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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: questions

  • Are you comfortable being challenged as a leader?

    Most leaders would answer yes. The better question is whether the people around them believe it. Leadership requires making decisions in the absence of complete information. Every day, leaders form conclusions about customers, employees, competitors, market conditions, priorities, and risk. Those conclusions become assumptions, and assumptions become the foundation upon which decisions are made. There…

    Giselle

    June 8, 2026
    Field Notes, Strategic Sensemaking
    assumptions, business diagnosis, decision making, leadership, questions, strategic alignment
  • Ready to Scale? The One Question Every Business Owner and Executive Leader Needs to Ask First

    I left the Edge Leadership session feeling grateful. So much wisdom was shared. Diverse perspectives. Hard-won insights. Useful reminders about how we lead, what leadership demands, and where our work needs to go next. There were a few questions after Vusi Thembekwayo’s keynote, and he responded like the coach that he is—with more questions. Questions…

    Giselle

    July 19, 2025
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations, 🧠 Zone of Genius, Strategic Sensemaking
    Alignment, Bob Lutz, business, business performance, clarify before you amplify, coaching questions, customer knowledge, Earl Nightingale, Edge Leadership, frameworks, General Motors, leadership, metrics, people-potential, personal growth, personal-development, profits, questions, roles, self-improvement, strategic clarity, strategy, systems, Vusi Thembekwayo
  • Questions might be the Answer

    Speaking with Olasope Oyelaran, a linguist from Nigeria, Mark Nepo author of the No. 1 New York Times Bestseller The Book of Awakening learned that there were 7,000 living languages that we know of on Earth. Following that discussion Mark contemplated that if there are at least seven thousand ways to speak, there are at…

    Giselle

    October 22, 2018
    Strategic Sensemaking
    challenges, dealingwithdisease, disability, hate, love, Mark Nepo, onbeinggay, problems, questions, racism
  • What Have You Done Right Today?

    I recently started reading “The Thin Book 2” by Jeane Eddy Westin. The title of the book is misleading because although its focus is weight loss – I have found life-wide application. The entry for January 8th reads: Don’t ask yourself the Wrong Questions. I’ve heard Tony Robbins say it like this – Ask a…

    Giselle

    January 30, 2012
    Strategic Sensemaking
    conquering negativity, doing right, Jeane Eddy Westin, questions, Tony Robbins
  • Only Ask the Question if you REALLY are Ready for the Answer…

    Just had an interesting exchange with a security guard in Port of Spain. I parked adjacent to this building, let into the lot by someone who was on their way out. Only after did I realize that people parking on this side would have remote controls for the gate. As I was leaving I walked…

    Giselle

    May 18, 2011
    Strategic Sensemaking
    answers, assumptions, Don Miguel Ruiz, questions, service
  • From Affirmations to Afformations

    It was the charismatic Tony Robbins that I heard say on an audio tape years ago “Ask a lousy question, you’ll get a lousy answer.” On a trip to NYC in 1997  I saw this little book at Barnes and Noble by Robbins called “Giant Steps – Small Changes to Make a Big Difference –…

    Giselle

    August 7, 2010
    Strategic Sensemaking
    affirmations, afformations, Anthony Robbins, Noah St. John, on being rich, questions
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