Compete.
Strategies. Gameplans. Mindset. Execution.
To compete against the best, does your team need to problem-solve in new ways?
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How do you benchmark against your peers in decision-making?
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What is your most effective tool for sustained competitive advantage?
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Will you get your decision right when it matters the most?
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To compete against the best, does your team need to problem-solve in new ways? • How do you benchmark against your peers in decision-making? • What is your most effective tool for sustained competitive advantage? • Will you get your decision right when it matters the most? •
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“MAILANDER HAS THE RARE ABILITY TO TAKE COMPLEX CONCEPTS AND SHARE THEM IN AN ACCESSIBLE FORM.”
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"MAILANDER DISENTANGLES THE MYRIAD FORCES, INFLECTION POINTS, AND DECISIONS THAT SHAPE THE TRAJECTORY OF EVENTS THAT LEAD TO CRUCIBLE MOMENTS."
— Nathan Vitan, Chief Legal Officer, Public Storage
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“AS A CEO AND LEADER, CHRIS LEADS FROM THE FRONT.”
— William P. Schwab, Esq., Colonel,
Aviation, US Army (retired)
Chris Mailander has worked with leaders around the world
Cross-Industry Impact
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Bancomer
MasterCard
Visa
Chicago Board of Trade
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Bear Stearns
Bessemer Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners
Fairmount Partners
Bain Capital
VentureSouth
JPMorganChase
Bank of America
Merrill Lynch
Dubai International Financial Centre
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U.S. Senate
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. State Department
Republic of Iraq
Ukraine
U.S. Federal Communication Commission
U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
The World Bank
Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Asian Development Bank
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Center for Strategic & International Studies
U.S. Agency for International Development
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Atlas Organics
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Terra Firma Organics
Climate Interactive
Terra Fiber
Crush-It
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Millicom
Telmex
Alcatel-Lucent
Nextel
Sprint
Motorola
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Springfield Energy
First Energy
Whitney Logistics
Miles Ahead Brands
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SAP
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Dell
Medici AI
IBM
CSC
RF-SMART
AOL
SourceFuse
Cognizant
NJ Transit
Cisco
Sun Microsystems
Washington Post
New York Times
Unisys
Siemens
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Pfizer
Genentech
Anthem
Health Access Solutions
Alignment Healthcare
Himark
AltaMed
CareMore
Valley Health Plan
Ascension
Merck
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KPMG
BearingPoint
PWC
CapGemini
Accenture
Deloitte
West Monroe
Omnicom
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Carefully Curate Your Decision Architecture
Are you giving your greatest decisions the time they deserve? Short-term decisions are easy—they fit into neat timelines with clear metrics. But when it comes to the decisions that will most significantly impact your company's long-term future, you need to be willing to think differently, break the rules, and allow ideas to evolve. The best leaders know that patience and a bit of chaos have the greatest benefit. If you’re ready to rethink how you plan for the future, I’ll show you how to intentionally curate your company’s decision architecture to create the greatest long-term value. Let’s go to work.
Books on Decision-Making Methods & Strategies
JUDGMENT
This is essential reading for CEOs.
- Scott Bauer, Partner, PwC
Judgment is equal parts a thrilling, suspense-filled tale of high stakes decision-making, and a sophisticated deconstruction of who won, who lost, and the lessons learned in those crucible moments.
- Robbie Bach, Former President and Chief Xbox Officer, Microsoft
This is more than a CEO field guide; It’s a journey into the nexus of action and consequence in high-stakes environments. A truly immersive and enlightening read.
- Eliot Puplett, CEO & Co-Founder of Medici AI
THE CRAFT
The Craft is one of the most well-written business books i’ve read in the last decade.
- Angelique Rewers, CEO & Founder of BoldHaus
The Craft is a playbook for corporate executives seeking to become the kind of ‘super-athletes’ who have the ability to redefine the entire game.
- Dana Frix, a former managing partner of Chadbourne & Park LLP
Great take-aways. Can’t wait to put them to use.
- Derrick Raymond, principal for corporate development and M&A, KPMG LLP
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The greatest opportunities, as well as threats, often lie in what the CEO and leadership team cannot yet perceive due to the inherent biases, tendencies, and patterns in their decision-making processes. Great teams push into what it is that they do not know or cannot fully understand in order to set the course for achieving their most significant corporate objectives.
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Great leadership teams scan the horizon looking out over the next year or more to define the critical moments that will determine their success or failure. They then prepare for this moment with the understanding, acumen, and domain expertise to get it right when it will matter the most.
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The architecture of your decision-making process will determine your ability or inability to achieve your greatest objective. It is the foundation, and it must be intentionally and carefully curated for the journey ahead.
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Chris Mailander is a frequent commentator on those decisions that affect our corporate, economic, political, and global security interests.
Articles & Interviews
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Immersive work with CEOs and leadership teams to develop their internal decision-making processes to create significant competitive advantage.
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Curated gameplans informed by extensive options analysis, competitive analysis, and financial modeling, distilled into actionable playbooks to manage the complex conditions the company must navigate.
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Executive-level project management of diverse internal teams and outside advisors seeking to operate as a unified team able to achieve momentous corporate objectives, coupled with real-time negotiation and decision-making strategies.
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CORPORATE STRATEGY • DECISION-MAKING • CREATIVITY • PSYCHOGRAPHICS • LEADERSHIP • INNOVATION • CULTURE • TECHNOLOGY • GROWTH • RISK-TAKING • CHANGE • B2B / B2B2C
CORPORATE STRATEGY • DECISION-MAKING • CREATIVITY • PSYCHOGRAPHICS • LEADERSHIP • INNOVATION • CULTURE • TECHNOLOGY • GROWTH • RISK-TAKING • CHANGE • B2B / B2B2C
CORPORATE STRATEGY • DECISION-MAKING • CREATIVITY • PSYCHOGRAPHICS • LEADERSHIP • INNOVATION • CULTURE • TECHNOLOGY • GROWTH • RISK-TAKING • CHANGE • B2B / B2B2C
CORPORATE STRATEGY • DECISION-MAKING • CREATIVITY • PSYCHOGRAPHICS • LEADERSHIP • INNOVATION • CULTURE • TECHNOLOGY • GROWTH • RISK-TAKING • CHANGE • B2B / B2B2C
Chris Mailander
Chris Mailander counsels companies and governments managing the arduous decision paths which precede extraordinary outcomes.
His client roster has included MasterCard, Bank of Montreal, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, Unisys, Visa, KPMG Consulting, BearingPoint, the President of Nigeria, the Government of Iraq, and a host of mid-market leaders and Silicon Valley innovators seeking to transform industries. He has negotiated tenders and commercial transactions in more than forty countries across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, including in conflict and post-conflict economies.
Mailander was previously an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He is author of Judgment (2023) and The Craft (2019), host of A-ha with Chris Mailander, and is a contributor to Fast Company. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.