The room already has a read on you.
Do you know where you sit?
For senior executives, chiefs of staff, and the operators who already run the room but haven’t been credited for it.
“I can run a room. I just don’t know if anyone else sees it yet.”
Nine real calls, no fluff. Find out which seat you actually hold.
Take the Quiz →“I already run the room. I want it to finally read as leadership.”
For EAs, Chiefs of Staff, and the next seat up.
Take the Quiz →Every path runs through the same nine-question read first.
Four moves, one line
Read the Room
Read the dynamics, the energy, and the hierarchy in the room. The plumb line is the instrument built to measure it.
Take Your Seat
Take the seat, and know the expectations that come with it.
Off Plumb
Name the moment expectations aren’t met: a measurable drift you can point at, not a moral failure.
The Walk Back
Walk back into the room with a deliberate, sequenced plan, on whatever timeline the repair requires. On plumb is timeless: four thousand years and counting.
TheNotebook
The field guide to the instrument, delivered every month.
One framework breakdown, one diagnostic case, one piece of origin content, every issue. Formatted to print or save as a PDF, if you want it on paper.
One Core Lesson
Real instruction, written the way a working advisor writes it, not a slide summary.
A Named Exercise
Something you do that week, not “food for thought.”
A Reusable Template
A worksheet built for the actual job, not just the reading.
Every issue, archived
The Seat at the Table
Executive presence, reading what success means to your principal, briefing the C-suite, and the discipline of recommending, not just reporting. The full RACI toolkit, fillable and printable.
Open Issue One →The Second Read
Your Seat Check, your Translation Drill, your Three-Minute Brief, your Lean: the four moves from Issue One, run again under real pressure until they stop being an exercise and start being instinct.
When Everything Is Urgent
Difficult scenarios rarely arrive one at a time. Issue Three is the triage discipline: running competing priorities through the same RACI and Off Plumb instruments you already own, so the loudest problem stops automatically winning.
TheSeat
Everything in The Notebook, plus the room to prove it.
Monthly Notebook access and two live, capped cohorts a year, built on the same RACI exercise my students run on day one. Graduates go On Plumb: listed as Chartered Practitioners on the Plumb Line Registry.
Notebook + Cohort
The full monthly Notebook subscription, plus two capped, dated cohorts a year running the live RACI exercise. Graduate to Chartered Practitioner status on the Plumb Line Registry.
1:1 With Me
Everything in The Seat, plus direct monthly 1:1 access to me. The bridge into private advisory. By application, limited seats.
ThePodium
I do not teach red or blue. I teach purple.
Political Management & Strategic Communications, brought into your classroom, your onboarding, or your leadership offsite.
Corina DuBois was among the first women deployed on U.S. Navy combat ships, in the earliest era of gender integration at sea. That operational foundation still shapes how she leads: disciplined, mission-focused, unwilling to mistake noise for signal.
She went on to senior roles across the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Atlantic Council, and Meta, and teaches from that seat, not a syllabus written at a distance from it. She still holds an active advisory practice, so what she teaches is where the field stands this term, built on history.
She is a Senior Executive Advisor and Adjunct Professor of Political Management and Strategic Communications, trusted across the Executive Branch and global institutions.
U.S. Department of State · The White House · U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security · Meta · U.S. Department of Energy · Atlantic Council · Office of the Secretary of Defense · U.S. Navy (Veteran)
M.A. Political Management, George Washington University
Advising executive leaders in high-stakes environments
High-Visibility Policy
Strategic counsel for principals operating in nationally visible settings where disciplined communication and operational clarity are essential.
Governance Transition
Advisory support through institutional reform and governance restructuring, grounded in direct federal operational experience.
Institutional Restructuring
Architecture for organizational realignment across complex federal and executive environments.
Reputation & Risk
Structured risk communication frameworks for leaders navigating public accountability and political scrutiny.
Cross-Agency Coordination
Integration strategy for multi-agency policy delivery, built on relationships across the full Executive Branch.
Strategic Communications
Executive message architecture, decision framing, and narrative alignment under high-visibility conditions.
TheWalk Back
Between the mistake and the return, the plumb line finds the way back.
Not every off-plumb moment is a personal one. Some are institutional: a policy that drifted from its mandate, a program whose authority never matched its funding, a leadership team whose own conduct created the very drift it now has to answer for, including cases of outright executive misconduct. The instrument that measures one measures the other. Alignment is alignment, whether the subject is a career or a policy.
Corina DuBois has operated at the senior levels of the Executive Branch, federal agencies, and global institutions. She understands the architecture of professional standing, how it is built, how it fractures, and what a deliberate return actually requires. This is not general counsel. It is specific, structured, and private.
Three phases. Deliberate sequence. No shortcuts.
Accounting
Private inventory of the facts, the impact, and where your professional standing, or the institution’s, actually is right now. No narrative yet.
Positioning
The narrative architecture. How the moment gets described, to whom, and in what sequence.
Room
The actual return. Who gets called first. What gets said. How the return is executed.
Three formats. All private. All by request.
The Brief
One intensive virtual session. Four hours. All three phases covered at depth.
The Engagement
Multi-session advisory over six to eight weeks through all three phases.
The Retainer
Ongoing monthly advisory for the full arc of return. Entered following a Brief or Engagement.
Engagements are by request only
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