Never let a crisis go to waste
Is your career not going according to plan?
I coach executives and founders with the same playbook I use for organizations in crisis.
- Media-trained Fortune 500 CEOs
- Led communications for a major film festival
- Crisis communications & public affairs
Crisis is the moment structural change becomes possible
After leading strategy and crisis communications for prominent for-profit and nonprofit organizations, I developed a coaching method that gives you the same tools I use to solve my clients’ problems.
People and organizations can feel stuck in crisis when things aren’t going to plan. Usually they never made a plan, or they didn’t adjust it to conditions on the ground.
The Path is a climb in three stages, one book at a time. Here is the route.
The Path
Where you’re starting from
- Passed over for the next seat more than once
- A business that plateaued while the hours kept climbing
- A layoff, reorg, or exit that left the next move unclear
- Successful on paper and restless anyway
Not the right path if you want therapy, a quick fix, or someone to make the decisions for you.
Self Discovery
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Identify the filters shaping your perspective.
- Become aware of the power of your word, especially the words you tell yourself
- Learn about your inner judge and book of laws
- Adopt agreements that help you navigate a fast-changing, complex world
Nothing’s personalAlways do your best
Self Control
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Examine your relationship with your thoughts.
- Develop a daily practice to build a healthier relationship with your mind
- Recognize the role your mind plays in determining your reality
- Apply right practice, right attitude, and right understanding
Empty mindFull pipeline
Self Actualization
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Learn the secret of wealth and success.
- Understand why knowing what you want matters, and how to use desire to get it
- Confront and master the six ghosts of fear
- Rekindle the fire of hope, faith, courage, and tolerance
Fear nothingBuild anything
The Graduate Network
Everyone who reaches the top joins a private Slack network of founders, operators, and executives who are committed to the Path and still meet to compare notes.
- Referrals & deal flow
- Accountability
- Monthly reading circles
- Desert retreats
- Hiring & advisors
- Warm intros
A word from Drake · video coming soon
“Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.”
Quiet mind, loud results
$212K
from $38K in 11 months
“I grew my consultancy to six figures in under a year. The weekly check-ins kept me from drifting.”
VP
+41% compensation
“After four years stuck at Director, I was promoted within five months of starting the Path.”
2.3×
revenue, 25 fewer hours a week
“I cut my week from seventy hours to forty-five and still more than doubled revenue.”
Your guide, Drake Baglietto
With a background in crisis communications, public affairs, and media training, Drake helps clients simplify complexity through creativity. A love of strategy took him down a non-traditional path. He has led strategic communications for a major film festival and media-trained CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and major nonprofits.
After working with leaders of prominent organizations in moments of crisis, he developed the Business Bodhisattva Path. It is a coaching curriculum that uses a moment of crisis to make the structural changes that set people and organizations up for future success.
How it works
One month at a time, for as long as it’s useful. Most clients continue for three to four months.
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Intro Call
Free
One hour. We look at where you are, choose your stage of the climb, and you leave with recommended reading.
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Monthly Coaching
$200/month
Four 30-minute weekly check-ins on the reading, each with a personalized recap and action items. No long-term contract.
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The Network
Included
Finish the Path and join the graduate network.
Questions
Is this therapy?
No. It’s structured coaching built on reading, weekly conversations, and action items. If therapy would serve you better, Drake will tell you.
Why books?
Each one is a framework that has outlasted every management trend. They give you and Drake a shared language to apply to your situation.
How much time does it take?
A 30-minute call each week, plus the reading and whatever action items you commit to.
Do we meet in person?
Calls are by video, so you can do the Path from anywhere.
What if I’m not in a crisis?
Then you’re in the best position to make changes. Most people wait until they have to.
Can I stop any time?
Yes. It’s month to month with no long-term contract.
Know someone who’d benefit from the Path?
Tired of answering someone’s career questions for the 100th time? Send them a note. We’ve already written it.
The Crisis Audit
Ten questions to find where you are on the climb and what to fix first. Free, by email.
Never wastea crisis
One conversation, at no charge, to find your step on the Path.
Book a free intro call