You may be thinking about your growth strategy wrong.

Most CEOs thinking about their growth strategies by looking at the spending decisions they must make over the next year, perhaps two.

In contrast, I measure their validity based upon:

✓ Future enterprise value; and

✓ The net proceeds the founder/owner will harvest in the future

The shift in the target point changes everything.

There is so much that can be done to create EV and enhance your wealth once it is time to transact the business, but it is complex. It takes time (sometimes at least five years). It is easy to commit a ‘foot fault’ and blow your advantage.

Unless you know how.  Public companies and private equity investors play in these waters all day long. Their institutional ‘brain’ is wired to focus on these outcomes already, because they know this is the path to truly building valuable companies.

Unfortunately, many private companies haven’t developed this ‘brain’ yet. Worse yet, they won’t realize it until it is too late to do anything about it. 

It doesn’t have to be this way. 

This is for CEOs who are bold.

Verbatim:
Senior Executive Takeaways

“I know this work is already making us better”

“Great progress in shifting mindsets towards valuation… as well as building a high-level of excitement within our management team!”

“This provided a whole new way to look at our business.”

Throughout my career, I've been guiding companies and governments through the intricate decision-making processes that have paved their way to remarkable achievements.

I've had the honor of working with diverse clients, from industry leaders like MasterCard, Bank of Montreal, and Visa, to visionary minds in Silicon Valley, to the quiet, closely-held companies which create phenomenal value simply by doing brilliantly by their customers and their people.

I’ve worked in over 40 countries. I’ve worked with Global 1000 CEOs, and heads of state, and HNW families seeking what comes next.

Here’s the secret…

Each time, my engagement will have an overt purpose…

  • I am there to create the gameplan that will tilt the battlefield. 

  • I will seek out how to attain asymmetric advantage for the fight ahead.

  • I will craft strategies for creating new financial value. It might be finding the right acquisition. Or launching a new market offering. Sometimes, I architect a new or revised corporate structure that accelerates growth or improves yield.

The secret is this… there is a fundamental kernel that defines success or failure in building phenomenal companies. Every time.

It has less to do with financials, or legal structures, or technologies, or organizational design. Success or failure has everything to do with how someone perceives, reacts, and thinks in their critical moments. 

Success or failure is defined by how a CEO makes their decisions.

This is where the game is...

I’ve worked with some of the best around the world.

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When I work with decision-makers, it is always in some sealed-off conference room. There is always an NDA. We develop our strategies in the quiet. 

However, before going into these intensive sessions with CEOs and their teams, it is helpful to work with a team that has been ‘pre-conditioned’. We get to breakthroughs faster when we collectively have a more common foundation of ideas, concepts, methods, strategies and language we can use for architecting the path ahead. 

To that end, you can find me on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, or in articles or interviews on CNBC, Fast Company, Big Think, Directors & Boards, Private Company Director, or a host of other outlets.