MANAGEMENT ADVISORY
Better systems for managing work.
Constellation Consulting helps leaders build the systems, operating rhythms and management practices that turn strategy into consistent execution.
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Expertise
Managing the work.
And the work of management.
Every organization has work to accomplish—and managerial work required to make it happen. We help leaders establish what good looks like across both.
Our management framework organizes that work around four interconnected disciplines:
01
PLAN
Turn strategy into an operating plan. Establish the vision, organizational design and measures that define where the business is going and how it intends to get there.
Vision · Organizational Design · KPIs · Goals · Market & TAM Analysis · Operating Plans
02
PEOPLE
Put the right people in the right work—and make them better. Build the systems leaders use to recruit, retain, coach and develop high-performing teams.
Talent · Organizational Design · Executive Coaching · Leadership Development · Performance Management · Succession
03
PIPELINE
Turn activity into repeatable execution. Design and manage the flow of work—from the activities that create outcomes to the cadences and playbooks that make execution consistent.
Demand Generation · Sales Development · Revenue Operations · Database Health · Pipeline Management · Meeting Cadence · Playbooks
04
PERFORMANCE
Know where you’re going, where you are and what happens next. Create the operating discipline to establish expectations, officiate results, identify gaps and convert those gaps into action.
Forecasting · Dashboards · Operating Reviews · OKRs · KPIs · Prioritization · Gap Plans
Our approach
Good advice only matters if it improves the way the organization operates.
Constellation works as an embedded operating partner. Engagements range from focused advisory and executive coaching to designing, building and operating new processes alongside your team.
01 — ADVISE
Assess the situation, challenge assumptions and establish what good looks like.
02 — DESIGN
Translate the objective into an operating model, process, cadence and measures.
03 — BUILD
Create the tools, playbooks and infrastructure required to put the model into practice.
04 — OPERATE
Work alongside the team—or take direct process ownership—to establish the new operating rhythm.
05 — TEACH
Develop the leaders and practitioners who will ultimately own and improve the system.
Selected experience
Experience shaped inside the work.
Our practitioners bring operating, investment and advisory experience across organizations ranging from growth-stage businesses to global enterprises.
Operators, not observers.
Constellation is built around experienced operators who remain active in business roles, investments and advisory engagements. Our perspective comes from doing the work—not simply studying it.
We bring together practitioners with current, specialized expertise who can advise, build, operate and teach. Engagements are intentionally flexible, allowing us to bring the right experience to the problem without the overhead or structure of a traditional consulting firm.
Experienced operators. Current practitioners. Practical counsel.
INSIGHTS
Three forces reshaping the work of management.
We see three opportunities to bring proven operating practices, stronger management craft and modern technology together.
01 — THE DIFFUSION GAP
8.0 MILLION
U.S. employer establishments across the economy.
Modern management innovation hasn’t reached the whole economy.
The opportunity is to take practices proven in high-growth environments and translate them for established businesses where legacy management systems remain deeply embedded.
01 — Diffuse what works.
02 — THE MANAGEMENT GAP
97% vs. 53%
97% of management occupations require prior experience. Only 53% require on-the-job training.
We select managers for experience. We don’t systematically teach them to manage.
Meetings, planning, goal setting, talent selection, coaching, forecasting, prioritization and performance management. These aren’t soft skills. They’re the hard skills of management.
02 — Teach the craft.
03 — THE SCALE OPPORTUNITY
2 MINUTES
The average Microsoft 365 user is interrupted by a meeting, email or notification during the workday.
More information hasn’t created better management. AI can.
AI radically lowers the cost of collecting, standardizing, analyzing and distributing management information—creating the potential for common scorecards, reporting, forecasts, priorities and performance signals across teams, businesses and portfolios.
03 — Scale the system.
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Tell us what you’re working through. We’ll bring an operator’s perspective to the conversation.