Who Jennifer works with
Jennifer works with leaders responsible for important business results, decisions and investments. The circumstances differ for a CEO, a Board director and a PE investor, and so do the questions each must answer.
CEOs and owners
A decision, investment or performance issue reaches beyond one function.
The investment is complete, but the expected improvement hasn't appeared. Or two proposals both look worthwhile, but the business cannot support both. Each function may have a reasonable case; leadership still has to decide what the whole company can deliver.
Jennifer works with the CEO and leadership team to examine the tradeoffs, understand what the decision depends on, and choose a responsible next move.
Board Chairs, Lead Directors and directors
Management is reporting progress. The Board wants a clearer line of sight.
Management reports that an important initiative is progressing. Directors still need to understand whether the expected business result is achievable, what could change that outlook, and what evidence would justify a change in direction.
Jennifer helps directors focus on the questions and decisions that belong at Board level. The scope of her role and any interaction with management are agreed for the engagement.
PE operating partners and sponsors
Performance is behind the investment case, or an operating decision will move the value-creation plan.
The value-creation plan depends on improvements that are taking longer or proving harder to deliver than expected. An add-on, technology investment or market opening may also change what the portfolio company needs to be able to do.
Jennifer works with the sponsor or portfolio-company leadership, as appropriate, to examine what the investment case assumed, what the business can currently deliver, and which decision needs to change. Roles and decision authority are agreed at the start.
Growing companies
Leaders of younger, fast-growing companies can work with her to set up how the business runs, decides and governs itself while it is still early enough to shape those habits deliberately.
What the work is not
Jennifer does not supply staff or stand in for the management team. When a situation needs deep legal, tax, cyber, clinical or engineering expertise, she will say so.
Every engagement is shaped around the same thing: the result, decision or opportunity in front of the business, and the people accountable for it.
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