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Senior leaders are hired for the quality of their judgement.
Almost none of them are given the conditions to protect it.
The most expensive thing in your organisation is the quality of the decisions being made at the top.
Most senior leaders are operating inside systems that were built for speed and visibility, not for the kind of focus their roles actually demand. Back to back meetings. Fragmented days. Constant context switching. No protected time to think, just noise.
These conditions slowly and systematically erode the quality of judgement that the organisation depends on.
The people at the top are skilled and committed. The system around them has simply never been designed for the level of focus their roles require. That is a system problem and requires a system-level solution.
Maya Rooz spent fifteen years inside some of the world's most complex organisations, including Chief of Staff to the Chief Marketing Officer at Jaguar Land Rover. Earlier in her career she was present through Saab Automobile's Chapter 11 restructuring, an experience that shaped her understanding of how leaders think, decide, and hold up under pressure. That foundation is at the centre of this practice.
The work is built on a simple premise: structure, environment, and systems determine the conditions leaders operate in. Change the conditions and the quality of thinking, decision-making, and leadership changes with them.
Maya is an ICF-accredited coach, has spoken at Reuters Automotive, the IB Global Conference, and the Women Automotive Network Europe Summit, and is the author of The Protected Mind, publishing November 2026.
THE WORK
There are three ways to work together, depending on where you are and what you need.
