17+
years across strategy, operations, transformation, performance, and executive governance
Founder Profile
Matthew Maunder, MBA
Founder & Principal, Valent Advisory
Matthew Maunder is the Founder & Principal of Valent Advisory, a strategy, performance improvement, and transformation advisory firm based in Toronto and serving clients globally.
He founded Valent after more than 17 years in senior corporate and consulting roles across Colliers, Strategy&, and RBC. His experience spans enterprise strategy, performance improvement, transformation, operating models, enterprise governance, productivity, technology modernization, M&A execution, and value creation.
Matthew has worked alongside CEOs, senior executive teams, and leaders preparing for board-level decisions on strategic priorities, capital and resource allocation, organizational performance, decision rights, transformation delivery, integration, and value realization. He holds an MBA from Ivey Business School.
Executive perspective
Operator context with consulting discipline.
Matthew's work has been shaped inside large, complex organizations where strategic choices must survive real economic and operating constraints. That perspective combines enterprise strategy with hands-on experience in performance improvement, operating models, transformation delivery, technology investment, integration, productivity, and executive governance.
Valent Advisory reflects that combination. Engagements are principal-led, implementation-oriented, and structured around the value levers, decisions, management mechanisms, and operating changes required to turn strategic intent into measurable performance.
$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
Figures reflect Matthew Maunder's prior corporate and consulting roles before founding Valent Advisory. They provide context on scale and relevance and do not imply current Valent client results or former-employer endorsement.
Areas of focus
Where Matthew's experience is most relevant.
The work is most useful when strategy, economics, organization, transformation, transaction execution, and measurable value need to connect at the enterprise level.
Strategy & Growth
Sharpen where to compete, where to invest, how to grow, and which enterprise priorities—including AI-enabled opportunities—should guide capital, capacity, and leadership attention.
Explore capabilityPerformance 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.
Explore capabilityTransformation & Execution
Mobilize enterprise transformation—including AI-enabled change—with clear outcomes, disciplined sequencing, benefit ownership, executive governance, adoption, and hands-on implementation support.
Explore capabilityOperating 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.
Explore capabilityPrivate 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.
Explore capabilityM&A Integration & Separation
Protect transaction value through Day 1 readiness, integration or separation governance, operating model decisions, workflow simplification, synergy execution, and disciplined post-close delivery.
Explore capabilityAI Value & Operating Model
Identify where AI can materially improve growth, margin, productivity, capacity, or decision quality—and redesign workflows, roles, governance, adoption, and value tracking to capture the benefit.
Explore capabilityValent Advisory
Strategy. Performance. Transformation.
Learn more about Valent's positioning, capabilities, engagement approach, and the situations where focused senior-led advisory and execution support can help.