CONSULTING SERVICES

I usually establish a set timeframe in which I spend time with individual companies, from a few weeks to a few months working with their leadership teams to build out their business and avoid problems.

I am also willing to assist companies in acquiring a small seed investment and access to an extensive mentor network in exchange for a small amount of equity. Typically, a mentor network of start-up executives and outside investors is often the most significant value for prospective companies.

At the end of an accelerator program, my objective is that you have been strategically placed in a position to pitch at some demonstration day attended by investors and media. At this point, the business has confidently been further developed and vetted to receive growth funding.

My aim of the acceleration is to help a business entity achieve roughly two years of business development in just a few months. When you go through a quality process, you’ll know where your team and business stand.

First, our business missions, objectives, and frequencies continue to change dramatically.
As we have seen from the impact of COVID-19 globally, businesses have taken a hard look at their missions, objectives, and frequency of change management programs to maintain survivability and position themselves for growth. One example is Remote Work, which has become Now Normal. At the start of the pandemic, many in the banking and finance industry were forced into a remote work situation that could have stalled productivity or otherwise negatively affected how businesses were run. Instead, evidence shows many workers thrived under the changes, thus leading to a demand by workers for permanent remote work or hybrid work solutions.

Businesses Prioritize Well-being as most employees are looking for flexibility in where they work and when they work. The work now becomes how companies can accommodate these needs while still serving their customer base. At the same time, most now realize that COVID and its variants will likely never leave the business landscape, which could entail more lockdowns and other safety measures.

Businesses Must Find Balance and give each employee their preference within the overall construct of the organizational performance and development structure, based on what the right balance is for their specific institution.

Second, aging, complex IT systems, an aging workforce, and supporting business processes present challenges. The business logistics framework required to support multimission coupled with rapid systems deployment conditions must be adapted to the current environment, including aging IT systems and complex, unintegrated business processes built on increasingly obsolete information technology support. The workforce also is senior and will need to be replaced. Aging IT systems, which will be used well into the foreseeable future, will become increasingly challenging to maintain and support in an ever-increasing and complex global business environment.

Third, national priorities require difficult economic trade-offs. These trade-offs include modernizing existing IT systems and acquiring expensive new systems while simultaneously investing in “quality of life” improvements, which will support tough decisions about retention and recruiting a multilayered labor force. Achieving transformation requires regeneration of passion on all business stakeholders to work together to make the needed.

Finally, highly committed, knowledgeable leadership, effective teamwork, and motivated personnel will transform businesses. These initial steps need to be taken as the Transformation process has four stages. In each location, I assist in identifying and highlighting a few specific initiatives to move and grow your organization.

Stage 1: Define the Ambition
Stage 2: Energize the Organization
Stage 3: Prepare and Launch the Transformation
Stage 4: Drive the Transformation