Is Work Working For You — And Your Organization?
We help executives, founders and regional business owners cut through daily triage, sharpen how decisions get made, and build organizations that run well without constant intervention, with a practical, grounded approach to AI.
Led by William Ni — Former PwC Consulting Managing Director • Chicago Booth MBA • UIUC Computer Science
20+ years of experience • 60+ client organizations
Executive & Role Performance
Confidential, peer-level advisory for C-suite leaders, managing directors and senior VPs taking on bigger mandates and heavier demands on their time and judgment.
- Replace reactive triage with deliberate priorities and clear decision rights.
- Sharpen how you evaluate AI, data and the advice you receive.
- An independent sounding board from someone who has held a senior role at a global firm.
Business & Organizational Scale
Hands-on advisory for regional businesses and growing divisions moving from founder-dependent operations to a company that runs on systems, leaders and a clear operating rhythm.
- Clarify strategy, accountability and the operating model.
- Build the leadership bench so the business depends less on a few people.
- Find where automation and AI genuinely improve margin, and where people and process need fixing first.
The F6 Ethos™: Two Lenses, Six Dimensions Each
Sustainable performance depends on a small number of interdependent capabilities. Choose the lens that matches your situation.
Focus
Protecting time for high-leverage thinking instead of reactive triage.
Foresight
Holding a clear multi-year view of strategy, market and AI-driven change.
Fluency
Judging AI and data well enough to question what your team and your tools tell you.
Function
Clear decision rights and delegation, so work moves without constant escalation.
Follow-Through
An operating rhythm that turns priorities into measurable results.
Fortitude
Composure, presence and stamina under sustained pressure.
Focus
Clarity on where the business plays, who it serves, and what it will stop doing.
Foundation
An operating model, governance and accountability that hold up as you grow.
Financials
Unit economics, cash predictability and disciplined capital allocation.
Flywheel
A repeatable commercial and delivery engine that compounds without founder heroics.
Force
A leadership bench that owns outcomes without constant owner involvement.
Flow
How work moves across teams and systems, including where AI practically helps.
A Clear Path from First Conversation to Results
Diagnose
Complete the F6 Alignment Pulse, then talk through what it shows and what matters most.
Prioritize
Agree on the few changes that matter, and how you will know they are working.
Install
Put decision rights, operating cadence and support in place, with accountability.
AI Amplifies the System It Joins
Placed on top of unclear decision rights or an overloaded leadership team, AI mostly speeds up the confusion. We start with how decisions are made and how work gets done, then identify where AI earns its place.
William approaches AI with an engineering lens, a computer science background from UIUC, and hands-on experience, rather than as a buzzword.
Start with decisions, not tools
Clarify who decides what before adding technology to the workflow.
Be specific about value
Separate genuine margin and capacity gains from activity that only looks modern.
Build the human side
Prepare leaders and teams to question, govern and use AI well.