Vol. 2019 · Fewer meetings. Clearer decisions. Better work.

Nexzone Pulse Shift

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How this started

Sixty-three meetings in eleven months, all ending with 'let's circle back.'

Daniel Marsh spent eight years inside organisations before he started Nexzone Pulse Shift in 2019. The last of those years was at a logistics company in Rotterdam where he watched a capable team of thirty people spend roughly forty percent of their working week in meetings that produced no decisions. He kept a log. Over eleven months, he counted sixty-three meetings that ended with the phrase 'let's circle back on this.' He left that job in March 2019 and spent the following summer building the diagnostic framework that still sits at the core of every engagement.

The name came from a conversation with a former colleague, Priya Nair, who described the moment a stuck team finally starts moving as a 'pulse shift.' It stuck. The first client was a seven-person product studio in Berlin that had grown fast and lost its ability to ship. The engagement lasted ten weeks. By the end, they had cut their weekly meeting load by half and shipped two features that had been sitting in backlog for four months. That result wasn't magic. It was the product of very careful attention to where time was actually going.

Fewer meetings. Clearer decisions. Better work.

Daniel Marsh

Founder
Daniel Marsh spent the first decade of his career inside organisations: a mid-size logistics firm in Rotterdam, a consulting arm of a Dutch bank, and briefly a product team at a Berlin-based SaaS company. He left full-time employment in March 2019 to found Nexzone Pulse Shift, drawing on a diagnostic framework he had been quietly building for two years. He holds a degree in industrial and organisational psychology from the University of Groningen and reads widely in systems thinking, particularly the work of Donella Meadows. On weekends he cycles long distances and keeps a paper notebook he has filled every year since 2011.

Fewer meetings. Clearer decisions. Better work.

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