Cogent Language Exchange™

Big Ideas. Real Insights. Free.

Ancient Greek-style pottery depicting two people in dialog

Our initial coaching session is called Cogent Language Exchange™. It is a talk designed to elevate what matters most to both of us: your projects, your career, and my capacity to coach you.

No cost, no forms to complete; no AI, recording, or commitment. Just talk and listening – informal, friendly, and confidential, but deliberately wide-ranging. We start with your projects, meetings, and organizations. We take one project to focus on. From there, we can go to your ideals, concerns, or strategies, strategies for a current project and/or your whole career.

In exchange, I will offer advice on the big picture that you paint. This is cogent language for you, going forward, in your projects and career. Of course, this serves you not only as insights to consider, but also as a test of the fitness of my coaching to your needs.  Will you want to go forward with Cogent Language?

I’ll be ready for our exchange when you are.

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Exchange™ FAQ’s

  • It is simple. We offer two services only, one free and the other at USD $300. Both are based on sessions of 1:1 talk about one hour long.

    The service explained on this page – our Cogent Language Exchange – is free. 

    Our only other service is Career Coaching. This is a package of 10 sessions that costs USD $300.

    Note that Career Coaching is only available by mutual agreement after a Cogent Language Exchange. 

  • Free consultation on career project know-how. No forms, no paper, no AI agents, no attachments, no recording, Just talk.

    The talk will be informal, confidential, wide-ranging, and friendly. It will take about an hour.   In that timeframe, we will develop actionable ideas on growing know-how for your career going forward. 

  • Cogent Language Exchange™ serves you as a way to sample the vibe of my coaching and test its fitness to your career. It serves me as a way to see if I could really bring enough value to to act as your career coach.  If the vibe and fitness are good for both of us, it will be easy to start a 10-session Career Coaching program.

  • You can reach me anytime via the contact page here. I aim to respond quickly—usually within two business days.

  • I think experience is a better teacher than words, so, to really find out what it is like to talk with me, I’d say why not sign up for an Exchange and see? If you want some words about the conversation we are likely to have, the one good one would be “cogent”. If you want a few more, I’d offer  “informal”. “confidential”, “wide-ranging”, and “friendly”.

  • By using our handy scheduler here.

  • Honestly, because there is only one coach (me/Dan). 

    Operationally, Cogent Language is more like an open mike event or a small jazz club.  This business model doesn’t scale, I know, and there are no plans for Cogent Language to expand. However, arena rock and asset accumulation are not the reasons for its being. Cogent Language exists for the quality of co-creation, the learning and its application on both sides of the see-saw, the “art”, if you will, of cogent language, 

  • The agenda for the Cogent Language Exchange is largely yours. Prepare to lead based on your own project and career interests.  That said, please also prepare to discuss one important complete (or terminated) team project, on which you were a team member from start to finish. We will call this your “project in focus”. We will use it as a way to explore your experience in some depth.