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we develop
strategies,
businesses
and executives.
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​​Growing any business -- or career -- is a massive challenge.
Our vision is to enable companies to focus on their ideas, products and services while we manage what we do best:
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generating meaningful market intelligence
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creating long-term value for your organisation
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supporting your professional growth efforts
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crafting more compelling stories for your business
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Our ever-growing global network hosts decades of experience – be it in strategy, coaching, management or financing – with resources that you can utilise for your business efforts. We help create an environment that encourages your brightest, best self to take center-stage -- and bring the knowledge, experience and contacts to the table that can mean disappearing in a hyper-competitive landscape, or truly moving the needle for your business.
Storytelling
For your offering to stand apart, you need to effectively engage with prospects and convey your value. We tap into their motivations to help you reach them, and make a lasting, valuable connection.
“People do not buy
goods and services.
They buy relationships,
stories and magic.”
- Seth Godin
coaching
We will work with you to tackle road blocks, and develop clarity, focus and accountability that will advance your personal and professional journey. Together, we'll unleash the brightest version of yourself.
“Coaching isn't therapy. It's product development, with You as the product.”
- Fast Company
case study:
RFP Advisory,
presentation preparation
The Problem: Our client, a software development company, was invited to present their capabilities to a larger software vendor and provided with some guidelines to base that presentation on. They had built tooling they wished to demonstrate, but required deeper subject matter expertise to validate the tool’s appropriateness for the requirements provided, as well as assistance in crafting a successful presentation.
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Our Approach: We led them through a series of workshops to compare the requirement list against their prototype; in doing so, critical refinements and adjustments to the tooling were exposed that could be addressed prior to presentation. A skills analysis to determine whether the talent on hand was suitable for the future path of the company was also conducted.
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The Solution: To “future-proof” their opportunity with the larger vendor, we brainstormed other uses for the tools they had developed based on existing gaps in the vendor's suite of offerings, and incorporated them into their planned presentation. Finally, we crafted new messaging that would better resonate with the prospect.
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The Results: A new presentation was created, positioning our client as a scalable “special projects” team, capable of undertaking projects that the vendor's internal development teams did not have the capacity to address, effectively clearing much of their backlog. A successful presentation was made to the prospect, resulting in immediate engagement of our client’s services - and a new offering to promote to others.
fOUNDER
& pRINCIPAL
STEPHEN STRAKER
Stephen has spent his 25+ year career surrounded by rapid upheaval in the technology and systems that impacts how we live, work and evolve.
His career path is as diverse as the businesses he is surrounded by and focused on building solutions for:
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former trader and investment advisor
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builder and leader of sales, strategy and business development teams
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an important contributor to the business plans of domestic and international tech firms
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regional sales head of a global capital markets consultancy firm
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performance and executive coach
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operations and strategy consultant
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