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YOUR MOST CRITICAL DECISIONS

To compete at against the best, does your team need to problem - solve in new ways?

How do you benchmark against your peers in decision - making?

To compete at against the best, does your team need to problem - solve in new ways? • How do you benchmark against your peers in decision - making? •

What is your most effective tool for sustained competitive advantage?

Will you get your decision right when it matters the most?

What is your most effective tool for sustained competitive advantage? • Will you get your decision right when it matters the most? •

Chris Mailander has worked with leaders around the world.

Many CEOs and management teams set audacious goals. Few achieve them.

It is one thing to create the ideas.
It is another to execute.

Gifted management teams do both. Brilliantly.
Mailander helps them make it so.

  • U.S. Senate

    U.S. Department of Defense

    U.S. State Department

    Republic of Iraq

    Ukraine

    U.S. Federal Communication Commission

    U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

    The World Bank

    Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

    Asian Development Bank

    Overseas Private Investment Corporation

    Center for Strategic & International Studies

    U.S. Agency for International Development

  • Bancomer

    MasterCard

    Visa

    Chicago Board of Trade

    Federal Home Loan Bank System

    Bear Stearns

    Bessemer Venture Partners

    Norwest Venture Partners

    Fairmount Partners

    Bain Capital

    VentureSouth

    JPMorganChase

    Bank of America

    Merrill Lynch

    Dubai International Financial Centre

  • SAP

    Amazon Web Services

    Microsoft Azure

    Dell

    Medici AI

    IBM

    CSC

    RF-SMART

    AOL

    SourceFuse

    Cognizant

    NJ Transit

    Cisco

    Sun Microsystems

    Washington Post

    New York Times

    Unisys

    Siemens

  • Millicom

    Telmex

    Alcatel-Lucent

    Nextel

    Sprint

    Motorola

  • Atlas Organics

    S&P Global Market Intelligence

    Terra Firma Organics

    Climate Interactive

    Terra Fiber

    Crush-It

  • Pfizer

    Genentech

    Anthem

    Health Access Solutions

    Alignment Healthcare

    Himark

    AltaMed

    CareMore

    Valley Health Plan

    Ascension

    Merck

  • KPMG

    BearingPoint

    PWC

    CapGemini

    Accenture

    Deloitte

    West Monroe

    Omnicom

  • Springfield Energy

    First Energy

    Whitney Logistics

    Miles Ahead Brands


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Chris Mailander is a frequent commentator on those decisions affecting our corporate, economic, political, and global security interests. 

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Strategy & Decision-Making

"What Mailander has delivered in "Judgment" is a treatise for how to get it right when it matters most."

"The Craft" is one of the most well-written business books I've read in the last decade.

"What Mailander has delivered in "Judgment" is a treatise for how to get it right when it matters most." • "The Craft" is one of the most well-written business books I've read in the last decade. •

In his books, Judgment and The Craft, Chris Mailander delves into the art of mastering critical decision-making and unveils the hidden codes and methods that unlock exponential financial growth.

Masterclass

Inspired by 30 years working quietly in the sealed-off conference rooms of global corporations, national governments, and mid-market leaders navigating their most critical moments, veteran corporate strategist Chris Mailander reveals key lessons helping today’s CEOs achieve their greatest success.

Masterclass

A-ha with Chris Mailander

Stories, methods, and insights for CEOs seeking the ‘a-ha moments’ that improve their decision-making.  Mailander provides ideas and inspiration to provoke a CEO’s own reflections on how they make decisions, all in preparation for getting it right when it will matter the most.

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Chris Mailander counsels companies and governments managing the arduous decision paths which precede extraordinary outcomes.

His client roster has included MasterCard, Bank of Montreal, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, Unisys, Visa, KPMG Consulting, BearingPoint, the President of Nigeria, the Government of Iraq, and a host of mid-market leaders and Silicon Valley innovators seeking to transform industries. He has negotiated tenders and commercial transactions in more than forty countries across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, including in conflict and post-conflict economies.

Mailander was previously an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He is author of Judgment (2023) and The Craft (2019), host of A-ha with Chris Mailander, and is a contributor to Fast Company. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.