Revenue growth strategy
We analyse your pricing, sales pipeline and customer acquisition cost to identify where revenue leaks. A typical engagement surfaces £200k–£1.2m in recoverable annual revenue within the first diagnostic phase.
How we work
Four weeks from confusion to clarity
1
Diagnostic deep-dive
We spend three to five days inside your business. That means sitting with your finance team, walking the warehouse floor, reading the board packs nobody reads. We interview eight to twelve people across levels. The output is a 15-page diagnostic report, not a 90-slide deck.
2
Prioritised roadmap
We rank every issue by financial impact and effort. You get a roadmap with five to seven initiatives, each with an owner, a timeline and a target metric. Nothing vague. If an initiative cannot be measured, it does not make the list.
3
Hands-on execution
Our team works alongside yours for eight to sixteen weeks. We draft the SOPs, chair the weekly stand-ups, negotiate with suppliers when needed. The work happens inside your organisation, not in our office.
4
Handover and review
Before we leave, we run a two-day handover workshop so your managers can sustain the changes. We return at 90 days for a free review session to check the numbers still hold.
What we do
Six practice areas, one aim: measurable improvement
Operational restructuring
When headcount grows faster than output, something structural is broken. We map processes end-to-end, remove duplicated hand-offs and redesign team structures. Average process-time reduction across our last twelve projects: 34%.
M&A due diligence support
Before you sign, we stress-test the target's operations: supply chain resilience, customer concentration, management depth. Our commercial due diligence reports have supported transactions from £3m to £45m.
Turnaround management
Cash-flow crises need speed, not strategy slides. We embed a turnaround lead within 72 hours, stabilise creditor relationships and build a 13-week cash forecast that your bank can actually trust.
Family business advisory
Succession, governance and the tension between family dynamics and commercial logic. We facilitate shareholder agreements, design advisory boards and coach next-generation leaders through their first two years at the helm.
Interim leadership
When a CFO or COO leaves mid-project, we place a senior interim within two weeks. Our interims have an average of 18 years of functional experience and stay until a permanent hire is settled.
Results from recent engagements
Numbers, not promises
These figures come from four client projects completed between March 2024 and February 2025. Each was a mid-market business in the West Midlands with turnover between £5m and £40m.
£2.7m
Cumulative cost savings identified
34%
Average reduction in order-to-cash cycle time
11 wks
Average engagement length
4.1×
Average fee-to-savings ratio
About us
Founded in Birmingham, focused on the Midlands
Valor Advisory Consulting was started in 2019 by two former Big Four managers who were tired of flying to London every Monday. We wanted to serve the businesses we grew up around: manufacturers in the Black Country, logistics firms near the NEC, professional-services practices on Colmore Row.
Today the team is seven people. Small enough that a partner leads every project. Large enough that we can run two concurrent engagements without quality slipping. We do not subcontract analytical work offshore, and we do not resell templated frameworks. Every deliverable is built from your data.
Common questions
Before you pick up the phone
What size of business do you typically work with?
Most of our clients have annual turnover between £3m and £50m. Below £3m the economics of a consulting engagement rarely make sense; above £50m you probably need a larger firm with deeper specialist benches. That said, we have worked with a £120m distributor on a specific supply-chain project because scope was tightly defined.
How are fees structured?
We charge a fixed project fee agreed before work starts. No day-rate surprises, no scope-creep invoices. For turnaround work, we sometimes agree a small base fee plus a performance bonus tied to cash recovered. We invoice monthly in arrears.
Do you work outside the West Midlands?
Yes, though roughly 70% of our work is within an hour of Birmingham. We have completed projects in Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh. Travel costs are included in the project fee, so geography does not change the price.
What happens if the engagement does not deliver results?
We define success metrics at kick-off. If we miss them, we extend the engagement at our own cost until they are met or refund a portion of the fee. This has happened once in 23 projects; the extension was three weeks and the client hit the target by week 14.
Can we start with just the diagnostic?
Absolutely. About a third of our clients buy the diagnostic as a standalone product. You receive the report, the prioritised roadmap and a 90-minute walk-through session. If you then want us to execute, the diagnostic fee is credited against the project fee.
Get in touch
Tell us what is keeping you up at night
Our office is at 13 Kiehn Fold, Birmingham B1 1TF, West Midlands, United Kingdom. Walk-ins are welcome on weekdays between 09:00 and 17:00, but booking ahead saves you waiting.
Phone: +44 121 494 2203
Email: [email protected]
