Perform to the highest standard. Live by your own.
Colter Street works with executives, partners, and founders on the judgment, presence, and decisions their roles demand, and on building a life outside the work with the same intention as the work itself.
Most leaders could perform meaningfully better at work. Most could live meaningfully better outside it. The discipline that gets you to either is the same, and it is rarely applied to both.
Two ways of working. One standard.
Consulting
Advisory for leadership teams, partner groups, and organizations on the decisions, dynamics, and structures that determine what they can do: succession, partnership, a company at scale, a team that has stopped telling itself the truth.
For executive teams, partnerships, boards, and the organizations that depend on them.
Executive life coaching
One to one engagements for individual leaders on performance at work and intention outside it. Judgment under pressure. Presence in the rooms that matter. A family that gets your best by design, and a clear account of what all of it is for.
For executives, partners, and founders, often at the moments that decide the next decade.
Colter Street applies the same discipline to both.
Sharper judgment, faster decisions, and a stronger presence at work. A life outside it built with the same intention. Not balance, which is a truce. The same standard, in both places.
At work
- Faster, better decisions under pressure.
- Presence that carries a board, a partnership, a team.
- Teams that get a leader, not a bottleneck.
- An end to the patterns others see before you do.
At home
- Attention that is actually there.
- A family that gets your best, by design.
- Time protected by structure, not willpower.
- A clear account of what all of it is for.
Every engagement follows the same path, built on the real decisions in front of you.
An account
A clear, written account of how you operate: how you decide, how you react under pressure, where your attention and energy go, and who gets what is left. Where it helps, we speak with the people around you.
A standard
What you are building, at work and at home, stated plainly enough to be held to. Every decision afterward is measured against it.
Practice
On the real decisions as they arrive: the board, the partnership, the hire, the exit, the hard conversation. Regular sessions, and access between them when something cannot wait.
The work develops your own judgment rather than substituting for it. Colter Street takes on a small number of engagements at a time, so that each has our full attention.
Performance and a well-built life are not competing claims on the same hours. They are the same discipline, applied in two places, and the leaders who last are the ones who apply it to both.
I spent more than a decade making consequential decisions under pressure for the United States. I know the rooms my clients sit in, and what those rooms ask of a person.
Rebecca Layne, Founder. Former Honors Trial Attorney, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Former Senior Attorney, IRS Office of Chief Counsel. Former Of Counsel, Holtzman Vogel. She left practice to study what sustains performance under serious demand, and built Colter Street on what she found.
Begin the conversation.
Tell us a little about where you are and what you are working toward. We reply personally, usually within two business days.