Leadership & People
The Inconvenient Finding
The partner is stuck in Singapore. You're presenting solo to a CEO who has already promised the board a comp fix.
- You
- Senior Consultant
- Across the table
- Arvind Malhotra, Founder & CEO, Techvista Solutions
He speaks first.
I have run this company for twenty-two years. I know what a resignation letter looks like and I know what is behind it. My HR head shows me the forms: better offer, better offer, better offer. I have promised my board a correction and I asked you to tell me where to spend it. Now your deck tells me my managers are the problem and money is fourth on the list. That is not what is happening in my business. Are you sure?
The brief comes after you sign in.
The situation
The partner is stuck in Singapore.
Rohan's message lands at 6:40 AM. He is stuck. You take the Malhotra readout at 11. You built the analysis. Arvind Malhotra has already told his board a compensation fix is coming.
You are the senior consultant, alone in the room, with a finding that does not match the promise he made.
- The partner will not be there.
- The CEO has already promised his board.
- The analysis does not say what he hopes it says.
The session
About twenty minutes.
You sign in with your email, read the brief, and have the conversation. A short reflection comes first. Then the coaching debrief, on what you did. The transcript stays with the session. You do not see a score.
- Email sign-in
- Coaching debrief
- Up to 22 turns
Before you start
What people ask.
Who am I in this conversation?
You're the Senior Consultant presenting findings without your partner in the room. Arvind Malhotra is the founder and CEO who has already told his board what happens next. You get the full brief after you sign in.
Do I need consulting experience to practise this?
No. The brief has the study scope and what was promised upstream. You're practising professional pushback when the inconvenient finding lands late.
What do I leave with?
A transcript of what you actually said, and a coaching debrief on what it cost you. You answer a short reflection before that debrief appears. You do not see a score.
Can a team run the same scenario?
Yes. Each person gets their own conversation. A pilot is how a cohort starts: same brief, separate transcripts, one place for the programme lead to read them.
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