We help the CEOs and leadership teams of private equity-backed businesses turn their value creation plans into results.
Creating the conditions for execution.
Built for the investment journey
- Portfolio company CEOs and executive teams who need to align their leaders behind the plan and deliver it within the hold period.
- Investors and operating partners who want confidence that management can execute what the investment case promises.
- Founder-led and scale-up businesses preparing for investment, growth or exit.
Most value creation plans don't fail for lack of strategy
Execution rarely fails because people aren't working hard. It fails because effort is being applied inside a system that isn't set up to deliver. Leaders describe different priorities. Teams take on more than they can finish. Progress is reviewed too late. Missed commitments go unchallenged.
A private equity journey can be as short as twelve quarters. Time is not your friend.
The Seven Conditions of Execution
Execution is the consistent translation of intent into results. When it breaks down, one or more of seven conditions is weak or missing.
We use the Seven Conditions to diagnose where execution is breaking down, then focus our work where it will make the biggest difference.
- Tendra Technical Services (Triton-backed): brought together the leadership teams of three acquired businesses to build the group's first value creation plan. The group is now seeing much-improved cross-selling.
- Boatfolk: helped the executive team shape and deliver a practical value creation plan, and embedded our operational excellence model across 11 sites. Boatfolk was acquired by Premier Marinas in September 2025.
- Proactis (PE-backed SaaS): a six-month leadership development programme for senior leaders that strengthened alignment and gave the team practical tools to execute.
What our clients say
Led by people who have been in the arena
Every member of our team has led in demanding environments, from the military to elite sport and global business, making decisions under pressure and delivering results when the stakes were high. We bring real-world experience, not theory.
We combine military discipline, commercial acumen and academic insight to turn strategy into disciplined action and measurable results. We work alongside leaders as partners, providing challenge and support rather than lecturing from the sidelines.
Unlike many firms in this space, we do not have a search practice. Helping leaders execute means they have to trust us, and that is not possible if we are incentivised to replace them.
Which condition is holding back your plan?
Take the 60-second Execution Check to find out which of the Seven Conditions may be limiting your organisation, and what to do about it.
Let's talk about your plan
Most of our work starts with a conversation about where execution is breaking down. If that would be useful, book a call with Roderic.
