The DiNicola Partners Approach
- We do not believe in presenting our clients with textbook leadership solutions / ideal financial models to let them figure out how to implement these theories in the real world
- We believe in staying as much in the background as possible, working in partnership with senior teams to help them assess situations and develop solutions that they can own and implement
- We not only help executives develop solutions to their greatest challenges, we develop their skills to successfully meet similar challenges in the future
Leadership
Executive Advice / Team Development
Our confidential Executive Advice / Team Development practice includes Executive Coaching, Leadership Team Development and Meeting Facilitation. However, it goes far beyond traditional methods by providing experienced advice in the context of the real business situations being faced (i.e., improving leadership team effectiveness / Board relationships, developing strategic plans to achieve sustainable growth / increased profitability, planning and managing geographic expansion, M&A integration, turnaround / restructuring, building functions in carve out / start-up / rapidly growing organizations, IPO readiness, etc.).
I. Optimizing Executive Team Leadership
We advise multicultural CEO’s, senior team members and their direct reports / succession candidates to increase their business leadership effectiveness. We do not attempt to change an executive into someone else or the textbook model of a leader. Our philosophy is to understand what makes each executive unique and then help them evolve into a better version of themselves by leveraging their strengths, learning new skills and modulating weaknesses. This will keep them true to themselves while developing into world class global leaders.
Leadership Team Development / Meeting Facilitation
As former Chief Executives we have the knowledge and experience to design and conduct highly effective meetings that will build the teams’ leadership capabilities, collaboration and cross-functional integration while addressing practical issues such as Strategic Planning, Operational Execution, M&A Integration, etc. We do not try to provide the answers, but through our experience, we can help your team to ask the right questions, be insightful and realistic in their assessments, think big, consider the alternatives, anticipate the consequences and take action. Our goal is to help them lead with confidence and build confidence in others.
All of our meetings end with a concrete action plan with assigned accountability and timelines.
II. Building Business Unit, Regional & Country Leadership
We believe that advising executives who have P&L responsibility is critical to driving performance and operational execution, resulting in more rapid and profitable growth. BU leaders and General Managers are like CEO’s of their operations, but many go into the role without the full set of skills needed to lead all aspects of a business operation.
- Leadership Style
- Assessing performance vs. competition / market
- Developing growth strategies
- Leading in new markets / cultures
- Developing P&L management capabilities
- Managing a global operation / business
- Multi-business / country management
- Driving operational execution
- Global matrix / remote management
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We believe our Leadership Advice achieves greater business impact than other firms because we are one of the only firms in the world with advisors who have actually been in the senior level positions and real world situations of our clients.
- Realistically and insightfully assess the current business situation and base case risk adjusted financial projections
- Develop and quantitatively validate new strategic actions / investments that will significantly increase the trajectory of future business growth vs. the base case
- Finalize and present a strategic plan which demonstrates deep insight into the business, with well designed executable strategies and meaningful risk adjusted ROI
Strategy
Strategic Planning
Our Strategy practice helps Senior Teams apply insight, creativity and risk adjusted quantitative rigor to strategic planning which is compelling to stakeholders / investors.
Our Proven and Effective 3 Step Process
Our decades of experience developing and executing strategic plans is leveraged by our team to help ensure your success.
Growth
Organization & Human Capital Asset Management
Rapidly growing and integrating organizations, cultures and Human Capital assets is one of the most important factors in the success of a business and its leaders.
Our Organization & Human Capital Asset Management practice has the expertise and proven track record of successfully increasing the human asset value of growing organizations including startups, Private Equity acquired companies, carve outs / spin offs of larger organizations, as well as assessing and integrating acquired assets and designing and building combined company functional and business organizations with top talent.
Our Services include:
- Developing Human Resources Strategy
- Building Human Resources Functional Capabilities in Startups / Carve Outs
- Organization Design to Optimize Growth / Operational Effectiveness
- Planning and Managing Geographic Expansion
- Workforce Planning - Deployment / Redeployment of Human Assets
- M&A Human Resources Due Diligence
- M&A Organization and Cultural Integration
- IPO / Strategic Sale Readiness and Execution
We can do this better than other consulting firms because we have faced similar business and organizational growth options and decisions as former Chief Executives.