KHC - A Karen Harvey Company

As industry experts, we are able to bring the past and the future together to help examine, select and implement the most effective business or organizational model to help take your company into the future. The evolving dynamics across multiple industries require teams, structures and operations that are less siloed, steeped in consumer centricity and operate on highly digital, direct-to-consumer platforms. Additionally, brands must have a real reason to exist and they must stand for something that is authentic and important to their communities. These two pillars are critical to future-proofing brands, and require bringing on board the right new technologies, innovative approaches to engaging consumers, exceptional creative ideas and products, and new supply chains that do less harm to the planet and are more respectful of their workers. As many startup companies have rapidly become bigger players, and will continue to disrupt as long as they have the right leaders and resources, it is important that established brands of scale put leadership teams and strategies in place, to continue to succeed in future generations. Our Advisory Services provide a comprehensive approach to these new imperatives, leveraging our eco-system and experience, while providing access to some of the largest technology companies that are changing the way we work, and the startups that are innovating and solving problems quickly. These projects are taken on a limited basis and are designed around the unique needs of the brand or business.

Advisory Services also provides support to new companies interested in building a bigger footprint in the consumer goods sector. These might include brands that are built on the premise of sustainability, or those that utilize a new way of creating and distributing a widely used product or service. Additionally, we selectively advise companies launching new technologies or methodologies for the fashion and retail sector. Even though there are many core disconnects in how companies and products are built between these sectors, the fact remains that today they are interdependent. Our Advisory Services for technology companies helps founders, investors and innovators formulate their strategies, presentations, and business development approaches so that they can speak the language of the industry’s business leaders, and eliminate the roadblocks to partnering with this industry, overall. In select cases, we participate in the business development component by making introductions to our c-level network for companies we believe could be a good fit for a client’s needs. We also serve as a gateway to potential investment and company assessment, for emerging companies that fit the criteria of our business partners, Labora.