DESIGN YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Private Advisory by Dev Modi
A STRATEGIC INSIGHT FROM A CHARTERED ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST
If you don’t author your next chapter, someone else’s priorities will.
A private one-to-one advisory engagement for high-achieving men ready to intentionally design the next decade of their life, work, and relationships.
Private application. Reviewed personally by Dev.
Chartered Organisational Psychologist
Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society
LSE graduate
MSc Organisational Psychology, City University London
Wiley Author
25+ years advising senior leaders
Worked with leaders at BP, Deloitte, PayPal, BBC, PwC, eBay, Unilever
Founder of MQ Tribe
One-to-one strategic advisory
Chartered Organisational Psychologist
Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society
LSE graduate
MSc Organisational Psychology, City University London
Wiley Author
25+ years advising senior leaders
Worked with leaders at BP, Deloitte, PayPal, BBC, PwC, eBay, Unilever
Founder of MQ Tribe
One-to-one strategic advisory
The Quiet Reckoning
This isn’t you struggling. It’s just you standing at a crossroads, and deep down, you know it.
“I just need to get through this next phase.”
You’ve been saying some version of that for years. The right moment isn’t coming.
“I’ve worked hard for this. I should be happy.”
Gratitude and fulfilment are not the same thing. Pretending they are is its own kind of exhausting.
“I’ll sort it out when things slow down.”
Things don’t slow down. The calendar fills itself. Nobody around you will create the space for this.
The second half of your life deserves the same intention as the first. Probably more.
Who This Is For
You’ve spent decades building. Other things went quiet.
- The friendships that used to matter, thinned to nothing.
- The health you always meant to prioritise, pushed back another quarter.
- The partner you share a calendar with, but no longer a real partnership.
- Children who know the provider, not the man underneath.
- Hobbies that didn’t end, they just went quiet. Adventures you can picture but haven’t built.
The Cost of Getting This Wrong
This isn’t a conversation about self-improvement. It’s about the most consequential decisions of your life, and what happens when they’re made by default rather than by design.
- Spending another three years optimizing a life you’ve already outgrown just because it’s easier to refine what’s familiar than to completely redesign it.
- Building a successful exit only to fund someone else’s vision of retirement, simply because you never paused long enough to define your own.
- A relationship that fractures quietly during the one window you had to repair it, driven not by drama, but by another year of unaddressed distance.
- Children who remember you as busy instead of present, creating a version of fatherhood you would never have chosen on paper.
- Health that becomes a crisis instead of a foundation, simply because there was always something more urgent on your plate.
- A decade you drift through instead of design, ending with the slow realization that no one was ever going to do this work for you.
Every one of these outcomes is avoidable with the kind of honest, structured thinking that almost no one around you is equipped to help you do.
The time is measured in weeks, not years. The money is a fraction of what you spend on a single bad business decision. And the return, a decade lived with clarity, intention, and full presence, is not something you can put a number on.
Design Your Next Chapter
A private 100-day strategic life redesign. Exclusively one-to-one.
Most men at this level have never had a single conversation about their life as a whole. Everyone around them views them through a narrow lens, as a founder, a father, a partner, or a leader, but never all of it at once. Never without a role, and never without an agenda.
This is that conversation.
For 100 days, we look at the full picture of your identity, your relationships, your health, your work, and your next decade with complete honesty. Together, we build a concrete plan, and we make sure it actually lands in your real life instead of just on paper.
No group calls. No cohorts. No shared rooms. One-to-one strategic work at the level you actually operate.
The Whole Architecture
Your life is not lived in fragments. We don’t treat it as if it is.
Identity
Who you are when the title, the revenue, and the performance are stripped away. This is not about who you were building towards, but who you are right now, and who you want to become.
Health
The physical and mental foundation required to sustain the next decade at the level you want to operate. This is not about optimization for its own sake, but rather the essential fuel that everything else runs on.
Relationships
What your closest connections actually look like when you are completely honest, including the romance, the depth, and the real partnership. High performance quietly erodes these dynamics, so we look at them directly to rebuild.
Fatherhood
The shift from structural provider to genuinely present father. There is still time to become the version of yourself your children will carry with them. This is how that starts.
Work
Redesigning your role, your exit, your retirement, or your next venture so it serves your life instead of the other way around.
Friendships & Community
The connections that sustain a man at this stage of life. Many have thinned. Some need to be rebuilt. Some need to be replaced. This matters more than most men admit.
Adventures & Aliveness
The things that make you feel fully alive instead of just productive. The hobbies, the travel, and the experiences you have been deferring are not indulgences. They are an essential part of the architecture.
Purpose
A clear internal compass that does not shift with external conditions. This is not an abstract concept, but a specific, honest answer to what drives you now and what you want to be known for in the years ahead.
The Next Decade
A concrete, written blueprint where decisions are made and priorities are set. This is a plan that fully belongs to you, and one that the people you love most are completely a part of.
The A.C.R.E. Framework
A focused four-stage process.
Built for depth, not volume.
STAGE 01
Acceptance
Telling the complete truth about where you are. Most men at this level have never had a single fully unedited conversation about their life. This is where that starts. Outcome: nothing left hidden from yourself.
STAGE 02
Clarity
Defining what actually matters instead of what should matter or what used to matter. We focus entirely on what matters right now, to the man you are today. The outcome is a set of priorities you would defend out loud.
STAGE 03
Redesign
Building your decisions into a real architecture that works in your actual life. Not a framework. A plan. Outcome: a written blueprint for the next decade.
STAGE 04
Embodiment
Living the shift by closing the gap between the blueprint and your daily reality, and making sure it stays closed. The outcome is a life that actually matches the decisions you made.
What You Receive
Strategic Life Redesign Intensive
A deep dive at the start of the 100 days to establish the full, honest picture of your life as it actually is instead of how it appears. This is the foundational session that everything else is built on.
8 Private 1:1 Sessions
One high-impact session every two weeks. No operational noise. No shared agenda. Just the work.
Direct Advisory Access
Private access between sessions for the critical moments and decisions that don’t wait for a calendar slot. Because the things that matter most rarely do.
Your Next Chapter Blueprint
A concrete, written strategic document detailing your final decisions, clear priorities, honest boundaries, and a step-by-step implementation plan. This is something real that you own and can return to at any time.
The next chapters my clients
stopped postponing.
Ivan Nikolav
Ivan came in unsure of what he needed and left with profound insights, emotional clarity, and the sense that a major inner shift was beginning.
Ash Sharma
Ash was looking to reorient after a long career in corporate tech. Dev helped him cut through the clutter, clarify his strengths, and see how he could move toward entrepreneurship with more confidence.
Rajesh Chatani
Rajesh felt stuck moving into the next phase of his life. Dev’s mentoring gave him the clarity and direction he needed to understand where he wanted to go and what he wanted to build next.
Jalil Fanaian
Jalil gained more clarity around major life decisions, reduced stress, and walked away with a better understanding of the next steps ahead.
Johanes Paul Shwarz
JP gained more awareness during major transitions, helping him make better decisions and navigate changes in life, work, and business with greater clarity.
Manish Pabari
Manish navigated a major career and life transition with greater clarity, balancing the financial, emotional, and family dimensions while finding his own answers with Dev’s support.
Ivan Nikolav
Ivan came in unsure of what he needed and left with profound insights, emotional clarity, and the sense that a major inner shift was beginning.
Ash Sharma
Ash was looking to reorient after a long career in corporate tech. Dev helped him cut through the clutter, clarify his strengths, and see how he could move toward entrepreneurship with more confidence.
Rajesh Chatani
Rajesh felt stuck moving into the next phase of his life. Dev’s mentoring gave him the clarity and direction he needed to understand where he wanted to go and what he wanted to build next.
Jalil Fanaian
Jalil gained more clarity around major life decisions, reduced stress, and walked away with a better understanding of the next steps ahead.
Johanes Paul Shwarz
JP gained more awareness during major transitions, helping him make better decisions and navigate changes in life, work, and business with greater clarity.
Manish Pabari
Manish navigated a major career and life transition with greater clarity, balancing the financial, emotional, and family dimensions while finding his own answers with Dev’s support.
Trusted by Senior Leaders Across Global Organisations.
The Experience Behind This Work
The Experience Behind This Work
25+ years advising founders, operators, and senior leaders through the transitions that don’t show up on a P&L.
As a Chartered Organisational Psychologist, executive coach, and life strategist, my career has been dedicated to guiding individuals and boards at global organisations including PayPal, eBay, BP, Deloitte, and Unilever. Throughout that time, my focus has been entirely on the unique psychological inflection points that occur at the highest levels of achievement.
As a published author and the founder of MQ Tribe here in Marbella, I now work exclusively one-to-one with high-performing men who are ready to navigate the transition between building outward success and designing genuine inward alignment for their next decade.
The Real Cost
of Waiting.
The danger is not catastrophic failure.
The danger is another year of drift while the most important transition of your life goes unaddressed.
The exit approaches, the relationship continues on autopilot, the children get older, and your health stays on the list. Ultimately, the version of your life you keep meaning to design stays exactly where it has always been, sitting just out of reach, just after the next thing settles down.
That gap does not close on its own. It compounds. And the men who look back with the most regret are rarely the ones who made a bold decision. They are the ones who kept waiting for the right moment, only to realize one day that it had already passed.
If you don’t create the life you want, someone else will create it for you.
Stop drifting. Become the architect of your next chapter.
For those ready to go further
Three days with Dev in Marbella.
For clients who want to step fully out of their environment, the engagement can include a private in-person intensive on the Mediterranean coast.
Across these three days, there are no phone calls to take and no meetings waiting in the background. This time is dedicated entirely to the work, set in an environment designed to make the kind of honest, unhurried thinking that is almost impossible inside your normal life feel completely inevitable.
Most clients describe it as the most clarifying seventy-two hours of their adult life.
FAQ
Therapy is largely backward-facing, focused on resolving the past and processing what shaped you. Executive coaching is largely performance-facing, designed to help you operate more effectively inside the life and role you already have. This Private Advisory is forward-facing life systems architecture. Together we design the next ten years across identity, work, relationships, fatherhood, environment, and purpose as one integrated system, backed by the psychological depth required to make it real.
Most clients are not in crisis. They are successful, respected individuals who are quietly aware that their next chapter requires a completely different design than the one that got them here. In fact, this work is most powerful before a crisis forces a decision, while you still have the full optionality, energy, and runway to choose deliberately.
Direct, structured, and deeply caring. I will challenge you in ways the people around you cannot, because most of them are protecting your ego, your title, or their relationship with you. I am not here to protect any of that. I am here to help you tell the truth about your life and build something that actually fits you. You will feel respected, never managed. You will be pushed where it matters, and held where it counts.
One 90-minute session every two weeks. I built the structure for people still running businesses, teams, and major responsibilities. Direct messaging support gives you space to raise real situations as they happen.
Everything discussed is private and protected. Because this is a strictly one-to-one engagement, there are no cohorts, no group calls, and no shared spaces. You can speak about your business, your marriage, your children, your finances, and your inner world with absolute freedom and without calculation.
That is common. Many people arrive after trying different forms of support. This work is different because it combines psychological depth with strategic structure and real execution. The focus is not more insight. The focus is clarity, conviction, and movement.
They almost always are. The work is one-to-one with you, but your relationship, your family, and the people you share a life with are central to what we design. When useful, we create structured ways to bring your partner into specific decisions—never as a couples session, always as part of the architecture of your next chapter.
This 100-day engagement is a meaningful financial and personal investment, intentionally priced for the caliber of high-achieving individuals it is built for. Complete pricing details are transparently shared in the form when you book your fit call. This is not a casual advisory retainer, the true value is best understood through our initial conversation. Together, we will look at what it means to actually execute the entire 100-day container. When evaluating the investment for this complete system, the relevant comparison is not standard personal or professional coaching. It is the compounding cost of spending another three years optimizing a life you have already outgrown.
No. This is not relocation consulting. Some clients move. Some redesign the life they already have. The work helps you reach the right direction, not a preset outcome.
No. The advisory is one-to-one through private 1:1 sessions and direct messaging support. In-person experiences are optional and available separately for clients who want to go deeper.
Deliberately few. This is one-to-one strategic work at depth rather than a scalable program, meaning my active roster is kept strictly limited. This boundary is non-negotiable, as it ensures that the complete cognitive bandwidth, time, and deep focus required for a total life redesign remain fully available for you and for every other man inside the container.
You submit the application, then book your Private Fit Call. I review your application before the call. The call helps me understand your situation, assess fit, and decide whether Design Your Next Chapter is the right next step.