Meridian Partners is a senior-only strategy firm. No pyramids of analysts, no 200-slide decks that die in a drawer. Partners do the work, sit in your operating reviews, and stay until the decision is made and the number moves.
Trusted in the room where the decision gets made
We take on the questions that decide the next five years — growth, cost, capital, the operating model, and the deal. Each engagement ends in a decision an executive committee can defend.
Where to play and how to win, pressure-tested against real demand. We size the addressable market bottom-up, find the two or three moves that actually compound, and build the 36-month roadmap to capture them.
Org structures that match the strategy instead of fighting it. We redraw decision rights, spans, and layers so the right calls get made fast — and we stay through the first reorg cycle.
Margin recovery that holds. We rebuild the cost base zero-based, separate the spend that drives growth from the spend that just accumulates, and lock in savings with owners and dates.
Capital allocation discipline for boards that are tired of spreading peanut butter. We rank every business and bet by return on invested capital and set the buy, build, fix, or exit call for each.
Diligence and integration that protect the thesis. We stress-test the synergy case before you sign, then run the first 100 days so value shows up in the P&L, not just the press release.
Execution muscle for the changes that matter. We stand up the program office, run the cadence, clear the blockers, and report to your board so momentum survives the inevitable rough quarter.
The standard we hold ourselves to
Most firms sell you the brand and staff you the bench. We invert it. A partner owns your engagement end to end, the team is small and senior, and every recommendation comes with the evidence behind it.
The person who pitched is the person in your data room and your board meeting. No bait-and-switch to a first-year team after the contract is signed.
You get a defensible point of view within three weeks. We'd rather be useful early and refine than disappear for a quarter and surface a deck.
Every claim is sourced to data you can audit. We show the model, the assumptions, and the sensitivities — not a narrative engineered to win the room.
Strategy is worthless until someone acts on it. We sit in the operating reviews and own a piece of delivery until the decision sticks and the metric moves.
“Meridian gave us a number we could take to the board in three weeks. The full firm we'd used before took four months and gave us a vocabulary. We've never gone back.”
“They restructured our cost base and then stayed through the first two quarters to make sure it held. We recovered eleven points of margin and it's still there a year later.”
“The partner who sold the work was in our integration war room at 7am. That's not how the big firms operate, and it's exactly why the acquisition actually delivered.”
We're senior-only and we land the work. No leverage pyramid, no rotating cast of analysts, no deck handed over at the door. A partner owns your engagement and stays through delivery. You pay for judgment, not headcount.
Fixed scope, fixed fee, agreed before we start. You'll never get a surprise invoice or a change-order ambush. We scope tightly, and if the question grows we have an honest conversation before any clock starts running.
We can typically mobilize within two weeks. Most engagements run six to fourteen weeks, with a defensible first read inside three. We deliberately keep cycles short — long timelines hide a lack of conviction.
Both, by design. We don't believe strategy ends at the recommendation. We stand up the program office, run the cadence, and own part of delivery until the decision is operating and the result shows up in the P&L.
Always. The partner in the room during the proposal is the partner in your data room, your operating reviews, and your board meeting. That continuity is the whole point of how we're built.
Mid-market through large enterprise, typically $100M to $5B in revenue, plus private equity sponsors and their portfolios. If the question is big enough to decide your next five years, it's the right size for us.