Unlock Your Business Potential
Expert guidance to help transform and optimize your business
Unlock Your Business Potential
Expert guidance to help transform and optimize your business
About Valued Operating Advisors
Our Mission
At Valued Operating Advisors, we are dedicated to empowering businesses to reach their full potential. Our mission is to provide expert guidance and innovative strategies that drive growth, scale, and operational excellence.
Our differentiators are:
- Advisors who have sat in the operator’s chair
- Leaders who know the weight of execution, not just design
- Operators who have had to balance strategy with the day-to-day realities of growth
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Why Us?
Valued Consulting Group is a leading advisory and consulting company backed by 30 years of experience.
Unlike other companies claiming to be "consultants," VOA sets itself apart with a unique blend of top-tier consulting expertise and hands-on operational experience.
Our team comprises professionals who have honed their skills at renowned consulting firms and have executed strategies at the highest levels operating within companies - "We have been on the field playing the game, not just standing on the sidelines as a coach."
With a proven track record in transforming, scaling, and operating at Venture Capital, Private Equity-backed firms, and Public Companies, we bring unparalleled insights to the table.
What truly sets us apart is our firsthand experience in founding and running companies. We've achieved successes and learned from our misses, providing us with an intimate understanding of the challenges and triumphs of the real business world.
To learn more about the Owner | Operator, please see Jared Fletcher's Linkedin Profile @ www.linkedin.com/in/jaredfletcher/
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Consulting Services for Small Businesses
Transformation | Value Creation Offices
Transformation | Value Creation Offices
Transformation | Value Creation Offices
Transformation & Value Creation Offices
- Design and stand up Transformation and Value Creation Offices to serve as the operating engine for enterprise change
Execution Governance
- Lead and run TMOs and PMOs that drive accountability, cadence, and cross-functional alignment
Value Creation Planning
- Build integrated transformation roadmaps and EBITDA bridges that link initiatives to financial outcomes
Program Execution
- Drive execution of the transformation plan, ensuring initiatives stay on track, risks are surfaced early, and value is realized
Performance & Transparency
- Implement dashboards, milestones, and governance forums that provide leadership and investors with real-time visibility into progress and returns
Cost Savings | Cost Optimization
Transformation | Value Creation Offices
Transformation | Value Creation Offices
Cost Savings & Cost Optimization
- Leverage a proprietary cost-optimization playbook built from five years of hands-on execution across PE-backed and multi-site enterprises
Savings Identification
- Rapidly identify “quick-hit” and structural cost-reduction opportunities across SG&A, IT, marketing, procurement, and outsourced services
Commercial & Vendor Optimization
- Drive pricing resets, scope rationalization, and vendor renegotiations to eliminate waste and improve margins
EBITDA & Cash Flow Impact
- Translate cost actions into hard-dollar EBITDA and cash-flow improvements with full financial transparency
Sustainability & Controls
- Implement tracking, governance, and spend controls to ensure savings are captured, sustained, and not eroded over time
Interim | Fractional Services
Transformation | Value Creation Offices
Project Management | Change Management
Interim & Fractional Executive Services
- Provide interim and fractional executive leadership to stabilize, scale, and transform organizations during critical periods
C-Suite & Senior Leadership Coverage
- Serve in Chief Transformation Officer, Chief of Staff, Chief Technology Officer, and functional leadership roles to fill capability gaps quickly
Commercial & Growth Leadership
- Lead marketing, inside sales, and customer experience functions to drive revenue, conversion, and retention
Operational Continuity
- Maintain day-to-day operating rhythm while transformation and change initiatives are executed
Investor & Board Alignment
- Act as a trusted operating partner to CEOs, CFOs, and investors, ensuring priorities, performance, and value creation remain aligned
Project Management | Change Management
Process Excellence | Value Stream Mapping | Lean Six Sigma
Project Management | Change Management
Project & Program Leadership
- Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from business case through execution, ensuring alignment to strategic and financial objectives
Business Case & Investment Discipline
- Develop data-driven business cases to prioritize initiatives based on ROI, risk, and enterprise impact
Vendor Assessment & Selection
- Run structured vendor evaluations and selections to ensure the right partners, pricing, and delivery models are in place
Portfolio Prioritization
- Apply formal project-prioritization frameworks to focus capital and resources on the highest-value initiatives
Change & Adoption Management
- Drive enterprise change using Prosci and Kotter principles to ensure stakeholder alignment, adoption, and sustained results
Process Excellence | Value Stream Mapping | Lean Six Sigma
Process Excellence | Value Stream Mapping | Lean Six Sigma
Process Excellence | Value Stream Mapping | Lean Six Sigma
Process Excellence & Operating Rigor
- Conduct end-to-end operational reviews to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and execution gaps across core workflows
Value Stream Mapping
- Use value stream mapping and root-cause analysis to visualize processes, eliminate waste, and accelerate cycle times
Lean Six Sigma Execution
- Apply Lean Six Sigma methodologies to drive measurable improvements in quality, throughput, cost, and customer experience
Performance & Scalability
- Redesign processes to support growth, standardization, and scalability across multi-site and shared-services environments
Continuous Improvement
- Embed metrics, controls, and continuous-improvement disciplines that sustain gains and prevent regression
Vendor Management | Outsourcing
Process Excellence | Value Stream Mapping | Lean Six Sigma
Process Excellence | Value Stream Mapping | Lean Six Sigma
Vendor Management & Commercial Excellence
- Lead vendor selection, governance, and performance management across IT MSPs, call centers, and outsourced service providers
Contract & Commercial Reviews
- Conduct contract, SOW, and pricing model reviews to surface margin leakage, unfavorable terms, and renegotiation opportunities
IT MSP, BPO & Outsourcing Optimization
- Optimize, restructure, or replace underperforming IT and BPO partners while protecting business continuity
Pricing & Economics
- Normalize rate cards, volume tiers, and commercial terms to align vendor economics with growth and EBITDA objectives
Value Creation & Risk Management
- Deliver quick-hit savings and sustainable SG&A reductions through vendor consolidation, scope control, and contract discipline
Operating Discipline
- Implement SLA scorecards, governance cadences, and approval controls to ensure ongoing accountability and transparency