Career transitions are full of unknowns.
We’ll help you find the knowns.
EXECUTIVE TRANSITION DECISION GUIDE
A structured, five-stage framework designed to help executives evaluate a career move, compare opportunities, and make an important career decision with greater clarity and confidence.
RECOGNIZE CLARIFY EVALUATE DECIDE EXECUTE
39-page guided decision workbook · $49
Digital workbook · Immediate access
THE CHALLENGE
Your next career move is too important to leave to chance or emotion.
A new executive opportunity can look compelling on paper. More responsibility. Better compensation. Greater influence. A fresh start.
But the right decision is rarely about one factor.
A career transition can affect your finances, family, lifestyle, professional trajectory, leadership opportunities, and long-term goals. And when the stakes are high, it can be difficult to separate what you know from what you assume, what you want from what you need, and an exciting opportunity from the right opportunity.
The Executive Transition Decision Guide gives you a structured process for working through those questions before you make the decision.
The goal isn't to eliminate uncertainty.
It's to make a better decision despite it.
WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE
A decision framework you can actually work through.
The Executive Transition Decision Guide is a 39-page guided workbook that takes you step by step through the questions, trade-offs, assumptions, and actions behind an important career decision.
Rather than telling you what decision to make, it gives you a disciplined process for making your own.
This is not simply a guide to read. It is a working decision system—with detailed worksheets, exercises, reflection prompts, and planning tools designed to help you work through the decision yourself.
THE FIVE-STAGE DECISION PROCESS
RECOGNIZE
Understand what is happening and why you are considering a change.
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CLARIFY
Define what matters most and the standards your next opportunity should meet.
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EVALUATE
Separate facts from assumptions, identify what you still need to know, and evaluate the opportunity against your standards.
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DECIDE
Bring the evidence together and make a decision you can understand, explain, and own.
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EXECUTE
Turn your decision into action with a practical plan for the transition ahead.
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INSIDE THE 39-PAGE WORKBOOK
Guided exercises help you examine your current situation, define success, identify priorities, challenge assumptions, conduct due diligence, compare an opportunity against your standards, assess your decision, and plan your first actions.
39-page digital workbook · Immediate access · $49
SEE WHAT’S INSIDE BEFORE YOU DECIDE
A closer look at the framework
Preview several pages from the Executive Transition Decision Guide and see how the workbook helps you move from uncertainty and competing priorities toward a clearer, more confident decision.
Picture Your Future
Define what success could look like across your work, leadership, life, and family.
The Cost of Staying. The Cost of Leaving.
Make the trade-offs visible. What are you preserving, giving up, gaining, or risking either way?
Facts / Assumptions / Unknowns
Separate what you know from what you believe and identify what you still need to learn.
Decision Readiness Assessment
Assess your clarity, confidence, timing, resources, and alignment before moving forward.
This is only a glimpse of the 39-page process.
The full Decision Guide takes you through all five stages—Recognize, Clarify, Evaluate, Decide, and Execute, so you can work through an important career decision systematically instead of carrying it around in your head.
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WHO IT’S FOR
For executives facing a consequential career decision.
The Executive Transition Decision Guide is designed for experienced professionals who want to make an important career decision thoughtfully rather than reactively.
It may be especially valuable if you are:
Considering a new executive role.
Comparing two or more career opportunities.
Deciding whether to leave your current company.
Evaluating an internal promotion or expanded leadership role.
Navigating an unexpected career transition.
Weighing a major career change against family, financial, lifestyle, and personal priorities.
WHO MAY BENEFIT LESS
This guide is not designed primarily for résumé writing, interview preparation, job searching, or negotiating an employment offer.
It is designed for the decision before the transition:
Is this the right move for me?
WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT
Better decisions rarely happen by accident. They happen by design.
Most career resources focus on getting the opportunity—finding the job, preparing for the interview, negotiating compensation, or positioning yourself for the role.
The Executive Transition Decision Guide focuses on a different question:
Should you take it?
It gives you a structured way to slow down the decision, examine what matters, test what you believe about the opportunity, and evaluate whether the move actually aligns with the future you want to create.
NOT CAREER COACHING. A DECISION FRAMEWORK.
Separate facts from assumptions
Identify what you know, what you believe, and what still needs to be verified.
Define your standards before judging the opportunity
Clarify what matters most so an attractive offer doesn't become the standard by which you evaluate it.
Look beyond compensation
Consider leadership, culture, family, lifestyle, professional trajectory, risk, and long-term opportunity.
Make the decision explainable
Bring your evidence, priorities, and trade-offs together so you understand not only what you decided, but why.
Prepare to act
Translate the decision into concrete next steps rather than allowing uncertainty to linger.
THE CLEAR AS DAY APPROACH
Recognize · Clarify · Evaluate · Decide · Execute
A disciplined process for turning a complex career decision into a series of clearer, more manageable questions.
THE FRAMEWORK
Five stages. One clearer decision.
RECOGNIZE — What’s happening?
CLARIFY — What matters?
EVALUATE — What is true?
DECIDE — Am I ready?
EXECUTE — How do I succeed?
Each stage answers a different question. Each stage builds on the work that came before it.
By the time you reach the decision, you haven’t simply thought about it more. You’ve thought about it more clearly.
ABOUT
ABOUT SCOT HICKS
Scot Hicks is the founder of Clear as Day Academy, an education company focused on helping people approach consequential decisions with greater structure, clarity, and confidence.
Over a career spanning more than three decades, Scot has worked with executives, business owners, professionals, and families navigating important financial, professional, and life decisions.
That experience revealed a recurring challenge: when a decision matters most, more information doesn't necessarily make the answer clearer. People often need a better way to organize what they know, identify what they don't know, define what matters, and evaluate the choices in front of them.
That insight led to the development of the Clear as Day decision framework and the Executive Transition Decision Guide.
The objective is simple:
Big decisions. Made Clear as Day.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions about the Executive Transition Decision Guide
What is the Executive Transition Decision Guide?
The Executive Transition Decision Guide is a 39-page digital workbook designed to help executives and experienced professionals evaluate an important career transition using a structured five-stage decision process: Recognize, Clarify, Evaluate, Decide, and Execute.
Who is the Executive Transition Decision Guide for?
It is designed for executives and experienced professionals considering a new role, comparing career opportunities, deciding whether to leave a current position, evaluating an internal promotion, or navigating another consequential career transition.
How can the guide help me decide whether to accept a new executive role?
Rather than telling you whether to accept or decline an opportunity, the guide helps you define what matters, separate facts from assumptions, identify unanswered questions, conduct due diligence, evaluate the opportunity against your standards, and reach a decision you can explain and own.
Can I use the guide to compare two job opportunities?
Yes. The framework helps you establish your priorities and decision standards before evaluating an opportunity. You can use those standards to think more objectively about competing opportunities rather than comparing them on compensation or first impressions alone.
Is this career coaching?
No. The Executive Transition Decision Guide is a self-directed educational workbook and decision framework. It does not provide individualized career, financial, legal, or tax advice and does not tell you which decision to make.
How long does it take to complete?
There is no required pace. The guide is designed to be worked through thoughtfully, and some exercises may lead you to gather additional information or have important conversations before continuing.
What do I receive when I purchase the guide?
You receive immediate digital access to the 39-page Executive Transition Decision Guide, including detailed worksheets and guided exercises that take you through the complete Recognize → Clarify → Evaluate → Decide → Execute process.
You'll work through exercises designed to help you define what matters, separate facts from assumptions, identify unanswered questions, conduct due diligence, evaluate an opportunity against your standards, reach a decision, and prepare for the transition ahead.
How much does the Executive Transition Decision Guide cost?
The Executive Transition Decision Guide is $49.
What format is the guide?
It is delivered as a digital workbook designed to be read and worked through as you evaluate your career decision.
Will the guide make the decision for me?
No—and that's intentional. The purpose of the framework is to improve the quality of your thinking so that you can make a decision grounded in your circumstances, priorities, evidence, and goals.
Your next career decision deserves more than a guess.
It deserves a framework.
You don't need to eliminate every unknown before making an important career decision.
You need a disciplined way to understand what matters, evaluate what is true, and decide what is right for you.
The Executive Transition Decision Guide gives you that process—with detailed worksheets, guided exercises, reflection prompts, and planning tools to help you work through the decision from beginning to action.
Recognize · Clarify · Evaluate · Decide · Execute
Executive Transition Decision Guide 39-page digital decision workbook $49
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Big decisions. Made Clear as Day.