Confidential Executive Private Advisory · Jerry D. Smith Jr., Psy.D.

Confidential Executive Private Advisory
A private room for decisions you cannot take anywhere else.
Private psychological advisory for UHNW principals, founders, executives, heirs, and families navigating wealth, performance, power, identity, family complexity, and legacy. Delivered through a secure private digital room — The Life Performance Room — designed to make the relationship usable in the moments that actually matter.
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Held under clinical confidence. Inquiries are answered personally.
Two private paths.
The Inner Ledger Private Briefing
Private intelligence on the psychology of wealth, power, and legacy. Written for principals and family office advisors quietly tracking who they would call when the moment arrives.
The first briefing — The 5 Psychological Risks That Silently Derail UHNW Succession — arrives the moment you request it.
Free. Held in confidence. Unsubscribe anytime.
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A Private Fit Consultation
A premium working session before any membership decision. $2,500 to $5,000, depending on scope.
The session doubles as a meaningful first formulation and a fit assessment. By application; reviewed personally within three business days.
Required before invitation into the annual private membership.
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What sits underneath UHNW life is rarely a knowledge problem.
It is a psychological-isolation problem under conditions of asymmetric consequence.
The founder who cannot say to their spouse what they could say to a peer — but cannot find a peer whose interests aren't downstream of the capital. The principal whose decisions affect families, companies, and reputations, but whose private pressure has nowhere to land.
Coaches
Optimize for goals. My work begins where the goal isn't the problem.
Therapists
Treat symptoms. My work stays inside the system that produced them.
Wealth Managers
Protect the asset. I protect the judgment that protects everything else.
Wealth changes the problem. Psychology changes the outcome.
The Flagship: Confidential Executive Private Advisory.
An annual private membership for UHNW principals. Founding-member pricing $25,000 to $50,000 per year, depending on scope.
Members receive:
Monthly confidential advisory sessions
Secure access to The Life Performance Room — your private digital room for decision support, pressure regulation, and confidential reflection between sessions
Decision Room support before irreversible calls
Quarterly Life Performance Reviews
Priority confidential messaging
A single integrated psychological layer beneath an already-crowded advisor stack
Additional Engagements
Family Legacy Advisory
For principals working at the family-system level — including spouse consultation, adult-heir readiness, family meeting preparation, role mapping, and conflict pattern review.
$75,000 to $250,000+ per year depending on complexity.
High-Stakes Decision Intensives
A focused engagement around a single major event: company sale, succession decision, family meeting, public reputational issue, identity collapse after exit.
$10,000 to $50,000+ depending on scope.
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The path is designed to find itself, in the right order.
1
Step One
The Inner Ledger Private Briefing
Free. The first formulation arrives instantly. Read it carefully. Read it again with one specific situation in mind.
2
Step Two
A Private Fit Consultation
When the briefing names your situation, the next step is a paid working session. $2,500–$5,000. By application.
3
Step Three
Confidential Executive Private Advisory
If fit is clear on both sides, you are invited into the annual membership.
About the advisor.
Jerry D. Smith Jr., Psy.D. — licensed clinical and forensic psychologist with 18+ years of advisory work for principals operating under irreversible-stakes conditions.
Federal Crisis Negotiation
A decade leading crisis negotiations for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
U.S. Armed Forcec Advisory
Four years as a contract clinical psychologist supporting U.S. Armed Forces personnel in the Pacific.
Forensic Training
High-stakes assessment, behavioral risk, and decision integrity.
Published Researcher
World Mediation Organization. Six publications on behavioral finance and conscious leadership.
Engagements are held in clinical confidence. There is no public client list. There is no marketing funnel after this one. There is one door.
Request the Private Briefing.
The Inner Ledger arrives privately. The first briefing — The 5 Psychological Risks That Silently Derail UHNW Succession — is delivered the moment you submit. Subsequent dispatches follow at a private cadence.
No public list. No third-party tracking. Unsubscribe anytime.
The Inner Ledger
Submit your first name and email address to receive the first briefing privately.

Request Private Briefing →
Apply for a Private Fit Consultation.
Applications are reviewed personally within three business days. If we proceed, you will receive a private link to schedule and pay.
The Fit Consultation is $2,500 to $5,000 depending on scope. It doubles as a meaningful first formulation and a fit assessment and is required before invitation into the annual membership.
This is not emergency care. If you are in crisis, please use the resources at the bottom of this page.
Private Application
Submit your application for a Private Fit Consultation. Reviewed personally.
Held under clinical confidence.

Apply Privately →
Contact.
Confidential Inquiries
[email protected]
Media or Speaking Requests
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Jerry D. Smith Jr., Psy.D.
Clinical & Forensic Psychology · Wealth Psychologist · Federal Crisis Negotiator
Confidential Executive · The Life Performance Room
This service is private psychological advisory. It is not emergency care. If you or someone in your circle is in immediate crisis, contact 988 (U.S. Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or your local emergency number. International crisis resources: findahelpline.com.