About Us
ABOUT US
C-Level Partners: A Guiding Light in Managing Turbulence
C-Level Partners (CLP), an advisory and consulting service, began as a group of executives coming together to form a peer advisory group helping one another achieve career and business objectives. Some of the executives serve purely as advisers while others hold top-level positions in companies. Today, approximately 35 executives remain as part of the C-Level Partners networking and peer advisory group.
CLP is a business performance consultancy and advisory. We are currently comprised of four managing directors fully dedicated to help small to mid-size companies achieve value creation by revenue, improvements, margin accretion, while removing the business constraints to profitable growth. These partners have helped navigate the market turbulence as executives or as consultants for companies such as Boeing, US Cellular, HP, Kodak, Nationwide Insurance, Veterinary Pet Insurance, and Pareto Investments. Additionally, CLP draws on the available talent in the networking group when appropriate for projects that will benefit from the specific skill sets of a respective executive.
Navigating Turbulence
CLP believes the key to business success is identifying and removing the constraints and obstacles that prevent companies from achieving their desired results. Executives set goals, create strategies, evaluate risk, and establish strategic objectives along with detailed plans to achieve those objectives. Turbulence, in the form of constraints, will capsize even the best plans.
How well companies navigate turbulence determines their fate. Sometimes executives are too close to the issues to see them clearly. CLP is skilled at helping identify and solve the core issues – whatever they are.
Companies sometimes create their own turbulence within the company. For example, a dysfunctional executive team will find it difficult to make progress toward a common goal. Turbulence also comes from outside the company as markets shift, competitors get better, and regulations tighten, among other things.
We believe we can help you sort through your challenges and get focused on the issues that will create break through results. CLP is your “beacon for value creation.”
Who We Are
Our family-run business company has a long tradition in the industry. It was founded in 1982 by Joey Lord, who passed the business onto his son, Roberto, in 2005. We pride ourselves on providing outstanding customer service to order to guarantee that all of our clients are 100% satisfied.
Our Strategy
We use the PRASE methodology to work with you in identifying and removing constraints holding back performance. PRASE does not promise a fancy new strategy or steps to guaranteed success. The value in the PRASE methodology is the discipline for seeing things as they are and creating the plans and follow through to get results. Disciplined execution is the last step in the PRASE methodology. CLP can provide the recommendations and the plan as well as roll up their sleeves to execute the plan.
Our Core Values
Integrity
We say what we mean and do what we say – we meet our commitments
Trust
We are honest, competent and reliable
Value
Our services and associated fees provide unquestionable value.
Respect
We listen and judge the merit of ideas versus who expresses them
Our Guiding Principles
Independence
As consultants, we maintain independence from third parties, especially when decisions about suppliers or other vendors need to be made.
Objectivity
The advice we provide takes into account all opportunities and risks.
Competence
We only provide advice in areas in which we have proven expertise.
Confidentiality
We treat all of the knowledge and information gained during the consulting process with the utmost confidentiality.
"Process + People = Results."
- We are experienced, real world C-level executives with decades of diverse, global experience; walked in shoes of other senior executives. We understand business from the top down.
- We have been successful in the companies for which we worked, have dramatically improved business results as represented by our stories (SARS). We want to share this knowledge with other companies and help them be successful by being a guiding light to their senior executives whose companies are experiencing turbulence, changes in their life-cycle or are stalled in their growth and profit initiatives. Along the way we have had some unique experiences and developed a plethora of business and industry insights.
- We have built up a "war room" of capabilities, tools, industry contacts and skills - based on these learnings we developed a process based on the principle of:
- Disciplined creativity: Process + people = Results (revenue, margin growth, constraint mollification.)
- Our services and products are 1) Solution-focused and 2) Customer-focused.
- We provide an innovative/new and different (angle/perspective) look at current and anticipated business problems and bring customized, tailored solutions to every engagement.
- We are centered on primary activities of the value chain.
- Our Consultancy and advisory services are aimed at business performance- increasing revenue and margin (growth hacking) and constraint removal.
- Our recommendations come with hands-on implementation as our clients' desire.
- We have several different value programs including project work, interim executive work, and pure advisory services.
- Our services come with a: “Pay for what is fair℠” guarantee.
