The Positioning House

Advisory, education, and strategy for how senior leaders are read, trusted, and positioned.

Alicia Perkins seated at a café table with her laptop

What we believe

The same track record can lead to very different conclusions.

Senior leaders are not evaluated on performance alone. People are also forming conclusions about how they think, what they can be trusted with, what kind of problems belong with them, and what they may be ready for next. Those conclusions shape authority, opportunity, and what happens next.

Leadership Visibility Snapshot

What is your visibility teaching people about you?

The Leadership Visibility Snapshot helps you identify what people may be learning to rely on you for, what that visibility may be reinforcing, and whether it matches where you want to go next.

Ways to work with us

Work with The Positioning House.

Private advisory, executive education, and organizational work built around how senior leaders are understood and what that understanding makes possible.

Work with Alicia

Private Advisory

For senior leaders navigating changes in authority, scope, or standing, or deciding what their experience should lead to next.

For executives

Executive Education

Self-directed systems for the decisions, conversations, and leadership situations where how you are understood matters.

For companies

Organizational Work

Executive development and advisory for organizations that want senior leaders to make stronger decisions, communicate their thinking clearly, and operate with more authority through change.

The Executive Read by Alicia L. Perkins, hardcover

The Executive Read

Your experience does not speak for itself.

The Executive Read explains how organizations form conclusions about senior leaders, what keeps an old read in place, and how those conclusions begin shaping authority and opportunity.

The Positioning Room

Read The Positioning Room

Notes on how senior leaders are read, what organizations are actually responding to, and the decisions shaping what comes next.

Alicia Perkins working at her desk

About the Founder

Alicia Perkins

Alicia Perkins is an Executive Strategist and Advisor, founder of The Positioning House, and author of The Executive Read. She spent more than 15 years in recruiting, executive placement, and talent development, working close to decisions about who was hired, promoted, and trusted with greater responsibility. She has since advised more than 400 senior leaders.