Marakon

Our senior-led partner teams ensures we bring the experience to support CEOs in addressing the unique challenges of their role. We secure the trust of our clients through our deep commitment to the company and individual success.

Our offer:

• CEO on-boarding and 100 day plans
• Board and executive team engagement
• Office of the CEO capability augmentation
• Investor communications
• CEO coaching and career development

We work with leadership teams at key inflection points to address critical questions around vision & goal setting and aligning the portfolio shape, the organization and its resources to enable delivery.

Our offer:

• Vision, mission and goal alignment
• View of the future and portfolio shape
• Corporate structure, governance, and management model
• Aligning strategy and sustainability (ESG)
• Financial framework and key metrics

Our research has shown M&A is an important tool to portfolio management and capital re-allocating. However, successful M&A is hard – most deals do not create value, and the process is fraught with risk. We support clients across the M&A lifecycle, from inception to implementation, injecting strategic, financial, and managerial discipline to maximize the odds of a winning outcome.

Our offer:

• Portfolio logic and target/buyer screening
• Deal facilitation and value creation
• Strategic due diligence, value creation assessments, and pre- post- merger integration
• Divestment and dis-integration logic
• Transformational M&A

We bring facts that are grounded in the market reality. We develop an understanding of the addressable market based on consumer needs and offer design that is linked to profit headroom and financial outcomes. We help BU management teams ensure that resources are aligned to the most impactful value-accretive opportunities.

Our offer:

• Market positioning and competitive advantage
• Growth strategy
• Customer value
• Business model and offer innovation

Resource allocation is the primary driver of company performance. We help management teams step-back from operational improvement and re-examine in a disciplined way how capital, assets, talent, management time is being distributed across the portfolio to ensure highest value return on investment.

Our offer:

• Sources and drivers of value
• Addressing the tail
• Resource alignment and mapping

We partner with leadership teams to design the organizational structure and accountabilities to consistently identify and deliver winning strategies. We focus on establishing the internal capabilities, processes and practices to ensure that success is repeatable and sustainable.

Our offer:

• Target operating model
• Board and executive team configuration
• Corporate centre
• Functions and shared services
• Culture and change management

Philip Yuzpe, President and COO – Sentry Investments
From start to finish Marakon is personally invested in the partnership and relentlessly pursues the right answers and optimal outcomes. From Marakon you will get robust and leading strategic thinking, and a roadmap to implementation. They have set themselves apart within their industry, and we are a better company for having partnered with them.

Head of Strategy – Large online brokerage
Marakon applied a disciplined approach to help us navigate our complex questions. They employ a good blend of classic strategy approaches, advanced analytics and a much welcomed sense of pragmatism.

Bridgette Heller, Former EVP and President – Merck Consumer Care
The partnership is unparalleled. Marakon helped us to develop the right strategic priorities and build-out the capabilities to deliver against them. In that way we were able to create significant value in the business in a relatively short time — disciplined value creation.

CEO – Aviva UK
Marakon’s strategic thinking, organisational insights and personal dedication to our success is the best I have experienced in the strategy space.

The Economist
A consultancy that has advised some of the world’s most consistently successful companies.

Fortune
An absolutely top notch consultancy, among the half-dozen firms that form the elite in strategy consulting.

Former Chairman – Barclays
Their corporate strategy work is the best I have seen in 20 years of working with top consulting firms. They are original thinkers with a challenging point of view.

Former Chairman & CEO – Xerox
They have a unique, highly disciplined approach to strategic decision making and worked closely with our management to tailor it to the business situation and culture at Xerox.

Former CEO – Prudential
They bring a rigorous process focussed on intrinsic value creation. They really get under the skin of the economics and value of our business.

Former CEO – BP
They allow us to translate strategy into action and deliver a strategy that we are able to implement

Former CEO – Cardinal Health
Marakon did a great job for us. Their strategic thinking is financially disciplined, and they had a big impact on our thinking and decision-making. They bring real clarity to our focus on growing long-term value.

Former Chief Strategic Officer – Heineken
Their strategic logic and intellect is miles better than the rest. They draw a conclusion and put it on the table with confidence and belief; the others keep working the facts but don’t tell us what they think we should do.

CEO – Nordstrom
With Marakon we get the right answers, not the answers we want to hear.

Former Chairman & CEO – Gillette
They are different from other top-tier consultancies. They brought their general management perspective and expertise as an important team member working on our financial and business turnaround.

Former Chairman & CEO – Roche
Marakon has a unique and effective approach in working with our leadership team to sharpen its focus on value creation, develop distinctive strategies and build management capabilities to maximize value. They are trusted advisors in helping us to win for the future.