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Private Equity

Leadership Advisory for the Private Equity Lifecycle

Leadership is an increasingly critical lever across the investment cycle. TMG partners with investors and portfolio leaders to translate leadership performance into enterprise value – helping sponsors de-risk execution, accelerate traction, and strengthen leadership performance from diligence through exit.

Our work spans both the portfolio and the fund itself, strengthening leadership execution in each investment while elevating sponsor leadership capability and continuity.

At the center of our approach is the TMG Leadership Operating SystemSM — a practical, repeatable framework that connects leadership capability to value creation through three engines:

Leadership Intelligence
Insight + Foresight

Provides a clear, thesis-specific view of leadership capability and execution risk. Includes leadership assessment, team diagnostics, and organizational depth signals tied directly to the investment thesis.

Leadership Clarity
Alignment + Confidence

Aligns leaders, sponsors, and boards around priorities, decision cadence, roles, and expectations. Ensures teams are synchronized to the value creation plan and communicate with clarity and consistency.

Leadership Performance
Acceleration + Impact

Strengthens the behaviors, accountability, and execution discipline required to deliver results at investor speed. Sustains leadership effectiveness through coaching, feedback loops, and team recalibration.

These engines power every phase of value creation – from diligence to exit & at the fund-level:

01. Diligence

Leadership Confidence Index

Build pre-close conviction through thesis-specific leadership assessments of the CEO, C-suite, and organizational depth. Identifies capability, readiness, and execution risk to give investors the same clarity on leadership that they expect from financial and commercial diligence.

Solutions:

  • Leadership scorecard
  • CEO/C-suite/org assessments
  • Team heat map & depth insights
  • Fit-to-thesis index + summary

02. Post-Close

100-Day Acceleration Lab

Align sponsor, board, CEO, and leadership team on priorities, cadence, and communication to accelerate post-close traction.

Solutions:

  • Pre-hire CEO and C-suite assessments
  • CEO & leader onboarding plan
  • Leadership transition & C-suite coaching
  • C-suite alignment workshops
  • 100 Day Alignment & Pulse Checks

03. M&A / Scale-Up

Integration Catalyst

Supports leadership through integration or rapid expansion, where cohesion determines whether value is realized or lost. Aligns decision rights, roles, and cultural norms to sustain speed and execution discipline across newly combined teams.

Solutions:

  • Leadership integration assessment
  • Executive coaching
  • Team alignment workshop

04. Mid-Hold

Leadership Momentum

Reinforce and strengthen leadership effectiveness and accountability mid-cycle with a strategic checkpoint that refocuses leaders, strengthens accountability, and re-energizes execution.

Solutions:

  • Bench & org readiness assessment
  • Executive and group coaching
  • C-suite momentum workshops
  • Pulse checks
  • 5 Exit Compass (Pre-Exit Readiness)

05. Pre-Exit Readiness

Exit Compass

Evaluates leadership readiness for the next ownership horizon — whether sale, IPO, founder transition, or secondary. Strengthens succession depth, prepares leaders for transition, and provides sponsors with a clear, investor-ready leadership narrative.

Solutions:

  • Step-up assessment & coaching
  • Leadership transition plans & workshops
  • Leadership readiness index + narrative

06. Sponsor Enablement

Fund Support

Strengthens leadership capability at the fund level to improve value creation, decision quality, succession planning. Supports sponsors with consistent leadership standards, objective assessments, and targeted development aligned to fund strategy and operating model.

Solutions:

  • Succession planning & readiness assessment
  • Custom success profiles by role
  • Executive assessment & coaching
  • Team alignment and optimization recommendations