Private · exacting · consequential
Where strategy ends,
depth psychology begins
Not therapy. Not coaching.
The work beneath both — for the senior leader who has reached a ceiling the surface tools cannot pass.
Led by James Fox — five years in depth analysis with James Hollis, PhD.
The Inner Authority™ is limited to six concurrent clients.
Recognition
Outer authority does not always resolve the inner pattern.
You’re accomplished and capable. Under pressure, old responses still return — even when you can name them.
The difficult decision
You have the facts and the authority. The choice still carries weight the situation alone doesn’t explain.
The dynamic that survives insight
You can name the pattern, describe both sides and anticipate the outcome. It still runs the room.
Where authority and experience diverge
Others see certainty. Internally, responsibility amplifies doubt, isolation, or over-control.
These aren’t failures of competence.
They signal a pattern still shaping how you lead.
The authority
Exacting precision applied to executive reality
James Fox
Founder, Unitive Mind
Senior leaders rarely need another framework. The real work starts where strategy and competence stop being enough — recurring board conflict, the isolation of command, the gap between outer authority and inner experience.
His work is direct, private and depth-oriented. We identify the patterns shaping your authority, examine what’s sustaining the friction, and work toward more freedom of response where it counts.
Four-year certificate in Jungian Studies · professional coaching, American University · five years in depth analysis with James Hollis, PhD. The full background
Series C founder
Recurring impasse with a co-founder that outside mediation and structured facilitation had not resolved.
Healthcare system CFO
Preparing for a board transition while managing a pattern of over-control under scrutiny.
Composite, role-based descriptions. No identifying details are used or implied.
An independent perspective
“James Fox brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the work of improving our capacity to communicate, manage, and grow, whether at work or in person. Fox’s process helps clarify and develop the personal before we can bring it to the world.”
James Hollis, PhD
Jungian analyst and author
The Framework
The Psychology of Self-Leadership
Jungian depth psychology, social neuroscience and contemplative practice
— applied to the realities of leading.
Jungian Depth Psychology
Shadow, projection, complexes and the recurring patterns that organise authority.
What changes for you: you see what’s yours before you act on the conflict.
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Social Neuroscience
How threat and safety shape perception when responsibility, scrutiny and consequence converge.
What changes for you: urgency separates from alarm. You keep your choice under pressure.
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Contemplative Practice
The trained steadiness to stay present while difficult material surfaces, rather than being taken over by it.
What changes for you: you stay present to what surfaces instead of being taken over by it.
A CEO enters describing a board relationship that “should” have resolved months earlier — the facts were settled, the disagreement small. Three sessions in, the pattern traces to an earlier dynamic: being overruled by a parent whose approval never fully arrived. The board conflict was real. It was also carrying weight that belonged elsewhere. Naming that difference — what belongs to the board, what belongs to you — is usually where the relief begins.
Composite illustration, not an account of any individual client.
Three ways in
One framework, three depths of engagement.
Each is complete in itself. None is a prerequisite for another.
Self-guided
The Threshold™
A self-guided way into the same framework. Self-directed foundational work across eight modules over 90 days, without a live consultation — suited to those ready to begin the interior work independently.
- Mapping the personal complexes and shadow material that shape decisions under pressure
- Recognising when what looks like an external conflict is actually a projection
- Reading nervous-system activation — the difference between real threat and old alarm
- Working with the internal parts that quietly run day-to-day authority
Duration
Ninety days, at your pace
Time with James
No live consultation
Concludes with
The foundational material
Investment
$495
Standalone four-week engagement
The Diagnostic
We don’t begin with strategy. We begin with what’s shaping the leader beneath it. A four-week depth assessment for one defined leadership question — concluding in a written brief.
- Biographical inquiry and depth interview
- Identification of core patterns, projections and defences
- Examination of current board and executive dynamics
- Written diagnostic brief with developmental implications
Duration
Four weeks
Time with James
Direct, throughout
Concludes with
A written diagnostic brief
Investment
$5,000
Sustained private engagement
The Inner Authority™
For leaders whose responsibilities require sustained depth. Continuity across decisions, relationships and pressure as they unfold — so patterns are examined as they emerge, not after.
- Sixteen private depth sessions across six months
- Real-time examination of emerging leadership friction
- Board, executive-team and organisational psychodynamics
- Sustained integration into leadership practice
Duration
Six months · sixteen sessions
Time with James
Direct and continuous
Concludes with
Integration into leadership practice
Investment
By application
The Inner Authority™ is limited to six concurrent clients — a condition of the continuity and discretion this work requires, not a scarcity device.
A note on fit. The Diagnostic examines one defined leadership question directly with James, concluding in a written brief. The Threshold is self-directed foundational work across eight modules over 90 days, without a live consultation — suited to those ready to begin the interior work independently.
How confidentiality works
Discretion, made operational — not just promised.
At this level, confidential has to mean something specific.
Agreements
A mutual confidentiality agreement, signed before the first substantive session. It covers both directions.
Billing
Invoicing runs through Momentive LLC. No reference to Unitive Mind, coaching, or advisory services on the statement.
Records
No recordings or transcripts. Notes are limited to what supports continuity, and aren’t shared without your request.
Scheduling
Sessions are arranged directly — not through a shared calendar or assistant, unless you prefer otherwise.
The foundation of the engagement
Private
Outside the organisation, what can’t safely enter the system can be examined without exposure.
Exacting
We work beneath behaviour and performance language — to the patterns, defences and projections shaping judgement.
Consequential
What’s unresolved in the leader enters decisions, relationships, boards, culture. This work makes it conscious — and less reflexive.
Private enquiry
Make a private enquiry.
James reads and responds to every enquiry personally, and follows up only where there’s a real next step.
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