Icebreaker Executive deliver profound commercial, technical and operational value. We enable businesses to compete successfully in response to the tough emerging global challenges. We have the laser like customer focus and dynamism of an owner managed business, comprised of the best most resourceful team of highly motivated situational specialists. We apply our award winning and extensive sector specific turnaround experience across all key functional areas to seamlessly engage respectfully and effectively with SME and FT100 businesses that find themselves at a crossroads: cash flow problems, customer service issues, business agility, changing market conditions, funding and supporting growth. Icebreaker supports Executive Teams to deliver cash and EBIT gains by challenging, supporting decision making and implementing plans. Icebreaker differentiates by acting with pace and by leaving a legacy - developing internal capability and teamwork.
We enable our customers to build profits and cash ... but we do it in a way that is aligned with their values.
"The quality of our team forge our unique organizational identity that is externally focused and made up of resourceful people who think like owners, relish accountability for delivery and teamwork, and are wired to win.” . Tom Pickering CEO
Even if cashflow is not one of your key constraints, how do turnaround skills support good management and avert the corporate hazard of“the atomic plant and and the bike shed effect” and the dangers of “work expands to fill the time available for its completion".
Icebreaker are experts in turnaround, and support management teams make decisions that reduce the risk of going down an insolvency path, and completely reverse crises. Our people differentiator is our integrity, respect for clients, people focus, the vast breadth of leading edge sector experience readily available in our select network via the nominated icebreaker team customer contact.
Typical cash returns are 10x - 50x. Programs are structured to ensure engagements are cash positive, leave a refreshed team & optimal productivity, by mobilising our customers untapped resources to deliver programs using minimal external support.
Like a tin can phone we like to communicate: simply, clearly and honestly.
“Your approach harks back to a period of genuine competence” … Peter Brown turnaround investor and CEO
"Many have tried to achieve what you have put in place but I don’t know of anyone else apart from you who has actually succeeded in creating credible and effective partnership of interims that covers a sufficiently wide spectrum of skills and experience, as well as a consistent level of expertise and track record, which can really project a coherent brand image and offer clients a very attractive alternative to the usual big consultancies". Paul S (Author and M&A expert)
A Clients comments on a 2012 turnaround engagement "Your input has been consistently bracing and excellent"
Turnaround Management Association TMA (UK)
Delivering solutions with the leading thinkers and doers within:
- most of the UK major banks
- the leading accountancy firms
- leading Lawyers
- restructuring professionals & IPs
- Venture Capital and private investors
- entrepreneurs and specialists
- and our personal network of over 6600 professionals