Partners in Strategy, Growth & Transformation

introduction

NorthShore Advisors is a specialist consultancy partnering with senior management teams of large and small firms to deliver results and lasting impact for their organisations.  We work in partnership with clients on strategy, growth and transformation.  We have a unique combination of senior executive, board level, industry and blue chip strategy consulting firm backgrounds.  

 

We adopt a flexible, independent, “outside-in”, and fact-based approach to assignments, ensuring that we meet client requirements in a succinct, objective, and complete fashion. 

our team

NorthShore Advisors was founded by James Muldowney in 2008. 

 

The core team has extensive industry and consulting experience including McKinsey & Co Inc, General Electric, C&C Group PLC, Irelandia Aviation, Clearpower BioEnergy/Environmental Services, Glanbia, daa plc and ARYZTA AG. 

 

We have an international network and assemble a bespoke team of senior executives, freelance consultants and specialists to suit a client's specific needs as appropriate

James Muldowney

James Muldowney, Founder and Partner, has extensive experience as a corporate strategic consultant and as a senior executive in leadership positions. His experience blends a blue chip consulting background with senior corporate operating experience, thus promoting robust, implementable solutions. He has nearly 10 years’ experience with McKinsey & Company and set up NorthShore Advisors in 2008. 

 

James worked in a corporate business development role with General Electric in USA, and had Strategy Director roles with both C&C Group Plc and Ervia. He has worked on key strategic projects for clients including strategy development, strategy implementation, change management, sustainability, M&A assesssments, and strategy workshops for senior execs and board members.

Ava Tuohy

Ava Tuohy has a valuable blend of industry roles and corporate strategy consulting experience.  She started her career at blue chip consulting firm McKinsey & Co. in London. She then spent 7 years in management roles, culminating in taking over the MD role, at Clearpower Ltd., a renewable energy and environmental services company operating across Ireland and the UK.  She has further experience in the aviation industry including head of sales and marketing for Dublin Airport Central as part of Group Development at daa. 

 

Ava returned to strategy consulting with Innovat International in USA focusing on commercial strategy before joining NorthShore Advisors. Key projects have included senior managment workshops, situation analysis, strategy development and strategic planning, product development and pricing, revenue growth and yield management.

our approach

NorthShore works with senior managment teams to craft and implement growth strategies that:

 

  • Robustly address the strategic environment, priorities and opportunities facing the business
  • Will attract capital and resources
  • Are designed around the company in a flexible manner to ensure management ownership, and leadership and efficiency

 

Our working style is:

 

  • Robust (fact based, insight driven)
  • Professional (top quality, international)
  • Commercial (pragmatic, implementable)
  • Tailored (reflects organisation, balanced)
  • Partnership driven (one goal, flexible style, facilitative, consensus oriented)

 

Frameworks we often find useful as part of a tailored projects:

  • Stepping Back the Future

    • Envision the potentially attractive futures, paint the elements to succeed, select preferred future, work back from the future in 2-3 phases for actions (medium-term, short-term)

  • Ladders of Growth
    • Understand growth 'staircase' journeys, identify platforms for growth, develop priorities over 3 horizons
  • Growth Platforms
    • Identify and test growth platforms arising from the company's skills, assets (brands, IP etc.) and relationships and the potential growth they could enable 
  • Outside-in Report Card
    • Create a common factbase of external and internal performance - supports context/situation analysis at the start of a strategy development/planning process

 

when to consider northshore support

When you and your organisation are wondering how to advance your key strategic issues, with questions like the following:

  • How do we advance our strategic agenda?
    • How do we bring life and rigour to our aspirations?

    • How do we ensure our strategy fits with competitive realities?

    • How do we restructure and redirect our business for long term value and strength?

    • How do we step-change our commercial performance?

  • How can we build a robust business case for a strategic initiative?

  • How should we support key managers with major decisions, and implementation?

  • How do we gain high quality support without losing control of the process or incurring major expense?