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AI beyond pilots
Move from experimentation to workflow redesign, governance, adoption, and measurable value.
Firm Overview
Strategy clarity. Operating discipline. Measurable value.
Valent Advisory is a Toronto-based, founder-led strategy and operations advisory firm helping CEOs and executive teams turn enterprise priorities into sharper choices, stronger operating discipline, and measurable value.
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.
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Performance visibility
KPIs, owners, risks, milestones, and measurable value that executives can manage.
Selected prior corporate and consulting experience
17+ years
Strategy, operations, transformation, governance, and value creation experience.
$700M+
Contributed to quantified value across growth, productivity, modernization, cost, and transformation programs.
70+ countries
Supported global strategy and performance priorities across a complex operating platform.
$5B+
Enterprise investment governance and executive decision-support exposure.
$1B+
Transaction, diligence, Day 1, integration, and execution exposure.
Figures reflect Matthew Maunder’s prior corporate and consulting roles before founding Valent Advisory. They do not imply current Valent client results, former-employer endorsement, sponsorship, or current commercial relationships.
Current Executive Agenda
The issues shaping executive attention now.
Leadership teams are under pressure to capture AI value, fund growth, improve productivity, and make strategy executable while technology, talent, capital, and market expectations keep moving.
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Cost and capacity
Fund growth while simplifying work, reducing operating drag, and protecting strategic momentum.
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Execution risk
Clarify ownership, escalation, KPIs, and executive forums before momentum stalls.
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Investment and value discipline
Pressure-test technology spend, workforce capacity, transformation commitments, and transaction value against the strategy.
How Valent Helps
Focused capabilities for important enterprise priorities.
Capabilities can stand alone or combine into a focused mandate. Each is structured around an executive question, a clear operating problem, and the outcomes leadership needs to improve.
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Enterprise Strategy
Sharper priorities, resource trade-offs, and an executable leadership agenda.
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Transformation Execution
Governance, sequencing, value tracking, and executive accountability.
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Operating Model Design
Decision rights, accountabilities, structure, roles, interfaces, and leadership cadence.
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Enterprise Performance
KPI architecture, operating reviews, productivity, cost discipline, and action routines.
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Executive Governance
Forum design, escalation paths, decision rights, accountability, and leadership time allocation.
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Value Creation & M&A
Diligence, Day 1 readiness, integration governance, value levers, and execution discipline.
How We Work
Focused mandates. Direct senior involvement. Practical outcomes.
Valent begins with the leadership decision, operating challenge, or value outcome, not a pre-set consulting program. Each mandate is scoped around a defined objective and led directly by the founder.
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Focused diagnostic
A structured assessment and prioritized executive action plan.
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Advisory sprint
Focused support around a defined strategic, operating, performance, or transformation issue.
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Strategy-to-execution mandate
Broader work connecting choices to operating model, governance, performance, execution, and value.
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Ongoing executive advisory
Periodic independent support for CEOs and leadership teams navigating important priorities.
Flagship Entry Offering
Enterprise Execution Readiness Diagnostic
A focused, founder-led review for CEOs and executive teams that need a clear view of where strategic ambition is being constrained by operating reality, and what leadership should change first.
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Frame the decision
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Build the relevant fact base
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Assess execution readiness
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Align leadership on action
About the Founder
Direct experience. Direct involvement.
Matthew Maunder, MBA, is Founder & Principal of Valent Advisory. His experience spans strategy, operations, transformation, enterprise governance, performance, and value creation across Colliers, Strategy&, and RBC. Valent was created to provide direct, independent support where strategy must become operating discipline and measurable results.
Relevant experience
- Enterprise strategy and operating leadership
- Top-tier consulting discipline
- Global performance and governance experience
- Transformation, modernization, and integration support
- MBA, Ivey Business School
Discuss an Executive Priority
Start with the decision, operating challenge, or value opportunity in front of the organization.
Speak directly with Matthew Maunder to share the context, assess fit, and determine whether a focused diagnostic, advisory sprint, or broader mandate would be useful.