Strategic Insights for Superior Business Outcomes

Helping entrepreneurs build stronger businesses

Executive Performance On Demand.

When We’re Needed.
For As Long As We’re Needed.

Being an entrepreneur is difficult. We know because we’ve been in those shoes and stood next to others who do.

The Osborne Group’s team of business leaders approach entrepreneurship with a broad array of skills and a narrow focus aimed at achieving success. Our hands-on operating experience is gained from decades of leadership including mentoring and advising organizations on the same competitive challenges owner-operated businesses face today. We’ve been there and we can help.

As an entrepreneur, you face a multitude of strategic and day-to-day challenges in growing and scaling your business. We are uniquely qualified to help with the challenges and achieve the ultimate goal of building a stronger business.

We can help grow the profitability and value of your business by:

Developing and rolling out more effective revenue strategies
Enhancing your sales model and infrastructure
Revisiting your business strategy and opening new markets
Streamlining operations to improve effectiveness
Strengthening your management team on an interim or fractional basis
Working with you to improve customer satisfaction levels

We come from a wide range of industry sectors and some of us have been founders as well as the CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CHRO, SVP, VP, executive director and general manager with private, start-up, entrepreneurial and publicly traded businesses.

Our principals will help lift your entrepreneurial business to higher performance because we’ve done it before. We will point out how you can save time and money across your operations.

Here are some of the ways we can help your business:

Evaluating business readiness for a potential merger or acquisition
Improving working capital and effectively managing short-term expenses, inventory, payroll and other costs
Making your business partnerships work to your advantage
Managing business risks – do you have the strategy and protection you need?
Managing, training, and investing in salespeople for better results
Marketing and promoting your business more effectively
Recommending software and systems for mining information systems that use business data as a competitive edge
Resolving supply chain issues and improving procurement
From governance to intellectual property, from cybersecurity to capital projects – we have the business experience to help you address the issues and priorities keeping you up at night. If the long-term plan is to sell the business, we can help with the critical business components that will pay dividends in the next 12 to 24 months.

The Osborne Group, a dynamic team of highly experienced executives, has been helping organizations succeed since 1993. We provide a wide range of professional interim management, consulting, planning, and project management services. Our clients are small, medium size and multinational companies in for profit, not-for-profit and government agencies.

We have experience across many business sectors, including:

Consumer packaged goods
Digital marketing/sales
Healthcare
Finance and banking
Insurance
Manufacturing
Technology
Telecommunications
First Nations

Our principals have leadership experience and in-depth knowledge in all areas of business. We get to work quickly and get the job done to the highest standards.

On every assignment we:

Focus on our client’s needs first
Collaborate to develop the best solutions
Work with integrity
Provide excellent quality service
Commit to outstanding results

You’ve bought and merged several companies under one corporate umbrella. The business continues to experience double-digit organic growth, however, you’re facing serious challenges. Morale is flat. Communication across different systems is difficult. Consistent sales and customer service training and HR policies are virtually non-existent. How do you convince private investors or the bank that you can adequately address these issues and continue to grow profitably?

Osborne Group Principal Garry Wood dealt with this situation when he was founder/CEO and president of a national cell phone retailer. By successfully merging and structuring 12 businesses, WorldLynx became the largest and only national Bell/Alliant/Virgin branded dealer.

Wordlynx Wireless Case Study

It’s difficult to know where and how to start an integration process and address the ongoing operating challenges faced through most mergers and acquisitions. If they are not addressed quickly and properly, they can jeopardize the future viability of the business. As entrepreneurs, Osborne principals have met the challenges with integrations and operational obstacles. We’re ready to help you with your business challenges.

Contact us on how to improve business results through mergers and acquisitions.

Whether you’re managing a start-up, a fast-growing scale-up, or an established business, today’s environment requires best practices to promote transparency, accountability and risk management. Our principals have the experience with current best practices to help guide your finance function.

Financial services at a start-up can mean wearing a number of hats – developer, doer, manager and leader. Read how Osborne Principal Nash Nizam has mastered each of these roles during his career.

For more on Osborne principals and our finance team, contact us here.

Get in Touch

Our Clients Say It Best

Our organization needed a strategic plan to enhance our professionalism, establish clear direction, and define our goals. The Osborne Group guided us in creating this plan. Their approach was professional, organized, and structured, enabling full team participation. As a result, we now have dynamic policies, procedures, and sub-committees in place, allowing us to take a proactive approach.

Doug Morrison

President, Board Member, The Table Soup Kitchen Foundation

Faced with potential operational funding cuts, our not-for-profit organization recognized the urgent need to consider various scenarios to plan for financial change. We were looking for structure and experience to help us think through some difficult questions. The Osborne Group facilitated a workshop with our board and using our current strategic plan, they developed three financial scenarios for the organization to explore. The Osborne Group was very thorough and provided the external perspective needed to ask hard questions that led to in-depth conversations and great engagement from the board. We can now step back and look at our organization from a wider lens and we have a plan to best move forward. Overall, The Osborne Group provided incredible value and we are very pleased with the outcome.

Wendy Rading

Executive Director, Arts Etobicoke

Working as a small team had become insular and repetitive, and the challenges of dealing with a tight budget meant we had to be creative to make the most of the available funds. We worked with The Osborne Group to create our new strategic plan because they had experience working with family health teams. They facilitated thoughtful and inclusive discussions with our team which allowed us to generate new ideas, gain a fresh perspective, and get out of our comfort zone. It was all very worthwhile because we now have a realistic plan that includes actionable items that we can work towards to reach the end goals and help drive us forward. The new plan is useful and understandable across sectors and allows the funders to see the challenges that lie ahead but also future success.

Kate Malisani

Executive Director, Crosstown Family Health Team

We were working with a team that had grown dissatisfied and was facing a lot of changes which resulted in low engagement scores. The Osborne Group was able to provide an HR advisor who facilitated sessions to talk with the group about the changes and expectations, new ways of measuring performance, explained the policies and processes and helped them explore career opportunities. After the sessions with the team, we could tell that the team was opening up to new ways of working and realize the benefits of the changes. We feel that overall, the sessions had a positive effect and that we are now on the right path forward.

Marcel Badertscher, CHRE

Vice President, Human Resources, Heartland Mutual Insurance

Our agency was going through a period of major transition, and we lacked bench strength on our team to help assess what was going on and provide top level leadership. The Osborne Group provided an interim executive leader who listened and quickly assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. The ED made recommendations for new staff, restructuring and provided solid solutions that laid the groundwork for us to execute new initiatives and have long-term growth. We now have a stronger organization that’s armed with a strategic plan for a way forward.

Cindy Blakely

Founder, New Circles