questions, the preparation and my full attention. The decision stays yours, which is the point.

Margot Ives standing by a window in her studio

//work WITH ME

Still deciding? Let’s decide together.

One free call, thirty minutes. You leave with a clear next step either way.

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