The Stay or Go Workshop Series
Five live virtual workshops for professionals navigating a major decision. Not whether to stay or go. Who you’re becoming on the other side.
The question under the question
Most people think they’re deciding whether to leave a job. Or a city. Or a relationship. What they’re actually navigating is whether the version of themselves they’ve been in that situation still aligns with who they’re becoming.
Those are two completely different conversations, and most frameworks treat them as one.
The space between who you are professionally and who you are everywhere else. When that gap gets wide enough, no external decision closes it. You carry it with you.
This series is for you if…
- You’re high-performing at work and depleted everywhere else
- You’ve been doing everything right and something still feels off
- You’re circling the same decision and can’t get traction
- A promotion, a win, or a milestone left you asking ‘Is this it?’
- You’re not in crisis, but you’re not settled either
- You want a decision made, not just a decision understood
The full series
April through November 2026 — drop into one session or move through the full arc.
A Strategic Framework for Your Next Chapter
Q2 has a particular energy. Tax season cleared. A launch wrapped. Spring arrived and asked a question you’re not ready to answer. This session is for professionals standing at a crossroads of something, and they’re not sure yet what. We build your personalized framework for what comes next.
The Cost of Staying Comfortable
Inaction has a price. Most professionals calculate the risk of leaving and never run the numbers on the risk of staying. This session names the hidden costs of comfort, in your career, your relationships, your legacy, and builds the framework for an honest accounting.
What Am I Actually Deciding?
So many professionals are making the right answer to the wrong question. This bridge session helps you identify the real decision underneath the surface decision: values alignment, the Integration Gap tool, and what ‘ready’ actually looks like, without the overthinking spiral.
Decision Day
Stay or Go at full depth. The complete decision framework. The Integration Gap methodology in practice. Live coaching. This is where the framework becomes your framework, and you walk out with a decision made, not just understood. Come ready to do real work.
Year-End Decisions
The highest-intent audience of the year: professionals evaluating roles, relationships, and cities before December arrives and makes the decision for them. Before you set next year’s goals, decide whether this version of your life is the one you’re building toward.
“I thought I came to make a decision. I didn’t realize I came to understand myself.”
Every session builds on the one before it. Start anywhere. Stay for the arc.
Start with This Friday- Former Federal Emergency Management Official
- 20+ years guiding leaders through high-stakes decisions
- Certified executive coach
- Founder, Operation Growth Institute
- Author, Operation Growth
Brandi Richard Thompson
I built the Stay or Go series because I kept seeing the same pattern: smart, accomplished people coming into my coaching practice not because they had failed, but because they had succeeded at a version of their life that no longer fit. The problem was never competence. It was integration. They had mastered performing. They hadn’t yet learned how to just be.
I believe excellence and wholeness are not competing forces. You don’t get there by doubling down on the same strategies that built the first chapter. You get there by closing the gap.