Creating positive change
Consulting
Help no matter how healthy - or not - your business may be.
Wellness
Support
Fitness enhancement:
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Strategic / operational analysis
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Prepare the business for sale to maximize value
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Prepare for leadership transition
Operational
Revitalization
Fixing core problems:
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Rapid, sustainable improvement in operational and financial performance.
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Focus on culture and Implementing "lean" management principles throughout the organization.
Turnarounds &
Special Situations
Surgery to save the business:
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Financial restructuring to provide stability.
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Cash flow improvement
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Intense performance enhancement
Pilotage's process focuses on three key steps drive growth and cash flow
Clarity
Working together to understand what's really happening—financially, operationally, or commercially—is the first step.
With clarity we can define the path forward.
Transformation
We engage everyone on your team as part of the solution.
Embracing lean principles and continuous improvement is key to boosting throughput, quality, and responsiveness.
As transformation takes effect, cash flow and team engagement improves. This is the foundation to accelerate the business.
Acceleration
Applying the lessons of Transformation to the organization more broadly, and engaging customers to accelerate success.
Improved forward momentum that carries your business towards sustainable growth
How we work
Bridge Management
How we work
Pilotage engagements are flexible, efficient, and tailored to your situation. Lars Vaule leads every engagement personally—engaging additional trusted domain experts to support success if needed.
Interim Executive Leadership
For urgent leadership needs, Lars can step in as interim CEO, CFO, or COO to bring clarity, structure, and make rapid progress. His broad management experience supports quickly engaging on the highest-impact needs.
Fractional Leadership
For companies that need leadership without a full-time hire, part-time executive management—often as CFO, COO, or go-to-market lead—can make progress while helping the internal team grow.
Projects
Focused projects help clients quickly analyze or impact issues—while providing an opportunity to get to know each other. These projects often serve as a springboard to deeper collaboration.
Examples
Leading through Crisis
Turnarounds & Special Situations
Dealing with distress is not an everyday role for most managers.
Pilotage brings experienced, focused leadership and structured action to stabilize and rebuild your business.
Operational Turnaround Focus Areas:
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Cash flow triage and liquidity management to ensure solvency
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Rapid identification and correction of root causes of underperformance
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Returning to positive cash flow
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Rebuilding credibility with stakeholders
Notable engagements include replacing toxic leadership, addressing financial malfeasance, and strengthening balance sheets to restore stability and drive growth.
Example:
Lars stepped in as interim CEO of a failing cannabis producer following the founder's termination. Within the first 30 days, he uncovered over $1 million in fraudulent accounting and implemented 13-week cash planning. Over a 12-month engagement he reduced overhead by 30% while leading major improvements in operations and retail performance.
Successfully stabilized, Lars handed over leadership to a permanent CEO.
Steering toward Growth
Organizations Looking Forward
We know we need to do something... but we’re not sure how.
This is where many engagements begin.
For healthy companies considering today’s challenges and the path ahead, Pilotage brings seasoned leadership and the ability to engage as a peer with senior management and boards. Whether your team is held back by uncertainty or simply lacks bandwidth to execute, Pilotage helps teams move forward with confidence—by rolling up our sleeves together.
These are high-leverage moments—strategic decisions with operational consequences that shape long-term value:
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Addressing gaps in management before they become crises
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Improving profitability and cash flow
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Supporting evaluation of strategic alternatives
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Guiding ownership transitions or generational handoffs
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Preparing the business for sale or investment
Example:
The owners of a significant international art gallery recognized that they "needed to hire a CFO" to support the organization. Wisely, they understood their insight into the financial issues and skill set needed for the new role was limited.
A 30-day engagement to assess the situation led to serving as interim CFO / COO for nearly 12 months. During that time, Lars realigned the capital structure to support global expansion, implemented systems for budgeting and cash flow control, and recruited a permanent CFO.