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About Nathaniel Pool
About Nathaniel Pool
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About Nathaniel Pool:
I have nearly 30 years of business experience founding my own companies and helping CEOs build their organizations.
I specialize in high-tech startups to multi-billion dollar mortgage banking and wealth management industries.
As a Strategy Consultant, I advise entrepreneurs and CEOs on high-level decisions in an unbiased fashion.
As a 6x entrepreneur, including founding of the Top 10 Internet Service Providers, I understand the challenges business owners face. I’ve been there.
I’ve learned to quickly and accurately assess situations, then create successfully solutions for them.
Whether you’re in the launch, growth or exit stage of your business cycle, I’m not afraid to roll up my sleeves and help you accomplish your business objectives.
My goal is to increase your bottom line value.
Think smart. Think strategy.
What is Strategy Consulting?
Strategy consultants advise organizations on high-level decisions in an unbiased fashion, using deep industry knowledge to deliver the best results.
What skills do I bring to your company?
As well as specific industry knowledge, there are a few general skills that are essential to strategy consulting.
- Analytical skills: The ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data, to assess problems and structure solutions and to present information at a range of levels. These skills are assessed in the famous case study interview, used in almost all consulting applications.
- People skills: Consulting is a client-focused industry and a lot of your time will be spent dealing with management in order to better understand the issues they’re facing. You need to be able to build relationships, be persuasive when necessary and know when to defer.
- Time management: Strategy consultants work to tight deadlines and missing them is not an option.
- Flexibity: Even once you’re an expert, there will be plenty more for you to learn. You need to always be aware of your own performance, finding ways to improve.
Why do organizations use strategy consultants?
An obvious question that comes to mind is “Why don’t organizations just take care of these questions themselves?”
Consultants are generally brought in on the important decisions that are vital to the future of the company, to make sure the every angle is considered. They can devote themselves entirely the the question at hand, while executives are normally busy with the actual running of the company. Consultants also offer deep expertise in a particular industry or subject, such as market positioning or restructuring.
There also occasions when consultants fulfill a legal purpose. During a merger, before the transaction is completed, it is illegal to share information between the two companies. Consultants can operate independently, sourcing information from both parties to have a strategy ready for the moment the last document is signed.
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