AGP Services Offerings

Our services are based on decades of learnings as operators, innovators, directors, and trusted confidants. The CEO or her proxy (e.g. Executive Director) are typically our clients. As many of us have been CEOs, we understand demands and perspectives. But we're not pure corner office, think tank folks. We dive in across, up, and down organizations. We're deployed to help people at various stages of their personal and career growth. 
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The primary ways that we work with clients are:

• Advisory Services: generally have an aligned industry focus and are relatively structured. Yet we also meet and talk ad hoc about issues that are keeping you up at night. Time with us feels safe, constructive, and energizing. We ask tough questions but do so with a gentle hand. 

• Boutique Consulting: from single day deep dive sessions, to one month sprints, to multi-month initiatives, we can assist in ways that make sense for you. Our consulting efforts are fixed price and deliverables-oriented. We shine at giving you concrete, implementable assets. And when you have work that needs to be done, but you're not sure about hiring someone full-time, we can help. 

• Executive Coaching: we have coached and mentored dozens of leaders at various stages of their career. With a mix of methodology, presence, generous questions, pattern matching, and story telling, we show up in ways that are tuned to your needs.  
• Seed Capital: our founder, Steve Semelsberger, has made 11 angel investments, served as a partner at Capital Factory, and loves helping early-stage entrepreneurs with small capital placements, often coupled with an advisory arrangement.

These models are more frameworks than hard lines. Whether you think your scope of work is hours or years in duration we'd love to explore how we might work together. 

AGP Services Areas

While all areas of a business need to be in sync to facilitate dynamic growth, we find that there are areas where our experiences and perspectives can add disproportionately positive value. These lend themselves to four buckets:

• Corporate: as former general managers and CEOs, we like to tackle the most important opportunities with you, including: 

               - Market selection 
               - Executive development 
               - Team building 
               - Governance 
               - Investor management

• Culture: given the importance of culture for all elements of corporate growth we gravitate towards deep cultural considerations, including:

                 - Purpose 
                 - Employee engagement 
                 - Values and mission
                 - Narrative 
                 - Environment

• Organic: our team grew through marketing and sales, in both B2B and B2C environments. Areas that we can help include:

                 - Branding 
                 - Positioning 
                 - Messaging 
                 - Pricing 
                 - Enablement 
                 - Process 
                 - Incentives
                 - Influence 

• Inorganic: given our experience in mergers, acquisitions, public offerings, new entities, reseller models and more, we can often make efficient and significant impact around growth accelerators. Areas that we can help include: 

                 - Corporate development 
                 - Channel programs 
                 - Financings 
                 - Geographies 
                 - OEM deals