Enhance Private Equity – Portfolio Company Alignment

Impact can support you as you navigate the unique challenges of PE transitions to ensure success, growth, and integration.

Streamline and centralize how your Private Equity firm integrates and develops Portfolio Company leaders

You’re concerned about your Portfolio Company’s ability to achieve the results you need at the highest levels – both from its leadership and the broader team. You’re committed to supporting the team’s growth and ensuring everyone achieves the desired outcomes. But how can you effectively align all the stakeholders to maximize success while minimizing disruptions and momentum loss?

Or perhaps your PE Partners and Portfolio Company leadership are having a difficult time seeing eye to eye, developing trust, and getting to a place where you feel they can collaborate effectively to allow everyone to win. Building trust and fostering effective collaboration can be tough when one side has built the company’s foundation, and the other is new to the table but brings valuable financial, technical, and strategic resources. Both sides have talented individuals who want the company to thrive. The key is to ensure swift alignment between your firm and the Portfolio Company’s leadership, and it’s crucial to set aside any emotional barriers to bridge this gap . How can you prevent unnecessary tension and achieve a unified approach for mutual success?

Our Impact since 2020...

More than

25,000

conversations with senior leaders for 360 interviews

More than

650

coaching programs delivered

Over

2,800

participants coached

95%

likely to recommend rating

99%

successful coach-client matches

Our Enhance Private Equity – Portfolio Company Alignment Services can help

Our goal is to help your PE Partners streamline and centralize the way they integrate and develop leaders. A dedicated Impact Coach team ensures your PE Partners align with Portfolio Company leadership faster and in a way that’s in keeping with financial objectives.

Acclerate Alignment between PE Partners & Portfolio Company’s Leadership – Whether it’s a newly hired or existing team, we work to ensure you quickly establish trust, empathy, effectiveness, and strategic alignment by prioritizing communication and stability.

Create a Strategic & Targeted Talent Management Plan for Portfolio Company Leadership – As an underappreciated factor of investment success, developing existing talent is key. Through leadership assessments, centralizing talent initiatives, identifying high-potentials, and coach-facilitated sessions at the leadership and board-level, we support talent strategies and capabilities.

Impact can help

Prioritize executive development. Accelerate alignment between your PE firm and your Portfolio Company CEOs. Create a strategic, targeted, talent management plan for your PC leadership.

What our clients say about our Enhance Private Equity – Portfolio Company Alignment Services

"The model Impact Coaches and Sandra are using is so applicable to what many PE firms are trying to do. It all comes down to people, and they help both sides be more effective. It’s hard not to see it as essential."

Portfolio Company Board Member

"Our coach is the bridge. Having that voice in the middle is very helpful. And they are the only one that plays that bridge role. Our coach is an honest informed broker in between."

Portfolio Company CEO

"With our Impact coach, there’s an immediate trust and I really respect the value and knowledge that they bring around human capital and around optimizing HR functions - which we don’t have."

Portfolio Company CEO

"Our coach is like a having a great diplomat. Both sides are on the same team, and both want to win so it’s very helpful to have that person to help bridge the different views on how to get there. Being that bridge is their superpower and it’s bringing people together to make better decisions."

PE Firm Partner

"Looking at the cost per person, we will realize more than that in a bump in productivity for each of these people and therefore it’s an easy decision to make. We are going to get it back, whether in growth, leadership, or profitability, we just will."

Portfolio Company CEO

The Impact difference

Impact can support you as you navigate the unique challenges of PE transitions to ensure success, growth, and integration for both your PE Partners and Portfolio Companies.

Our coaches bring extensive experience and practical strategies for PE transitions, offering real-world support that your PE Partners and Portfolio Company CEOs can use immediately.
With both personal and coaching experience in PE firms and with Portfolio Company leaders, we have a solid knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the unique dynamics of PE/Portfolio Company relationships.
We come with the experience, maturity, and skills to become a trusted partner to PE Partners, CEOs, and their boards.

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Talk to us about how our Enhance Private Equity – Portfolio Company Alignment Services can help you achieve your goals and support your investments.

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Enhance Private Equity – Portfolio Company Alignment

A selection of authentic, real life insights based on countless conversations in the trenches with C-suite executives about today’s most pressing issues.