Advisory

Swallowtail Group partners with your internal team to deliver an optimal result swiftly and efficiently. When your organization is facing critical challenges or is in need of transformation, engaging with experienced advisors results in more innovative solutions and allows your internal team to focus on ‘business as usual’ and have minimal distractions during the project.

Our core advisory services are leadership, operations, and governance.

 

Leadership

 

Swallowtail Group team members are highly experienced advisors on a wide range of leadership challenges. Examples include:

  • Establishing and sustaining a culture of empathetic leadership within multi-cultural organizations

  • Championing psychological safety by hardwiring inclusion and diversity into the organization’s DNA

  • Leading organizational change including the transformation of toxic cultures

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Operations

 

Swallowtail Group advisors are highly experienced in a wide range of complex operational challenges such as:

  • Overseeing due diligence and successful integration following mergers and acquisitions

  • Establishing business operations and maintaining compliance in both developed nations and remote and hostile locations

  • Building lasting relationships with key stakeholders and understanding their critical needs to optimize value creation for all

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Governance

 

Swallowtail Group advisors have deep expertise leading and advising on major governance matters including:

  • Leading critical commercial negotiations for multi-billion-dollar contracts

  • Creating and guiding legal, ethics, and compliance functions for multi-national organizations

  • Overseeing complex internal investigations, claims, and litigation

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Our full range of advisory services

  • Vision Casting and Culture

    Do you have a clear vision for your business and the right people on your team to deliver it?

    Defining the vision for your business and going beyond simply implementing the systems and processes to cultivating the organizational culture to achieve it.

  • Mergers and Acquisitions

    Are mergers and acquisitions a critical element of your growth strategy?

    From due diligence and transactional support through to a successful integration that harmonizes all aspects of your business and optimizes value.

  • Positive Psychology

    Are you taking good care of your team so that they have a strong sense of wellbeing and can perform well?

    Teams perform optimally in environments that balance the well-being of individuals, the organization, and societal stakeholders.

  • Global Expansion and Mobility

    Do you want to create opportunities to expand your business into new territories?

    Understanding the cultural norms and setting you up for operational success in new territories including some of the most austere and challenging locations in the world.

  • Strategy and Human Capital

    How do you know you have the right people on your team? Are they energized and capable of creating great value for your business?

    Creating high-value creation teams for your future workplace, leadership development programs to retain your key talent and strong succession plans to mitigate risk.

  • Legal, Compliance, and Risk Management

    Are you taking appropriate steps to mitigate and manage risks that could destroy your business? Are you dealing with major investigations or litigation?

    Supporting major compliance programs, complex litigation, and investigations; risk assessments and contingency planning to manage and mitigate risk.

  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

    How much diversity of thought do you have in the room when you are problem-solving and innovating?

    Building a stronger and more inclusive workforce to optimize innovation, improve decision-making, mitigate risk and better reflect the world in which we work.

  • Marketing and Communications

    Do all stakeholders in your business understand what you do and what you stand for?

    Communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders to deliver consistency in brand and messaging.

  • Capital Planning

    Do you have a growth partner strategy to ensure your business is successful and can grow?

    Finding the right partners to support your business growth imperatives and your working capital needs both for everyday operations and when unexpected opportunities arise.

  • Board Governance

    Do you have a clear and ethical line of sight into your business?

    Balancing provision of strategic guidance to the management team with effective oversight and vigilance of the critical issues that can make or break an organization.

What people are saying.

 

“Emma is a brilliant and creative thinker! She has the ability to synthesize and articulate what she hears from an individual in a way that brings it into focus and action. Beyond her corporate expertise, I especially value her empathy, directness and spiritual thoughtfulness.”

— Chief Strategy Officer and Entrepreneur, Benefits Administration Industry

“Emma has strong analytical skills and work ethic, is the epitome of professionalism and diplomacy, is an excellent communicator and writer, is very insightful at judging people and their strengths and weaknesses and as a result, she successfully hires talent for her organization. She is extremely conscientious and responsible and is fundamentally kind and decent (she is ‘good people’) and fun to be with!”

— Executive Vice President, Engineering and Construction Industry