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The Company That Rents You a C-Suite - Then Leaves You the Engine
Chief Outsiders built a business around an awkward mid-market truth: companies can outgrow their marketing and sales leadership long before they can justify permanent chiefs. Its answer now combines fractional executives, an on-demand delivery team and software designed to make the work survive the consultant.
The Consulting Firm You Hire When the Answer Has to Survive Monday Morning
L.E.K. built a global strategy business by staying close to the moments when executives cannot afford a decorative answer - the deal, the launch, the turnaround and the bet on what comes next.
The Backflip Group
The Backflip Group is a boutique strategy consulting firm in New York that helps lean technology teams turn great products into scalable businesses. Founded by Ceylan Conger and Madeleine Ormond, both former in-house operators and consultants at companies including Meta, Etsy and Spotify, the firm specializes in bridging the gap between strategy and execution across SaaS, eCommerce, AI, digital media and D2C. Services span go-to-market strategy, pricing and packaging, upmarket expansion, new product incubation, financial modeling and fundraising materials, delivered by a small core team backed by a network of specialist experts.
Katahdin Group
Katahdin Group is a Boston-based leadership development and peer advisory firm that runs process-driven CEO and executive peer groups plus strategic planning programs for leaders of mid-market growth companies. Founded in 1999 as The Raffoni Group by Melissa Raffoni out of Inc. Magazine's discontinued 'Inc. Eagles' CEO program, it uses a case-method meeting format so CEOs can get candid, structured feedback from peers. It rebranded to Katahdin Group - named after Maine's Mount Katahdin, 'The Greatest Mountain' - to evoke the climb of building and eventually exiting a business.