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Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions
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Most costly decisions begin with
an inaccurate understanding of the situation.

I help leaders understand what is actually happening before major decisions are made or
resources are invested in solving the wrong problem.

Tag: behaviour

  • We Don’t Get More than We Expect; We Get What We Believe

    In business, this shows up long before anything is executed. By the time a strategy is written down or a plan is shared with a team, there has already been a quiet decision about what is likely to work, what is worth the effort, and what probably won’t move. That decision is not always conscious,…

    Giselle

    March 22, 2026
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations
    behaviour, belief, decisions, expectation, leadership, managing people, results, sensemaking, strategy
  • Maximizing Your Full Potential Is a Continuous, Daily Evolution

    For a long time I thought potential was something you eventually step into, almost like arriving at a better organized version of yourself. There would be a point where the habits settle, the discipline stabilizes, and effort starts feeling natural instead of negotiated. What I’ve come to see instead is that the person we imagine…

    Giselle

    February 16, 2026
    🧠 Zone of Genius
    ambition, awareness, behaviour, clarity, collaborattion, discipline, evoluttion, feedback loops, goals, maximizing potential, psychological weight, routines, standards
  • Hiring Is a Complex Art

    I was reading a story shared by Steven Bartlett about one of the best hires he’s ever made… a candidate with a two-line CV, no experience, and a set of behaviors that quietly outperformed résumés, credentials, and polish. She didn’t know the answer to a question in the interview… so she went home, taught herself,…

    Giselle

    January 3, 2026
    🧠 Zone of Genius, Strategic Sensemaking
    accountability, assessments, behaviour, character, clarity, framework, hiring, hiring conversations, HR, integretity, pattern recognition, performance, respect, Steven Bartlett, trust, uncertainty
  • How to Ensure Learning Morphs into Successful Action

    In 1977, guitarist Lee Ritenour recorded Captain Fingers — a track that would come to define him. It’s bright, technical, and bursting with groove — and, “he makes it look easy.” Except, it isn’t. More than forty years later, Ritenour admitted in a Guitar Player interview that Captain Fingers is still difficult to play. Even…

    Giselle

    October 30, 2025
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations
    Alignment, behaviour, Captain Fingers, challenges, coaches, coaching, Daniel Coyle, habit, hotbeds, ignition, Lee Ritenour, practice, repetition, rhythm, Talent Code, team building, training
  • does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be?

    “Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”  – Tony Robbins Ask better questions, get better answers. How we behave counts. It doesn’t matter our intentions. Our actions move the needle. Wallace Wattles tells us in the Science of Being Rich: You can never…

    Giselle

    January 16, 2023
    Strategic Sensemaking
    behaviour, goal achievement, habit scorecard, habits, identity, James Clear, Wallace D. Wattles
  • Recommit to your Goals…Daily!

    Every day we need to recommit to our goals and dreams…to the contracts we’ve made with ourselves…our intentions….what we choose to continue, alter, begin or stop! At the seat of it all is what we are thinking…while we are doing. The story we are telling is far more important than any action we take. When…

    Giselle

    December 9, 2019
    Strategic Sensemaking
    behaviour, dragonflythoughts, misalignment, Purple Marketing, purplemessenger, storyteller, storytelling, thinking
  • Exposing the True Costs of Poor Judgment and Bad Behaviors

    Do you have someone in your life, willing to have the hard conversations with you? Point out things that others are afraid to say aloud? I am really blessed to have a couple of those people in my life who point out when I am being biased, or too emotional or irrational. These friends pull…

    Giselle

    April 20, 2015
    Strategic Sensemaking
    accountability, appropriate objectives, behaviour, choices, Dan Waldschmidt, decisions, Dr. Phil, psychological profiling, talent management
  • Good Intentions Only Go So Far…

    Who we are…our approach to things…how we execute…what we would like people to experience…THIS is our brand. Whether it’s one person or a business we must be able to articulate what we are committed to doing, how we are going to do what we set out to do and what that experience might look like.…

    Giselle

    January 10, 2015
    Strategic Sensemaking
    behaviour, brand commitment, business coaching, business owners, customer experience, E-Myth, mindset, performance measurement
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