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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: purpose

  • Competency without alignment = Burnout

    You have the vision, the framework, your plan of action. You design a roadmap for execution and you determine criteria for measuring impact. This is clear, crisp and linear. Yet things still fall apart. Some say competency might be the missing link; but I’d argue that competency without alignment just leads to burnout! In my…

    Giselle

    July 5, 2025
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations, 🧠 Zone of Genius, Strategic Sensemaking
    Alignment, burnout, capability, competency, energetic congruence, framework, motivational drivers, purpose, skills, strategic alignment, strategy, vision, Zone of Genius
  • Be heard AND seen…

    If you don’t stand for something, you’ll tolerate everything. Think of those times when you have deferred to others who were louder, appeared more ‘in the know’ than you. Perhaps you’ve encountered a bully or three, who wouldn’t even let you speak – your point of view lost in their bravado. Yet it is important…

    Giselle

    July 3, 2025
    🧠 Zone of Genius, Strategic Sensemaking
    Alignment, authentic voice, authenticity, being YOU, being yourself, life, mental health, personal growth, purpose, relationships, strengths, truth, vision
  • You are best at being you

    Why aren’t you using more of this knowledge to your advantage? When Giulia Enders was 17, she developed a skin disease and realized how little she knew about her own body, so she started reading, and it turned out it was the gut that fascinated her the most. She cleared up her problem by diet.…

    Giselle

    May 29, 2024
    Strategic Sensemaking
    awareness, commitment, curiosity, expertise, fascination, focus, gastroenterologist, Giulia Enders, Gut, positioning, power, purpose, understanding yourself
  • Instead of purpose, think: life’s task

    Got the idea of ‘Life’s Task’ from Robert Greene’s book Mastery. Purpose has always been difficult to understand and define, especially when it’s always paired with the verb ‘to find’. To find ones purpose suggests that it is out there somewhere. Oftentimes we link purpose with career and if we aren’t fulfilled in our careers…

    Giselle

    January 6, 2024
    Strategic Sensemaking
    authenticity, be who you are, change, Life’s Task, mastery, multiple careers, purpose, Robert Greene, self mastery
  • If you don’t have this, your business is as good as dead!

    Recently I spoke about the importance of understanding what our customers need along each step of their buying journey. Customers need to KNOW, LIKE and TRUST you BEFORE they buy from you. This happens, sometimes subconsciously, other times their decisions are conscious ones – either way, this needs to happen FIRST. In the late eighties,…

    Giselle

    November 22, 2023
    Strategic Sensemaking
    All the light we cannot see, Anthony Doerr, be yourself, being YOU, destiny, know yourself, light, like yourself, purpose, trust yourself, well-paid professional
  • Self-doubt has a positive message within

    The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. STEVEN PRESSFIELD Steven Pressfield insists that self-doubt is par for the…

    Giselle

    August 5, 2023
    Strategic Sensemaking
    Agnes De Mille, Martha Graham, purpose, resistance, self-doubt, Steven Pressfield
  • Do your skills mesh with your unique spirit and purpose?

    A couple weeks ago I was chatting with a client, and we were discussing the effects of the COVID lockdown. Apart from social separation, the isolation forced many of us to face up to ourselves. We could no longer drown ourselves in “busy” work or distract ourselves by going out socially. But did we really…

    Giselle

    January 19, 2023
    Strategic Sensemaking
    inner authority, Laws of Human Nature, purpose, Robert Greene, who you are
  • do you agree that frustration is a sign you haven’t given up?

    You would not be frustrated if whatever you’re doing didn’t matter to you. You are frustrated because some thing is not working in a way that you imagined it to work. Often we remain so close to an issue that we are unable to see the forest from the trees. We are so wedded to…

    Giselle

    January 10, 2023
    Strategic Sensemaking
    be authentic, be real, do the work, doing work that matters, frustration, purpose, self realization, Whitney Houston
  • where are you selling yourself short?

    You may have been brushing over this question for a long time. Even if you haven’t put it into words to form the question, you have had a feeling…a knowing…that all is not right in your world. On the outside, you look OK and feel OK but you know that you are not OK. You…

    Giselle

    September 22, 2021
    Strategic Sensemaking
    destiny, invest, invest in yourself, investing, personal growth, purpose, sales, self doubt, selling, stop selling yourself short
  • Caught my eye…

    Do you think you need permission to succeed? We admire folks whose names we see in neon lights. We celebrate bestselling authors, athletes, chefs, ninja warriors, ordinary people showcased doing extraordinary things…yet we fail to picture ourselves as successful. Countless people have asked me some version of – “How do I find my purpose, and…

    Giselle

    June 5, 2021
    Strategic Sensemaking
    Avalon Arscott, Chef Ono, ikigai, Jiro, MCODE, motivated abilities, purpose, Shonda Rhimes, success, The Language Boutique
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