Private Equity
Value in a portfolio company is created and lost through its leaders. The strategy, the model and the thesis all depend on the people carrying them, and the difference between a deal that delivers and one that disappoints is usually leadership and culture rather than the plan on paper. We understand the pace and the pressure of private equity, and we work with firms and their portfolio companies to make leadership a driver of value rather than the risk that erodes it.
We bring senior, practical experience to the people side of the deal, working with the discretion and speed that PE demands. We help its leaders perform when it matters most.
How we support Private Equity:
If you have a leader or a team worth investing in, whether in your firm or in a business you’ve backed, we’d be glad to talk.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Directly. The strategy and the model depend entirely on the people carrying them, and most deals that underdeliver do so because of leadership and culture rather than the plan itself. Strong leadership and a healthy culture protect the thesis and accelerate value through the hold; weak ones erode it quietly, often before the numbers show it.
Both, and the work differs for each. We work with firms on how their own people lead, individually and as a partner group, and we work inside portfolio companies with the leaders carrying the business through the hold. We also bring portfolio companies together for shared, practical learning across the group.
It’s a clear read of the leadership and culture you’re buying, before you buy it. Drawing on our proprietary Performance and Engagement Expert Audit©, we assess a target’s leadership strength, the health of its culture and where the people risks and opportunities sit, and translate that into an Early Insights Report© you can act on. It surfaces the thing most likely to make or break the thesis and least visible in a data room.
Performance and Engagement is bespoke and senior, working closely with a firm or a single portfolio company at the depth and discretion the situation calls for. Inclusion Live® is our sister company, a research-led, productised system for building leadership capability consistently across a whole portfolio at scale. Same team and the same belief underneath, two different ways of delivering it. If your need is portfolio-wide rather than one business, that’s Inclusion Live’s work.
We understand the pace and work to it. Engagements are scoped to the situation and the timeline in front of us, with the speed and discretion private equity demands, whether that’s a focused due diligence read against a deal clock or longer support through the hold.
That’s exactly the conversation to have. Get in touch and we’ll help you find the right starting point, whether that’s us, Inclusion Live, or both working together.