Don’t Bite Off More than You can Chew
Strategic Planning is certainly a meaty topic and can often seem like an intimidating undertaking. Approaching the process intentionally can save you headaches in the short and long term and
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Stratford enables and empowers leaders to strengthen and grow their businesses with better strategies, processes, technology and leadership. We work in the organization alongside its leaders and deliver customized solutions that realize value, achieve results, and build enduring capabilities.
Accelerate business results and defeat time by engaging with our management consulting team in any one of our service areas.
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STRATEGIC PLANNING
Develop and execute a strategic plan that guides and focuses your organization to achieve and sustain results
Execute Better Results
with Stratford's strategy development and implementation support
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M&A ADVISORY
Ensure you get the best outcome possible with a structured, phased and planned approach to your M&A
Realize Better Value
with Stratford's merger and acquisition advisory and support
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IT DIGITAL SERVICES
Develop and implement value-based, business-driven technology solutions that achieve results and build enduring capabilities
Create Better Experiences
with Stratford's IT strategy and implementation services
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SCALE & OPERATIONS
Grow your company and equip your team with the people, processes and technology needed to scale
Build Better Growth
with Stratford's scale and operational support services
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CEO ADVISORY
Grow your impact and your leadership capacity to realize your business and development goals with maximum effectiveness
Impact Better Results
with Stratford's CEO advisory and support
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STRATEGIC FINANCE
Set clear direction and manage your finance strategies and projects with seasoned expertise
Achieve Better Results
with Stratford's strategic finance services and support
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GO-TO-MARKET
Grow your revenues with strategies that unleash your products’ full potential and maximize the return on your R&D investment
Reach Better Customers
with Stratford's Go-To-Market support and services
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BOARD ADVISORY
Grow your impact and your influence to ensure the prosperity of your business and its leaders
Influence Better Results
with Stratford's board governance advisory and support
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Trusted and respected by leaders of growing organizations
“Right from the beginning, the Stratford team expressed a desire to align with our goals. They balanced respect and professionalism with the confidence to challenge our assumptions and biases, including my own. The result was a stronger plan than I had expected, and a validation of our mission, vision and values.”
Why Stratford?
The teams we’ve helped grow and scale chose us because we’re…
Proven
Methodologies, templates & frameworks
Experienced
Executives who've been in your shoes
Pragmatic
Lean-in support to drive successful implementation
Relationship Centric
Extension of your team committed to realizing outcomes
Value focus
Focus on increasing and delivering business value
Our approach
Getting the right things in place
to scale your business
For over 10-years, we’ve been helping organizations grow, improve and transform. Our approach enables you to get the right things in place to scale your business and build enduring capabilities. We take the time to understand your needs, where you’re positioned and where you’d like to be. With that knowledge, we work with you to develop and implement realistic plans with the right solutions that deliver value.
“When you engage Stratford, you gain a true consulting partner with an ability to objectively align to your project goals, all the while challenging you and your organization’s assumptions and/or biases, and you have an active listener in your process. In Stratford, you gain shared perspectives and an even more informed strategy and set of priorities, complete with a balanced, invested and respectful relationship that is punctuated by outstanding professionalism.”
Our Management Consulting Team
Grow your company and equip your team with the awareness, knowledge, skills and tools needed to scale. Our team brings a unique combination of strategic and operational experience across the full range of business disciplines to deliver the support you need.
Colleen Kelley
President
Rana Chreyh
Practice Leader
AJ Harris
Senior Advisor
Harry Page
Senior Advisor
Kim Butler
Senior Advisor
Rissella Weiss
Senior Consultant
Shane Bartlett
Consultant
Jim Roche
PRESIDENT & CEO
Norm Paquette
CFO & Senior Advisor
Paul Senyshyn
Senior Advisor
Chiranjeev Kar
Consultant
“Stratford brought in the knowledge and expert resources to practically assess and develop an operational IT plan for the next two years. They worked collaboratively with our team throughout the consultation and needs assessment. In addition, their people, process and technology approach provided us with an executable roadmap that has energized and excited the IT team and our internal partners.”
Tim Julien
Executive Director CFO & COO, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Management Consulting Resources
DXPs…are they as easy as 1, 2, 3?
A well-integrated DXP provides the means to evolve relationships with clients, customers, prospects and employees. Where previous tools in this space allowed for one-way conversations, a DXP facilitates a dialogue,
Cloud Watching: Optimizing your IT Ecosystem
Now more than ever, companies are seeing a need for cloud-based solutions to their IM/IT Ecosystems – one that balances the needs of the business with maintaining data integrity. Having
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket…or how to drive customer diversification
Think of your customers as eggs and your business development streams as the basket. You definitely do not want all your eggs in one basket. Taking steps to diversify your
Stay Calm and Overcome Objections
Every sales pitch will have objections, but they do not have to derail the engagement. If you find your discussions sidetracked by an objection, here are five steps you can
Risk Management…More than a Trend
Risk management is more than a trend. Cybersecurity is certainly high on the list of concerns for most executives these days given high profile data breaches and the heightened security
Ottawa’s Best Consulting Firm
Thank you Ottawa! Stratford is proud to share that we were awarded the title of Ottawa’s Best Consulting Firm at the 2022 Ottawa Awards. We are humbled and grateful that
Stratford Joins Hub350 as Founding Community Sponsor
Holding its grand opening ceremonies on October 28, Hub350 welcomed guests to its new space at 350 Legget Drive in Kanata North to celebrate the co-working space. The 12,000-square-foot space
Ottawa Board of Trade Welcomes New Board of Directors as it Launches New Strategic Plan
It’s a time of change at the Ottawa Board of Trade. And we couldn’t be more excited to join them in welcoming a new team to help them usher in
Stratford’s work with Ottawa Board of Trade featured in the Ottawa Business Journal
Stratford Management Consulting is featured in the Ottawa Business Journal in an article titled: “Getting the Ottawa Board of Trade off on the right foot” When Ottawa’s three chambers of
TechExit NOW featured speaker Colleen Kelley
Are you M&A Ready? We are thrilled to have our Business Strategy & Operations Lead, Colleen Kelley , speaking at this year’s virtual TechExit NOW event. This session will showcase