Enduring change begins with Transformation-from-Within©
When you invest in working with strategic management consultants, the results should last long after the end of the engagement. We believe that the best way to achieve your business objectives and successfully navigate the next transformational event is to drive change from within your enterprise.
Our unique model takes a grassroots approach to change. We don’t drop the solution in your lap. Instead, we actively guide your team to find the right answer themselves. We use best practices and industry expertise to show your team how to analyse data and interpret results, and then we support them in solving the problems and eliminating the roadblocks that arise during implementation. Most importantly, we coach them to work together in a whole new collaborative way that increases their job satisfaction as well as their productivity as a group.
We apply the same approach at a strategic level, as we work with your CEO and leadership team to crystallize their vision for change, and show them how to rally the rest of the organization behind that vision. We then help them enlist full participation from the entire team, so each individual feels personal ownership for the company’s success.
Then, at a tactical level, we embed ourselves at various levels of your operation as true team members, temporarily augmenting any skills’ gaps you might have, and serving as the “connective tissue” between your teams until they build stronger collaboration skills.
This unique approach yields consistently superior results and a more cohesive operating environment that endures long after our engagement ends.
One Client at a Time
We believe that experience on the ground matters. Our ‘One Client at a Time’ policy allows our senior leadership to dedicate their full focus to your project, rather than delegating day-to-day work to junior staff.
Our Managing Partner, Amira elAdawi, personally leads the delivery of each project, and is fully present on site with you and your team throughout the engagement.
This not only enables deeper insights and more meaningful support for your team, it also provides your C-Suite with a full-time confidante and sounding board to support them through the stressful change journey.
As a result, your CEO, C-Suite and team all have full-time access to a senior partner with more than 20 years of experience.
A Resident Senior Partner
Employees, investors and board members all expect the C-Suite to have all the answers—and unwavering confidence at all times. In reality, executives need a sounding board, a collaborator, and a supporter who they can express their concerns to without shaking trust in their abilities.
We are keenly aware of this need. That’s why our Managing Partner, Amira elAdawi, is consistently present and available to the CEO and the leadership team from the moment we meet you, and for years after the project ends.
Amira’s ongoing support is often quoted by CEOs as one of the most valuable aspects of working with us.
We Know You Have a Business to Run
As important as this process of change may be, we know you can’t pull your team away from their day jobs.
Our approach engages a large cross-section of your teams, spanning levels and specialties. This allows more people to feel a part of the journey, instead of having one or two people shoulder the full load and drop their business-as-usual responsibilities.
An added benefit of this approach is that it creates a large number of ambassadors and champions of change that will create a sense of ownership and authentic transparency across the organization.
As a result, employees can continue to do their day jobs while playing an active role in building the future of the business.
We Teach Your Team to Fish
Yes, it’s a cliché, but for good reason. Our delivery model affords us the unique opportunity to guide and coach your teams in a highly impactful way.
We increase their situational awareness, show them how to use cutting-edge best practices to extract and analyse data, then identify and assess different courses of action. Equally important, we ensure they do it impeccably, picking the right path forward not just for them, but for the entire business.
This approach allows us to transfer know-how to your team, while simultaneously teaching them to work together more effectively.
As a result, you have a more skilled organization, and an actionable plan — and its success is not dependent on a consulting firm.
It’s Your Plan, So It Endures Long After We Leave
Within the confines of a traditional consulting model, consultants would deliver a plan and then expect your team to execute it. But the execution process always uncovers new data, changes in market conditions, or a number of other variables could render the assumptions behind the plan obsolete and compromise the potential outcome.
Our approach actively combats this dynamic.
Since your team is actively involved in defining the assumptions, analysing the data and developing the plans, they’re fully aware of the impact any variable has on the plan, and, at this point, they’re fully trained to make the necessary pivots and stay on target.
As a result, the benefits from the engagement stay alive and current long after the consultants have left the building.
Better Results, Less Billable Hours
We are nimble by design. Our philosophy is to drive change through your team, not ours. So, instead of coming in with 15 MBAs, all we need to help you succeed is two experienced leaders with superior skills to drive work and guide your team. We have a cadre of experts at the ready to fill in any skill gaps in your team, but only if and when you need it.
Visit our team page to learn more about our talented team. See how: Jen, a deep-sea captain, teaches the art of leadership under extreme pressure; Paul, a real-life rocket scientist, uses his PhD in astrophysics to guide clients in analysing and interpreting complex data; Val’s years of coaching experience helps teams bring out the best in each other; and Mark lends his years of top-tier accounting experience to execute risk-free integrations.
As a result, you get more senior, more qualified support, with lower total billable hours. In other words, much higher value per dollar spent.