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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: misdiagnosis

  • Instead of Asking -‘What is my Purpose?’ Ask this instead…

    What have I been designed for? Purpose can feel like something you have to go out and find… like it’s hiding somewhere just beyond your current reach, waiting for you to be ready, qualified, healed, or certain enough to claim it. It keeps people searching… circling… sometimes even performing in the hope that clarity will…

    Giselle

    March 30, 2026
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations
    clarity, design, evidence, misdiagnosis, patterns, pre-decision sensemaking, purpose
  • Trust is a Process, not a Pitch

    One of the many distortions inside organizations under pressure is the way trust gets compressed into a moment. Somewhere along the way, leaders begin to believe that trust lives inside the sales conversation itself… inside the presentation, the proposal, the pitch. If the story is compelling enough, if the value is articulated clearly enough, if…

    Giselle

    March 6, 2026
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations, 🔄 Client Systems
    credibility, diagnosing, diagnostics, instability, leadership, misdiagnosis, potential client work, problem solving, process change, referrals, retention friction, sales, selling, the client journey, trust
  • The Theory Is True Until the Process Fails

    There is a particular kind of confidence that comes with a theory that appears internally complete. It explains the world neatly. If the principles are followed, the outcomes should follow. The reasoning feels almost mathematical in its certainty. This is why theories travel so easily through organizations. They promise order inside environments that are often…

    Giselle

    March 5, 2026
    🔄 Client Systems, 🧠 Zone of Genius
    failure, misdiagnosis, people, process, roles, systems management, systems theory, theory of constraints
  • You Get What You Tolerate

    What’s holding us back? What is preventing us from achieving a new level of performance? What’s blocking us from taking charge of our future and accomplishing what others believe is impossible? Far too many leaders are willing to make excuses for the poor performance of their employees. They train and train, spend money on more…

    Giselle

    May 2, 2014
    Strategic Sensemaking
    change, changing behaviour, employees, low standards, misdiagnosis, poor performance, self-sabotage, substandard performance, tolerating poor performance
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