Why JDR?
Ready to try something different?
Your business deserves more than quick-fix bandaids that don’t solve root causes or overly complex plans that fall apart when executed.
Empower and enable your people
We don’t just come in and tell you what you need to do to be successful.
We engage your leaders and difference-makers to keep them fully invested and engaged long-term.
A balanced approach
We help pinpoint and solve your most pressing issues.
But we also help your team align on a collective vision of longer-term success, build a plan to make it reality, and operationalize the plan.
A proven method tailored to you
We don’t believe in one size fits all.
Our flexible framework is customized to your unique values, strengths, and the challenges you face.
A strategic growth partner delivering lasting value
There IS a Better Way
Other Consultants
JDR Growth Partners
Professional consultants who have not held the industry roles they are serving
Decades of experience at top US companies, startups, and family-owned enterprises in executive leadership and board roles
Armchair quarterbacks focused on weaknesses and selling you more
Player-coaches focused on leveraging your strengths for profitable, sustainable growth
Shapes the solution to fit the work
Shapes the work to create strategies, goals, and improved execution for profitable growth
Develops strategy without the context or responsibility for execution
Long-term strategic partner helping to guide and evolve your growing business
Minimal experience growing future business leaders
A proven track record developing emerging leaders who bring out the best in others
Who We Aren’t
- We’re not career consultants.
We’ve successfully built our own family businesses and have helped many others thrive.
We understand the issues you’re facing and have dedicated ourselves to helping family businesses thrive for over a decade.
- We’re not here to show you up.
And we’re not going to leave you to execute on your own.
We complement your expertise by equipping your team with the skills they need for continued and ongoing success far into the future.
- We’re not making this up as we go.
Our JDR SMART™ Growth Strategic Planning process has been carefully honed over four decades.
Our flexible framework utilizes proven methods – customized to your specific situation – that have brought success to hundreds of businesses like yours.
“JDR’s treatment is a breath of fresh air that leaders can intuitively understand and quickly adopt to create positive and sustainable change in themselves, their teams and their firms.”
Anne K. Smart
Director of The Family Business Center
The Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago
Real Results
United Conveyor Corporation
Given the decline of the coal power generation industry, UCC sought strategic guidance to ensure the long-term health of their company.
Great Plains Manufacturing
The founder, owner and leader of this first-generation business was nearing retirement and wrestling with family and leadership succession challenges.
Miramar
Services
The board of directors wanted to align the broader family on a shared vision for the family office in a way that satisfied their increasingly diverse range of clients most efficiently.
We Can Help You Beat the Odds
Start planning now for generations of success
The average lifespan of a family-owned business is only 24 years
While non-family-owned business typically last for generations.
Source: The Family Business Center
70% of family-owned businesses do not survive beyond the first generation
And only 10% remain active into the third generation.
Source: Harvard Business Review
30% of family business owners have no plans to retire ever.
Yet in nearly half of all family-owned business collapses, the failure was precipitated by the founder’s death.
Source: Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
What's Stopping You?
As business owners ourselves, we know that you can’t afford to have your workflow disrupted. Our process integrates seamlessly into your day-to-day, often leading to a more invested, more productive team even before the process is complete.
We don’t leave you with a lengthy plan and unwieldy list of to-dos. We work WITH your team to coach them through implementation, insuring your plan is executed and your team is aligned and trained on the process moving forward.
Nobody understands your business better than you. That’s why we work with your leadership team and your people to pinpoint areas for improvement, and then coach them toward the solution. We don’t want to run your business for you. We want to give you the knowledge and tools to drive continued success far after our engagement has ended.
We might not have the size of McKinsey or Bain, but there are some compelling advantages to working with a smaller firm.
We don’t save our most experienced folks for the sales pitch and then assign junior team members to do the work. You’ll be working with our experienced senior leaders from the first meeting all the way through execution. And you’ll have their undivided attention because we prefer to focus on just a few clients at a time.
Don’t let our small size be mistaken for lack of capability. We’ve created growth strategies while working for large world-class companies and have ALSO built, successfully grown, and sold our own businesses. Our unique experiences let us bring you the best of BOTH worlds.
We understand the need to be frugal in your business, and our experience over countless engagements is that clients see significant returns on their investment in our work. What is the cost of NOT taking action? Let us show you how we help create meaningful change for your leadership, company fundamentals, and employees.
Is JDR Growth Partners right for you?
No two companies are exactly the same. That’s just one of the things we love about the work we do.
Just schedule some time to tell us about yourselves and decide if our flexible framework is right for you.
- Learn how we can help
- Ask all of your questions
- Decide if we’re a good fit