Strategic exit
- Challenge
- The owners sought an exit despite negative EBITDA and complex buyer dynamics.
- Solution
- Pre-acquisition readiness, a sell-side package, due diligence management, negotiations and team transition.

One firm. One relationship. A boutique team of exceptional operators who stabilize teams, accelerate results and build enterprise value.
Our operators come from Deloitte, Warner Bros., Aetna, Disney, McKinsey & Company, Target, Harvard and more.
Most value creation plans assume an idealized team. Our Strategic Talent Architects™ test whether the real team can deliver the plan, and where it would break, before anyone commits to a strategy.
Strategy sized to the capacity, skills and readiness of the people who will carry it out.
Senior operators from Big Four and top strategy firms, working side by side with your team.
Fractional executives who run the work with you, not advisors who hand over a deck.
From first assessment through execution and a clean handoff to your own leaders.

Stabilizing teams, accelerating results and driving enterprise value during uncertainty.
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Each engagement starts with the same assessment and ends with the same handoff. What changes is the problem we are hired to solve.
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The leaders we place are people you will want in the room. We choose them for judgment, character and results, and we stay close to them and to you.
Peak is a boutique firm. Every leader on your engagement is senior, chosen for your situation and accountable to you, with none of the layers or junior staffing of a large firm. You get exceptional people and a direct relationship with them.
Every engagement is built around a Strategic Talent Architect, who keeps the work on what matters most to the founder and shapes the team around the strengths of each key leader.
Proof
Selected engagements across life science, retail, consumer and private equity portfolios.
Case in point
Operating profit rose from $5.4M to $9.2M as total costs fell 26%, from $14.6M to $10.8M.
A Peak client engagement. Client name withheld.
How Peak works
We evaluate leaders, capacity and change readiness before any strategy is written.
A strategy built around the team you actually have, with measurable milestones.
Embedded operators execute alongside your people, with reporting you can act on.
Your leaders own the result. We leave systems that outlast the engagement.
Striated Teams™
Three layers of leadership are matched to the work, so you pay for strategy where strategy matters and execution where execution matters.
Fractional CEO, CFO, COO, CIO and CRO level guidance and board participation.
Operators who run the plan day to day inside the business.
Systems engineers, data scientists, supply chain, HR and benefits, and recruiters for life science and family offices.
What clients say
We have never seen this before: strategic planning built for the strengths and opportunities of our team. Brilliant and more effective than anything I have seen.
Operating Partner, $1.5B PE firm
Peak built an executive team I trust. Their team allowed me to spend my investors' money on innovation and marketing rather than payroll. Today, I am launching my dream company at a $60M valuation, with a better strategy, record-fast GTM, and much less stress, all thanks to the Peak team.
CEO, $60M SaaS company, 2 successful exits
Not only did Peak turn around a troubled supply chain and finance team for us, but their partnership with strategy and A.I. integration has compelled me to refer them to long-time colleagues trying to improve EBITDA in a tough market.
CEO, $40M retail company
We were struggling before we met Paul. He not only helped build a capital campaign that exceeded our goal, but his team helped integrate a donor A.I. program, align leadership around the right initiatives, and develop and implement a marketing strategy that drove ticket sales and a stronger future.
CEO, Greater NYC nonprofit
Peak delivered plans reversed engineered for overwhelmed departments that struggled already to keep up. That moved progress far faster than past consultant results. More importantly, our leadership team felt engaged and empowered during the entire engagement. The team started driving significant change before their plans were even written.
CEO, $100M manufacturer

Leadership
Conversations with the founders, strategists and operators shaping how businesses are led.
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