Client Accomplishments

What differentiates AkersDavis is our ability to quickly integrate into your business based on our broad industry and client experience.

Value added coaching and business accomplishments we have brought to client organizations include:

Coaching Engagements

• CFO, assimilate the finance team to changing business priorities.
• SVP Marketing winning the hearts and minds of his leadership team.
• Business CFO to restructure and align department priorities to talent creating an environment of greater contribution and engagement.
• COO to improve communication skills and organization presence.
• SVP Information Systems to expand his social networking capability.
• VP Human Resources to develop a compelling vision.
• VP Sales to restructure national sales organization preparing for expanding markets and changing distribution channels.
• Director Risk Management to work on leadership style and change as the key to his and the team's success.
• VP HR to design and implement a performance management process focused on values, vision and mission.
• VP Operations to improve his executive presence and leadership messaging.
• VP Research & Development to build executive and peer relationships.
• VP Procurement to assimilate newly hired team.
• VP IS to explore leadership purpose and assimilate to changing organization structure and reporting relationships.
• CFO, build leadership development plan.
  

Management Consulting

Insurance

• Coached Business CFO's of a Fortune 200 employee benefits company to develop and align talent with organization priorities using a succession framework, development planning, and rotational scheduling.
• Built a mentoring program for this Fortune 500 Property Casualty Insurer to support organization wide leadership development strategy.
• Designed a performance management system focused on employee engagement and contribution for a specialty insurer undergoing significant organization change.
  

Consumer Products

• Coached Marketing Leadership Team to greater alignment tying the business strategy to execution priorities ultimately achieving greater business results.
• Partnered with a Fortune 500 CFO to restructure the worldwide finance organization. Aligned disparate internal-based priorities to business plan and client-driven initiatives.
• Working with Customer Service Managers, created structure to profitably merge and restructure the financial and customer services divisions improving service to the company's largest distributors. Project resulted in a 20% cost reduction.
• Led HR due diligence and integration of a highly successful acquisition to grow mail order business.  Deal hit financial targets.  Return on capital increased 4.9% in first nine months while headcount was reduced 39%.
• Partnered with a Business Division President to conduct analyses to identify components of discretionary $40m marketing budget reducing processes across eight businesses to reinvest cash to brand strategy.
• Designed and implemented a multi-phase leadership development project for 750 branch managers of a Fortune 500 rental firm; including customized RFP process. 
  

Private Equity

• Partnered with the VP New Initiatives of a major franchise and grocery brand to develop a strategic business plan attracting new customers while expanding markets and distribution channels.
• Provided a framework for business leaders to assess the value of their HR services. Worked with the executive team to transition HR from tactical “order takers” to proactive business advisors.
  

Telecommunications

• Educated leaders of a $250m cable installation service provider on how to use organization and succession planning as a tool to support aggressive national expansion goals.