AMPx Coaching serves as an executive-level coach with a proven track record across a full spectrum of businesses with significant experience with both growth and distressed situations.
Coaching
At AMPx Coaching, we believe in the value of coaching and collaborative relationships. We serve as a coach and guide to help you develop your leadership team to the next level of organizational maturity and entrepreneurial professionalism. Our in-depth knowledge of multiple sectors encompasses product development and manufacturing, international sales channel development, global risk, and intellectual property, and will become a valuable resource for you and your team.
Board Member
Our founder, Charles Klasson, can serve as an advisor to your CEO/President and Board of Directors. He brings over 30 years of executive experience as a trusted advisor to the boardroom where he assessed and mitigated risk to maximize upside, navigated through economic cycles and crises, mergers and acquisitions, and increased business resiliency and disruptive innovation initiatives to drive results for clients. He has guided companies through rapid growth and scale with extensive experience working with family offices, private equity, and public companies with an extensive professional network.
Strategic Planning and Deployment
AMPx coaching is skilled in helping leadership teams confidently look forward to the future and take decisive action. We help them formulate bold transformative and attainable strategies that inspire. We assist in developing deployment roadmaps that help to achieve the team objectives that align with the overall business resources and priorities. As a leadership coach, we hold the company accountable for results and assist in developing corrective action countermeasures when key initiatives fall behind.
Strategic Doing
Strategic Doing teaches leaders and teams how to quickly form open collaborations and generate meaningful outcomes while rapidly making course corrections along the way. Co-creation and joint ownership of transformational solutions are essential to staying ahead of rapid change and complex challenges. Strategic Doing is a new strategy discipline utilizing a lean-agile toolset where leaders coach a team to be agile and quickly capitalize on new opportunities.
Disruptive Innovation and Change Management
We serve as a catalyst to help leadership teams develop plans to leverage change initiatives that accelerate growth, scalability, and product management into focused and profitable high-impact action. AMPx Coaching has a history of assisting businesses to implement disruptive innovation and large change initiatives involving adaptive business models, global collaborations, and new product and process development, all of which resulted in growth and strengthened market leadership.
AMPx Coaching informs its clients regarding the opportunities to leverage rapidly converging technologies to improve their competitive position. Technologies include Web-s, Metaverse, AI, Machine Learning, Sensors, Blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DEFI), Robotics, and Human Longevity.
Mergers and Acquisitions
AMPx Coaching assists business owners in developing their M&A strategy and understanding their options ranging from selling the business to making add-on acquisitions to supplement organic growth. We advise and coach business owners through the M&A process. On the sell side, it may involve an auction process managed by an investment banking firm or a sale directly to a strategic buyer. On the buy-side, it may involve deal origination, due diligence, and add-on integration to create steady accretive shareholder value through faster growth. AMPx coaching augments the leadership team during this process which consumes time and resources, over and above running the day-to-day business.
ownership transitions
Ownership transitions are an emotional process involving challenging communication dynamics and dysfunctional behaviors from employees fearing the unknown. We assist our clients in navigating business transitions and change of control between family generations, founders to professionally managed businesses, and family businesses to private equity ownership.
Preparing for Sale
Our skill set helps your team focus on high-impact value-creating activities needed to position your business to maximize value in a sale to private equity or a strategic buyer. We also help minimize potential organizational disruptions and stress caused by M&A activities. There are best practices, when in place increase the value of the business by reducing risks or improving profitability. For example, a private equity buyer will access the quality and competency of the leadership team by reviewing the way they manage their balance sheet, which impacts profitability. Financial and other business discipline informs both investors and buyers on how well the business is being managed. Our experience and oversight can ensure this path remains smooth and the process brings the desired results to life.
Profitable growth is the foundation of all great companies. Growth increases valuation, attracts and retains the best talent, and keeps a company prospering during constant economic and business change. Profitable growth is built upon focused discipline, clear analysis, and results-based accountability. It requires actionable insights into understanding customer profiles and needs – allowing businesses to consistently attract, engage, and retain customers while increasing loyalty. We work with growth-minded companies to realize more value from their existing product/service offerings and help them design transformative go-to-market strategies to increase their sales growth. For many businesses, expanding their global business footprint and adding bifurcated product offerings increases market opportunity for future growth. Simply stated, we can help you go big.
GROWTH
We help businesses develop growth platforms, diversify product lines, expand into new markets, and search for acquisition opportunities.
International Expansion
AMPx Coaching assists USA-based companies develop their international market expansion strategies and legal structure factoring in regional and local laws and regulations. We have helped businesses expand their sales channel coverage in over 90 countries, as well as developing lower cost manufacturing operations and partnerships in Mexico and China.
Sales effectiveness
We help businesses develop disruptive innovation in their multi-channel international sales distribution strategies. Analysis of product coverage, channel coverage, and hit rate bring focused discipline to sales and profit margins growth.
Intellectual Property
We help our clients enhance growth plans by assisting in strengthening intellectual property portfolios and process discipline to protect novel concepts and inventions.
Action is at the core of everything we do. We respect your time and help your organization focus on the vital initiatives which transform your business while enhancing your market leadership. Our clients’ needs are unique, requiring well-informed and well-timed implementations to deliver high-impact results. Virtual teams present communication challenges requiring transparency and focus to balance the execution against multiple organization initiatives in resource-constrained businesses.
Culture
At AMPx Coaching, we help you develop an entrepreneurial spirited culture – aligning your organization structure to support your strategic vision while addressing critical organizational gaps including board members and professional advisors.
VALUE Creation
We have a long-term history of supporting businesses in creating enterprise value through sales and margin growth, market consolidation, debt reduction, and multiple expansion.
Performance Dashboards
We help our clients develop metrics used to make timely, informed decisions. Winning starts with knowing the score. Upfront clarity around key performance measures enables teams to assess real-time progress being made while facilitating timely course corrections when expected results are not realized or new insights emerge. Empowered teams thrive on accountability provided by clear and actionable financial insights. Discussions focused on the results (numbers) drive effective decision-making and effective organizational learning. We can only improve the things we measure.
growth initiatives & turnarounds
Entrepreneurs, private equity, family offices, and public companies have leveraged our experience in leading growth initiatives and business turnarounds where time is of the essence. AMPx Coaching also assists businesses with bank negotiations and debt restructuring.
