Decision path
Where authority, accountability, evidence, timing, and consequence no longer sit together clearly enough to support action.
Five-Ledger Advisory Call
One focused hour around one real issue.
The Five-Ledger Advisory Call is a virtual working session for one defined issue, decision, workflow, reporting burden, capacity constraint, program question, or value visibility concern. IVA applies the five-ledger structure to show where value is being delayed, duplicated, hidden, protected, or lost.
$200/hour · 1-hour minimum · payment required before scheduling · after payment, you will be redirected to the booking page
What the call focuses on.
The call starts with one issue and works through the five ledgers: Financial, Operational, Capacity, Learning and Innovation, and Externalities and Equity. The purpose is to find what the current structure is making visible, hiding, protecting, delaying, duplicating, or losing.
Capacity pressure
Where work gets completed only because people absorb hidden load, repeat steps, rebuild context, or carry responsibility without enough control.
Value visibility
Where the organization creates or protects value that is not showing up clearly enough in reports, meetings, budgets, or operating decisions.
How payment and scheduling work.
Virtual advisory calls are prepaid through Stripe. After payment, Stripe should send you to the IVA booking page so you can choose a time.
In-person, group, executive, and board sessions are scheduled by invoice because travel, group size, preparation, and session length may affect scope.
Bring enough context to work on the real issue.
The call works best when the issue is specific. You do not need a polished packet. Bring the materials already being used to make, explain, report, or defend the decision.
The issue
One decision, workflow, reporting burden, capacity constraint, program question, or value concern.
The evidence
Existing reports, notes, dashboards, board materials, grant requirements, program documents, or operating examples.
The pressure
What is stuck, delayed, duplicated, hidden, protected, or being lost if the structure stays the same.
What you leave with.
The advisory call is designed to produce a usable next step, not a broad opinion. The focus stays on structure, visibility, and decision usefulness.
A sharper issue frame
The issue is translated from general frustration into a visible pattern through ledgers, decision rights, evidence, and capacity.
An initial ledger read
You can see which ledgers are driving the pressure, which are underrepresented, and which forms of value need better evidence or standing.
A practical next step
The next move may be narrowing the issue, preparing a Snapshot, scoping a Diagnostic, changing a decision path, or improving an evidence practice.
Start with one real issue.
Useful examples include a stuck decision, a reporting burden, a workflow that keeps getting rebuilt, a capacity constraint, a program question, a board-facing concern, or value the organization protects but cannot clearly explain.