Your investment &
why none of this is cheap

Before we talk about pricing, let's talk about what's at stake.

Because this is about your family, your business, your influence and your legacy. The relationships between the people you love most.

Working with me is about the future of everything you've spent your life building, or will build for the rest of your career.

And that's what we’ll protect when you invest in working with The Mickel Practice.

Most families who come to me have already spent years - sometimes decades - navigating the complexity of business & belonging together. They understand intuitively that the cost of getting this right is trivial compared to the potential cost of getting it wrong.

What they're looking for is someone who understands that too, and who can help avoid them getting it wrong.

How I Work

I don't sell days and I don't sell hours.

Instead, the work is based on retained or project-fee arrangements, structured around the agreed phases of our work together.

Each engagement is scoped to your family's specific situation - the size of the family system, the complexity of the enterprise, and the depth of work required.

This matters because no two families are the same and neither are there requirements or challenges.

Every engagement begins with a proper understanding and diagnosis of what's actually required, and as such my compensation is based on the size and shape of the challenge, and the amount of mental real estate I’ll allocate to you and your family.

What You Are Investing In

You're not paying for time: you're paying for my experience, skills and mental real estate.

When you engage The Mickel Practice, I don't clock in & clock out. I carry your family in my head.

Between sessions, between phases, between the conversations you have with me and the ones you have with each other, I think about your dynamics, about what hasn’t been said, and I hold the many threads of the work even when the work will continue next week or next month.

That’s mental real estate, and it’s where a lot of my work takes place.

That level of presence and attention doesn't fit on a timesheet.

It's the difference between a professional service and a practice.

Testimonials

  • "Part of the attraction: You get Mairi herself. Unlike a legal partner who took three months to get back to me."

  • "She’s one of the rare exceptions I will refer family enterprises to because she’s consistently professional, prepared, and trustworthy."

  • "What really sets her apart: Her blend of strategic acumen with deep emotional intelligence. Professional, impartial. Brilliant way of doing it. Even if she doesn't agree with you, she knows how to get you on the right train of thought."

  • "As an NED on our Board she is the person who can cut to the emotion instead of the thought, can get to the core of problem-solving at light speed. Where others take the footpath, Mairi uses the emotional current to understand where you're at. She follows behaviour science to get more done in less time. Not as many consulting hours required."