By Application · Private Intensive
A 105-minute Decision System intensive for newly promoted leaders. Reset the instrument you make decisions with, before the next high-stakes call is on you.
Why It Exists
You earned the role on competence. Skilled, trusted, the one who delivered. Then you stepped into the room where the decisions are bigger, the information is thinner, and the clock is shorter, and the toolkit that got you here quietly stopped being enough.
Most leaders respond by working harder inside the same instrument: more analysis, more hours, more second-guessing. The result is a leader who looks composed and decides slower than they should. The Recalibration changes the instrument, not the effort.
"Elite leaders train their mind the way athletes train their body." Dawn L. Evans · Founder, SQ
What It Is
The Recalibration is a single, private 105-minute session that resets your decision baseline. You don't leave with motivation or a reading list. You leave with a clear read on how you currently decide under pressure, the framework that explains the ceiling you keep hitting, and one repeatable Decision System tool you can use in your next meeting.
It is decision infrastructure, built for the level you just stepped into, not advice you'll have forgotten by Monday.
Underneath the system is a discipline. SQ draws on established research into how the nervous system shapes decision-making under pressure (Polyvagal theory, HeartMath coherence, interoception) and translates it into something a working leader can run in real conditions. That is the behavioral science layer. For those who want it, an optional deeper register draws on spiritual intelligence: stillness and discernment treated as instruments of clarity, never assumed and never required. The science explains the mechanism. The system makes it repeatable.
The Outcome
The Session
One uninterrupted session, structured in three movements. It begins where your Pre-Session Diagnostic leaves off, so no time is spent on intake we could have done in advance.
Movement 01
We read your current decision baseline, where urgency, approval, fear, exhaustion, or overload are quietly shaping the calls you make under pressure.
Movement 02
We install the SQ framework that explains the ceiling you've been hitting, and reset the baseline you decide from.
Movement 03
You leave with one repeatable Decision System tool and the language for what you've experienced but never had words for.
Fit
This is your room if
This isn't the room if
Built by Dawn L. Evans
Dawn L. Evans brings 17+ years of high-stakes decision-making in healthcare systems and technology to the SQ Decision System, built not in a classroom, but under real pressure.
Promoted three times in three years, she lived the gap between skilled professional and decisive leader, then built the internal infrastructure no one had taught her. SQ is that infrastructure: systematized, teachable, and ready for the leader you just became.
Selected background: Cornell University Women in Leadership Certification (Bank of America sponsored) · Dallas Mavericks Business Leadership Cohort · Founder & Editor of The Builder's Edit
By Application
The Recalibration is private and admitted by application. Tell me where you are and what you're stepping into, and we'll see whether it's the right room for this moment.
Private · Virtual · 105 Minutes · By application