Business Strategy Services

Strategy Alignment & Development Expertise for Senior Leaders

Align Your Team with a Strategy That Works

Get everyone pulling in the same direction with a strategy that connects your vision to real-world results.

We’ll help you pinpoint where your organization stands and make sure your strategy delivers on what matters most.

Trust a team that has guided some of the largest companies in the world through major transformations. We bring the experience to back up the strategy.

We dive deep into your organization to find what’s holding you back, so you can focus on what drives success and remove roadblocks quickly.

Get in touch to learn more about our business strategy services.

Executives That Trust Navalent

Meet the Team

Laura Brennand-Carter

Consultant

Laura has over 15 years of experience helping leaders build the culture, capability and leadership needed for growth and transformation. She partners with C-suite teams to refine talent needs, strengthen leadership and deliver practical people solutions that prepare organizations for the future.

Sebastian Little

Sterling Grey

Consultant

Sterling partners with senior leaders stepping into expanded roles, helping them build leadership clarity, discipline and influence. With over a decade inside Fortune 500 companies and master’s degrees from Yale and IE Business School, he blends business insight and behavioral expertise to accelerate leader growth and organizational results.

Mindy Millward

Co-founder & Managing Partner

With over 25 years of experience as a veteran business advisor, Mindy has worked with a range of leaders including CEOs of Fortune 500s. Her goal is to help them and their firms navigate significant transitions in shifting strategy, redesign organizations, and deliver increased performance.

Ron Carucci

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Ron has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership — from start-ups to Fortune 10s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth.

Eric Hansen

Managing Partner

For over 25 years, Eric has helped executives from across North America, Europe and the Middle East articulate & align on strategy, implement large-scale organizational change and build leadership capability to drive business growth. He is co-author of the Amazon #1 best-seller, Rising to Power.

Jarrod Shappell

Managing Partner

Jarrod has over 10 years’ experience working with leaders in high growth start-up, non-profit, and Fortune 500 environments. He helps teams systematically build distinct, high-performance cultures by leveraging each individual’s strengths.

Ryan Millward

CFO

With over 20 years of experience, Ryan has played an integral role in creating, operating and expanding companies including developing practical cash flow, organizing the incorporation of companies, and implementing Point-of-Sale, inventory and back-office computer systems for corporations.

Scott Conser

The Conser Group

Scott is the president and founder of The Conser Group, a consulting firm that provides questionnaire design, survey programming, survey hosting, data analysis, reporting services, and custom application development. His specialties include 360° Multi-Rater Feedback, Succession Surveys, and CEO Evaluations.

Organizational Strategy Development By The Numbers

50+

CEOs consulted

700

Leaders and C-suite execs coached

3,600+

Leaders interviewed

1,900+

Transformation projects completed

240

Organization diagnostics completed

150

Years of combined experienced

Strategic Alignment

See how Navalent helped this $20M family business breakthrough stagnation and get back on the path to lasting growth.

Transform Your Business Strategy

Get proven, time-tested strategy development services for your enterprise.

Navigate Future Possibilities

Our experts will enable your organization to explore different ways it can deliver in the market - helping you determine the right strategic position for your business.

Get a Reliable, Data-Driven Approach

Our experts use a data-driven approach to identify issues with your current strategy - and guide you to create a clearly defined, targeted strategy to win in the market.

Uncover Issues you Didn't Know Existed

You don’t have time to waste. Our leadership experts will help bring to light issues that are eroding your business’ bottom line - and align on a strategy that identifies mission-critical objectives.

Aim for Lasting Success

We help you design a strategy that identifies and builds key business capabilities and strengthens working relationships - this removes the real roadblocks to success and guides you to carve a clear path to profitable growth.

What Clients Say About Our Business Strategy Services

Clients trust
us for our services

I’ve used Navalent’s expertise to help redesign two organizations. Their approach is holistic and collaborative. Their assessment of our business aspirations and current organization helped us understand why we were getting the results we were getting, and it also gave us a pathway to get better together. The detailed work we did to design the business helped my team trust each other more; It got us aligned behind the real changes we needed to implement to make our business operate more seamlessly. Ultimately, it was a multiplier for our business results. Navalent is a great partner who understands the human impact of change with the experience to help leaders move through it.

Navalent’s approach to executive coaching is dramatically different. They left no stone unturned to help me discover the best parts of my leadership, and the parts getting in my way. Their integrated approach transformed my ability to lead at the enterprise level, and my understanding of not just my own leadership, but the strategy, organization and team elements of what I had to deliver. Working with Navalent was game changing for me.”

Co-leading a successful company for twenty years is challenging under any circumstances. The complexities of friendship, leadership differences, decision making, and setting course for growth will tax any leadership team. Navalent’s transformative consulting approach to untangling those issues and cutting right to the heart of where we needed to grow as individual executives, as a team, and how to shape the organization to scale, sets them apart. If you want the Navy-seal team of organizational consultants, here they are.”

Having had the good fortune to lead incredible teams, I have found Navalent’s leadership and business guidance to be invaluable throughout my career. With a true desire to see me succeed, they are an incredible driving force to help me be the best executive I can be. Their strong knowledge of organization design and strategy make them my trusted partners for executive coaching and challenges I face leading my organization.

“Navalent has been my partner of choice for over a decade. Whether I am driving my organization to better performance through organization design or focusing on personal leadership through executive coaching they bring the context, approach, tools, and challenge that enables true change. I’ve worked with many of the name brand big firm competitors of Navalent and none of them can get the results from my organization and leaders that Navalent has produced.”

“My work with Navalent expanded my understanding of organizational talent strategy & heightened my awareness of its connection to operational effectiveness. I valued my OD Directors having access to Navalent’s level of subject matter expertise. Perhaps more so was the personal level of connection and mentoring relationships that were established. This reflects Navalent’s ability to secure an intimate understanding of our company & the political landscape. Navalent’s support and direction to our Talent Council was invaluable. I can’t imagine what the outcome would have been without Navalent’s insight and support.”

I have had the pleasure of working with the Navalent team for more than 12 years in various capacities. The first was executive coaching for me after a pivotal promotion in which it was critical that my performance would have immediate maximum impact. After that, I brought them into various large- scale projects, such as a company organization redesign, an overhaul of our executive succession planning and development process, and additional coaching assignments for high potential executives. Navalent’s work is of the highest caliber and having Navalent as a trusted partner gives me an extra, powerful, tool in my toolbox, which is why I keep them on my team.

Navalent provided executive coaching to me as I began my senior leadership position. Their feedback, support and guidance allowed me to navigate the new challenges of leading at a higher level, address habits and behaviors that were impacting my effectiveness, and build my ability to inspire and lead others.

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Strategy Starts at the Top

When your leadership isn’t fully aligned, growth stalls. The more fragmented your strategy, the harder it is to steer the business toward profitable outcomes.

Our seasoned experts work with you and your executive team to close those gaps. We’ll help you articulate a clear market position and build a winning plan that aligns leadership from the top down—giving your entire organization the clarity it needs to drive real results.

Thorough Assessment

Contrasting ideas and undefined objectives are hurting your business.

We help you and your executive team align on strategy by digging deeper through an in-depth assessment – helping you clarify your organization’s mission and values, define your market position, set priorities, pinpoint core differentiators and enterprise capabilities, and define KPIs for success.

Full Picture Visibility

Guided by a data-driven approach, we gather market research and insights from key stakeholders that will bring to light inconsistencies in your strategy and organization – and provide you with direction on the positioning that your business needs to succeed.

Position Your Business for Accelerated Growth

When different divisions in an organization pursue disparate priorities, scarce resources get diluted and misused in the business - and the path to profitable growth is interrupted.

Navalent will help you and your executive team define & align on a strategic position that benefits your business as a whole - allowing your organization to better capitalize on opportunities, properly utilize resources and maximize its ROI.

Align From Within

With business strategy services, enable your business to grow by taking an honest look at all aspects of your organization – and making the hard choices when necessary.

We help you and your team articulate and define your operating philosophy and enterprise values – ensuring everyone is consistently on the same page and your business is able to successfully deliver to the market.

Explore Growth Possibilities

Develop a strategy that is truly advantageous for your business by first exploring future possibilities – and different ways that you can accelerate profitable outcomes and grow in the market.

Leveraging key research insights, Navalent will build potential scenarios that will allow you to gaze into the future – and choose the right course of action to win.

Strategy Development Services Case Study

See how Navalent strategy services helped this mid-market employer
accelerate their business growth.

Strategic Vision

A $20M family business needed direction with transitioning to the future

Conducted in-depth diagnostic to see how the company could win in the market

We helped define leadership roles to resolve challenges and facilitate scalable growth

Stay a Step Ahead of the Competition

Every business has unique needs - which is why a one-size-fits-all approach to strategy doesn’t work.

Identify Real Roadblocks

Surface-level solutions never get to the root causes of why an organization can’t achieve the growth it needs.

Your competitive identity is unique – your strategy has to differentiate, not make you look like everyone else.

Gain Proven Insights

Leverage proven insights that have enabled some of the largest organizations worldwide to break through obstacles and achieve profitable results.

Navalent’s team of seasoned executive leaders have over 150 years of combined experience aligning organizations on strategy – and driving real change.

Enhance Business Performance with an Effective Enterprise Strategy

Work with one of the most respected executive firms in North America to implement a customized business strategy – the touchstone to achieve your enterprise objectives.