Mergers & Acquisitions
Securing and Optimizing Value
Business combinations hold great promise but also involve significant risk. We help you achieve maximum value from your transaction by providing direction and insight informed by our hands-on experience working on deals both big and small over the past 30+ years.
Integration Strategy: Determine if, when and how to integrate to deliver the maximum value in the deal. We're informed by years of experience consulting to some of the world's most acquisitive companies and serving as the integration leader for industry shaping transactions.
Culture Assessment and Alignment: The soft stuff is the hard stuff, particularly in transactions. Culture can make the difference between creating or destroying value and provides a scaling mechanism as the organization grows. We help you address culture in all stages of deal - due diligence through post merger integration - in real and practical terms.
Organizational Change: Combinations require change from your people, processes and systems. We help organizations navigate that change in a way that serves all stakeholders - customers, investors, employees and business partners. We take a holistic view of change that integrates leadership, communication, capabilities, talent, structure and program management to achieve your deal objectives.
Transformation & Change
Achieve sustainable change
Successful transformation requires all components of the organization to be aligned and synchronized, focused on clear strategies and goals. This is no easy task - it's no surprise that less than a third of transformation initiatives achieve their objectives. We help leaders and organizations make smart, informed decisions throughout the change journey to produce lasting transformation that benefits your customers, investors, employees and partners.
Leader Advisory: Leadership has never been more important - or more challenging than it is in today's volatile environment. We pull up alongside of leaders to help them grow and develop while making the tough decisions that shape the future of the organization. Our advisory work is informed by 30+ years of leadership experience, leading in some of the most difficult business conditions in both line and staff positions.
Strategy Alignment: Align your strategy and transformation processes by systematically and intentionally aligning your people, processes and systems with your strategy and business plan. We work with you to develop a plan and process that sequences and prioritizes the changes necessary to execute your strategy.
Go-to-Market Leadership: Transforming into a growth organization requires a keen focus on what customers want and how your organization can deliver differentiated value to those you serve. We work with your commercial leadership to identify the necessary strategies, systems, processes, structures and talent to become a flywheel for growth in your organization.
Talent & Organization Strategy
Science and Art of Talent Optimization
All organizations need top tier talent to win. But there are no simple formulas for optimizing talent within a business strategy or context. Each organization has unique needs and specific circumstances within which talent thrives. We help organizations attract, retain and grow great talent to win in the market.
Team Effectiveness: Top performing organizations have aligned leadership teams that possess the skills, capabilities and mindsets needed to lead through uncertainty and change. The power of a diverse, high functioning team is a force multiplier that ripples throughout your organization. We work with leaders and teams to understand their strengths and identify their gaps while creating high-functioning teams that generate results while
Organization Design: Well designed organizations create sustainable value and optimize the potential of their talent. We help companies design the right organization for its current stage and business context, creating both the formal and informal organization that enable top performance.
Talent Strategy: Talent strategy involves identifying the right priorities and making the right choices about how to attract, develop, retain and grow your talent. We help organizations create talent strategies that are aligned with business strategies based on the industry and growth stage that a company is in.