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A private conversation with no obligation. We discuss your situation, your timeline, your existing advisory team, and whether coaching makes sense for you. We'll tell you honestly if it doesn't.
“Divorce coaches are supporting their clients through breakups, offering emotional support, logistical help and strategies for reducing stress and making clearheaded decisions.”
We help people who win at everything learn to win at this.
A high-net-worth divorce is decided across dozens of high-stakes choices — made under pressure, on a compressed timeline, during the worst stretch of your life. You have advisors for the law and the money. We make sure the person making the decisions is clear, prepared, and steady.
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Why This Matters
The dollar figures make headlines. The decisions behind them are where it's won or lost.
A high-net-worth divorce isn't settled in a single moment. It's settled across dozens of high-stakes decisions — what to concede, what to hold, what to say in the room, and what to leave unsaid — most of them made under pressure, during the worst stretch of your life.
The research is blunt: sustained stress measurably degrades attention, memory, and judgment — the exact faculties a complex negotiation demands. People who are precise and composed in a boardroom make worse decisions when the matter is personal and the pressure never lets up.
Your attorney protects your legal position. Your financial team protects the numbers. Neither is built to protect the quality of your thinking at the moment a decision actually gets made. That gap is where good outcomes quietly become bad ones.
What Makes It Different
The conditions that turn a divorce into the most complex negotiation of your life.
01Illiquid wealth. Value tied up in a business, equity, or real estate — not cash you can simply divide.
02Contested contribution. A company or assets that grew during the marriage, with both sides claiming the credit.
03Sophisticated opposition. Experienced counterparties and advisors on the other side of the table.
04Irreversible decisions. A compressed timeline where choices can't be undone once they're made.
05Everything at once. Children, reputation, and a public profile all in play simultaneously.
06No system. Every consequential choice made reactively, under stress, without a structure behind it.
The Gap
You have advisors for everything. Nobody gave you a system for this.
Your attorney handles the law. Your financial advisor handles the money. Your therapist handles the grief. No one is managing you — the decision-maker at the center of it all — through the process with a structured plan and a clear head.
That is what Bradbury Company does. And because you arrive at every meeting prepared, organized, and clear on your priorities, the expensive hours you're already paying for — attorney, mediator, financial advisors — go further. Prepared clients generate fewer reactive detours, fewer escalations, and fewer re-litigated decisions. Coaching routinely pays for itself in billable time alone.
The Founder
Built by someone fluent in money, pressure, and the conversation in the room.
Derek B. Davis, CDC®
Founder, Bradbury Company
Derek B. Davis founded Bradbury Company to fill a void he saw repeatedly: high-net-worth individuals facing divorce had an attorney for the law, an accountant for the numbers, and a therapist for the grief — but no one at all managing the person actually making the decisions. The Bradbury Method exists to supply exactly that: a way to think clearly while everything moves at once.
Derek is a Certified Divorce Coach® and the author of several books on money, investing, and history. He holds an MA in Institutional Psychology and Communication Consultancy from Oklahoma State University and a BA in Communication from Vanderbilt University — a formal grounding in the two disciplines a high-stakes divorce actually runs on: how people think under pressure, and how they say what they mean when it counts. As a longtime consultant to businesses on strategy and operations, he speaks the language of the founders, executives, and owners he coaches. He also serves as a City Commissioner for Columbia, South Carolina.
Derek works with a deliberately small roster of clients at a time. Every engagement is personal, private, and his.
The Method
The Bradbury Method — a structured, decision-first approach included with every engagement.
Clarity Under Pressure
Before every pivotal decision, we separate emotion, urgency, and long-term priority — so you know what you actually want before you walk into the room with your attorney, not after you've already committed.
Preparation for Every Room
Attorney meetings, mediation, depositions, co-parenting conversations, family disclosures. You arrive clear on your priorities, aware of your triggers, and rehearsed — prepared for each one rather than reacting to it in real time.
Response, Not Reaction
The most expensive moves in a divorce are reactive — conceding to end the discomfort, or escalating out of anger. We build the deliberate pause between the trigger and the decision, where the money and the control are actually protected.
A Thinking Partner in Real Time
You carry the weight of every decision alone — right up until you don't. We slow the moment down, ask the questions your advisors won't, and move you from reaction to intention before the stakes are locked in.
Order Out of the Chaos
Documents, valuations, timelines, competing demands. We break it into a sequence: what needs a decision now, what can wait, and what to ignore entirely.
A Skill Set That Outlasts the Divorce
The capacity to stay clear under pressure doesn't expire when the decree is signed. It carries into co-parenting, the next deal, and every consequential decision after this one.
How It Works
A structured private engagement.
Coaching Plan and Priorities
We define what you want on the other side of this, identify the decisions that need immediate structure, and build a sequenced engagement that fits your commitments, your pace, and the phases of the process you're in.
Ongoing Private Sessions
Regular sessions plus targeted preparation before key events — mediation, depositions, disclosure conversations — debriefing after them, and accountability through the process. The method is integrated throughout; you always know what comes next.
Sessions conducted by phone or video. Scheduling is handled through a private booking page.
FAQ
Questions worth asking before you call.
Is this therapy?
No. Therapy processes the past; coaching structures the decisions in front of you. Many clients work with a therapist concurrently — the two are complementary, not interchangeable. If we believe you'd be better served by clinical support, we'll say so.
Will my attorney see this as interference?
The opposite. Attorneys consistently prefer prepared clients: you arrive at meetings organized, decided on priorities, and ready to instruct rather than deliberate on the clock.
Is what I tell you confidential?
Yes — as a matter of firm policy and professional ethics. Every engagement is governed by a written confidentiality agreement. One honest distinction: coaching conversations are not attorney-client privileged, so anything with legal sensitivity belongs with your lawyer first. We'll help you keep that line clean, and we coordinate with counsel on what should live where.
I'm only considering divorce. Is it too early?
No. Early is when preparation is worth the most. Many clients engage before anything is filed, while options are still open and nothing is yet on the record.
Begin
Book a Confidential Call.
The first conversation is private and carries no obligation. Tell us where you are. We'll tell you honestly whether coaching makes sense for your situation right now — and exactly what it would look like if it does.
Most clients arrive before the first attorney meeting. Some arrive mid-process. A few arrive after, rebuilding. All three are the right time.