Helping build strong, unified businesses
Transforming your business into a growth engine
Wharton Business Consulting offers a broad range of solutions designed to ensure your integration becomes a competitive advantage.
Value Creation Diagnostic
Our proprietary Value Creation Diagnostic is built on decades of experience in successful integrations and transformations.
Through a rapid, incisive diagnostic, we uncover hidden value and unlock optimisation opportunities you might be overlooking. This isn’t just about identifying problems; we provide practical, actionable recommendations to bridge gaps and accelerate your path to realising the full financial and operational benefits of your strategic initiatives.
Empower your leaders and teams to deliver on their promises and drive sustainable growth.
Zero-based Design
Reimagine your entire organisation with our Zero-Based Design approach where we strip away legacy constraints and rebuild your operating model from the ground up, ensuring every function, process, and role is meticulously re-evaluated.
Whether you’re focused on driving aggressive growth, achieving significant cost reductions, or maximising customer lifetime value, our collaborative and iterative workshop-based approach enables you to align every element directly with your strategic goals.
The outcome is a leaner, more agile, and highly efficient organisation with a future-proof operating model specifically designed for sustainable performance.
Operating Model Optimisation
Operating model optimisation is a cornerstone of successful integration, seamlessly fusing capabilities, processes, and ways of working. However. legacy systems, redundant processes, and misaligned structures can erode anticipated synergies, leading to inefficiencies that hinder your ability to achieve strategic objectives.
We help by implementing a bespoke operating model that aligns perfectly with your strategic objectives, streamlining workflows, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and fostering a culture of innovation.
The result? Reduced operational costs, faster decision-making, improved customer satisfaction, and a robust framework that empowers your business to adapt and thrive in an ever-evolving market.
Capabilities and Skills
A clear view of the skills, capabilities, and enablers your organisation needs is critical for delivering on your strategic goals. Yet after a merger or during major change, many organisations lack this visibility. Overlapping roles, uncoordinated growth and innovation efforts, and under-leveraged technology can erode performance and limit the impact of integration.
We help you address this head-on by working with you to identify the future capabilities your business will need, assess your current level of maturity and define how best to deliver them, helping build a well-aligned organisation with the right blend of human and digital capabilities ready to drive performance, unlock synergies, and deliver on your future ambitions.
Culture Blueprint
Major change – whether integration or transformation – is never just about strategy and systems. It’s about getting the best from your people and your culture.
Our Cultural Diagnostic and Blueprint blends existing data, qualitative insights, and quantitative diagnostics to uncover the real dynamics shaping your organisation’s culture, identifying both strengths and friction points. Through interviews, surveys, and behavioural analytics, we provide clear, actionable insights on how your culture supports or hinders your strategic goals and supports your people for success.
The result? A culture that accelerates change, aligns with your strategic objectives, and empowers your people.
Talent Assessment
In the dynamic landscape of post-merger integration and complex transformation, your leadership team’s effectiveness is paramount.
Our specialist talent assessment services are designed to ensure your leaders are not just ready, but future-fit and value-focused.
We employ rigorous, context-specific leadership assessment tools to deliver deep insights into individual strengths, crucial development gaps, untapped future potential, and critical succession risks.
By aligning these efforts with your overarching growth, build/buy, and exit plans, we empower your leaders to confidently navigate change, drive strategic objectives, and unlock sustainable value for your organisation.
Leadership Effectiveness
Navigating organisational integration or transformation demands exceptional leadership.
We delve into your team’s current dynamics, identifying and leveraging both individual and collective strengths, pinpointing and addressing any gaps or areas for growth, ensuring a holistic approach to development.
This process isn’t just about skill-building; it’s about fostering deeper alignment and trust within your leadership teams.
The result? Enhanced decision-making capabilities and a significant acceleration in achieving your strategic objectives, empowering leaders to guide your firm through change with clarity, confidence, and unparalleled effectiveness.
Leadership Skills
Our leadership capability development interventions are specifically designed to equip your leaders with the essential skills and behaviours needed to thrive during critical periods.
Our programs are designed for real-world impact from day one, ensuring your leaders can immediately apply what they learn to navigate challenges, foster collaboration, and accelerate your strategic objectives.
Through interactive development sessions, powerful peer learning, and personalised coaching, we provide leaders with practical tools and actionable behaviours that deliver lasting performance.
Integration Roadmap
Our Integration Roadmap, built upon the renowned WhartonBC 7 Levers of Change, is specifically designed for firms navigating significant transformation and integration.
This isn’t just a theoretical exercise; we craft a compelling narrative that resonates with your entire organisation, outlining the “why” behind the transformation and fostering buy-in.
Through targeted interventions, we address specific cultural blockers and empower your teams to embrace new ways of working, aligning people and processes to ensure a successful, sustainable transformation.
Value Creation Diagnostic
Our proprietary approach uncovers hidden value and unlocks optimisation opportunities through evaluating your structure, leadership and culture to inform integration and transformation priorities.
Zero-based Design
Create a leaner, more agile organisation built for sustainable performance by reimagining your operating model from the ground up. Design each element to directly support delivery of your strategic goals.
Operating Model Optimisation
We partner with you to redesign your operating model for agility, efficiency, innovation and performance by streamlining structures, processes, and cost drivers, including headcount.
Capabilities and Skills
We identify, configure and assess the future capabilities and skills needed to ensure your operating model is equipped to deliver future performance.
Culture Blueprint
Rapid cultural assessment combining data and insights to identify your cultural enablers and blockers, enabling you to translate strategy into a compelling narrative that aligns vision, behaviours, and performance.
Talent Assessment
Identify strengths, gaps, future potential and succession risks across your talent landscape to inform selection, development, coaching, and talent strategies aligned with your strategic objectives.
Leadership Effectiveness
Unlock hidden value through more effective and efficient ways of working from your leadership team, directly enhancing decision-making and accelerating the delivery of strategic objectives.
Leadership Skills
Equip your leaders with the capabilities, practical tools and behaviours to deliver your strategic objectives and create sustainable performance. Designed for real-world impact from day one.
Integration Roadmap
A practical roadmap comprising a compelling narrative, targeted interventions, and defined KPIs to embed a performance culture and associated changes to your operating model and leadership team.
Unlocking human potential
Successful integrations are more than just a roadmap, they require expert execution. Our approach is built on decades of experience, ensuring that our people, and strategies, drive measurable value and long-term success.












Committed to driving growth
Our team works alongside you every step of the way. From strategy through to execution, we help you make confident decisions, mitigate risks, and unlock the full potential of your business.
Want to unlock the full potential of your transformation?
Integration success starts with the right expertise. Whether you’re in the early stages of a transformaton, or facing unexpected integration challenges, our team is here to help.