Entrepreneurship
Click below or scroll down to learn more about how we help Entrepreneurs, Incubators, Accelerators, Angel Investors, and Venture Capitalists in the exciting world of Entrepreneurship!
We can work with Angel Investors and Incubators to help start-ups better prepare for and acquire new investment.
Executive Consulting
We grease the wheels of the complex machine that is executive management. We help leaders from Management up to C-Suite Executives and Boards of Directors resolve challenges and unlock value.
We can also come in as a Fractional Officer (CEO or COO) for businesses going through change, mergers, acquisitions, or restructuring!
Business Improvement
Improving leadership, management, employee performance, and departmental metrics are especially important in a competitive environment. Let our experts help your business grow and prosper.
Our team members have decades of experience helping businesses and their leaders create meaningful change.
What is Executive Consulting?
Making Executives’ Lives Easier
Leadership is full of challenges. You have to work with many disparate stakeholders, often juggling incompatible demands from all directions. The life of an executive can be stressful, laden with risk, and full of unwanted time commitments that are not feasible.
That’s where we come in. We act as the lubricant between executives and stakeholders. Whether it is managing one or more departments, trying to get various entities to work together, garnering champions for new initiatives, change management,
preparing for a merger or acquisition, launching a new product or service, turnaround management, entrepreneurial endeavors, fostering innovation, facilitating engagement, training new leaders, or just improving your metrics, being
a great executive is challenge.
Our role, is to work with you to make those challenges easier to overcome; to foster innovation, facilitate engagement, encourage change, spot opportunities, lubricate the gears of the machine that is business. We Create Value.
Innovate
We have several innovation experts that can help you and your organization create new value, unlock dormant demand, and spot new opportunities.
Adjust
Making course adjustments requires research, validation, strategy, change management, and leadership. We can send our best to help you make the process easier, less risky, and yield better outcomes.
Improve
Business improvement, training, workshops, and team building exercises are not every executives strengths. But we have members who are experienced in improving businesses from top to bottom. Take the pressure off of your executives,
and let us make it easier.
Accelerate
We can bring stakeholders together to spot new opportunities, innovate at the disruptive or discontinuous levels, and help your organization better differentiate and position itself competitively. We take the burden off of
executives’ shoulders, giving them the room to breathe and be able to better facilitate growth.
Strategy Consulting for Your Organization
How does The Big Leaf’s team help your organization achieve its long-term objectives?
Full Business Planning
The importance of business planning cannot be overstated. It provides a roadmap for the future of the business, helps to identify potential challenges and opportunities, and ensures that everyone in the organization is aligned towards a common goal. It also helps to manage risk, allocate resources effectively, and make informed decisions based on data and analysis. A well-developed business plan is a crucial tool for the success of any business.
Industry & Market Analyses
Carrying out an industry and market analysis is important for a business as it helps to identify market trends and customer needs, assess the level of competition, evaluate the regulatory environment, assess market size and growth potential, and identify potential risks and challenges. This information can help a business to make informed decisions and develop effective strategies to achieve its objectives and succeed in the market.
Opportunity Spotting
Opportunity spotting is important for a business as it can help it to stay competitive, increase revenue and profitability, improve efficiency, mitigate risks, and drive innovation. By being proactive in identifying and capitalizing on opportunities, a business can achieve its objectives and succeed in the market.
Value Proposition Crafting & Validation
Value proposition development & validation is important for a business as it can help it to attract customers, differentiate from competitors, guide product and service development, improve marketing effectiveness, and drive business growth. By developing a clear and compelling value proposition and validating it with customers, a business can create a strong foundation for success in the market.
Mission, Vision, & Values Crafting
Defining the vision, mission, and values of a business is essential for developing a clear and compelling strategic plan. A well-crafted vision statement provides direction for the organization’s long-term goals, while the mission statement defines the organization’s purpose and reason for existence. Values represent the guiding principles that shape the organization’s culture and behavior. Together, these elements provide a framework for decision-making and actions at all levels of the organization.
Competitive Analyses
Identifying competitive positioning and advantage is critical for businesses to achieve success in the market. By analyzing its competitive positioning, a company can differentiate itself from its competitors and identify opportunities to gain market share. By identifying its competitive advantage, a company can leverage its strengths to achieve superior business performance and outperform its competitors.
Factors That Require Change
Identifying areas, strategies, or factors that need change is critical for businesses to remain competitive and achieve success in the market. By evaluating the current state of the organization and identifying areas for improvement, the organization can develop a plan to address these issues and improve performance. This will help the organization to achieve its objectives and remain competitive in the marketplace.
Strategic Planning & Resource Allocation
Developing a strategic plan involves conducting a situation analysis, defining the vision, mission, and values, identifying objectives and goals, identifying competitive positioning and/or advantage, identifying areas, strategies, or factors that need change, developing an action plan, and monitoring and evaluating performance. By following these steps, organizations can develop a roadmap for success and achieve their objectives in the marketplace.
Change Management
Change management can be a complex process, but it is essential for organizations that want to stay competitive and adapt to changing circumstances. Effective change management requires strong leadership, communication skills, and the ability to manage resistance and uncertainty.
Monitoring, Evaluating, & Improving
By working with our team, organizations can ensure that they are making progress toward achieving their goals and can make necessary adjustments to the strategic plan to remain agile and responsive to changes in the internal or external environment.
The Big I.D.E.A. and You
How does The Big Leaf’s team help your organization under the Big I.D.E.A.’s program?
Listen & Learn
We work with your leaders, managers, and employees to get a clearer picture, better understand the potential value that an I.D.E.A. strategy can unlock, and the feasibility and Return on Impact of any given new strategy.
Develop Strategies
We help you develop strategies that are meaningful, impactful, and likely to be adopted by all members of your organization. We also look at the best practices in your industry to ensure that any new strategy help give you a competitive
advantage.
Confirm Value & Feasiblity
Before executing, or helping you execute, we work closely with all levels of employees and leaders in your organization to ensure that new strategies are feasible, have measurable value, and will either help reduce risk, create new value,
or both.
Execute & Launch
Our experts in leadership, employee training, behaviour, and change management experts work closely with your organization to champion the selected new strategy or strategies and gain the goodwill of your employees to ensure long-term adherence.
Monitor & Manage
When implementing new strategies and engage in change management, ensuring both adoption and adherence is critical to long-term success. We can make the process easier and more likely to succeed by using validated tools and quality feedback
mechanisms.
Improve & Iterate
No one strategy is perfect, and all change management plans can be improved upon. Improving on a plan or strategy demonstrates leadership’s goodwill and genuine desire to see a positive impact on all stakeholders. We can help improve and iterate
any strategy or change management plan.
Training & Coaching for Your Organization
How does The Big Leaf’s team help your organization’s members achieve their best?
Leadership
We start by listening. We take the time to understand your business, your leadership style, and your challenges. We also work with your managers and employees to better understand their view of your leadership skills, style, and efficacy.
Then, we craft a unique solution that addresses your situation. Our team of experts in Leadership, Strategy, HR, Professional Presentations, and Change Management work together to offer you a holistic solution.
Managers & Employees
Build better Managers, gain more goodwill from your Employees, build a stronger team, utilize modern tools to better diagnose and address challenges before they become a bigger issue, and better connect the wants and needs of both Managers
and Employees in a way that creates new value, builds trust, and facilitates innovation.
Workshops
Our team creates customized workshops for public and private organizations, whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. We can utilize one or more of our experts in a variety of fields to specialize, or come together and bring your a holistic workshop and/or training session.
Workshops and training sessions include half-day, one-day, or more!
DISC Training
DISC training is a type of behavioral assessment tool that is used to identify an individual’s communication and behavioral style. The DISC model measures four main factors: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. These factors are used to create a profile that provides insight into an individual’s strengths, weaknesses, and communication style.
Five Behaviours Training
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team is a model developed by Patrick Lencioni to help teams become more effective, cohesive, and productive. The model outlines five behaviors that are essential for teams to function well: Trust, Conflict,
Commitment, Accountability, and Results.
Professional Presentations
Using tried and tested models of professional presentation training and assessment, our team can help your leaders, managers, and employees better express themselves in a variety of circumstances.
Engagement & Enablement
Employee engagement and enablement are two important factors that contribute to the success and productivity of a company. Engagement refers to the level of commitment, motivation, and enthusiasm that employees have for their work and their organization, while enablement refers to the resources, tools, and support that employees need to perform their jobs effectively.
Interpersonal Trust
Interpersonal and team trust development is a critical aspect of building high-performing teams. Trust is the foundation of any successful relationship, and it is especially important in the workplace where individuals are working towards common goals.
Aligning of Goals
Organizations can align management and employee goals, creating a unified team that is focused on achieving the organization’s objectives. This will help to improve performance, increase employee engagement, and drive success in the long term.
Recruitment & Onboarding
Developing recruitment, hiring, and onboarding best practices is essential for attracting top talent, ensuring a smooth hiring process, and setting new employees up for success. With our help, organizations can develop recruitment, hiring, and
onboarding best practices that attract top talent, ensure a smooth hiring process, and set new employees up for success.
Corporate Health & Wellness
Promoting corporate health and wellness is an essential part of ensuring the well-being of employees and the overall success of the company.
We Foster the Growth of Tomorrow’s Leaders
We Work with Incubators To Help Start-Ups Grow!
We have created a program dedicated to, and designed for the unique needs of business incubators and their eclectic roster of members. The program is called C.A.M. and consists of three basic sets of services: Coaching, Advising, and Mentorship.
If you are an Incubator in North America, or a member of an Incubator in North America, we encourage you to reach out and take advantage of our unique program, and help both Incubators and their Members to gain a competitive advantage, create new value, and reach new levels of success.