A private advisory practice
Founder's Advisory.
Aligning time, attention, and energy to what only you can do.
Led by Francis Sopper, founder of the Kairos Assessment
The work
You’re here to lead, innovate, and create a generational difference.
Who this is for
For people navigating complexity.
For those whose work requires constant judgment amid competing information, relationships, responsibilities, and opportunity.
Leaders, coaches, educators, founders, executives, and individuals whose effectiveness depends on how well they direct attention, energy, and time.
Cognitive flexibility
Recognize when your natural patterns serve you—and when the situation requires something different.
Competing information
Work more deliberately when multiple priorities, signals, and opportunities are demanding your attention.
Decision awareness
Understand the cognitive forces shaping what you notice, what you miss, and what ultimately earns your time.
Cognitive differences
See more clearly how other people process the world—and adjust without abandoning how you naturally work.
The difference isn't ability.
It's understanding where your attention and energy naturally go— and learning how to work with them.
The core philosophy
People working at this level eventually encounter the same constraint:
The 24-hour wall.
If valuable work consistently drifts to tomorrow, next week, next quarter—then something essential deserves closer attention.
The central question
What are you doing that only you can do?
Everything in this advisory practice is built to help you answer—and act on—that question.
About the practice
Francis Sopper.
More than four decades studying the mechanics of attention, cognition, and human behavior.
Francis is a researcher, educator, organizational leader, and coach who has helped thousands of people better understand how their minds naturally work.
Drawing from years of applied cognitive science, Francis developed the Kairos framework: seven distinct cognitive frequencies that reveal how we direct energy, make decisions, collaborate, and lead.
Why it matters
When you understand how you think—and how others think—you can begin removing invisible friction from communication, leadership, relationships, and meaningful change.
In their words
The work is difficult to describe from the outside.
Frank has provided insight that I can't possibly put into words.
Faisal Abbas
Editor in Chief · Arab News
Francis is someone I consider myself incredibly lucky to call both a friend and a mentor, and one of the sharpest minds in the field of metacognition.
Desiree Gruber
CEO · Full Picture
Discovering what is really under the hood of your car can make a world of difference in how you drive and utilize its power. Kairos does the same thing for the mind.
David Allen
Best-selling Author · Getting Things Done
Kairos added a whole new layer to my personal and professional development. When Frank called to discuss my cognitive profile, it was shocking—but deeply validating. It gave me precise language for patterns I'd felt internally for years but hadn't been able to articulate.
Luis Rivera
Founder · Ready Rebound
Private mentorship
Experience rare, one-on-one mentorship with a world-class advisor who helps you gain clarity, align your goals, and take intentional daily action.
Uncover time-draining patterns. Reshape your workflow for greater ease and impact. Strengthen the relationships that matter most. Apply cognitive science in ways that create change beyond the session.
The advisory pathways
Four levels of engagement.
Begin with the depth appropriate to the question in front of you. Each engagement can stand independently or become part of a longer advisory relationship.
A deep, personal interpretation of your Kairos Assessment— designed to set the foundation for intentional, generative engagement with your time, attention, and energy.
- Identify cognitive drivers of your attention and energy
- Learn to monitor multiple attention spans
- Recognize how others sample information differently
- Target and land communication with greater impact
- Begin the journey toward Kairos
Your Kairos Assessment reveals your distinctive point of view. This engagement teaches you how to use it—to access your singular comparative advantages and align your daily life accordingly.
- Close metacognition practice
- The three-stage practice: Anticipation, Activation, Reflection
- Task period optimization for focused work
- Kairos three-column time-sampling log
- Expandable to teams and organizations
Installs and deepens the Kairos practice across larger time horizons, allowing you to work with clarity at the scale of days, weeks, and multi-week periods.
- Sessions from 30 minutes to 4 hours, dynamically structured
- Direct access through ad hoc calls, emails, and texts
- Day-level anticipation and reflection
- Week-at-a-glance calendar comparison
- Systemic pattern identification
For individuals who must make consequential decisions under constant information pressure. Protect and expand attention for your best work amid a surplus of compelling opportunities.
- Two in-person days to begin
- 12 virtual sessions per quarter · 48 annually
- Three mid-course in-person sessions
- Five-quarter horizon planning
- Weekly alignment with quarter goals
- Dynamic response to planned and unplanned work
Kairos on the International Space Station
Attention matters everywhere.
Astronaut Cady Coleman reflects on how this work helped her think differently about attention, responsibility, and what only she could do—even aboard the International Space Station.
The year-long engagement
Step into the most aligned, intentional version of your life.
An exclusive year-long advisory opportunity available to a select few who are ready to profoundly reshape how they invest their time.
Working directly with Francis, you begin by uncovering what drives your attention and energy through the Kairos Assessment.
Together, you examine how time is spent—from individual task periods to the rhythms of an entire year—and progressively realign that time with your highest priorities and aspirations.
A considered progression
Begin where you are. Deepen when useful.
Begin with Foundation
Deepen with Advisory
Expand into Higher Horizons
Private engagements are limited
Begin a conversation.
Tell us a little about yourself, what you're navigating, and what you hope to change.
We’ll review your note personally and determine whether one of the advisory pathways is appropriate for what you’re working through.
Every inquiry is reviewed individually.
There is no obligation to begin an engagement.
We’ll recommend the level of support that makes sense—if any.