The Firm
The firm does not send a consultant. It installs an operator.
MLE Advisory LLC was founded on a single conviction. That behaviour drives commercial outcome, that behaviour can be measured, and that measuring it is the cheapest work a business will ever buy.
HACIA ATHERTON
Co-founder and Principal
Hacia Atherton is a co-founder of MLE Advisory and the author of The Billion Dollar Blind$pot, a three-time Amazon bestseller in Strategic Management and Behavioural Psychology.
She is a Certified Practising Accountant and holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology. She advises boards and founders across construction, manufacturing, mining, finance, private equity and family business on the behavioural systems driving commercial outcomes.
She is Founder and Chair of Empowered Women in Trades, co-author with Joe Foster, founder of Reebok, in the How to Survive and Thrive series, and an advisory board member to university business schools and to government on workforce reform.
Her work begins with what is already happening that nobody has named.
RUFUS BAKER
Co-founder and Director, Executive Presence
Executive presence is a borrowed idea. It came from the stage.
Actors have spent four centuries studying how status moves between two people in a room, how a body contradicts a sentence, and how behaviour holds or collapses when the pressure arrives. Business discovered the same questions recently and gave them new names.
Rufus Baker is an actor by profession. The training is in behaviour. Reading what a room is doing rather than what it is saying. Working in the gap between what a person says and what they mean. And the harder half of the craft, which is controlling emotional and physical state on demand, so that what the body communicates is what was intended.
Most leaders are never taught any of it, and it is the thing their businesses are decided by. A negotiation is lost in a shift of posture before it is lost on price. A team stops raising problems because of what happened on someone's face the last time they did.
Alongside the stage he has spent five years in operational management across property, security and personal performance, running teams in environments where misreading a room carries an immediate cost.
The same attention works on systems. Put him inside a business and he finds the broken parts, usually the ones that have been worked around for so long that nobody in the building can see them any more. Then he has a view on how to fix them.
How the firm works
Every engagement opens with a measurement and closes with one. The delta is the deliverable.
Senior operators are placed on what the instrument found rather than on a curriculum vitae, and they remain accountable to the firm rather than to the organisation they are working inside.
he firm turns work away. A business that does not need the work is told so, and told what it needs instead.
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