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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.

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  • 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
  • Edge Leadership Series Reflection: Scaling Starts with Belief

    Last evening, I attended the Edge Leadership Series under the theme “From Local to Global: The Blueprint for Scaling.” The keynote was delivered by the electrifying Vusi Thembekwayo, elite coach and founder of the School of Scale, and followed by a powerhouse panel featuring: As I sat there listening, one insight underscored everything: Scaling isn’t…

    Giselle

    July 18, 2025
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations, Strategic Sensemaking
    bankruptcy, belief, business, clarity, coaching, culture, desire, economics, entrepreneurship, global marketing, growth hack framework, habit, identity, image, Pan-Africanism, personal growth, personal-development, politics, Scaling Business, startups, strategic, strategy, The Edge Leadership Series, trend, Vusi Thembekwayo
  • Resting on past glories? You’re only a success in the moment of the successful act.

    Every breath I take is a new me GAUTAMA BUDDHA Studying hard for an A in math, doesn’t make you an A student forever. This is easy for us to understand intellectually, yet in our daily lives, we either want our successes to last OR feel that our past mistakes are irrevocable – we become…

    Giselle

    October 23, 2023
    Strategic Sensemaking
    Buddha, coaching, failure, living in the moment, losing, Marshall Goldsmith, NBA, Phil Jackson, success, The Every Breath Paradigm, the power of now, winning
  • Is your fallback plan a blessing or a curse?

    I was chatting with a friend today. She was asking me about the process when selecting a coach. She was sharing her observations about what she was seeing out there on the market and asked a couple questions about the coaches in my life. In sports, athletes invest a lot in coaches. They have competitions…

    Giselle

    February 4, 2022
    Strategic Sensemaking
    33 Strategies of War, burning ships, coaches, coaching, Cortés, failing is necessary, keep moving, mental game, no plan B, Robert Greene
  • What Are You Willing to Risk?

    Have you ever planned something – visualized exactly how it was going to unfold and then experience something totally beyond your control? That’s how it was for me when I met Arnold Best. We were meeting at half past one at Rituals in St. Ann’s. I got there about quarter after to settle myself and…

    Giselle

    October 24, 2019
    Strategic Sensemaking
    Arnold Best, burning desire, coaching, Napoleon Hill, Professional, success, Tony Robbins
  • These 12 Words are All You Need to Understand How to be Successful

    In the last couple of months I have been paring down to the essentials. I have cleaned out my inbox, and my files. This has helped declutter my mind in remarkable ways and I can now say that those things that I have written in my catchall mental inventory are all meaningful and valuable to…

    Giselle

    January 29, 2019
    Strategic Sensemaking
    Benjamin Hardy, coaching, Florence Scovel Shinn, making decisions, Mental Processing – Anxiety, Mental Health, Mindset, Belief Systems, Limiting Beliefs, Understanding Doubt, mindset
  • Money, Mastery and Meaning – Is it Possible to Get All Three in Your Lifetime?

    After years of coaching high-achieving women, my friend and colleague Dr. Marcia Reynolds started noticing something troubling: many of her clients were jumping jobs regularly, defining and redefining their relationship with the marketplace, constantly questioning their roles. Dubbing her subjects “wander women,” Marcia found that what these women most wanted was to find peace of…

    Giselle

    October 27, 2014
    Strategic Sensemaking
    Adam Braun, coaching, Dr.Marcia Reynolds, innate abilities, mastery, meaning, money, motivating factors, talents, Wander Women
  • How Do You Get to and Maintain the Number one Position?

    Striving to be number one is an admirable goal. And who wants to be number two? I believe it’s the secret desire of all of us in business to be in the number one position in our market, or field. I think that whether we actually hold the spot or not, many of us have…

    Giselle

    March 5, 2012
    Strategic Sensemaking
    being number one, Blue Penguin, coaching, Mental Processing – Anxiety, Mental Health, Mindset, Belief Systems, Limiting Beliefs, Understanding Doubt, Michael Katz, Paul Annacone, Roger Federer, self mastery
  • Who’s the REAL Boss – the Trouble Maker in Your Office or YOU?

    Who is in charge? Is it the trouble maker in your office, the voice in your head, or the worries that keep you up at night? According to Marlene Chism author of Stop Workplace Drama – If you’ve been a leader for any length of time, it’s probably common knowledge to you that drama is the…

    Giselle

    November 9, 2011
    Strategic Sensemaking
    coaching, drama, leadership, Marlene Chism, Stop Workplace Drama
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