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Transforming Business Landscapes.

“I have had the pleasure of working with Stuart Morley and his team on many occasions and have always found Stuart to be extremely creative, very quick to identify and understand difficult issues and, more importantly, able to find practical solutions that work. Our work together focused largely on key strategic matters. Stuart always had effective ways to help me and my management team to work through a variety of complex issues, identify solutions and own the responsibility to make moves in new directions and/or implement corrective actions on a timely basis. I have recommended him to many other organizations and would not hesitate to do so again. He doesn’t disappoint!”
— STAN THOMPSON ( PRESIDENT, NOVARTIS CONSUMER HEALTH )
 
 
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Mastering the Art of Strategic Transformation

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Why the tagline

“Transforming Business Landscapes”

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We use the word transforming to represent the businesses facing disruption to their core business. The Warren Buffett idea of building a moat has little meaning for businesses where digital technology is not only eroding their core business but eroding the traditional boundaries of the industry.

We use words business landscapes because our clients do not only include businesses looking to scale up, it also includes the many agencies that support businesses in this transformation.

Clients call us because they need to make a key decision which is betting the future of their organization. For such a big decision (1) they need to invest the time and energy to get the decision right, (2) they need all their stakeholders on side to support the decision and (3) they need to execute many projects in unison.

How do we help clients?

We provide three steps: Discovery, Mindshift and Execution

Discovery involves helping the client select, from the many approaches, the tools will be suitable to help clients transform their business landscape.

Mindshift is the series of workshops that we develop, together with the client, to trigger the stakeholder participation to achieve the required mindshift by participants.

Execution is where the client leverages the mindshift the stakeholders achieved during the workshops to carry out rapid execution of the agreed transformation, with regular check in points we provide.

Why us?

We work with a worldwide team that in 2022 alone delivered more than 75 sessions - both in-person and online - in over 20 countries. Our approach leverages: from classrooms to board rooms, from aspiring college students to top global executives with tools that have been used for learning, strategy development, building venture capital ecosystems and developing transformational leaders around the globe.

Examples of the range of tools:

Workshops where global startup accelerators leveraged selected tools to help 40 startups master investor readiness to cover the entire journey from “idea to exit”. The tools reflected the very latest trends and market conditions for global startups.

Transformational tools were used to help 50 senior executives in the mobility sector through tailored workshop programs that covered key topics like how to build the optimal business model portfolio, how to develop a long-term strategic transformation journey, how to deal with activist investors, navigate challenging capital markets, negotiating successful M&As and driving long-term value creation in public markets; all key building blocks a management team needs to handle in real life.

A recent cohort of 80 university students split into 13 teams and went through workshops where students competed and collaborated through every step of the tools in a transformational journey. As part of the discovery process the students were gradually introduced to key concepts in strategy, transformation, business models and innovation in order to maximize the mindshift benefit from the workshops.

Assisted a large company wanting to set up its own corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, by taking participants through the different roles on a CVC team. For the participants, this was a completely new experience into the world of innovation, having to design and deliver strategies for successful corporate venturing. Teams worked together in the room, while the simulation was run 100% remotely.

For a client in the energy sector we helped 25 participants, split into five teams, all selecting a company within the energy transition to participate in carefully crafted workshops. Participants quickly commented on how realistic the challenges were including the recent market events, feedback from capital markets and challenges around M&A. Each 3-day workshop enabled participants to work through every key step of a transformation journey, with notable interest around corporate venturing and how to make this an even more strategic part of the larger innovation toolbox.

With 25 participants from several different accelerators we spent a full week immersed in an international startup ecosystem. The tools selected allowed participants a chance to experience a globally proven entrepreneurship process and resulting mindshift enlightened then on how it could be useful for their respective accelerator programs.

A professional consulting firm that specializes in the tech ecosystem with limited experience in private equity markets worked with us to select the tools to help 8 teams compete with tools to introduce participants to the world of fund raising and fund management in the venture capital.

 

Our Services

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Our Clients

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Chief Executive Officers

The CEO in the private investment space are often tasked with developing the strategy, budget, financing and business models. We often say this role requires “superhuman leadership skills”.

Board Members

Board members benefit from an overarching view on business models and strategy for the organizations they represent. This will help equip boards for better strategy discussions, better business model discussions and – ultimately – building better organizations. 

Chief Financial Officer

The CFO is rarely able to take on a true strategic role. For our clients who do they are impressed at the more strategic, high-impact finance leaders can provide to the organization. CFOs can use the tools to create both understanding, clarity and alignment around new, innovate business models

Communications Directors

Entrepreneurial organizations, live on strong communications. With a wide variety of stakeholders, the communications job is often challenging.  We help Communications Directors to use simple, visual language to create clarity and understanding around evolving business models. That’s something to communicate!

Business School Faculty

Faculty and students benefit from an overarching view on business models and strategy. This will help equip faculty and students for better strategy discussions, better business model discussions and – ultimately – building better private investment organizations.

Governments 

Governments play a key role in any cluster initiatives. We work with industry, finance, economic development and industry sectors (agri-food, technology etc.) on ecosystem policies and financing.

Regional Agencies

Regional agencies programs play a crucial role in managing and shaping ecosystem and cluster business models. Through their role as financing body, expert advisor or simply a genuine partner, regional agencies can greatly drive the implementation of new innovative cluster business models in practice.

 

About Us

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We specialize in advising leaders through the entrepreneurial fog of scaling businesses.

 

Why use our services:

  1. How is this different from everything else you have seen/ heard about scale up landscape?

    We provide focused coaching and one day team alignment session – not consulting reports and PowerPoint decks.

    Our secret sauce is the carefully crafted process using one-page tools to help these leaders secure alignment with stakeholders in one day sessions.

    We understand the landscape as we are one of the very few advisors with hands on experience of:

    • Actually, running a venture capital business,

    • Leading private companies during rapid change,

    • Managing private equity portfolios involved in mergers and acquisitions,

    • Growing entrepreneurial ecosystems, and

    • Running an institutional agency providing grants to business.

  2. What is in it for me?
    A chance to get quick insights with small, time-focused sessions.

  3. How do I know if this is for real?
    Test drive with a coaching session.

  4. The real problem is?
    Much of the insight is trapped in the leaders’ heads and we need quick and effective ways to unlock those insights into formats that are easy for stakeholders to understand and support.

  5. Who is to blame?
    When leaders turn to consultants for help consultants typically sell a process that takes months and the client end ups with reports and decks of PowerPoint slides, huge fees and no action. It is counter initiative to hire consultants who can help leaders achieve better results from (1) focused coaching sessions to scope the need and (2) one day team alignment exercises that end up with a one page document that participants translate into action.

  6. Why now?
    Delays do not solve problems, taking action solves problems.

  7. Why trust Morley Consulting?
    We focus on action does not reports. This has been our speciality for decades. We can provide client references that tie to your specific challenges.

  8. How does it work?
    Reach out to Morley Consulting to have a quick discussion to see if there is a fit

  9. How can I get started?
    Email or call us for a chat to see if we can help.

  10. What do I have to lose?
    Take 30 minutes to book a call and chat to see if Morley Consulting can help.

Stuart Morley, MBA

 

Stuart Morley – Master Strategist*, Speaker & Author

Stuart Morley, MBA, leads a team of experts with the management depth, experience plus the passion to help unlock the complex strategic issues and find simple, yet effective solutions to grow the business.

Stuart’s success as a Master Strategist is reflected in the speed a leader is able to drive improvements in bottom line results, market share, and revitalized corporate culture.

Stuart has advised more than 300 companies in 27 different industries to drive revenues and bottom line performance through unlocking strategic obstacles.

Stuart conducts speaking engagements, workshops and strategic mentoring for business leaders across Canada. He is well known for his Strategic Map Process to put the plan for a business on one page in one day. He also conducts workshops for professionals on Pricing Strategies That Work.

Michael Badham, Mira Ray of HBEC, and Stuart Morley with the Creative Collaboration Award at the Barrie Mayor’s Innovation Awards 2023.

 

Stuart is a Past President of the American Marketing Association (Toronto Chapter), a former Investment Banker and a former Management Consultant with Deloitte Consulting. Stuart completed his MBA at the University of South Africa and moved to Canada with his family in 1986.

A Master Strategist* is the catalyst to the leader of the company to focus on turning the big picture into enhanced business performance and shareholder value. Very few people are master strategists, as 98% of people in the business world are tactical, 1.8% are idea focused and usually spend time in academic pursuits while the remaining 0.2% are the master strategists who can see the big picture and focus with laser like precision on what needs to be done and persuade business leaders to proceed with confidence to secure results with greater speed than ever before.

According to a recent study by Queen’s University the number one future role for CEO’s and their team is to build their competency as strategists, including the competencies of strategic thinking, decision-making and critical thinking.

In a recent interview on the Accelerating Operational Performance podcast, host Greg Schinkel sits down with seasoned business professional Stuart Morley. With over 20 years of experience and a unique blend of academic knowledge and real-world expertise, Stuart shares his journey, business strategies, and passion for helping companies scale and grow:

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned executive, this episode and blog offers valuable lessons on achieving business success. Don't miss out on Stuart's wisdom and practical advice.