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“Connie Tang is a strategic business thinker. She is able to quickly put herself in your shoes and assist you with your own business dilemmas; small or large, offering solutions that are grounded with heartfelt care for your success.”

Angela Loehr Chrysler | President & CEO Team National

Here’s how we can help

 
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CEO Transition & Onboarding

 

We assist in smooth transitions of leadership by providing advisory services to appointed CEOs and their organizations. Ownership groups and equity partners often turn to us when they’re in need of an experienced operator during planned and unplanned leadership changes. 

  • Establish systems to organize and prioritize measurable, time-bound action plans to achieve short- to long-term strategic impact and results

  • Evaluate & develop reporting structures between leader, leadership teams and stakeholder groups

  • Establish sound and relevant communications cadence with the Board of Directors, Investors and/or Ownership

 
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Strategic Development

 

With deep expertise in business turnarounds, international expansion, legacy brand growth and development, and market segmentation, we support organizations and leadership teams in identifying, developing, and executing on strategic initiatives towards growth.

  • Business strategy development including revenue channel discovery and assessment; brand positioning; market segment diversification, and customer development

  • Top-to-bottom planning for business pivot execution

  • Assessments of businesses with challenges, such as: business decline, cash flow shortage and compromised operational infrastructure

 
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Investment Due Diligence

 

 Gritty offers a wide array of support and services to seasoned investors seeking profitable opportunities with business investment ventures, mergers, and/or acquisitions.

  • SWOT/ value stream mapping potential investment(s)

  • Index brand positioning & product/category roadmaps

  • Customer value and contribution review

 
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Organizational Design

 

Extensive hands-on experience in assessing and structuring teams guides our organizational design consulting, in order to optimize success in strategic execution. At Gritty, we believe that organization follows strategy, not the other way around.

  • Talent and needs gap assessments

  • Roadmap cross functional team designs to align with short-, mid- and long-term strategic objectives.

  • Resource allocation reviews against overall company P & L, expenses and budget planning

 
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

 

Gritty is uniquely equipped with deep knowledge in global and multicultural corporate environments. Developed across countries near and far, these strengths are foundational to how we approach diversity, equity & inclusion solutions. The social context of the world we live in today has evolved and will continue to do so—a company’s ability to navigate with agility while staying true to its core values is a necessity.

  • Assessment & development of programs for stakeholder groups

  • Employee culture cultivation initiatives

  • Focused, needs-based marketing & communications programs to customer segments

 

 
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Brand Revitalization & Evolution 

 

Gritty identifies the strategic initiatives necessary for brand relevance, connection and sustainable business acquisition, retention, and productivity growth. Our experience ranges from new business incubation workshops to legacy brand evolutions, pivots, and refreshes, resulting in total company change management and transformation.

  • 360 brand SWOT assessments

  • Identification of pathways for brand evolution & refresh

  • Planning & leading legacy brand revitalizations and pivots

  • Purpose, Mission, Vision and Values Development

 
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International & Market Expansion

 

Gritty has engaged in multicultural and multilingual US market segment development and international expansion efforts. We leverage this extensive experience to help companies identify expansion opportunities among stakeholder groups, geographies and more.

  • Demographic diversification initiatives

  • Market segment and growth potential evaluation: customer, seller, affiliate, independent distributor base

  • Affiliate business model exploration: self-incubated business propositions, M&A’s, joint ventures, investment ventures, global expansion

 
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Operational Design & Excellence

 

We help organizations maximize operational infrastructure and deliverables with a focus on: quality, efficiency, productivity, and world-class service levels for memorable and delightful customer experiences and engagement. From distribution and warehouse to customer service/call center support.

  • Distribution and warehouse service reviews

  • Supply chain functional areas analysis 

  • Customer service best practices review and multilingual solutions development

Let’s get gritty.

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