Work Directly With Sunny
This is the page for direct, private partnership work with Sunny Sabbini.
Not a workshop, not a group program.
The two of you and Sunny, focused on your own partnership.
What The Engagement Is
A Partnership Advisory Engagement is direct work with Sunny on the partnership you actually run. Both partners are in it. The work is built around your situation rather than a fixed curriculum, and it holds the structural and the relational dimensions together, because in a partnership they are never separate for long.
It asks for a real commitment.
The engagement runs for a minimum of three months. There is work between sessions. The partnership changes in the weeks around the conversations, not only inside them. It asks for a significant commitment of both partners' time and both partners' attention, and an investment that matches the scope of direct advisory work. The number lives in the conversation, set against what your partnership actually needs.
These are the terms of the engagement. Direct work at this depth is not the right step for every partnership, and the conditions are the clearest way to know.
Which Cofounders and Business Partners is This For?
Most partners who choose direct work are already past the question of whether to bring someone in. The need is pressing, or the picture is already clear to both of you, or it simply fits to do this work with Sunny. The deliberation is behind you. What you want now is the work itself, on your own partnership, at close range.
Some partners reading this are not there yet. One partner is ready and the other is not. The strain is real but the next step is still unclear. That is a real and common place to be, and it points toward a different starting step than this one.
How the engagement works
The work begins with an assessment. Before anything is built or rebuilt, Sunny reads what is actually generating the strain: which part of the partnership has not kept pace with the business, and what the friction is pointing toward. The assessment sets the scope. There is no fixed deliverable set, because the engagement is built for your partnership and not for a category of partnership.
From there, the work moves across the full system. The direction the two of you are aimed at. The way decisions and roles and rhythm actually run. The capacity you each have to stay steady when the other is under pressure. Both partners stay in the work throughout. It is not a process one partner brings home to the other. And it continues between sessions, because a partnership's operating patterns change in the daily work, not in the meeting about the work.
Working directly with Sunny is close-range and unhurried. She listens before she prescribes, reflects back the specific thing rather than the general theme, and is direct about what she sees, including the parts a partnership is most defended about. Partners regularly find they are not only resolving the friction in front of them but building capacity the partnership did not have before, and they tend to build it in concert, each partner's work creating new room for the other.
For the fuller picture of who Sunny is and how she works, see About.
Which Path Is Right For You
If you are not both ready for direct work, the Why Smart Partners Get Stuck workshop is the better first step. It will give you a precise read of what is generating the drag and the language to bring it to your partner clearly.
And if the strain between you is primarily relational, recurring tension, hard conversations, trust that has worn thin, the work at Conflict2Collaboration.com is the better starting point. Same practitioner. Different door.
If direct work is the right step, it begins with a conversation, about your partnership, the situation you are in, and whether this is the right work at the right time. The conversation is not a sales call. It is where you both find out whether this fits. When there is space, the engagement starts from there.
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