Helping companies and investors navigate the growth transition
Catalysis Advisory is a team of specialist advisors that helps ambitious companies put in place the human underpinnings for scaled-up and confidently-managed businesses.
We are experts in team and organisational strategy, and partner with investors and management teams to create a pragmatic roadmap for future success.
Our deep understanding of complex business and people issues comes from the extensive senior experience our project leads bring, leveraged by robust data and processes, underpinned by and a holistic and evidence-based framework.
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We help investors understand the ability of a team and organisation to deliver a growth plan and ways to improve the chances of success by:
Pre-deal review (MDD)
Mid-way review
Pre-exit review
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We work with investors and boards to re-frame, re-focus and re-energise their organisations, supporting them to get back on the path to growth and value creation with:
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Assessments
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Evolving from a scrappy, entrepreneurial venture to a mature, high-growth company brings a unique set of challenges, not least the critical impact people as individuals and in teams have on achieving a company’s ambitions. We have worked in almost all sectors but find the main challenges depend mostly on size and stage rather than industry.
We spend time with you to understand the situation and to work out the best approach given limited management bandwidth and to ensure team buy-in.
A volatile environment and ever higher entry multiples have made it more difficult than ever for investors to create value. At Catalysis Advisory, we believe that, with the right guidance, tools and insights, small actions can have a catalytic impact on success.
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MIke Hicks
Founder & CEO
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Anthea Vidler
Operations Manager
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Alysoun Stewart
Adviser
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Peter Fischer Brown
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Caroline Gourlay
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Kirsty Baggs-Morgan
Adviser
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Chris Wilkinson
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Deborah Barleggs
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Victor Vadaneaux
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Simon Wilkinson
Adviser
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We’d like to introduce a new name for what mid-market investors seem to be asking for most: Team and Organisation Strategy.
We share our thoughts on why this has happened and a comparison of the three types of offerings we think now exist.
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Team and Organisational Strategy
Management & organisation due diligence and strategy in support of the transactions.
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Executive Talent Optimisation
Assisting investees of the private equity houses and growth companies with the assessment support and coaching.
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If you have any questions or would like to get in touch, please contact our founder Mike:
mike@catalysis-advisory.com or +44 7779 619088
If you would like to find out more about how we work with investors and leadership teams, feel free to ask us for introductions to clients who know us best.