advisory
Jessica O’Donnell works with a small number of leaders at any one time. Every engagement begins with a conversation.
Presence Under Pressure™
High-stakes moments do not announce themselves. They arrive; and the leader who navigates them well is rarely the one who reacted fastest. They are the one who remained grounded, thought clearly, and made decisions they could stand behind long after the pressure had passed.
Presence Under Pressure™ is a six-week, one-to-one coaching engagement for executives, founders, and public figures navigating, preparing for, or beginning to recover from a defining moment. Built around the PRESENCE Method™, it combines strategic clarity, ethical decision-making, narrative, and the personal resilience required to lead when scrutiny is at its heaviest.
For leaders at a defining moment who need more than advice. Who need a thinking partner.
The Quiet Strategist™
Some of the most important leadership decisions are made quietly: before the cameras, before the boardroom, in the moments when a leader is working out what they actually think and what they are willing to stand behind.
The Quiet Strategist™ is an ongoing, retainer-based advisory relationship for senior leaders who want a trusted strategic advisor alongside them across time. Not a program with a fixed end date, but a continuous and personalised relationship built around your situation, your pressures, and your long-term leadership trajectory. It is for leaders who carry significant responsibility and want someone they can think out loud with, honestly and without agenda.
For leaders who want a trusted advisor in their corner, not just at the crisis point.
Crisis Readiness Intensive
Most leaders discover their crisis plan is inadequate at the moment they need it most. The pressure arrives and what looked like a framework reveals itself to be a checklist, rather than a strategic architecture for the decisions that actually matter.
The Crisis Readiness Intensive is a half-day or full-day workshop for executive teams and boards who want to close that gap before it costs them. Diagnostic-led and grounded in the ANCHOR Method™, participants leave with a clear map of their vulnerabilities, a practical decision-making framework, and the organisational disciplines required to move through crisis without compounding it.
For leadership teams who want to be genuinely prepared, not merely compliant.
Strategic Command Advisory
Some situations require more than advice. They require a strategic mind running in parallel: one that can hold the full picture when the person at the centre of a crisis no longer can, and that brings the same clarity and ethical rigour at every stage of an acute, high-stakes situation.
Strategic Command Advisory is Jessica’s most intensive and most confidential form of engagement, reserved for cases involving sustained public scrutiny, significant reputational exposure, or the kind of pressure that demands continuous strategic presence rather than scheduled sessions. Engagements are bespoke, tightly scoped, and capped to a small number each year.
This level of advisory is not publicly priced. Enquiries by direct contact only.
For those who need the most senior level of support, at the moment when it matters most.
The Executive Crisis Playbook
Most organisations plan for disruption. Few plan for the sequence of decisions that determines whether they survive it with their credibility intact.
The Executive Crisis Playbook is a practical guide for leaders navigating high-stakes pressure. Grounded in the Ethics Before Optics framework and drawing on real institutional case studies, it walks through the five most common governance failures in crisis response: what they are, why they occur, and the disciplines that protect against them.
Free to download. No cost, no obligation.