Our objective is to help make you successful. Our primary service is the provision of highly experienced and qualified board member services. Through this, we are able to obtain a high level view of your business and help with a fresh approach, recommendations and corporate support services if you need them.
We understand that businesses face all sorts of challenges throughout their life cycle. Our consulting arm offers a reliable comprehensive solution to growing organisations and larger SME and corporate organisations facing problems that constrain growth and inhibit entrepreneurial drive.
Because we understand how entrepreneurs and business leaders think, we can help them identify and deal with what’s holding them back by providing simple and effective solutions and support to strengthen and refresh their business. Taking action is as easy as talking to us.
We offer a free confidential no-obligation first meeting which provides you with the opportunity to talk about what’s troubling you. You can decide from there where you’d like to go.
We specialise in putting businesses back in order with:
- board and advisory board input
- management and business systems
- strategic legal and dispute management
- mergers & acquisitions support
- business integration
- resource review and recommendations
- board level input
- franchising expertise and advice
- risk assessment and management systems design
- solutions to normal and unusual business challenges.
Services
Board and Advisory Board Participation
Our objective is to help make you successful. The countless things you need to make sure get done in your business can be a major distraction from your focus on the structural integrity and overall health and direction of your business. As a board or advisory board member, we can provide the objectivity and experience you need to make sure you are on the right track. This includes governance and risk management from a board perspective.
Entrepreneurs and People Leaders
We sit behind go-getters – people whose skill sets are focused on sales, business development and seizing opportunities. We encourage and support their endeavours while ensuring appropriate operational, accounting, systems, workflows, corporate and structural elements follow the leader.
Fix-ups
We specialise in fixing up companies, including those that are not operating at their best with inefficient administration, unknown and unquantified risks and overly people-dependent. We can review your business or one you are acquiring to help you bring order to the chaos.
Corporate systems
Particularly helpful for those companies that have grown fast but their business systems and process management has not kept pace with the growth. This includes capturing data, removing duplication, and workflows that not only improve efficiency but also minimise business risk.
Mergers & acquisitions
Managing the process of potential target identification, introduction, negotiation, the deal, heads of agreement, due diligence, overseeing the contract process and, of course, the execution. We can also provide the follow through to maximise the chances that the transaction delivers on original aims through post-acquisition integration management.
Your people
Facilitating those sometimes tough discussions, helping to flush out and bring to a head business disconnects and other business problems that can fester and damage the organisation’s fabric, integrity and business direction. We can restructure your company to make best use of the skills and experience of your people.
Dealing with difficult situations
It is not uncommon for organisations to get into a bit of a “situation” and have to deal with issues that don’t come along every day. Most of the time, business owners and other leaders don’t quite know how to handle it. We can help manage the disruptions and buffer the distractions, leaving you free to continue to grow your business.
Governance
We can undertake a full (or partial) review of your governance documents, processes and structure, from the Constitution down, to advise you on whether your governance is in good shape, and if not, how to fix it.
Who do we help?
In our vast experience, we have encountered both corporate leaders and entrepreneurs who are faced with challenges they would prefer not to have to deal with by themselves. The more common issues are where businesses:
- struggle to focus on the big picture and who need the board-level support to keep them focused on the right level of their business
- have existing or potential legal issues which require guidance from a strategic business impact and risk management perspective, or just need help managing and controlling their legal advisors
- feel uncertain that they can sustain growth with the business systems and infrastructure they have (or don’t have!) in place
- sometimes struggle to manage their team and identify what talent is required where in order to achieve their business goals
- suspect that sometimes their people are not as efficient as they could be but don’t know how to start designing and implementing systems to help them
- fear that losing any of their staff could damage their business more than it should
- worry about the future of their business and how it will support the growth planned
Sound familiar? If one or more of these apply to you, talk to us. Call us to organise an obligation-free chat to see how we can help. With flexible engagement models, we can work with you in the way that suits you best.
About
Our principal, Sophie Valkan, is an insightful, experienced and highly qualified non-executive director and professional with expertise in general management, CEO and board operations covering the full spectrum from family-owned businesses through to multinational companies. Our select partners in service delivery include strong accounting and commercial management expertise as well as brand and marketing strategy. In the unlikely event we can’t help you, we’ll let you know and will help you source an appropriate service provider at no cost.