Half or full day with your team; decisions made and owned before anyone leaves.
Post-meeting feedback
attend meetings that just schedule more meetings
of 5,000 knowledge workers surveyed · Atlassian, Workplace Woes: Meetings · 2024
leave unclear on next steps or owners
of 5,000 knowledge workers surveyed · Atlassian, Workplace Woes: Meetings · 2024
of senior managers say meetings keep them from their own work
182 senior managers across industries · Harvard Business Review, Stop the Meeting Madness · 2017
A stalled decision has a daily cost on payroll.
The defaults are illustrative and deliberately conservative. The $140,000 is rounded down from the annual mean wage for management occupations, $141,760 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics · May 2024). The 30 days is simply one month; no research stands behind that number, so replace it with how long your own decision has actually sat. The result is for illustration, not financial advice.
Take the combined annual salaries of everyone waiting on the answer, divide by 365, multiply by the days the decision has sat there.
Works only when the decider is present.
What becomes possible
Rooms
Three days at a location of your choosing. For a leadership team of 3 to 6.
From $85,000 · venue and travel included.
InquireHalf day $5,000 · full day $8,000.
InquireFor early-stage companies. Based on the two-day method from Click by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky.
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About Eugene
I’ve spent 15 years as a product designer inside rooms where decisions stall: Apple, Wealthfront, Meta, and OKX. At Meta I taught design systems to every design new hire across the company. At Wealthfront I led design on the account overhaul that took account opening from 10 hours to 5 minutes; that work began with a 5-day, GV-style design sprint.
I’m a Workshopper Master (AJ&Smart), as well as trained and certified by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans to use the DYL method in one-to-one and small-group settings. Outside the rooms, I invest in and advise founders. I lead worship at my church, and my wife and I are raising five kids in the Bay Area.
FAQ
You can, and some teams do. The difference is that your most senior person has to run the room instead of arguing the substance, and everyone in the room has a stake in the outcome. If you have someone internal who is both neutral and senior enough, use them.
Then start with the Decision Room: half a day and one decision. The offsite exists for teams whose decisions are tangled together and pulling one out doesn’t work. If yours are separable, don’t buy the bigger thing.
Yes, and I won’t pretend to. More importantly, that’s what makes the room work: I have no stake in which option wins, no history with the argument, and no reason to let it stall. You bring the people who understand the business; I get them to a decision, on the record, with an owner.
Neither. Your stalled decisions go up on the wall at the start, and we work them until each one is decided and owned.
Some of it comes out in the one-to-one conversations beforehand, which is part of why they exist. In the room, a stranger is often easier to disagree in front of than a boss. If the team can’t say hard things at all yet, the Decision Room is the wrong first step, and I’ll say so.
Not many yet, and I won’t dress that up. This practice is new. What I bring is 15 years inside Apple, Wealthfront, Meta, and OKX watching good teams stall, a Workshopper Master certification (AJ&Smart), and rooms run alongside more senior facilitators. If you want someone on their hundredth room, that’s fair. Hire me and you get someone with everything to prove on yours.
Some decisions will be; deciding well isn’t the same as deciding right. Part of the work is sorting the reversible from the irreversible: reversible calls get made fast, because a wrong one is cheap to revisit, and the irreversible get the full argument. And because every decision leaves with an owner and a written record, a wrong call gets caught and corrected instead of quietly relitigated.
Booking
The list gets shorter by Friday.
You have a number from the calculator and a list you already know by heart. Pick a time and bring both.
Now booking September through November 2026. In person in the SF Bay Area, or remote on Zoom and Miro; travel beyond the Bay billed at cost.
Every engagement includes a prep call, materials, and the written summary within 48 hours. Half reserves the date; the balance is invoiced after delivery, by card or bank transfer, W-9 and PO ready. A date can move once with 14 days’ notice.
Nonprofit, church, and education rates exist. Tell me what’s stalled. The reply comes from me.