The Inner Authority™ · Before the application
Application is the route into The Inner Authority™.
A few words about who this work is for, who it is not for, and what happens if your application opens the door.
This is not a contact form.
It is the first act of the work.
How it is read
Your application will be read personally by James Fox. There are no assistants, no screeners, no automated triage. What you write will be considered with attention, and with an interest in what sits beneath the surface of what you say.
A question of fit
Who this work is for
Most leaders who arrive here have already done substantial surface work — the books, the frameworks, the executive coach. They have begun to sense that what remains is not a strategy problem.
If you are looking for tools or techniques, this is not the practice for you. There are excellent practitioners for that work, and James will gladly point you toward them.
Who this is not for
This work is not appropriate during acute psychiatric crisis, active substance dependence, or the immediate aftermath of severe trauma. Each of those calls for clinical care, and this is not a clinical service. Depth psychological consultation is rigorous, occasionally destabilising, and assumes a steadiness the client brings with them.
If you are uncertain whether this is the right time, say so in the application. That itself is useful information.
What happens next
If your application suggests a possible fit, you will be invited to schedule a 50-minute assessment. The fee is $500, paid at booking. It is non-refundable, and is credited in full toward the engagement if we proceed.
The assessment is the first session of the work, not a sales call. James will use the time to test whether an engagement makes sense — for both of you — and, if it does, what shape the engagement should take. The programme fee is a separate matter, payable on acceptance. If the fit is not there, you will still leave with a clearer sense of the territory you are in, and what kind of work it requires.
Not every applicant is invited to the assessment.
Not every assessment leads to an engagement.
This is by design.
What James is looking for
The questions are designed to surface what strategic language usually obscures — the actual pattern, the actual cost, the actual readiness. General answers are rarely useful.
Take your time. There is no advantage to speed.
When you are ready
James reviews each application personally and will reply within three days.
The Threshold™ and The Diagnostic have their own routes, and neither requires an application.