Growth is Getting Harder. Is Your Plan Built to Deliver?
Mid-market companies are being asked to grow faster with leaner teams, tighter capital, and buyers who decide before a seller ever gets involved. The pressure points look the same across industries, and they rarely sit in one function. We see four of them every day:
- Growth That Stalls or Arrives Without Margin: More pipeline activity, less revenue that sticks. Marketing, sales and customer success run on different assumptions, so top-line gains don't reach the bottom line.
- A Strategy That Has Drifted: Years of adjacent products, segments and channels have pulled the business away from its highest-margin core, and the roadmap no longer reflects where the company actually wins.
- Operations That Stop Scaling: Processes, systems and org design built for a smaller company start to break before growth does, driving up cost and slowing every handoff.
- A Business Under Serious Pressure: When performance or cash turns, the company needs a 100-day plan and a leader who has stabilized a business before, not another assessment.
Our Growth & Execution Team
Operators who have run the job. Not advisors describing the work, but executives who have carried the number.
Jeff Moriarty
Sterling Metz
Kerry Smith
Ken Goins
Shawn Holtzclaw
Mark Beliczky
Ken Powell
Glen Hasling
Patrick Davie
The CXO Partners Differentiator: Senior Executive Delivery
GROWTH, STRATEGY & ALIGNMENT
Market and business assessment, corporate and growth strategy, business model and positioning, investment cases, capital and resource allocation, and aligning leadership around shared priorities.
PRODUCT STRATEGY & INNOVATION
Product and services portfolio design, roadmap prioritization, product-led growth, new product launch from concept to commercialization, pricing and packaging, and customer and market alignment.
GO-TO-MARKET & REVENUE LEADERSHIP
Market insights and ideal customer profile (ICP) segmentation, differentiated positioning and messaging, demand generation, sales strategy and enablement, channels and partnerships, and customer success and expansion.
OPERATING MODEL & EXECUTION
Org design and accountability, KPIs and performance cadence, cross-functional execution, operational excellence, revenue operations and systems enablement, and transformation and change management
Components of an End-to-End Go-to-Market Plan
A practical framework for aligning market insight, offer, route to market, and retention
Transformative Capabilities & Services
Growth Strategy & Business Assessment
A structured, operator-led assessment of where your growth comes from and where it leaks, covering market position, portfolio, operating model and margin profile. It ends in a prioritized plan your leadership team can execute, not a binder. Includes: market and business assessment, corporate and growth strategy, business model and positioning, investment cases, capital and resource allocation, and mission, vision and organizational alignment.
Go-to-Market Strategy
An end-to-end GTM strategy built around the questions that decide whether you win: which markets and segments to focus on, how your customers buy, which value propositions to lead with, how you stand apart from competitors, and how you price. Includes: market and ICP segmentation, buyer journey and purchase-driver analysis, value proposition and positioning, competitive differentiation, pricing strategy and structure, and market and geographic entry.
Product Strategy & Innovation
Focus for product teams with too many priorities. We align roadmaps to business goals, turn customer and market insight into better product decisions, and take new offerings from concept to commercialization. Includes: strategic roadmap planning and prioritization, product and services portfolio design, product-led growth initiatives, new product launch (customer validation, beta programs, commercialization plans), product rescues and churn analysis, and product operations and team development.
Marketing, Positioning & Demand Generation
The right message to the right market, and a pipeline that follows. We sharpen positioning and choose the marketing vehicles that reach your buyers, then build demand programs measured on qualified pipeline, not activity. Includes: positioning and product and brand messaging, a consistent narrative across sales and customer touchpoints, marketing channel selection, performance-driven demand generation, marketing-sourced pipeline, and CAC efficiency.
Sales, Channels & Revenue Leadership
The structure, standards and accountability that turn pipeline into predictable revenue. We design the sales setup and decide where you meet customers for the best conversion, direct or through partners. Includes: sales strategy, planning and execution; sales organization and quota design; sales process, tools and training; pipeline management and forecasting; distribution strategy; and channel and partnership development.
Customer Success & Lifetime Value
Growth that continues after the sale. We align onboarding, adoption, renewal and expansion into one engine for retention and lifetime value, and feed what customers say back into product. Includes: onboarding and time-to-value, customer success structure and operating cadence, renewal and expansion playbooks, upsell and cross-sell programs, NPS, CSAT and health-score frameworks, and voice-of-customer feedback loops.
Operating Model, RevOps & Execution
The operating discipline that keeps execution on pace with strategy. We clarify ownership, set the performance rhythm and connect people, process, systems and data so the business scales with control. Includes: org design and accountability, KPIs and performance cadence, cross-functional initiative execution, process design and cost and margin improvement, unified revenue systems and data, and AI-enabled revenue tools such as sales copilots, predictive deal scoring and churn prediction.
Strategic Alliances, M&A & Interim Leadership
Growth through partnerships and acquisitions, and senior leadership when you need it now. We can lead the deal, the integration or the business itself, on a fractional, interim, project or advisory basis. Includes: strategic alliances and negotiations, M&A and post-merger integration, restructuring and turnaround with 100-day plans, interim and fractional CEO, COO, President, GM, CRO, CMO, CSO, CPO and Chief Customer Officer roles, and executive advisory and coaching.