Planning a Transition Before You Need One
The strongest moves are made from a position of stability. That requires starting the work months before the decision.
Leaders who move well rarely start when the situation becomes untenable. They start while things are still fine, which is precisely when they have leverage and time.
Early work is unglamorous: clarifying what you actually want next, mapping the organisations that could offer it, and quietly testing whether your positioning lands.
It also means being honest about constraints — geography, sector, compensation floor, board appetite — before those constraints surface halfway through a process.
A transition planned over months looks like a considered next step. One planned over weeks tends to look like an exit.
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