transformation that matters

LEADERSHIP FOR BUSINESS CRITICAL CHANGE

SHIFTING THE DIAL
MISSION | TRANSFORMATION | IMPACT

We take your mission, purpose and the impact you want to have and build the conditions for success through inspiring leadership, captivating innovation, effective organisation, to give customers and citizens the experience that matters to them. We only do what matters.

We do it simply. We make sure everyone is understood, that it is understandable and inclusive.

Whether your organisation is facing a short term crisis or, we hope more positively, transformational and planned change, you are well advised to engage specialist bandwidth to guarantee success. Failure, delays, ill thought through solutions and time poor communication are costly and damaging to your reputation.

It is a scarce resource that is reliable, trusted and able to immerse themselves in your business, drive change and innovation and yet lead and guide people through it, safely and sensitively. A positive disruptor, a hearts-and-minds leader, an operational specialist, a commercial innovator, a financial challenger, a strategic soundboard, your critical friend; Marc Stone is a seasoned c-suite leader and transformation specialist who builds, bolsters and strengthens businesses. Marc will challenge and disrupt, but will treat your business, your people and your success with the care and respect they deserve.

Marc Stone has led businesses from around the globe through the complex challenges that transformation and turnaround brought during the dotcom bubble burst of the early 00's, the financial crash of '08, the austere '10's and the global pandemic of the early '20's.

Have you invested in a business that just isn't delivering to plan and needs fixing and turning round?

We provide Marc Stone, a trusted strong arm and corporate specialist, experienced in turnaround, transformation, crisis management and growth transition.

Marc is used to navigating the complex conditions of growth, and will guide you expertly and safely, rewarding you with success. A corporate expert who is transparent, tells it as it is and is honest about what needs to be done. No short cuts.

He will help you course correct. He will work along side the management team and help them to mature their customer relationships, operational working methods, logistics, processes, communications, leadership style, and take a resilient red pen to delivery methods.

Marc has been there before and is a reliable hand. Late nights and sweating assets are short term veneers that help no one, and more often than not leads to excessive and costly mistakes, burnout and corporate negligence.

Red alert! If you are reading this, your performance has already taken a nosedive. Let's stop that shall we.

Either death by a thousand cuts, a sheer drop in revenues, or you fear that your business is becoming obsolete and you can't see the wood from the trees. There's money leaking from every hole in the dam and customers are leaving in their droves to the shiny new competitor.

Now for calm. It needn't be this way. By bringing in Marc Stone, a resilient and competent turnaround specialist, we can create your future. The ship can always be turned but by only by doing the right things in the right order and in the right way. No short cuts.

Be the dynamic business you want to become.

Is it time to shift the dial? Adapt or fall behind. We can help you transform, truly and successfully. We help you avoid failing incrementalism which we often see. It is highly likely that the ambition has not been set high enough leading to problems. We can fix that for you.

Marc is a transformation specialist who can lead you towards future glories, firmly aligned to your mission. That can mean radical, reinvention and reimagining of your products, customer relationships, organisation, culture, mindset, digital capabilities, operation, et al. But radical in a safe and considered manner. No shortcuts. No incrementalism. Only transformation.

Competent, robust and sustainable transformation is within reach.

Facing teenage growing pains and not sure how to scale up?

Marc Stone (experienced in fathering teenage children) is a seasoned growth transition specialist who can help you identify the order that things need to get done in. It's often prioritising and organising business growth, juggling resources, funding and creating sustainable transition plans that are key issues.

"I need more people, more money, more customers, more time, and I need it now ...", is a common mantra of the growing SME.

It is important to set things running in the right order to avoid making costly mistakes, missing a trick and not being able to see the wood for the trees. By bringing your investors, staff and customers with you on your journey, they will thank you for it.

The most successful global firms create organisations of systematic, habitual and continuous innovation. It's a human-centric focus directed towards a pioneering mindset.

They build a culture and organisation that is fit and capable of innovating and managing their way to success with agilty. You can enable your people to create safely, think quickly, fail fast and execute.

This is more than just a cultural focus. It involves adapting structure, governance, policy, product, service, facilities, tools, processes and relationships to encourage innovation.

Marc creates and implements organisational systematic innovation models that enable dynamic breakthrough.

Buying and building on solid foundations.

In our experience due diligence and integration plans are becoming less than diligent over the last 30 years and often incomplete, too high level and far, far too light. Memoranda, business and integration plans that are too scant and don't reveal what's under the hood.

The result, shortcuts and costly misses.

The integration of a new business will frequently miss costs, reinvestment needs, engagement and communications, cultural fit, logistical complexities, perception of the customer, threat of critical staff exiting, et al.

We soon get grumpy when the numbers don't add up, but it can be easily avoided by executing plans in a professional manner.

Shortcuts, negligence and overconfidence should be avoided if you want to integrate businesses successfully.

If you are here, you want to create a organisation of dynamic and high performing people. Supportive, collaborative, fast paced, and with the outcome and mission constantly in mind.

Marc was having dinner with a chair of a large multi national who shared with him his deep and passionate mission that was from the heart and truly rousing.

Marc asked, "I love that. That is inch perfect. But why, when I speak to your people on the ground, doesn't it feel this way? Why have they not heard this? Why is there fear in the ranks? Where is it getting lost in translation?".

"Unfortunately, I know that it's getting stuck somewhere in my middle management." replied the chair.

Sound familiar. What often happens in your middle management organisation is that culture of fear, silo mentality, unconscious biases, self-preserving bonus structure, debilitating and unnecessary admin, policies, meetings, rules, reports, et al, get in the way. Sometimes driven from the top, but not always, often created somewhere in the middle to self preserve.

Unleash your talent, before your talent leaves you.

ABOUT US

Stone Consulting, founded in 2008, provides experienced and resilient c-suite expertise that bolsters your leadership bandwidth to deliver business critical change and transformation. Whether you are a start up, scaling up, turning around your business or transforming one, our approach derisks your investment, ensures sizeable returns and leaves your business in a sustainable trading position for the long term.

We are sector agnostic, having successfully turned our hand in many sectors; for clients large and small in clean energy, aerospace, airlines, telecoms, innovation, technology, logistics, public transport, pharmaceuticals, tech, manufacturing, engineering, supply chains, healthcare, education and real estate services.

We have expertise in the private sector, private equity owned businesses, public sector and not for profit.

Our network is such that we bring significant leverage and expertise as and when needed through a range of high quality professionals.

Meet Marc

CONTACT US

Marc Stone

c-suite transformation & turnaround specialist

+44 (0) 7529 777 757

marc@stoneconsulting.uk.com

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