Twenty conversations in my office, across one year, with a leader at a turn.
- Twenty Deep Dives
- Twelve Months
- One Office
- $100,000
You have achieved things. Built things. Led things. And yet something is not working. The same patterns keep showing up, in your decisions, your relationships, your moods. You are successful on the surface. Underneath, you are stuck.
The Twenty exists for the leader who is done optimizing and ready to reconstruct.
Coaching gives you tools; this gives you new eyes.
Human beings live in language, and the interpretations you live inside shape what is possible for you and your company. We work at the ground from which all your choices arise.
My work is not to reassure or affirm. It is to interrupt the moods that keep you stuck, the heroic suffering, the self-isolation, the quiet victimhood, to challenge your assessments, test your declarations, and help you design a new executive mood of action and humility.
Founders and CEOs of companies of ten million and above, hitting walls they cannot see. Partners and senior executives who have won every game they knew how to play. Heads of funds, leaders in transition, entrepreneurs after the exit.
Not for anyone who wants a coach on call, a course, a credential, a confidant, or to be told they are right.
You come to my office. You park, you walk in, and your company's logo is on the wall; it goes up the morning of your first visit and stays the year. I clear the half day. Twenty across the year, at your rhythm; two may include your executive team; four calls a year outside the office, when a decision cannot wait. The rest waits for the office.
The waiting is part of the practice.
Not online. Twenty experiences of being with. Our ancestors called it suhbat, the company of the teacher.
We sit first, twenty minutes in MFT, the Mind-Focused Technique I teach you on the first morning. Then the deep dive: your hardest problem in the room, the company and its numbers, the executive you cannot reach, the decision you keep postponing. I ask the question you cannot yet answer: show me the last time, who asked whom for what, and what exactly did they promise.
We end with what you are reading and one thing you have promised. No slides, no workbook, nothing recorded.
You leave with less than you came with, and lighter.
Four movements of five.
- I
The observer
Who you have been being as a leader. The moods you lead from. The assessments you hold as truth. You begin to sit.
- II
The conversations
Requests and promises. Listening. Trust in its four parts. Your executive team as a network of commitments.
- III
Design
Your company as something becoming. The future you will declare for it, and what it will cost you to be held to it.
- IV
The masterpiece
Leadership as masterpiece creation. Work and life as one thing. You sit alone now.
The shelf, chosen for you. Ours: The Unworkable, The Buffalo Has Disappeared, the Power Course. The lineage: Flores, Bell, Winograd, Maturana, Unger, Spinosa. The ground: Heidegger, Austin, Varela, Dreyfus.
- Twenty deep dives
- With me, in my office. The logo on my wall for a year.
- The practice
- MFT, taught directly, practiced daily. By the twentieth you sit without me.
- The Power Course
- The full curriculum, to deepen the distinctions on your own time.
- The people
- Up to five introductions to thinkers and practitioners from my circle, and any executive roundtable I hold, as workability allows.
- COROS AI
- For the year, the AI we trained in this tradition, where the work lives between visits. What you say there is yours alone. I do not see it.
Three pieces for a leader at a turn.
On Selling Your Company
A company is not sold in a contract. It is sold in conversations. The three trust games you play at once, and why the deal dies or closes between people.
Read the briefing Letter to Friends No. 42Being Right Never Worked
The model we inherited says be strong and be right, and from that comes order. It never worked with human beings. What changed is not the model. It is who pays for it.
Read the letter Letter to Friends No. 2Do You Manage, or Do You Lead?
Management produces stability. Leadership disrupts it. The real work is knowing which one the moment in front of you is asking for.
Read the letterYou will see your world and yourself clearly, speak and listen in ways that move others into coordinated action, handle breakdowns without collapse, regain power in conversations where you felt trapped, and move beyond resignation into deliberate, creative action.
The change will not be cosmetic. Your team will notice. Your family will notice.
“Saqib is not just a coach but a partner, a challenger, and a catalyst for lasting change.”
“It wasn’t executive coaching; it was a reconstruction of perception. The ROI? Infinite.”
“Nothing short of life-changing.”
$100,000
Paid once, before the first visit. Not a fee for hours; an investment in who you are becoming. No installments, no refunds, no renewals. Five chairs at any one time; when they are full, they are full. A second Twenty only by invitation.
If you are the right person for this work, you already know it.
No forms, no applications, no funnel. You write to me.
One conversation. I decide whether I can be of use to you; you decide whether you can hear me. If both are yes, the logo goes up.
Nobody will sell it to you. You will have to choose it.
