Knowing vs. Deciding
What If You're Not Confused — You're Avoiding the Decision?
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Larry C. Hill Sr.
Founder, 5230 Man In Progress · Author, The Audacity to Decide · Enterprise Technology Executive
Eradicate the perception of perfection. Embrace the grace of progress.
Not perfect, but in progress.
Conversations that move people from knowing to deciding. Available for television, radio, podcasts, digital media, print, panels, and keynotes exploring decision-making, identity, leadership, faith, relationships, and the ongoing work of becoming.
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Audacity to Decide
As Seen On · FOX 5 Atlanta
Good Day Atlanta · September 22, 2026
Signs of decision paralysis
Larry joined FOX 5's Good Day Atlanta to share strategies for breaking free from decision paralysis and owning your choices.
Watch the SegmentWatch & Listen · Black Men Sundays
Interview · YouTube
His career was thriving. His marriage was dying.
Larry sits down with Black Men Sundays to talk about what happens when a thriving career and a struggling marriage collide.
In Print · Dear Fathers
Dear Fathers · September 14, 2026
The Audacity to Decide, fatherhood, and more
Larry talks with Dear Fathers about losing his father at four, grieving his daughter Trava, staying present after divorce, and the framework behind the book: Name it. Trace it. Weigh it. Choose. Repeat tomorrow.
Read on Dear FathersWhy Larry. Why Now.
Information has never been more available. Deciding has never been harder.
We live in an age with unprecedented access to information, advice, content, experts, data — and now artificial intelligence. Yet more information has not necessarily made us more decisive.
Larry's work explores the space between knowing and deciding: why intelligent, capable, successful people can recognize what needs to change and still negotiate with themselves about changing it — at home, in relationships, in faith, in careers, in leadership, and in the boardroom.
He brings an uncommon combination of perspectives: author, speaker, licensed minister, husband, father, and enterprise technology executive with more than 15 years leading complex transformation, organizational change, technology, AI, governance, and consequential decisions. But he does not approach transformation as someone who claims to have arrived.
Not perfect, but in progress.
Stop performing. Start becoming.
Featured Conversation
The Audacity to Decide
What happens when you already know — but haven't decided?
The Audacity to Decide explores the uncomfortable space between awareness and action. It examines the stories we tell ourselves, the patterns we repeat, the questions we avoid, and the negotiations that allow us to remain somewhere we've already recognized we need to leave.
Early readers produced an unexpected response: some reported needing to temporarily put the book down — not because they disliked it, but because the questions were forcing them to confront things they had been avoiding. That response opened an even larger conversation:
What happens when information is no longer the problem?
The book offers a practical framework for that moment — not a one-time fix, but a daily practice:
- Name it.Say plainly what you already know.
- Trace it.Follow where the pattern comes from.
- Weigh it.Count what staying the same costs.
- Choose.Make the decision you’ve been avoiding.
- Repeat tomorrow.Becoming is daily work.
Available now.
Interview + Segment Ideas
Nine conversations, one question
Larry can speak to a broad range of audiences without requiring the segment to become a traditional book interview.
Leadership
Why Smart Leaders Still Avoid Decisions They Already Know They Need to Make
What years of enterprise transformation and executive leadership reveal about the human side of decision-making.
Personal Transformation
The Dangerous Space Between Awareness and Action
Why identifying the pattern isn't the same thing as changing it.
Perfection
When Perfection Becomes Procrastination
How protecting an image of perfection can prevent meaningful progress.
Faith
When You're Asking God for Another Sign About Something You Already Know
A relational conversation about discernment, obedience, fear, and the difference between seeking wisdom and delaying action.
Men + Identity
What Happens When Men Stop Performing Strength?
Moving beyond the perception of perfection toward accountability, emotional honesty, and progress.
Relationships
The Conversations We Know We Need to Have
Why avoidance can feel safer than honesty — and what becomes possible when people choose truth over performance.
Loss + Becoming
When Survival Stops Being Enough
How loss, disruption, reinvention, and life's unexpected transitions can reshape identity.
AI + Human Decision-Making
AI Can Give Us More Answers. Can It Help Us Decide?
As artificial intelligence expands access to information, Larry explores a more human question: what happens when information isn't what's preventing the decision?
Suggested Interview Questions
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- 01What is the difference between knowing something and actually deciding?
- 02How can someone tell whether they're genuinely confused or simply avoiding a difficult decision?
- 03Why do intelligent and successful people sometimes remain stuck even when they recognize exactly what needs to change?
- 04What surprised you about the reactions from early readers of The Audacity to Decide?
- 05How has your executive leadership experience shaped the way you think about personal decision-making?
- 06Can someone be extraordinarily decisive professionally and deeply indecisive personally?
- 07When does the pursuit of perfection become another form of avoidance?
- 08What role have loss, marriage, fatherhood, faith, and leadership played in your understanding of becoming?
- 09How do you distinguish seeking God's direction from repeatedly asking for confirmation because you don't like what you already know?
- 10In an AI-powered world where answers are becoming increasingly accessible, what happens when information is no longer our biggest problem?
- 11What does “Stop performing. Start becoming.” mean?
- 12What is one decision listeners can begin confronting today?
About Larry C. Hill Sr.
Larry C. Hill Sr. is the Founder of 5230 Man In Progress, author of The Audacity to Decide, and an enterprise technology executive whose work explores the intersection of decision-making, identity, leadership, faith, emotional honesty, and personal transformation.
Professionally, Larry has spent more than 15 years leading complex technology organizations and enterprise transformation initiatives, with experience spanning AI transformation, operational excellence, organizational change, governance, and executive leadership. But his work extends beyond the boardroom.
Through 5230 Man In Progress, Larry invites people to eradicate the perception of perfection and embrace the grace of progress — and to confront a deceptively simple question: what happens when you already know what you need to do — but haven't decided to do it?
Drawing from leadership, loss, marriage, fatherhood, faith, failure, reinvention, and his own ongoing journey of becoming, Larry doesn't position himself as someone who has arrived. His message is rooted in progress rather than perfection.
Professional Perspective
Larry is also available for conversations involving leadership, enterprise transformation, responsible AI adoption, AI governance, build-vs-buy strategy, organizational change, and the human side of technology transformation — bringing the same question into a different room: what happens when organizations have enough information, but still struggle to decide?
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The Audacity to Decide · Available Now
You may already know.
Now comes the decision.