Foxhall Consulting is dedicated to focusing the vision, improving the execution, and sustaining the impact of social entrepreneurs.
Preparing to launch a new business? Grow an existing business? Foxhall Consulting Services is prepared to help. Michael Whitehead-Bust will assist you with all areas of your business plan. Michael pursued his degree in business with the express purpose of helping social entrepreneurs better plan and execute their visions, and attended the business school consistently rated #1 in the world for entrepreneurship education. He will work with you to develop a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of your business.
An effective business plan will serve as a living document that will document your strategy and tactics. A strong business plan is one that is truly understood and embraced by those involved with the business, and which will serve as a tool for securing appropriate investment. Michael will work with your team members to ensure that everyone is on the same page, and intimately understands the analysis of the opportunity. This understanding will lead to more efficient and rational analysis on an on-going basis for all involved.
Michael has an exceptional ability to analyze and represent the economic potential of different business opportunities. His financial tools and pro-formas have received consistent praise from investors and entrepreneurs alike. He has developed a unique suite of sensitivity analysis tools that can be invaluable to articulating your opportunity both internally and externally.
Michael enjoys working with early stage entrepreneurs, and can serve either as an advisor/coach or as a primary author and researcher of a business plan. He work closely with entrepreneurs to coordinate all aspects of the plan, to ensure that data and analyses are solid, strategy is sound, assumptions are clear and realistic, and that the plan is appropriate for its primary purpose (e.g. securing investment). Services include:
FCS will help your firm better align its business interests with social impacts. Too often, corporations set up philanthropic or volunteer programs without doing a more thorough evaluation of how they can best leverage their community involvement to further their business interests. The two do not have to be competing forces. FCS will work with you to develop a strategic synergy between your business interests and your community involvement.
FCS is experienced at performing formal business valuations and will be happy to assist you with these analyses. Whether you are buying or selling a business, effecting a merger, or seeking a capital infusion, a sound valuation will be critical to the process. Michael Whitehead-Bust has done valuations for large private equity firms like Fidelity Capital, and for entrepreneurs seeking debt or equity financing. He has experience with a wide variety of valuation methodologies and will help you develop the most strategic and appropriate approach to your specific circumstance.