We help ambitious leaders and organizations get clear on their goals and honest about their blind spots, so they can win in public without losing in private.

How does it work?

Three days together, twenty-five customized tools, six phases. Strategy is planning for tomorrow, today. Operations is taking care of today, today. StratOp integrates both, because a plan that only does one is a plane with one wing.

Why does my organization need it?

In most organizations, strategy and finance are decided at the top and rolled downhill. StratOp takes the opposite approach. The leader pulls the team together, and three days of shared perspective informs, reforms and revitalizes how the organization works — because it relies on the insight and cross-functional alignment of every department in the room.

Who has used it?

Over the last forty years, hundreds of teams — startups, churches and billion-dollar companies — have used the Paterson process to grow sales, profits and results. I hope to add your organization to that list.

What does it cost?

We talk first. Pricing is based on time and value, and the engagement is crafted around what your team actually needs. The aim is a return that pays dividends long after the three days end.

How do I start?

Email for a discovery call. We will talk through where the organization stands and whether StratOp fits before anything is scheduled or quoted. You will hear back within 24 hours.

Email Darren for a discovery call

Who do you most often work with?

A great deal of this work happens with high-impact leaders and people carrying high-stakes leadership — the ones everyone else leans on, who have nowhere to set it down. Also couples in entrepreneurship, where the marriage and the business share a ledger and a dinner table. And crisis, personal and corporate, when the ground moves faster than anyone can think.

It is the same population I facilitate through StratOp and LifePlan. Organizations get planned. The person leading them still needs care. Depending on what you are carrying, that work can be engaged as Whole Leader Counseling, as a StratOp for the organization around you, or as both.

Who sits in the room?

Individuals, couples and whole families. Some things can only be worked on by the person carrying them; others cannot be worked on alone at all, because the pattern lives between people rather than inside one of them.

How often, and for how long?

Sessions run by the hour and you book them as you need them. There is no fixed package to buy into and no minimum number of weeks — some people come for a season, some come back when something surfaces.

How do I start?

Email Darren. That first exchange is the intake: what you are carrying, whether counseling is the right fit, and what rhythm makes sense for you. Sessions are scheduled from there, and the rate is settled when you book the first one.

Where do we meet?

In person across the tri-state area — Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware — or over Zoom, wherever you are. Sessions carry the same weight either way; the only thing distance costs is the drive.

Does it only happen one-to-one?

No. The same convictions run as cohort intensives — a room of people working the same ground together over several weeks. The Three Layers, our current cohort, applies this to conquering ADHD alongside standard treatment. Others will follow.

Does this replace therapy or medical care?

No. We come alongside every form of therapy and treatment that is effective in the full restoration of a flourishing life — never instead of it. If you have a physician or a therapist, keep them. If you need one, we will say so.