Management Consulting for Growing Companies
Build the Company Behind the Growth
An end-to-end external people solution for growing companies. We embed with your leadership to clarify mission, set the goals that align everyone, design the org that scales, and excavate the values already shaping your culture. Diagnostic from day one. Built to operationalize after.
5
Core Consulting Pillars
OKR
Goal-Setting Framework
Custom
Per Engagement
WHY TANDEMLY
More than a Deck and a Handshake
Most consulting engagements end with a polished slide deck and a goodbye. We’ve spent the last fifteen years across consulting, executive coaching, and clinical practice building the part that comes after. Three things set the work apart.
Diagnostic, Not Decorative
We borrow from clinical practice. Before we recommend a single change, we diagnose what's actually stuck. The engagement we end up running is rarely the one you came in asking for.
Built in Tandem, Not Handed Off
We embed with your team and do the hard work alongside you, rather than dropping a framework and leaving. The plan gets built for your company, not pulled from a shelf.
Built to Operationalize
Mission statements and OKRs are easy to write and hard to live. We stay close while the structure becomes the operating cadence on Monday, then the Monday after that.
What an engagement includes
The Building Blocks of a Tandemly Engagement
We mix and match these to fit where your company is today. Most engagements start with a diagnosis and grow from there.
01
Mission & Vision Design
We work in tandem with you to craft a compelling mission and vision that gives your team a shared purpose and a clear direction forward.
02
Goal Setting (OKRs)
Adopt the same OKR framework used by top companies to align your team, focus efforts, and achieve ambitious results.
03
Organizational Architecture
Optimize your structure and culture to build a resilient, high-performing organization ready for tomorrow's challenges.
04
Diagnostic Tools
Get a clear picture of your organization's health, with tools that surface hidden issues and opportunities for improvement.
05
Values Excavation
Whether you have made them official or not, your values already exist and define your culture. We excavate what is already there in a way that reflects both your current and future culture.
06
Operating Cadence
A mission and a set of OKRs are only as good as the rhythm that keeps them alive. We design the meeting and review cadence that turns the plan into how your team actually runs, week after week.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Industry Agnostic. With Clear Proclivities.
The fundamental issues read the same across industries: misaligned goals, leadership style clashes, predictable growing pains at predictable revenue thresholds. But we’ve earned particular fluency in four. Less ramp-up, faster diagnosis, fewer assumptions to unwind.
Beauty & Consumer Packaged Goods
DTC · Retail · Professional B2B
From the household-name brand with a thirty-year founder to the indie label spanning DTC, retail, and professional B2B channels. We help beauty and CPG executives navigate the operating-model complexity when direct sales, retail, and professional channels all have to coexist, the retention pressure of uncertain times, and the founder succession everyone has been postponing.
Higher Education & Academia
Universities · Medical Schools · Foundations
Publicly run universities, medical schools, and the foundations that fund them. The egos, politics, and governance complexity of academic leadership are uniquely difficult, and uniquely familiar to us. Recent partners include foundation-funded research fellowships and graduate medical education programs.
Healthcare Tech
Provider Systems · Health Tech · Biotech
The innovation pace is brutal and the leadership transitions are constant. We work with healthcare and healthcare-tech executives navigating scaling crises, succession questions, and the cultural integration that comes with acquisition or rapid growth. Confidentiality is structural, not negotiated.
Architecture & Construction
Founder-Led Firms · REITs · Specialty Builders
Founder-led firms with deep technical expertise and the predictable growing pains that come with mid-market scale. Complex stakeholder dynamics, highly specialized practices, and leadership conversations that needed a facilitator long before they got one.
HOW IT WORKS
Four Steps from Discovery Call to Operating Cadence
DIAGNOSE
Discovery Call
A one-hour conversation where we listen for the real issue under the stated one. Most clients arrive describing a symptom. Our first job is to find the cause.
DESIGN
Tailored Roadmap
We scope the right mix of mission work, OKRs, org design, and diagnostics for your goals. No templates, no off-the-shelf plans. The roadmap gets built for your company, not pulled from our shelf.
EMBED
In Tandem with You
Senior partners working alongside your leadership, not from a distance. People who have run companies, doing the hard work in the room with your team.
OPERATIONALIZE
Ongoing Partnership
The hard work begins once the plan is set. We stay close while the systems become how the company actually runs, the Monday after and the Monday after that.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Tandemly management consulting service include?
Tandemly management consulting service covers strategic planning, OKR (Objectives and Key Results) implementation, organizational design, Mission/Vision/Values development, and diagnostic assessments. They embed as an extension of your team, identify hidden gaps through surveys and leadership interviews, then build and execute a prioritized people and strategy plan over 6-12 months.
How does Tandemly help with OKRs?
Tandemly first works with senior leadership to set 3–5 annual strategic objectives, then collaboratively develops shorter-term OKRs across all departments. They guide companies through multiple OKR cycles, each round sharpening the team’s ability to set goals, track progress, and course-correct, until OKR-setting becomes an embedded organizational skill.
What is Tandemly retainer model for management consulting?
Tandemly retainer model is a 6-12 month engagement where they act as a fractional people and strategy partner. It typically includes OKR implementation, leveling and job descriptions, performance review design, Enneagram workshops for leadership, executive coaching, engagement surveys, and salary benchmarking, all sequenced into a custom plan based on where the company is and where it needs to go.
What types of companies does Tandemly management consulting serve?
Tandemly primarily serves early-stage and fast-growing startups whose leadership teams are navigating rapid scale. They work with founders, C-suite executives, and senior leaders who need a strategic people partner, someone who can bring the structure of a larger company without losing the culture and agility of a startup.
How does Tandemly approach organizational design?
Tandemly starts by assessing how the company is currently structured, who does what, where roles overlap, and where gaps exist. Using diagnostic tools like surveys and leadership interviews, they build a data-driven picture of the organization and create a development and design roadmap that anticipates the people needs of the business as it scales.
Tell Us Where You're Headed. We'll Build the Path to Get There.
A one-hour discovery call is usually enough to know where the leverage is for your company, and what the right engagement would need to do.