What if you could walk into any decision room and instantly read which forces were dominating, which were missing, and exactly what to do about it — before the wrong choice locked in?
Most leaders have sat through the same painful meeting hundreds of times. The loudest voice wins. The quietest insight is unseen and unheard. A framework gets pasted over a real disagreement. Six weeks later, the decision has to be reopened — at twice the cost, with half the trust intact.
Decision Shapers is not another book about how individuals think, what role you play in a team, or why crowds are sometimes wise. It is a real-time, inside-the-room field guide to the seven forces that shape every group decision while it is being made — and the diagnostic that lets you see them.
Inside the book:
- The Seven Forces shaping every group decision, named and dissected
- The Decision Distribution Map — a one-page visual that shows which forces are dominating, which are absent, and what the imbalance is about to cost you
- The Decision Intelligence Diagnostic — use before high-stakes board sessions, M&A reviews, and product strategy calls
- Five failure patterns leaders see again and again — with the specific rebalancing moves for each
- Worked examples from product launches, health authority crises, and strategy off-sites
- AI as the Challenger: how to seat AI inside the decision room as the seventh force, with prompts and protocols you can run alongside your existing tools
This book is for you if:
- You chair, facilitate, or sit in rooms where the wrong call is expensive
- You suspect your team's decisions are being shaped by forces no one is naming
- You've gone through personality assessments, role inventories, and crowd-wisdom that do not survive contact with a real meeting
Written by Valerie Won Lee — founder of the AI-Augmented Collective Decision-Making Lab, former Head of Communications for UN Big Data, WomenTech APAC Regional Leader, WomenTech Gold Award 2025 recipient, and #1 Amazon New Release author of Social Impact Global. Drawing on the decision rooms she has observed worldwide.
By the end of chapter one, you will already see your last meeting differently.