Strategy & Transformation
Corporate strategy, growth planning, portfolio optimisation, M&A and enterprise-wide transformation. We frame the move, build the plan, and deliver alongside your team.
- Strategy
- Growth
- Portfolio
- Transformation
- M&A
- GTM
AB&T partners with boards, CEOs and management teams across three complementary disciplines: management consulting, corporate training, and executive search. Senior consultants, decisions that stick, no junior-team rebadging.
Management consulting, corporate training and executive search under one roof. Engage any pillar on its own, or combine them when the situation calls for it.
Corporate strategy, growth planning, portfolio optimisation, M&A and enterprise-wide transformation. We frame the move, build the plan, and deliver alongside your team.
Lean operations, cost reduction, process redesign and supply chain efficiency. Diagnostic-led work that removes friction and protects margin.
Organization design, leadership alignment, talent strategy and change management. The structural work that turns strategy into delivery.
Bespoke training programs and capability building for management teams and leadership cohorts. From executive workshops to multi-tier capability programs.
Retained executive search for C-suite, board and senior leadership appointments. Confidential approaches, succession planning, and senior interim cover.
Pick the shape that fits the decision in front of you. Most clients begin with a diagnostic sprint before committing to anything longer.
Short, focused engagement to scope the actual problem before any longer-term work is committed.
Scoped to a specific outcome with milestones, deliverables and a defined end date.
Monthly retainer with senior-partner access. Quarterly review and recalibration.
Interim CFO, COO, or transformation director to hold a critical seat while you build long-term cover.
Every engagement is run by the same standards. Mid-market companies don't have time for ceremony - they need senior thinking and visible delivery.
You work directly with the consultant running your engagement. No juniors briefed once a week.
Methods built for companies that need to act, not committees that need to debate. Calibrated to $25M-$1B operating reality.
We scope the actual problem before any long engagement starts. Often the work needed is smaller than feared.
We measure ourselves on what changes in your business, not the thickness of the report we leave behind.
Confidential briefs treated as such. We never use client names without permission and never publish case studies that compromise them.
We tell you when a project isn't the right call, when a goal is unrealistic, and when the answer is to do less rather than more.
Each stage has a purpose and a deliverable. By the end, your team owns the outcome - not us.
A focused sprint to understand the operating reality. We talk to people, look at the numbers, and surface the real problem.
Agreed objectives, decision-grade analysis, and options on the table. You decide; we scope what comes next.
Embedded delivery alongside your team. Weekly cadence, visible progress, no off-site theatre.
Capability transfer. Your team owns the outcome and the operating habit, with AB&T on call when needed.
Our specialism is the operating model of mid-market businesses, not any single vertical. We work across the industries below for clients across the United States.
The questions founders, CEOs and management teams ask when they're considering AB&T for an engagement.
AB&T specialises in the mid-market - companies typically between $25M and $1B in revenue, or equivalent privately held and PE-backed businesses. We work with founders, CEOs, and senior management teams who need senior consulting capability without the overhead of a Big Four engagement.
Most engagements begin with a short diagnostic sprint - typically one to four weeks - to scope the actual problem before any longer-term work is committed. From there we offer project engagements, retained advisory, and interim leadership cover depending on what the situation calls for.
Both. Most clients start project-based and convert to a retained relationship when the trust is built. Retained advisory is monthly, with defined scope and a senior partner accessible throughout. Project engagements are scoped to a specific outcome with milestones and a fixed end date.
Deliberately, because the three disciplines feed each other. A strategy engagement often surfaces a capability gap that training closes, or a leadership gap that executive search fills. Keeping the three together means we can recommend the right intervention rather than the one our practice happens to sell. Clients can engage any pillar independently or in combination.
We work across manufacturing and industrials, healthcare, financial services, technology and software, professional services, consumer and retail, and energy and resources. Our specialism is the operating model of mid-market businesses, not any single vertical.
Three things. First, senior-only delivery - you work directly with the consultant running your engagement, not a team of juniors briefed once a week. Second, mid-market specialism - our methods and team are calibrated to companies that need to act, not committees that need to debate. Third, outcomes over decks - we measure ourselves on what changes in your business, not the thickness of the report.
Diagnostic sprints run one to four weeks. Project engagements typically run three to nine months. Retained advisory is ongoing, reviewed quarterly. Executive search assignments run six to sixteen weeks. Training programs vary from a single workshop to multi-month capability builds.