Maximizing PE Value Through Leadership, Culture, and Board Effectiveness
We partner with PE firms to assess leadership, align culture, and build effective boards. For portfolio CEOs, we provide the strategic coaching needed to drive exceptional results.
Leading in the private equity world requires a different kind of thinking
One that balances bold decision-making with strategic finesse under intense pressure. Whether you're a CEO navigating investor dynamics or an entrepreneur scaling a business in this high-stakes environment, we understand your unique challenges. Our coaching is designed to help you develop the clarity, resilience, and perspective needed to thrive and deliver exceptional results.
Bridging the Private Equity
Leadership gap
Private equity firms and their portfolio company leaders often see the world differently. According to AlixPartners’ 2024 leadership survey, PE investors blame poor CXO performance on lack of urgency, unfocused execution, and inflexibility. Portco leaders, however, cite investors’ lack of operational expertise, clashing work styles, and insufficient capital as the real issues.
This disconnect plays out daily in boardrooms, stalling growth and eroding value. No surprise then that 71% of Portco CEOs are replaced during a PE firm’s hold period (US National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023).
How Our Advisory Helps
Effective private equity advisory bridges this gap. We work at the investor, board, and leadership levels to assess talent, audit culture, and align expectations, ensuring all human capital elements are driving toward the investment thesis.
Ready to Strengthen Your Leadership Strategy?
From navigating investor expectations to leading through transition, we provide the clarity and support you need to excel in today’s demanding business environment. Elevate your decision-making with guidance from seasoned leadership advisors.
OUR IMPACT
Our strategic expertise and hands-on advisory approach have guided PE-backed CEOs and transitioning entrepreneurs through critical milestones, unlocking new levels of leadership performance.
CEO & Entrepreneur CoachIng
Leading a PE-backed company is lonely work. The board wants results. The investors want speed. Your team wants direction. We coach CEOs and entrepreneurs to cut through the noise.
Our approach is direct. We help leaders build clarity on what matters, make harder decisions faster, and hold their nerve when the pressure mounts. We work with leaders navigating their first 100 days, managing investor relationships, or preparing a business for exit.
The goal is simple: better leaders who deliver better outcomes.
Board Assessment & Development
Most boards know when something isn’t working. Few know exactly why. We assess board composition, dynamics, and effectiveness — then help you fix what’s broken.
We evaluate how well the board supports the investment thesis, whether the right skills sit around the table, and where the gaps are between governance and performance. We then design development programmes that make boards sharper, more aligned, and harder to ignore.
Good governance isn’t a compliance exercise. It’s a competitive advantage.
Organisational Change
Culture is not a poster on the wall. It either drives performance or it drags it down. As an accredited Denison Consulting partner, we use one of the world's most validated culture diagnostic tools to measure what actually matters.
The Denison Model assesses four key cultural traits — Mission, Adaptability, Involvement, and Consistency — benchmarked against a global database of over 1,100 organisations. This gives leaders a clear, data-driven picture of where their culture stands and where it needs to go.
We don't just diagnose. We design and deliver the change programmes that close the gap between the culture you have and the culture your strategy demands.