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Jane Gentry, a highly regarded business consultant in Atlanta, offers three decades of expertise in elevating high-growth organizations. With a focus on strategic leadership and development, Jane partners with CEOs to address and resolve challenges in strategy, workforce, and operational efficiency. Her approach is designed to drive sustainable growth, enhance sales effectiveness, and significantly boost business value, ensuring that every aspect of your organization is positioned for success.
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Have you planned for maximizing your business’s inherent value?
Make your business a growth success story
As a business owner, you’ve been steering your ship towards steady income, ensuring the present is secure, and growth is consistently upward. But what about beyond that? Sure, the now is prosperous, but what kind of wealth are you building for tomorrow?
Income flows from your active involvement in the business. It reflects your success, but is it also paving the way toward a sustainable future? Income is great for maintaining a lifestyle and reinvesting for steady growth, but what happens when you step back? Does the income persist without you?
Wealth is what stays behind when you step out of the daily operations. The value embedded in your business can endure and support your desired lifestyle, even in your absence. Have you built your business so that it becomes a valuable asset, one that you could, if you choose, sell for an amount to assure a comfortable lifestyle post-sale?
Jane works with CEOs and owners to embark on a journey where present-day income and future wealth are not mutually exclusive goals. Let’s harvest the fruits of your labor now while sowing seeds for a wealthy future.
Our value blueprint doesn’t ask you to choose between enjoying the now and securing the future – it facilitates a blend of both.
Steady Growth: Enjoy the financial freedom your business provides today without jeopardizing tomorrow.
Strategic Planning: Implement strategies that incrementally build wealth within your business over time.
Future-Proof: Ensure that the wealth embedded within your business is optimized and that you’re ready for whatever the future holds.
At the onset of a business consulting engagement, we take a strategic approach to review your organization’s structure and processes. From discovery to implementation, our goal is to diagnose and provide solutions for business gaps and weaknesses. Since relationships are our business, we want ours to be a happy one. We are highly motivated to make a difference for you and your organization, and we’ve found proven success with our approach.
Clarity
Diagnostic Discovery
Cadence
Strategic Blueprinting
Execution
Continuity
Growth Realization
Sustainable Scalability
From Diagnostic Discovery to Sustainable Growth
Starting with a comprehensive evaluation of your business, we learn your current position, goals, challenges, and opportunities.
We work with you to establish common direction for all stakeholders ensuring that every stakeholder is clear on and working toward improving the business’ value drivers.
Developing a strategic blueprint for your business with practices that amplify the inherent value of your business, ensuring it's not just a source of income but a valuable asset that can be capitalized upon in the future.
Translating the strategic blueprint into actionable plans -workflows, structures, responsibilities, and timelines ensuring that your business is operating at peak performance and maximizing your income while you're actively involved.
We are hands and help provide oversight, coaching, and mentoring to ensure effective implementation. This includes tracking progress against KPIs and driving accountability.
Finally, we focus on systematizing success. We work to embed a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and scalability. This allows your business to sustain growth, adapt to changes, and drive profitability and wealth in the long term.
Jane is one of my most valued advisors and thought partners. Her wisdom, kind heart, and no-nonsense style cut right to the core of business challenges, and her strategic perspective always expands my thinking. She has an unusual ability to energize and enroll others with a combination of direct feedback that’s always spot on with actionable insights I can use right away. Every conversation with her is helpful–purposeful, energizing, focusing, equipping.
Organizational & Talent Development Architect
From a strategic perspective, Jane has helped our organization think through complex issues and provide an objective view on corporate initiatives. I have observed her keen ability to connect disparate elements to form a cohesive picture when strategizing and working with our executive team . Unlike many consultants who focus on only the organizational or individual level, Jane works well in both areas to deliver amazing results. She not only gave our team valuable advice, but she was also in the trenches with us executing and helping gain enrollment from our teams on initiatives. Jane brings confidence and focus to her work, and I would have no hesitation in recommending her.
VP, Sales | SitelogIQ
My team and I had the pleasure of working with Jane over a 6 month period to conceptualize, design and implement a new customer engagement model with the aim of optimizing our go-to-market activities and driving pipeline efficiency and effectiveness. Jane brought a wealth of sales and go-to-market knowledge and experiences to bear as well as offering practical coaching and guidance to our people across multiple functions, career levels and geographies.
CEO | PLAE
I HIGHLY recommend Jane. She is an incredible motivator, adviser and coach. She puts into practice what she teaches by developing a meaningful engagement with the audience and explains and trains content in a sustainable and applicable way for your daily work life. Her tools are REAL and ACTIONABLE. You can truly use her tools to build stronger business relationships.
Director, Client Service | Czarnowski Collective
Are you looking for a new perspective on your business or department? Would you like a sounding board for your ideas before you implement them? Do you have a problem but need help figuring out who can help you? Jane is your go-to for these items and much, much more.
She supported me with targeted coaching for my team as a whole and individually. My organization and I are now moving faster toward our goals and have a solid strategy for how to reach them.
VP, Aftermarket | LDX Solutions
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Jane Gentry & Company works with a diverse range of B2B businesses, from mid-market companies looking to scale to Fortune 100 enterprises navigating complex transitions. Our clients span various industries, including manufacturing, technology, retail, and professional services. Whether you’re focused on growth, optimizing operations, or preparing for an exit, Jane’s expertise supports your business through every stage of growth.
Our process starts with a thorough assessment of your business’s current operations and challenges. By conducting in-depth diagnostics, we identify the root causes of inefficiencies or obstacles to growth. We then customize solutions based on your business’s unique needs, leveraging decades of experience to implement strategies that yield quick, sustainable results. At Jane Gentry & Company, our focus is on creating actionable solutions that increase productivity, engagement, and profitability.
Jane Gentry & Company provides end-to-end consulting support, from strategic planning to hands-on execution. We specialize in business resilience, growth pain management, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), demand creation, and exit strategy optimization. Our approach is practical, ensuring that each solution is not only implemented but also generates measurable success for your organization.
During your 30-minute complimentary consultation, you’ll have a personalized conversation about your business goals and challenges with one or more of our experts. We will ask targeted questions to understand your operations, current pain points, and long-term vision. Our experts will offer valuable insights and can shed light on some of the key issues your business is facing. The call is designed to explore how we can support your business’s growth and help you move forward efficiently.
Yes, Jane Gentry & Company specializes in providing transition support during mergers and acquisitions. We help businesses navigate post-M&A complexities by ensuring smooth transitions, aligning strategies with new business objectives, and integrating teams effectively. Our goal is to minimize disruptions and maximize the long-term success of your newly structured organization.
Our approach to exit strategy optimization involves maximizing your business’s value before a sale or transition. We work closely with you to ensure your company is prepared for a smooth exit, focusing on strengthening operations, enhancing profitability, and positioning the business for long-term success post-transition. Whether you’re passing the business to a new owner or stepping down yourself, we create a plan that ensures continued success.
What sets Jane Gentry & Company apart is our hands-on approach. We don’t just provide advice; we work alongside your team to ensure strategies are implemented and deliver tangible results. Our decades of experience working with both Fortune 100 companies and small businesses mean we understand what drives success and how to achieve it. We stay involved from strategy to execution, ensuring that you see the outcomes you desire.
Yes, Jane Gentry & Company offers consulting for businesses that are focused on long-term growth rather than selling. We help businesses overcome growth challenges, improve operational efficiencies, and create strategies for sustainable success, even if an exit is not in the immediate plans. Our services are designed to ensure that your business thrives in any phase of its lifecycle.
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