If you have
a brain,
you have bias.®
A registered belief · The Percipio Company
That bias is costing you more than you think. Matthew Cahill partners with business leaders to unlock potential and drive sustainable growth. Not the feel-good kind. The measurable kind.
The premise
Matthew Cahill · CEO, Percipio Company
San Francisco Bay Area
My work operates on a simple premise: if you have a brain, you have bias® — and that is costing you more than you think. At Percipio Company, I offer four integrated to move organizations from .
Clients have included LinkedIn, Salesforce, and the National Park Service — organizations ready to stop managing symptoms and start fixing systems.
Four integrated
pathways
to belonging.
Each pathway addresses a different layer of the same underlying problem. Bias is structural, behavioral, and relational — the work reflects that.
Confidential peer advisory for CEOs, founders, and senior leaders. Not networking. Not group coaching. A curated group with no agenda other than each other's success.
Learn moreWe surface the biases shaping your leadership blind spots and translate that awareness into behavior change that others will actually notice.
Learn moreConfirmation bias, hardened narratives, and emotion-driven reasoning are not background noise. They are the performance problem. We surface them, name them, and build structures that replace them.
Learn moreDeployed when a complaint has been filed, an investigation concluded, and the relational wreckage remains. Holds both accountability and dignity without forcing you to choose between the two.
Learn moreMatthew serves on boards, facilitates board retreats, coaches individual board members, leads governance workshops, and deploys structured mediation between boards and executive leadership. As Chair of the national Board Composition Committee at the Private Directors Association, he brings inside governance perspective to every engagement — including AI strategy integration for boards navigating technology-driven organizational change.
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Leaders who question
themselves — not those
who can't be questioned.
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Matthew Cahill on what Percipio Company does — and why it matters right now.
Diagnostic
tools that
reveal what's there.
Free assessments built on the same frameworks used in client engagements. Start with the Bias Assessment — it takes six minutes and tells you something most people spend years avoiding.
Measures five cognitive bias categories — Like-Me, Egocentric, Availability, Anchoring, and Proximity — and returns a scored report with your blind spot profile.
Take the AssessmentTwenty statements across the four cornerstones of belonging: Identity, Agency, Power, and Flow. Reveals where your organization is leaving human potential on the table.
Take the AssessmentMeasures the gap between your formal processes and how work actually gets done.
Are you applying the same bias lens to your AI adoption that you apply to your people?
Conversation cards designed to surface assumptions in team settings.
A guided pause. Because bias thrives in reactive thinking.
From the field.
All articlesCommand-and-control leadership worked for decades. It doesn't anymore. The business case for why the alpha male archetype has outlived its usefulness.
Cognitive Bias If You Have a Brain, You Have BiasThe foundational premise of everything Percipio Company does — and why most organizations are measuring the wrong things.
Belonging What Does Belonging at Work Actually Look Like?The four cornerstones: Identity, Agency, Power, and Flow. What they measure and why most engagement surveys miss them entirely.
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The right advisor
is hard to find.
Matthew works with a select number of clients at any given time. If you are navigating something that requires candor, confidentiality, and someone with no stake in the outcome — reach out directly.
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