Strategy. Solutions. Results.
We act as your fractional business partner to stabilize underperforming companies, resolve liquidity crises, and drive sustainable profitability.
Warning signs
Business decline rarely happens overnight. If you are experiencing these symptoms, time is your most valuable asset.
Constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul; missing payroll, or relying 100% on a line of credit.
Transferred to Special Assets Group (SAG), facing forbearance deadlines, or violating loan covenants.
Incomplete financial reporting, lack of KPIs, or making decisions based on “gut feel” rather than data.
Weak gross margins, ineffective pricing strategies, or unmanaged operating expenses.
For Business Owners & CEOs
Whether you need to navigate a liquidity crisis, execute a turnaround, or position your company for a sale, we function as a one-year partner to the ownership team.
Bankers, Attorneys & Investors
We act as the indispensable ally to rebuild trust and restore credible turnaround plans. We help you select the right partner for formal resolution or full exit.
About Cole Advisors
The challenges small and medium business leaders face are not easy ones. We thrive on solving problems, figuring out what seems elusive and, at times, overwhelming. Our role is to help find solutions.
Many business owners and executives consider us their “fractional business partner.” We are there, always there, whenever our clients need us. We find solving problems, especially hard ones, very rewarding.
We invest ourselves deeply, intellectually and emotionally, in our clients’ success. We bring a disciplined, yet pragmatic and responsive, approach to achieving required results.
More about our turnaround and management consulting firmStrategy is an action word. It is the backbone of every successful organization. A good strategy helps focus attention and prioritize action. While some parts of strategy should be etched in stone, much must be dynamic. It needs to adjust as the market, customers and environment shift.
Good solutions start with a clear view of the current state. Solutions are not bumper stickers, they are plans and actions that drive financial and operational improvement. Many businesses have a defined vision and mission. Translating these to objectives, strategies and action plans requires focus and hard work and is where many organizations struggle.
Starting with the desired results clearly in mind is important, like starting on a long drive to a known destination. Resources, information and priorities are directed to influence the performance of an organization. Strategy drives Solutions that deliver Results to an organization’s people, customers, business and community.
How We Work
Some firms are big on dropping names and publishing lists and logos of the companies they’ve worked with. We do it differently. We’re engaged to solve one or more problems - sometimes they’re critical and often the future of the company is on the line.
Our clients come to us for solutions to problems and we don’t think it’s right to shout to the world a list of clients who have struggled. We’re behind the scenes and working for our clients’ success. If there’s a light to be shined our clients should be the ones on which it shines. We prefer to just stay in the background and quietly help the light shine more brightly.
Clients count on our discretion and confidence.
Our process
We don’t show up with prefabricated assumptions. We listen. We learn. Only then are we in a position to well advise.
We don’t show up with prefabricated assumptions.
Good solutions start with a clear view of the current state.
We help connect the dots with an integrated and holistic plan.
We then help execute on that plan, as a one-year partner to the ownership team.
Turnaround & management consulting services
Cole Advisors is a turnaround and management consulting firm focused on solving the difficult challenges faced by small and medium sized companies. We serve as a “fractional business partner” to help identify the right strategies and solutions to drive measurable results.
Our clients need more than “bookend consulting” - providing a roadmap before a journey or evaluating results after the fact. We help clients connect the dots with an integrated and holistic plan. We then help execute on that plan.
As trusted advisors, we influence strategy, drive solutions and work with our clients’ staff to effect positive business results. When our clients are struggling, we’re also burning the midnight oil to find and implement a solution - as a “fractional business partner.”
Our clients need help because they have been underperforming versus the expectations of the owners, leadership team, bank, investors or customers. They often have experienced leadership teams who either struggle due to skill-based gaps or a lack of well defined Strategies, Solutions and Results.
Industries
We are based in St. Louis, Missouri, but our customers are located throughout the country, including New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, and Utah.
Contact Cole Advisors
Cole Advisors is a turnaround and management consulting firm based on Laclede’s Landing in St. Louis, working with clients throughout the country.
712 N. Second Street, Suite 301