Performance is below potential
Margins, productivity, SG&A, organizational complexity, or management routines are creating structural drag and leadership needs a fact-based improvement agenda.
Strategy, Performance & Transformation Advisory
Strategy. Performance. Transformation.
Valent Advisory is a founder-led strategy, performance improvement, and transformation advisory firm based in Toronto and serving clients globally. We help CEOs, investors, and leadership teams improve performance, execute transformation, turn AI investment into operating value, and translate strategic priorities into measurable enterprise outcomes.
Based in Toronto. Serving clients globally.
Performance improvementTransformation & executionStrategy & growthOperating model & organizationPrivate equity value creationM&A integration & separation
Selected prior corporate and consulting experience
17+
years across strategy, operations, transformation, and executive governance
$700M+
contributed to quantified impact across growth, productivity, modernization, cost, and transformation programs
$5B+
enterprise governance and strategic investment oversight exposure
$1B+
transaction, diligence, integration, and value creation exposure
70+
country global operating platform experience
CEO & Board
decision support, executive materials, governance, and leadership alignment
Figures reflect Matthew Maunder’s prior corporate and consulting roles before founding Valent Advisory. They do not imply current Valent client results or former-employer endorsement.
When to bring us in
When performance, transformation, or value creation needs to move faster.
Valent works with CEOs, investors, and leadership teams at moments where the issue crosses strategy and operating reality, and where measurable outcomes matter more than another layer of analysis.
Transformation needs to deliver measurable value
Initiatives are active, but benefits, ownership, sequencing, dependencies, and executive visibility are not strong enough to protect outcomes.
AI investment is not translating into enterprise value
Pilots and tools are proliferating, but workflows, roles, governance, adoption, capacity, and benefit ownership have not been redesigned around measurable business outcomes.
The operating model is slowing the strategy
Growth, AI adoption, cost pressure, M&A, or complexity has outpaced structure, decision rights, roles, governance, and management cadence.
A value creation plan needs execution discipline
A CEO, owner, or investor has identified the value thesis and now needs operating translation, accountable initiatives, measurable milestones, and a management system that sustains delivery.
How Valent Helps
From strategic choices to measurable performance improvement.
Seven capabilities cover the situations where leadership needs rigorous diagnosis, senior judgment, and practical execution support. Performance improvement and transformation sit at the center, with AI treated as an enterprise value and operating-model issue—not a standalone technology program.
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How Valent helps
A practical operating model for leadership teams that need strategy to become decisions, cadence, accountability, and measurable value.
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Define the choices
Align the leadership team on where to focus, what to fund, and what to stop.
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Design the system
Translate ambition into decision rights, accountabilities, governance, and ways of working.
03
Create the cadence
Build the KPI architecture, executive forums, and management routines that drive action.
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Track the value
Make value visible through owners, milestones, risks, and measurable financial or operating impact.
02
Performance Improvement
Improve EBITDA, margin, productivity, SG&A, organizational effectiveness, management visibility, and value realization—including AI-enabled workflow and capacity opportunities—without treating cost reduction as the only lever.
03
Transformation & Execution
Mobilize enterprise transformation—including AI-enabled change—with clear outcomes, disciplined sequencing, benefit ownership, executive governance, adoption, and hands-on implementation support.
04
Operating Model & Organization
Align structure, human-AI workflows, decision rights, roles, accountabilities, governance, interfaces, and management rhythms so the organization can execute with greater speed and efficiency.
05
Private Equity & Value Creation
Translate the investment thesis and value creation plan into an executable operating agenda across growth, EBITDA, AI-enabled productivity, organization, transformation, integration, and management cadence.
AI Value & Operating Model
Move AI from pilots to measurable enterprise value.
Valent treats AI as a performance, workflow, and operating-model transformation. The question is not how many tools are deployed. It is where AI can materially improve the business and what must change for that value to scale.
Explore AI Value & Operating ModelPrioritize the economics
Focus AI investment on workflows and business outcomes with credible leverage across growth, margin, productivity, capacity, and decision quality.
Redesign the work
Rebuild end-to-end workflows around human and AI capabilities instead of layering tools onto unchanged processes.
Reset the operating model
Clarify roles, capacity, decision rights, ownership, adoption, and management routines required for AI-enabled work to scale.
Track value and risk
Connect adoption and implementation to baselines, benefit owners, measurable outcomes, governance, and explicit risk accountability.
C-suite operating agenda
What Valent builds
Strategy-to-execution clarity for moments that matter.
A senior-led advisory system for CEOs, investors, owners, and leadership teams that need sharper choices, cleaner governance, and visible value delivery.
ChoiceCadenceValue
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Strategic choices
Priorities, trade-offs, funding decisions, and what leadership should stop doing.
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Operating model
Decision rights, accountabilities, governance, roles, and management routines.
03
Performance visibility
KPIs, owners, risks, milestones, and measurable value that executives can manage.
Flagship Diagnostic
Enterprise Performance & Execution Diagnostic
A focused review that connects operating reality to measurable value. Diagnose the performance gap, quantify opportunities where the evidence supports it, prioritize the few levers that matter most, and leave leadership with an execution-ready action agenda.
Focused scope
Built around a specific performance, AI, transformation, operating model, transaction, or value creation question.
Direct senior involvement
Matthew Maunder leads the work from scoping and analysis through executive findings, decisions, and next-step mobilization.
Quantified where possible
Opportunities are sized when reliable financial or operating evidence supports a defensible estimate, with assumptions and confidence made explicit.
Execution-ready output
Findings become prioritized value levers, owners, milestones, governance, measures, and a practical implementation agenda.
How to engage Valent
Start at the level of support the situation requires.
Valent is designed to make the first engagement easy to understand. Begin with a focused diagnostic, solve a defined priority through a senior-led sprint, or extend into execution support when the value depends on sustained operating discipline.
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2–4 weeks
Executive Diagnostic
Indicative investment
CAD $20K–$40K
A focused senior-led review to identify where growth, performance, execution, operating model, governance, or value realization is being constrained.
Best for
CEOs, investors, and leadership teams that need a clear fact base before committing to a broader transformation or investment agenda.
What the client gets
Prioritized issues, quantified opportunity view where the evidence supports it, executive decisions required, and a practical action agenda.
02
4–8 weeks
Priority Sprint
Indicative investment
CAD $40K–$90K
A concentrated mandate around a defined strategy, growth, performance, AI value, operating model, transformation, or transaction priority.
Best for
Leadership teams that know the problem they need to solve and want senior capacity to move quickly from ambiguity to an executable answer.
What the client gets
Decision-ready analysis, operating solution, implementation roadmap, owners, milestones, governance, and measurable success criteria.
03
Ongoing / milestone-based
Execution & Executive Advisory
Indicative investment
CAD $15K–$35K / month
Hands-on support to help leadership mobilize, govern, and sustain a critical transformation, value creation plan, operating reset, or enterprise priority.
Best for
Organizations that need experienced operating capacity beyond the recommendation phase without adding unnecessary consulting layers.
What the client gets
Execution cadence, decision forums, KPI and value tracking, issue resolution, leadership alignment, and direct support through implementation.
Indicative fees are shown in CAD. Final pricing depends on scope, urgency, stakeholder complexity, and the delivery capacity required.
Capacity by design
Quality over volume.
Valent deliberately limits concurrent work so every mandate receives direct senior attention, continuity, and enough capacity to move at executive pace.
Active mandates
Typically 2–3 principal-led mandates at a time, depending on intensity and execution requirements.
If timing does not align
We will be clear early. Where useful, we can agree a later start or identify a practical alternative rather than overcommit.
Specialist expertise
Specialist expertise is brought in selectively for technical, data, diligence, or implementation needs while Valent retains senior accountability for the mandate.
Client Impact & Prior Experience
Evidence that connects executive advice to measurable outcomes.
Current Valent client work is shown separately from the founder’s prior corporate and consulting experience, so prospective clients can distinguish firm-level engagements from earlier credentials.
View impact & experienceValent client engagementExecutive Diagnostic
A focused diagnostic that turned an executive priority into a fact-based action agenda.
~$3M annualized opportunity4 priority actions90-day roadmap
Situation
A client engaged Valent to rapidly clarify a defined business priority where leadership needed an independent view of the underlying issues, the decisions that mattered most, and where action could create the greatest value.
What Valent did
Valent led a focused senior-led diagnostic using targeted executive input, available operating and financial evidence, and structured analysis to isolate root causes, pressure-test assumptions, and translate findings into a prioritized action agenda.
Outcome
The diagnostic identified approximately $3M in annualized performance opportunity, narrowed the leadership agenda to four priority actions, clarified executive ownership across the highest-impact initiatives, and established a 90-day implementation roadmap with measurable milestones and value tracking.
Client identity and confidential details remain anonymized unless expressly approved. Outcomes are presented at a level intended to protect confidentiality while accurately reflecting the work completed and value identified.
Representative prior experience
Enterprise-scale work before Valent.
Selected examples below are from prior corporate and consulting roles and demonstrate the scale and operating context Valent is built to support.
The standard
Advice should change a decision, an operating system, or an economic outcome.
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Strategy & Value Creation
Rapid executive mandates tied to quantified value
$385M+ quantified value6–8 week mandates
Situation
Senior leadership teams needed fast, decision-ready answers across growth strategy, operating model, modernization, and transformation priorities.
What changed
Structured 6–8 week engagements from problem definition through executive recommendations and execution planning, working directly with senior leaders and frontline teams.
Evidence
More than $385M in quantified value identified across client engagements, with recommendations translated into practical implementation agendas.
02
Operating Model & Productivity
A global delivery model redesigned for scale and operating leverage
~$60M opportunity$5.2M validated savings3 global hubs
Situation
A decentralized technology delivery model was creating structural complexity, service inconsistency, and avoidable cost across a global organization.
What changed
Re-architected delivery around three 24/7 global hubs and a lower-cost-to-serve model, supported by vendor, application, and operating-model rationalization.
Evidence
Approximately $60M in opportunities identified, including $5.2M in validated annualized savings, while creating a more scalable global support model.
03
Enterprise Transformation Governance
Investment governance connected to enterprise value delivery
$5B+ investment governance$400M+ efficiency agenda
Situation
A major financial institution needed stronger prioritization, transparency, and value realization across a large technology and operations investment portfolio.
What changed
Led executive governance, prioritization, KPI reporting, and value-realization disciplines across major strategic programs and investment decisions.
Evidence
Strengthened decision visibility and execution discipline across more than $5B of investments and a $400M+ enterprise efficiency agenda.
The representative examples above are from prior corporate and consulting experience before founding Valent Advisory. They demonstrate relevant operating context and do not imply current Valent client results or former-employer endorsement.
Discuss a similar prioritySelected Prior Experience
Experience shaped inside enterprise-scale environments.
Senior operating and consulting experience in complex global environments where strategy, economics, operating model, transformation, and measurable value have to move together.
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Global operating platform experience spanning 70+ countries and multi-market leadership forums
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Performance improvement, productivity, cost, technology value, and enterprise transformation
03
Operating model, organization, governance, KPI, and management cadence design
04
Strategy, M&A integration, value creation, and CEO or board-facing decision support
Founder Background
Experience shaped at leading global organizations.
Prior employers of Matthew Maunder
Education
Shown for biographical context only; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Where We Bring the Most Context
Deepest experience in complex, service-led, and investor-backed environments.
Valent is intentionally selective about industry claims. The strongest founder experience sits where strategy, operating complexity, technology and AI change, transformation, and measurable enterprise value intersect.
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Financial Services
Enterprise strategy, transformation governance, technology and AI investment, productivity, operating discipline, and executive decision support in regulated environments.
02
Real Estate & Professional Services
Global and multi-market operating models, service-line performance, AI-enabled workflows, technology and shared services, growth, M&A integration, and enterprise execution.
03
Business Services & Technology-Enabled Services
Scalable operating models, AI-enabled productivity, SG&A performance, workflow redesign, transformation, organizational effectiveness, and growth execution.
04
Private Equity & Portfolio Companies
Value creation plan execution, EBITDA and growth levers, AI opportunity prioritization, operating model, 100-day priorities, transformation governance, and post-close performance.
Why Valent
Senior expertise without unnecessary layers.
Valent is designed for clients who want major-firm rigor with direct senior involvement. Matthew Maunder leads every engagement from scoping and diagnosis through executive decisions and implementation support, with specialist technical expertise added where a mandate genuinely requires it.
The objective is simple: combine the rigor expected from a major advisory firm with the speed, continuity, and accountability of a focused senior team.
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Principal-led from start to finish
The person you hire remains directly accountable for the analysis, judgment, recommendations, and executive usefulness of the work.
02
Strategy connected to operating reality
Recommendations are tested against organization, capacity, economics, governance, technology, AI adoption, and the management system required to execute them.
03
Implementation-oriented
The work does not stop at recommendations. Mandates can extend into mobilization, workflow redesign, governance, adoption, value tracking, management cadence, and hands-on execution support.
04
Measured by outcomes
Value levers, owners, milestones, performance signals, risks, capacity implications, and expected outcomes are made explicit wherever the evidence supports it.
Operating principle
Recommendations matter only when the organization can execute them.
Built into every mandate
Direct senior accountability
No pyramid staffing
Implementation support when required
Value tracked beyond launch
Founder
Matthew Maunder, MBA
Founder & Principal, Valent Advisory
Matthew Maunder founded Valent Advisory after more than 17 years in senior corporate and consulting roles across Colliers, Strategy&, and RBC. His experience spans enterprise strategy, operating models, transformation, performance, governance, technology modernization, M&A, and value creation in complex global organizations.
Valent was built for the point where strategy meets operating reality: when leadership needs sharper choices, stronger accountability, and practical mechanisms that turn enterprise priorities into measurable progress.
Why I started Valent
After years inside large organizations and consulting firms, I kept seeing the same gap: leadership teams rarely lacked ideas — they lacked the time, structure and senior capacity to turn the right ideas into decisions and measurable results. I started Valent because I wanted to work differently: stay close to the problem, work directly with the people making the decisions, and help move from diagnosis to action without the layers and overhead of a traditional consulting model. That’s the kind of advisory work I always found most valuable, and it’s the firm I wanted to build.
Relevant experience
Enterprise operating experience
17+ years across strategy, operations, transformation, performance, and enterprise governance.
Corporate and consulting perspective
Senior experience shaped across Colliers, Strategy&, and RBC in complex, enterprise-scale environments.
Executive decision support
CEO, executive-team, and board-facing work across strategy, governance, performance, and execution.
Performance, AI & Value Creation Insights
Practical perspectives on improving performance and making transformation deliver.
Practical thinking for CEOs, investors, owners, and executive teams on the operating issues that most often separate strategic ambition from measurable enterprise value.
Featured perspective
Performance Improvement: Start With Value, Not Cost
The best performance programs start by understanding where value is created, where capacity is trapped, and which structural changes can improve economics without weakening the business.
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AI Value Realization
Why AI Pilots Don't Become Enterprise Value
The gap between an impressive AI pilot and enterprise value is usually not the model. It is the operating system around the work: workflow design, ownership, adoption, capacity, governance, and benefit realization.
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Private Equity Value Creation
Why Value Creation Plans Fail in Execution
A value creation plan is not an operating system. The investment thesis only becomes enterprise value when priorities translate into owners, milestones, management cadence, and measurable outcomes.
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From insight to action
If one of these issues is showing up in your organization, pressure-test it before it becomes a larger execution problem.
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