WORKING WITH GROWTHSIGHT
Operator experience. Flexible engagement. No handoffs.
When you engage GrowthSight, you work directly with me.
I work alongside executives and growth teams, bringing more than 35 years of experience building, leading and operating growth from inside large organizations. There is no consulting pyramid and no handoff to a junior team.
That allows me to move between strategy and execution—challenging an investment thesis with leadership, helping shape portfolio and governance decisions, or working directly with a venture team to accelerate market learning.
When specialized expertise is needed, I can bring in or connect clients with proven resources I've worked with personally—from market insights and startup operators to emerging AI capabilities. The team expands when the work requires it, not because the business model requires it.
BUILT FOR CORPORATE REALITY
Growth has to work with the core —not against it.
I've spent much of my career navigating one of the hardest tensions in corporate growth: building something new inside an organization designed to execute what already works.
New growth needs freedom to learn, experiment and change direction as market evidence develops. The core business needs predictability, accountability and disciplined execution. Neither is wrong. They are simply designed for different jobs.
The answer isn't to isolate growth from the organization or force it to operate by the rules of the core. It's to create an operating system that gives new ventures the freedom to work differently while deliberately leveraging the advantages only an established company can provide — customers, brands, capabilities, channels, capital and expertise.
Done well, the core isn't a constraint on growth. It becomes an unfair advantage.
ENGAGEMENTS BUILT AROUND THE NEED
Start with the problem. Not the engagement model.
I've spent much of my career on the other side of the consulting relationship. Sometimes I needed a major initiative. Other times, I simply needed an experienced outside perspective to help me understand the problem before deciding what came next.
Too often, the consulting model required a significant commitment before I had enough perspective to know exactly what kind of help I needed.
GrowthSight works differently.
We can start with the immediate need — a question, a challenge, a leadership gap or a specific growth mandate — and determine the right level of support from there. Engagements can remain focused or expand as the work develops and value is created.
The work should fit the problem. The problem shouldn't have to fit the consulting model.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
The work should fit the need.
Growth challenges don't arrive in a standard form. Neither should the support. GrowthSight can engage at the level your situation requires — from an occasional outside perspective to hands-on leadership and growth system implementation.
ADVISORY & THOUGHT PARTNERSHIP
An experienced outside perspective for executives navigating growth strategy, portfolio choices and difficult investment decisions.
FRACTIONAL GROWTH LEADERSHIP
Hands-on leadership when the organization needs experienced growth capability without — or before — adding a permanent executive.
GROWTH INVESTMENT BOARDS
An independent investor perspective for leadership teams, steering committees and growth boards evaluating opportunities, evidence and continued investment.
EXECUTIVE & VENTURE TEAM COACHING
Building the leadership and team disciplines required for venture-style funding, market learning and evidence-based growth.
VENTURE & MARKET DEVELOPMENT
Working directly alongside teams to advance opportunities from assumptions and market learning through launch, commercialization and scale.
GROWTH SYSTEM DESIGN
Diagnosing, designing and helping operate the broader system required to repeatedly discover, evaluate, fund and scale new sources of growth.
AI increasingly cuts across all of this work. GrowthSight helps leaders identify where AI can materially improve the speed, scale and economics of growth — while separating durable capability from the rapidly changing stream of tools and hype.