Kirkland Partners provides:
- Strategy consulting services
- Facilitation, coaching and support for corporate strategic planning processes
- Custom executive education with a focus on action learning
We deliver value to clients by:
- Adapting our Style to Clients’ Needs. Some clients need a brief, intensive engagement to develop a presentation for their Board of Directors. Others want occasional support over the course of a year. We operate at a pace and a level of involvement that suits our clients’ preferences.
- Operating with a Lean Approach. Kirkland Partners and affiliates operate without the overhead or pyramid structure of larger firms. We are experienced consultants who can focus quickly on the key issues and can draw on both commercial information sources and our professional networks to bring the right expertise to bear. We are conscious of our clients’ budget constraints and scope our projects accordingly.
- Developing Client Capabilities. We seek to build client capabilities. We have experience teaching in executive education programs and can deliver formal seminars or case-based instruction as well as teaching client team members informally by working side by side with them.
Examples of recent engagements:
- Supporting the annual strategic planning process for the leadership team of a $4 billion multi-divisional industrial products business Managing the post-merger integration process for at three private equity portfolio companies.
- Designing and helping to facilitate a semi-annual discussion forum for the top 50 executives at a large pharmaceutical company.
- Working with a $6 billion technology company to prepare for a highly successful two-day board retreat focused on growth opportunities.
- Helping a private equity firm develop communities of practice among executives in their portfolio companies.
- Serving as a design specialist and faculty member in several custom executive education engagements at a top-tier business school