Partners in Value Transformation

Marakon partners with CEOs, their executive teams and business leaders to drive value transformation. We are at our best when helping companies solve their most pressing strategic challenges. Our partner and consultant teams combine deep industry and business insight with change management skills backed by more than forty years of focus on company transformation

What We Do

From start to finish Marakon is personally invested in the partnership and relentlessly pursues the right answers and optimal outcomes. From Marakon you will get robust and leading strategic thinking, and a roadmap to implementation. They have set themselves apart within their industry, and we are a better company for having partnered with them.

Philip Yuzpe, President and COO - Sentry Investments

Marakon applied a disciplined approach to help us navigate our complex questions. They employ a good blend of classic strategy approaches, advanced analytics and a much welcomed sense of pragmatism.

Head of Strategy - Large online brokerage

The partnership is unparalleled. Marakon helped us to develop the right strategic priorities and build-out the capabilities to deliver against them. In that way we were able to create significant value in the business in a relatively short time — disciplined value creation.

Bridgette Heller – Former EVP and President of Merck Consumer Care

Marakon’s strategic thinking, organisational insights and personal dedication to our success is the best I have experienced in the strategy space.

CEO - Aviva UK

A consultancy that has advised some of the world’s most consistently successful companies.

The Economist

An absolutely top notch consultancy, among the half-dozen firms that form the elite in strategy consulting.

Fortune

Their corporate strategy work is the best I have seen in 20 years of working with top consulting firms. They are original thinkers with a challenging point of view.

Former Chairman - Barclays

They have a unique, highly disciplined approach to strategic decision making and worked closely with our management to tailor it to the business situation and culture at Xerox.

Former Chairman & CEO - Xerox

They bring a rigorous process focussed on intrinsic value creation. They really get under the skin of the economics and value of our business.

Former CEO - Prudential

They allow us to translate strategy into action and deliver a strategy that we are able to implement

Former CEO - BP

Marakon did a great job for us. Their strategic thinking is financially disciplined, and they had a big impact on our thinking and decision-making. They bring real clarity to our focus on growing long-term value.

Former CEO - Cardinal Health

Their strategic logic and intellect is miles better than the rest. They draw a conclusion and put it on the table with confidence and belief; the others keep working the facts but don’t tell us what they think we should do.

Former Chief Strategic Officer - Heineken

With Marakon we get the right answers, not the answers we want to hear.

CEO - Nordstrom

They are different from other top-tier consultancies. They brought their general management perspective and expertise as an important team member working on our financial and business turnaround.

Former Chairman & CEO - Gillette

Marakon has a unique and effective approach in working with our leadership team to sharpen its focus on value creation, develop distinctive strategies and build management capabilities to maximize value. They are trusted advisors in helping us to win for the future.

Former Chairman & CEO - Roche

People

Marakon’s Directors have worked with the CEOs and top management at some of the world's most consistently successful companies. Our leadership has earned the respect and confidence of our clients by sharing objective perspective on their most pressing strategic issues. The positions we take are rarely comfortable, and while our views sometime lead to creative and constructive conflict, the true value of our advice comes from the integrity of our people and the impact of their ideas.

A firm like ours is defined by the intelligence and achievements of its people. Here are the profiles of our Directors and Principals.

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