Your virtual business partner.
Your teacher. Your shrink. Your truth-teller.
Everyone needs a great business partner
Someone who has been in the trenches, who can advise you on what your company needs to be sustainable and competitive. I know that the last thing you need is cookie-cutter, generic solutions that are only slightly tailored to your specific requirements. Trust me to provide personalized (but tested) recommendations based on your firm’s real-world challenges and needs.
- Strategic business planning
- Process mapping
- Staffing evaluation & planning
- Client interviews & learnings
- Promotional/new business guidance & strategies
- Review and feedback of marketing tools & strategies
- Evaluation of new business pitches & presentations
- Qualifying and vetting clients
- Pricing, proposal, and RFP consultations & evaluations
- Defining leadership roles
- Organizational & team planning
- Roles, responsibilities, and salaries
- Recruitment & hiring strategies
- Vetting & interviewing candidates
- Management methods & overall troubleshooting
- Policies, terms, & conditions for employees and contractors
- Time tracking strategies
- Client management & tools
- Project and process management & tools
I love to work with firms that:
- Are ready and willing to change
- Are willing to defend their ideas, but are also open to new ones
- Are ready to invest in their future growth
- Need to scale up and want to do so smartly
- Grew too quickly and are encountering organizational challenges
- Have principal(s) that are willing to stop fighting fires and focus on their business
- Are committed to moving beyond their guerilla client
- Small firms and solopreneurs that are ready to grow and hire
- Established firms that are stagnating
- Successful firms that are interested in what’s next
Challenges that I love to solve:
- Rethinking existing teams to determine the best roles and organizational structure for a firm’s short- & long-term goals
- Maintaining long-term client relationships even under difficult (or complex) circumstances
- Advising on how best to manage and/or work with difficult employees, vendors, clients, etc.
- Changing and improving perceptions of your business and brand position
- Transitioning firms from being reactive/executional to more strategic
- Uncovering a firm’s core strengths and differentiators
- Leveraging a firm’s existing work and relationships to expand business opportunities
- Fire-fighting (troubleshooting the “damn, now what?”)
Are you in need of some tough love that will help you evolve and grow your creative business?