Consulting and Advising

Our consulting and advisory services work is directed at helping clients address such challenges as:

  1. Negotiating terms & conditions with global suppliers, collaborating organizations, clients, customers
  2. Forming or managing strategic alliances, partnerships and joint ventures
  3. Breaking impasse in key negotiations
  4. Maintaining a value proposition when customers or competitors treat the product as a commodity
  5. Growing sales or protecting profit margins with significant customers
  6. Negotiating with single and sole source suppliers
  7. Maintaining critical relationships during the contentious unwinding of a deal
  8. Negotiating internally ("across the matrix") without line authority
  9. Engaging in collective bargaining processes, or managing other union-management conflicts
  10. Influencing government ministries and officials when they seem to have unilateral decision-making authority
  11. Negotiating with armed groups and other constituencies that perceive themselves to have a very strong "walk-away"
  12. Building consensus around key government policies

Our assistance can come in the form of specific transactional support, non-partisan facilitation of internal or outward-facing meetings, advice around articulating a unique value proposition, or help designing or improving organizational systems and processes that support negotiation and conflict management functions.

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