“There are those who look at things
the way they are and say why.
I dream of things that never were
and ask why not?“
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Metusaleh (1921)
Our Profile
Enlighten Advisory is a boutique global advisory with a highly experienced, well-connected team working across multiple sectors and industries. We work with the principle of facilitated and guided collaboration. Our company is a closely-knit community and unique team of Senior Advisors from all over the world with deep expertise and impeccable reputation.
Enlighten Advisory delivers cognitively diverse advice, divergent and complementary perspectives to complex issues. Such multi-disciplinary thinking is essential as we face issues that pose unprecedented, interlinked and often existential challenges to organisations and society.
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We promise to support our clients in achieving high-level strategic goals and making crucial decisions,
enhancing their economic and societal value.
We do so with high integrity and through courageous intervention based on clear personal and professional values.
Our Differentiation
We are Senior Advisors for ultimate decision-makers and our boutique set-up enhances and complements our client organisations’ in-house capabilities.
We bring together the very best individuals and / or parties to partner with our clients in line with their specific requirements. This includes seeking new forms of partnership to adequately address contemporary challenges and to develop innovative solutions.
In all, 21st Century leadership must not just be re-evaluated but redefined. In turn, courageous leadership advisory requires adaptive new models and systemic approaches to guide company management and stakeholders using focused and dynamic Decision Agendas.
Enlighten Advisory works by your side to address and solve these challenges together.
Because we are aware of the loneliness that ultimate decision-making for leaders entails.
Because our advice is respectful and comprises unmediated and honest feedback.
Because we provide confidential, courageous, uncensored assessment and trusted advice.
OUR SOCRATIC APPROACH
Enlighten Advisory aims to enhance the quality of leadership fit for our 21st Century environment and challenges. We facilitate high-standards decisions and enable the delivery of real, measurable impact.
Specifically, we provide high-level and experienced guidance in the process of framing and development of a focused / dynamic Decision Agenda: starting with the articulation of definition of success over the mid- to longer term, selecting high-value issues and opportunities and curating a process that results in superior decisions which can be funded and executed (Delivery Agenda).
Enlighten Advisory works in highly sensitive and complex environments.
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We orchestrate a curated advisory process in large and mid-cap international companies, both private and listed. We also work with family offices, private equity, investment funds and public policy initiatives, as well as renowned institutions and foundations and select start-ups.
We equally focus on developing answers to (so far) unanswered or inadequately addressed questions in view of complexity theory, causality and systems thinking. Our clients are leaders who wish to guide their organisations to address their multiple challenges with integrity and courage. They are open to being challenged with empathy.
What is our view of the future in our industry / region and its implications?
How should organisational models evolve to incorporate the need to collaborate with multiple external stakeholders?
Which characteristics should the next generation of leaders embody and how should these be developed?
How to ensure consistency and mutual reinforcement between financial and societal goals?
Our Goals & Values
Enlighten Advisory aims to systematically improve the quality of leadership fit for 21st Century challenges. We support the development and execution of high-standards decisions that result in quantifiable impact and change.
We place special emphasis on high integrity and courageous intervention based on personal and professional values and convictions. Our work is guided by our mutual respect and strong trust for each other and for our clients. We conduct business respecting our clients’ autonomy rather than creating dependence.
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We serve our clients’ objectives with integrity, honesty, fairness and kindness. We aim to strike an appropriate balance between economic and societal value while demonstrating that the two must be mutually reinforcing.
Our success is based on our decades’ long high-quality advisory work and subsequent referrals from our clients.
Our Service Offering
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Structured interventions with limited scope, with focus on growth and future-oriented topics. We help leaders to shape, launch and scale new business models including promising start-ups.
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C-level / Board roundtables with targeted outputs).
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These entities combine both economic and social value, possibly leveraged through MBO / LBO.
Our Relevance
Transition, change and disruption are characteristics of today’s environment. Even accomplished leaders find it increasingly difficult to navigate multiple challenges, to distinguish cause and effect. The new 21st Century norm is a world of permanent challenges with issues that have neither been fully understood nor can, as of yet, be adequately addressed.
The nature and urgent attention such issues require distract leaders from the most important aspect of their role: the focus on long-term thinking. Decision-makers are hence often forced to focus on short-term resilience. As a result urgency crowds out the truly important.
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Successful, future-proof organisations and governments must demonstrate the ability to articulate and communicate long-term plans to motivate and inspire investors, stakeholders, wider society and employees. Furthermore, 21st Century talent requires different and new skills and capabilities characterised by cognitive diversity and inter-systemic awareness.
We invite senior leaders to work closely with us and with each other to tackle the most challenging issues of our time. These require new forms of collaboration beyond traditional frameworks.
Together, we will make a difference for
your organisation and for our society!