The world is reorganizing.
Are you crossing a threshold, or waiting at one?
A body of work on the inner architecture of transformation, for leaders crossing thresholds they didn't see coming.
Private coaching for senior leaders, the Threshold Method, and a monthly essay on the inner work of change. Online worldwide, in person in Singapore.
Begin with a first conversationThe decade of identity disruption.
This is the threshold generation. Work that once defined a person is being handed, piece by piece, to AI. Institutions that promised a lifetime of belonging are fragmenting. Borders of every kind are being crossed more often, and with less ceremony, than any generation before us has known. Most of us will outgrow who we thought we were more than once, and the hardest of those crossings tends to come late, deep into a career, when so much has been built on the person we have been.
We hold ceremonies for everyone we lose except the selves we outlive. The public conversation is about skills. This work is about what happens inside a person when their world reorganizes, and how to come through that crossing whole.
The moment
It rarely arrives with a plan.
Often it starts with a calendar invitation that has no agenda. By the end of the meeting, the role you spent ten years building is being described in the past tense, or reorganized around a system that now does most of what you did. Or it starts more slowly: the flatness of doing everything right and feeling less of it each year, or the private suspicion, held so long it feels like fact, that you are about to be found out. Sometimes the door is a sale, a homecoming after fifteen years abroad, or a loss that rearranges everything you thought was settled.
Whichever door you came through, the room is the same. The story you have been telling about who you are has stopped holding, and nothing has arrived to replace it. That is the threshold.
It cannot be fixed with a skill or hurried with a plan. It can be crossed well, and it goes better with someone beside you who has crossed before.
Aaron Perkins, ACC
I have made this crossing more than once.
The crossing that turned me toward this work happened in Hangzhou, in a room full of brilliant people performing excellence while, underneath, most of them were burning out. I was leading the program, and it took me a while to admit that I was not far behind them.
I had spent years in rooms like that one, in fifty-nine countries, helping leaders perform. What the people in front of me needed was different: attention to what was breaking underneath the performance, and a way through it without losing themselves. That has been the work since, through several hundred private engagements and a life of my own rebuilt in five countries along the way. Beneath very different lives the same shape kept surfacing, and naming it became the Threshold Method: the discipline of turning identity rupture into identity craft.
Read my storyAssociate Certified Coach, ICF · Former faculty, Thunderbird School of Global Management and EAE Business School, Barcelona
The Threshold Method™
Every crossing follows the same five movements.
Twenty years of sitting with leaders at the moment their world reorganized, and one pattern beneath all of them. The Method names it, so you know where you are, what this stage asks of you, and what comes next.
The Crack
The moment the story stops being true.
The Freefall
The space after, before anything new has formed.
The Noticing
A new quality of presence. Attention before action.
The Crossing
Living the question rather than answering it.
The Inhabiting
Identity recomposed as a living practice.
The body usually knows which stage you are in before you do. I named this Somatic Foreshadowing, and learning to read it is one of the central disciplines of the work.
How we work
Begin where you stand.
Every engagement starts with a first conversation: sixty minutes, no agenda, just what is true right now. If it is the right fit, we choose the container that matches where you are in the crossing.
Stages I to II · Thirty days · Weekly
The Gate
When the old shape has broken and nothing new has arrived. Close, attentive work on finding ground while nothing else is steady.
Stages III to IV · Two to three months · Every second week
The Bridge
When the dust settles and patterns become visible. Choices emerge, and a new orientation takes shape in the space between sessions.
Stage V · Three to six months · Monthly
The Dwelling
After the crossing. A life reorganized around what now matters, and the slower work of shaping what endures.
Online worldwide, and in person in Singapore. Some clients are sponsored by their organizations; most come privately.
See the work in detailLeaders I have worked with
Clients across Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and the Middle East.
“His calm, warm presence, coupled with deep listening, thoughtful questioning and supportive challenge, helped me to feel deeply heard and seen, gain clarity on what came next, and to connect all of my moves back to purpose. Aaron helped me transition into a new professional identity and practice, and I am very grateful.”
Amanda K. · Entrepreneur · Melbourne, Australia
“He helped me to navigate a particularly challenging situation offering me sound advice, perspective, and guidance. Not only did he open my eyes, but he also helped me feel more empowered.”
Wendy H. · LinkedIn Learning · Sydney, Australia
“Aaron has boosted my confidence and supported me to uncover development areas to think about that I would not have got to on my own. He has helped me to get out of my comfort zone and have a different perspective on my career trajectory.”
Simran J. · Sales Director, LinkedIn · Sydney, Australia
Thresholds
One essay a month, on the inner work of change.
Since October 2025 I have published a monthly essay, on Substack and LinkedIn, on what it takes to cross a threshold well, drawing on ecology, mythology, coaching and a life lived across borders. It is the best place to start if you are not ready for a conversation. I am also writing a book, The Threshold Generation, on the five human skills a decade of reorganization will ask of all of us.
The Method, extended
The work can begin before we speak, and continue between conversations.
Threshold Snapshot
A free reflection that takes a few minutes and locates where you are in the five stages, and what the crossing asks of you next.
Take the SnapshotNaya
A coaching companion built on the Method. Try a conversation with her before we ever speak, and return to her between sessions. She helps you think; she does not fix or advise. Free during beta.
Meet Naya
Imago
Five reflections gathered into one portrait of who you are becoming. A mirror you return to.
Discover ImagoYour next chapter is already taking shape.
A single conversation can change the trajectory. Sixty minutes, online from wherever you are, with no commitment beyond it.
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