Most advisors try to solve the problem.
I find the source of it.
MEET CORTNEY THOMSON
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MEET CORTNEY THOMSON *
I have spent 23 years inside businesses. As a COO, a founder, a crisis communicator, a strategic consultant and advisor.
I watched a global financial crisis happen from inside the London press office of Lehman Brothers. I built a creator technology app during COVID and watched an entire economy reshape itself in real time. I founded a business, raised millions, and learned what it really costs. I ran a drone manufacturing company and kept a team of engineers and pilots from failing in one of the most highly-regulated industries in the world.
I have sat in the rooms where things fall apart. And I have been in the rooms, and sheds, where things are being built from scratch.
And through all of it, through every crisis, every rebuild, and every impossible situation, I kept seeing the same thing.
The strategy was sound. The talent was there. And the same problems kept coming back.
Not because the solutions were wrong, but because nobody was looking at what was running underneath.
And then I did the deeper work. On myself, for myself.
Three hundred hours of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Hypnosis. The Enneagram. Discovering new systems and patterns to understand what is running underneath. In people. In business. In me.
So that I could do more than “solve an organisational problem”, but to be able to support leaders and decision-makers in ways that allow them to be extraordinary at work, in life and for themselves.
What I found changed how I approach everything.
The patterns that keep people stuck are not strategic problems. They are not operational problems. They are human problems, running beneath the surface of every decision, every relationship, every moment of friction that keeps showing up for each of us no matter what you do about it.
When you find the pattern and change it, everything changes.
That’s what Source Work does.
What I believe.
Leadership isn’t a title. It’s how you show up in every room that matters to you: at work, at home, with your team, with your family, with yourself.
I believe the strongest people in the room deserve one space where they don't have to be the strongest person in it. Where they can finally ask the question they never get to ask anywhere else, how do I actually want to feel?
Not how they should feel.
Not how they look like they feel.
How they actually want to feel.
Perhaps you’re currently successful by every measure you put in place. But do you feel the richness of your success? Not rich by a number or metric, rich in the way you imagined success would feel like when you were still working toward it.
That feeling is not gone. It is underneath a pattern. And patterns change.
That’s what I built Source Work for.
Who I work with
Leaders and founders
Leaders and founders who are successful by every measure they currently have, and know something is still missing.
Business owners
Business owners who woke up one day running a company they never planned to run, with systems held together by good intentions and no idea how to put any of it down.
Leadership teams and organisations
Leadership teams and organisations where the strategy is sound and the same problems keep coming back, because the pattern running between the people has not changed.
Parents
People who lead in some or all of the rooms of their life, at work, at home, with their team, with their family, with themselves, who are ready to stop performing and start feeling.
Anyone accountable for someone else
Anyone carrying more than they should, who is ready to find out what is actually running underneath it all.
BOOK A SESSION
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Pattern Decoding Session
A single 75 minute session: $399
You bring one thing. A problem you can't shake, a feeling you can't name, a dynamic that keeps showing up in your life that you just don't want.
In 75 minutes we find what's actually running it. And we start to change it. Not next week, not after six sessions. Now.
Most people leave feeling something shift that they didn't think was possible in a single conversation.
Includes 75 minute session plus 15 minute integration call.
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Leadership Pattern Program
Six weeks, one-on-one: $2,500
In six weeks we explore the patterns you operate across every room of your life.
Your leadership, your relationships, your health, your sense of purpose, your experience of joy. We find the patterns running underneath all of it. We change them. And you come out the other side finally feeling the way you thought you'd feel when you made it.
Includes 6 x 75 minute weekly or fortnightly sessions, WhatsApp support between sessions for accountability and change support, and a habit integration plan delivered at completion.