Insights to act,
for owners from owners.
Since our founding, we have complemented our real estate development work with advisory services to help leaders of nonprofits, governments, and corporations tackle complex, multi-disciplinary challenges.
We use candor and collaboration to drive tangible progress.
Our services range from innovative budgeting techniques for nonprofits to multi-dimensional capital planning for governments to bet-the-company strategic pivots for billion-dollar corporations.
This is the same work we have done and continue to do ourselves, many times over, as principles owning outcomes in our own companies and our own projects.
We bring this ownership mentality, as well as the experience and expertise of our extensive network, to deliver actionable insights.
What we do
Strategic Execution: honing your strategy with you to design actions you can take
today with results you can measure tomorrow.
Whether in a 30-minute phone call or a half-day off-site, we are adept at assessing and
navigating organizational dynamics that may be getting in the way.
We use highly effective meeting facilitation approaches and process mapping to move
past pretense or politics to objective outcomes.
Financial and Transactional Advisory: partnering with you to reveal elusive financial
insights and demystify complex situations.
We are teachers at heart (and at Harvard), so we explain and train along the way,
ensuring our deliverable is your starting point.
As advisors, we have guided municipal and nonprofit leaders through financial
management improvement, budget analysis, capital planning, and even roll-up-the-
sleeves activity-based costing.
As executives, we have evaluated, acquired, integrated, managed, restructured, turned
around, and even sold literally hundreds of companies – developing concrete best
practices along the way.
Real Estate and Market Intelligence: providing thorough, thoughtful, and
comprehensive analysis with an owner’s lens.
Our clients have come to appreciate our practical property and portfolio analysis,
including underwriting, financing strategy, GIS/spatial analysis, and market research.
We apply this discipline every day to our own portfolio—and have done the same in an
advisory capacity for some of the world’s largest property owners.
What we don't do
We are not the right firm to revamp your mission statement for the tenth time, rebrand a
failing product, or navel gaze with you about your problems.
We do not want to burrow our way into your organization and get comfortable by
regurgitating quick and clever catchphrases or producing voluminous slide decks.
If you choose to work with us, we will listen closely, orient ourselves quickly, and work
efficiently to diagnose and deliver.