Doesn’t matter what industry you are in with your ambitions, sometimes you get stuck and you just can’t move forward. You need a bit of a push, a bit of feedback, solutions, ideas, and encouragement.
Whether you want some marketing advice for your upcoming product, a few solid pointers for your company, new strategies for aligning your business with a constantly changing market, diligent thoughts toward a forthcoming decision, a spot of some general business coaching or you need unbiased perspective to make sure that everything goes well, I can help you out.
Let’s Talk
You and me, face to face.
We sit down for an hour, and we talk through whatever you are stuck in – or whatever you are hoping to achieve. In Moscow it’s probably better to meet each other in person. If we are not in the same city, it can happen online, via phone or Skype, Hangout or whatever video meeting platform you are accustomed to.
In your own words describe what it seems to you is the problem, what is bothering you and we’ll find the whys and wherefores.
I’ll give you the advice, the encouragement, the tools, and – if necessary – the shove you need to get you moving to the next level. And if the problem is not too complex you’ll come away with a set of very practical next steps.
Drop me a message, and we can get started.
Do You Need a Consultation?
Sometimes, to resolve doubts or to find answers to specific questions, it is useful to discuss an exciting question in depth and in detail with many people.
You may be facing a difficult decision that does not have clear choices or you need an unbiased opinion of a professional to weigh once again all the pros and cons by looking at the arguments with an open mind, from the outside, through a prism of diverse experience.
Either you need a sparring partner to criticize ideas and solutions, or to generate them, a professional with multifaceted experience who can understand your business situation and challenge your opinions and views.
A one-time consultation can be quite different in terms of the content and range of issues discussed. You can tap into the years of divers consulting background to benefit from it. We will arrange a convenient day and time, organize a telephone or video call and discuss in about an hour what is your concern and how to solve your problem in the best way.
Consultations may be one-off or become regular, depending on your needs.
Choose a date and time for a consultation so we can get started.
Some examples of possible consultation formats:
Generic consultation on business issues
Consultation on the widest possible range of issues
Consultation regarding specific management situation
Advice on day-to-day management issues or complex management tasks
Consultations on business development
Consultations on entering a new market, creating and launching a product, increasing market share, etc.
Want a Visit? Or Need a Support?
Sometimes a short meeting is not enough, to talk by the phone or through the Internet is uncomfortable or we have no opportunity to meet in Moscow.
I can come to your office, headquarter, business-unit out of Moscow, Russia, CIS. I can help brainstorm whatever you do, participate in the meeting, make brief diagnosis or hold a workshop / seminar / trainings. We also can do this remotely online.
Sometimes one visit is enough. Often, they become regular for a period. It might be helpful when a day-to-day business or changes you are driving need non-partisan, unbiased opinion from outside. Maybe it’s a new for company unique project or anything but easy times in business. Sometimes you need support in strategic sessions, an outside member of the board or fortify the advisory.
I offer a simple and convenient format for working together on your issues, when you can benefit from years of a diverse experience. You can consider it as attracting expertise, management support, outsourcing of management functions, etc. We can agree on virtually any method and format of consulting support, regular or occasional.
Anyway, this puts me on your team. Shall we begin?
Some examples of possible consulting support:
A reliable guide, a professional brother-in-arms, a trusted consigliere, a sparring partner – we determine the format and what we will achieve together
Bringing in the expertise to weigh in and add up to complex, multi-stage decisions that involve many participants
A management consultant can be quite useful to a startup by sorting out your bold ideas and turning them into reality
During implementation of an IT system
To prepare your business processes for automation and set clear and conscious task definition for the IT company
Have a Case to Solve?
More often I am helpful in large-scale, non-regular activities.
I know how to deliver in different ways: as a performer of nontrivial tasks and as a drilling-down problem-digger who not only identifies the causes of problems, but correctly sets and manages tasks to address them as well. If you are absolutely sure about tasks to accomplish, I will help you plan and organize a project, adapt a methodology, and bring the project to a successful completion, if need be, with a small number of my experienced colleagues. Whether it is a process optimization, performance management tool developing (balanced scorecard for instance), implementation of a strategic management system, strategy finding, or support in making a complex strategic decision – you will get professional hand. My experience allows me to accomplish an assignment successfully.
From time to time, you reflect on a task too long instead to get it done. It happens if a task causes doubts, hesitations, and the ways of solving it are diverse and not transparent. It’s sure sign you need to drilldown, to discover the problem’s bottom and find out the reasons. Conduct joint discussions or a series of independent interviews with managers, or maybe just talk about the situation in detail and without rushing. Whatever it is, I know how to work with the most kind of challenging, out of routine tasks, problem and reasons understanding.
But I can’t be of help with anything above my head or what doesn’t interest me, even if a client want a miracle. I’m not a huge mega-group “All-Sorts-of-Consulting”, and the hand you shake at our very first meeting will print the answers to your questions, pick up the phone to your calls, carefully record theses at meetings and lead projects to completion – and I assure you, your tasks are in safe hands.
My clients rarely receive proposals that go beyond a single A4 sheet. You will not notice footers with the names of another project in the deliverables and will not find out that you suddenly become an executive of a completely unfamiliar company. The reports you will receive are useless as a paperweight or as a battery test to check the mental agility the managers of yours. Instead, they are as comprehensible as possible, written in the language you talk, and can not only be studied in a reasonable time, but become a practical guide to solve particular case as well.
There are lots of ways this can work – so, send me a message and let’s get talking about it.
FInd out more about my approach and typical consulting service in general. I am also offering a distinguished set of typical service depending on the type of business you are in:
For the stage
Formation of a Business
If You Are
- Entrepreneur,
- Head of new business line,
- Startuper
- starting a new business
- developing a new business line
- launching a new product or service
- entering a new market or territory
- seeking advice or criticism of his ideas
Glance at “Consulting & Advising” services
For the stage
Development of a Business
If You Are
- Owner or
- Director of a mid-sized business
- looking for solutions to the company’s growth problems
- thinking about business strategy
- fighting for profitability and cost control
- working on a growing business structure
Take a look at “Business Consulting” services
For the stage
Transformation of a Business
If You Are
- Shareholder,
- Board Director,
- Executive in an Enterprise,
- making strategic decisions
- thinking about a long-term growth of the corporation
- working on operational performance
- looking for a formula for an optimal structure
Explore “Management Consulting” services
My work has already helped
to improve management in companies in 11 countries, operating in 137 cities
The Clients Are Saying:
Vitaly’s opinion sometimes dissonates with our well-established ideas, but he knows how to be very convincing
Besides the impeccable content of the study, I would like to note a vivid and convincing presentation of the results. Impressive!
Excellent response to suggestions and comments in the course of the project and an in-depth knowledge of the “Strategy Development” theme. Much was beyond my expectations.
In the project “Strategic Management Design and Implementation” it is especially worth mentioning Vitaly’s commitment, despite the external circumstance. All promises were fulfilled timely and in full. Even a bit more!
We are grateful for the high-quality and honest work and looking forward to new cooperation!
In the “Strategy development” project, the result exceeded expectations in terms of depth and quality. Professionally done work!
The results delivered actually exceeded the required scope: we received a greater degree of detail on the criteria and a more complete list in the questionnaires. The result exceeded our expectations.
I can’t help but praise Vitaly’s determination. The project has always returned on its way to the planned results, despite all the objective difficulties.
Working with Vitaly is comfortable and productive
The consistency and persuasiveness of Vitaly’s actions helped us to carry out a difficult and complex business reorganization without complications. We learn first hand how much a solid experience in a transformation means.
Your musical tastes are so-so, but your vision is impressive, complex and has a long horizon.
Strategic changes are always a challenge. With Vitaly’s participation, we felt confident in their implementation.
Apparently, Vitaly’s experience in the Norton-Kaplan’s company was not in vain. The developed Balanced Scorecard facilitated greatly our long-term management and mobilized leadership.
Thanks to Vitaly, we began to manage the company strategically
We have made organizational changes faster and more efficiently than expected from the start. Everything was very professional.
In developing and implementing the Balanced Scorecard, all the work was done in good faith. Our expectations were either met or exceeded.
Our project was not typical, as it focused on criteria for evaluating the strategic process in a broad context. We are quite satisfied with the result. We received all the information we needed.
Vitaly’s excellent quality is his ability to become quickly integrated into the team and look at the company from the inside, which allows him to achieve maximum results in the task at hand.
Vitaly really knows how to solve complex business problems!
The consistency and persuasiveness of Vitaly’s actions helped us to carry out a difficult and complex business reorganization without complications. We learn first hand how much a solid experience in a transformation means.