You already know what's clutter. It's time to sweep it away.
Margin gives senior managers and executives the tools it takes to free themselves — and their teams — to do their best work.
Most leaders we talk to spend 60–75% of their time — and their creative energy — on Clutter.
Not more hours. More Core — with room left to think.
Core Work is the judgment, decisions, and institutional knowledge that only you can supply — the projects that actually define your career.
- The status meeting that could have been an email
- The approval that doesn't need your signature
- The decision your team is ready to own
Most people can name their Clutter in five minutes.
Letting go of it. Handing off a decision means trusting someone else's judgment before you've watched it hold up — and that trust takes longer to build than any list admits.
We guide you through the sequence that makes it happen: knowledge transparency, testing the handoff, and proving the trust.
Core vs. Clutter Diagnostic
Answer a short set of questions and see exactly what's Core and what's Clutter in your role. Takes 5-10 minutes. My gift to you.
Take the diagnosticThe Release Sequence Workshop
The diagnostic tells you what's Core and what's Clutter. This workshop builds it into your calendar, your team, and your tools — moving within 30 days, without pausing the job you already have.
Coming SoonExecutive Consulting
One-on-one work for a leader ready to focus on their Core — and lead an entire team doing the same.
Start a conversationAlready done the diagnostic and still stuck? A monthly coached review — going through it together — might be the better fit. Get in touch →
I've spent my career around tremendously talented people — who are getting buried under work they're not supposed to have to do.
- The founder whose hands-on approach built the company (and is now holding it back).
- The director who keeps doing the work herself, at night, after everyone else has gone home.
- The VP running a hundred-person division, losing most of her time to the next fire.
- The solopreneur who can never quite seem to get beyond that stage.
But the craziest thing I started to notice: nearly everyone assumed nothing could be done about it.
Watching good people get wasted like this drives me nuts. So does watching companies lose the best work of their best people — and never even realize it.
I started Margin because I couldn't stay on the sidelines any longer.
I've worked with huge companies and tiny nonprofits, and I've helped build countless teams that run on a totally different economy — one where you get to spend 60, 70, 80% of your time on the really game-changing work.
That should be you. Let's go.
Consulting starts with a conversation.
One-on-one work for a leader ready to focus on their Core — and build a team, workflow, and set of tools that can do the same.
Start a conversationBy application. A short conversation first, to make sure it's the right fit.
