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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.

Our Clients Say It Best

Homepage – Table Soup Kitchen Foundation

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
Homepage Arts Etobicoke

Confrontée à des réductions potentielles de son financement opérationnel, notre organisation à but non lucratif a reconnu qu’il était urgent d’envisager différents scénarios pour planifier les changements financiers. Nous étions à la recherche d’une structure et d’une expérience pour nous aider à réfléchir à des questions difficiles. Le Groupe Osborne a animé un atelier avec notre conseil d’administration et, sur la base de notre plan stratégique actuel, il a élaboré trois scénarios financiers à explorer par l’organisation. Le Groupe Osborne a été très minutieux et a fourni la perspective externe nécessaire pour poser des questions difficiles qui ont mené à des conversations approfondies et à un grand engagement de la part du conseil d’administration. Nous pouvons maintenant prendre du recul et regarder notre organisation d’un point de vue plus large et nous avons un plan pour aller de l’avant. Dans l’ensemble, le Groupe Osborne a offert une valeur incroyable et nous sommes très satisfaits du résultat.

Wendy Rading
Executive Director, Arts Etobicoke
Homepage – Cross Town

Le travail en petites équipes était devenu insulaire et répétitif, et les défis liés à la gestion d’un budget serré nous obligeaient à faire preuve de créativité pour tirer le meilleur parti des fonds disponibles. Nous avons travaillé avec le Groupe Osborne pour créer notre nouveau plan stratégique parce que le Groupe avait l’habitude de travailler avec des équipes de santé familiale. Le Groupe a facilité des discussions réfléchies et inclusives avec notre équipe, ce qui nous a permis de générer de nouvelles idées, d’acquérir une nouvelle perspective et de sortir de notre zone de confort. Tout cela en valait la peine, car nous disposons désormais d’un plan réaliste comprenant des éléments réalisables sur lesquels nous pouvons travailler pour atteindre les objectifs finaux et nous aider à aller de l’avant. Le nouveau plan est utile et compréhensible dans tous les secteurs et permet aux bailleurs de fonds de voir les défis à venir, mais aussi les succès futurs.

Kate Malisani
Executive Director, Crosstown Family Health Team
Homepage – Heartland Mutual Insurance

Nous travaillions avec une équipe qui était devenue insatisfaite et qui devait faire face à de nombreux changements, ce qui se traduisait par un faible taux d’engagement. Le Groupe Osborne a pu mettre un conseiller en ressources humaines à notre disposition; cette personne a animé des séances pour parler avec le groupe des changements, des attentes et des nouvelles façons de mesurer les performances, a expliqué les politiques et les processus, et aider les membres du groupe à explorer les opportunités de carrière. Après les séances avec l’équipe, nous avons pu constater qu’elle s’ouvrait à de nouvelles méthodes de travail et réalisait les avantages des changements. Nous pensons que, dans l’ensemble, les séances ont eu un effet positif et que nous sommes maintenant sur la bonne voie.

Marcel Badertscher, CHRE
Vice President, Human Resources, Heartland Mutual Insurance
Homepage – New Circles

Notre agence traversait une période de transition majeure et nous manquions de personnel qualifié dans notre équipe pour nous aider à évaluer ce qui se passait et à assurer un leadership au plus haut niveau. Le Groupe Osborne a fourni un dirigeant intérimaire qui a écouté et rapidement évalué les forces et les faiblesses de l’organisation. Le DE a formulé des recommandations en matière de recrutement et de restructuration et a fourni des solutions solides qui ont jeté les bases de la mise en œuvre de nouvelles initiatives et d’une croissance à long terme. Nous disposons désormais d’une organisation plus forte, armée d’un plan stratégique pour aller de l’avant.

Cindy Blakely
Founder, New Circles

Clients We Have Worked With

Our streamlined 3 step process means that there is no wasted time. We work to:

Listen

We begin working with
you by simply listening.

Assess

We determine the key
leading business problems
that your organization faces.

Address

We devise the best solutions
for your business so you will
see quick and measurable results.

Is your business already established and generating revenue? If so, you qualify for an introductory consultation.