Strategy Consulting Services

EY-Parthenon professionals recognise that CEOs, business and Government leaders are tasked with achieving maximum value for their organisations’ stakeholders in this transformative age. We challenge assumptions to design and provide strategies that help improve profitability and long-term value.

Across strategy, transactions and transformation, our aligned practice areas help leaders create value at every stage of growth.

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The team

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EY-Parthenon Strategy Leader, Oceania

A photographic portrait Gavin Sultana

EY-Parthenon Oceania Transactions and Corporate Finance Leader

Dr. Byron Pirola

EY-Parthenon Oceania Strategy and Execution Leader

What EY-Parthenon Strategy Consulting can do for you

Leading companies are taking big, transformative steps, redeﬁning their purpose, embarking on end-to-end digital transformations and learning how to achieve disruptive innovation in a rapidly shifting market environment.

We have the breadth of perspectives and depth of experience to provide strategic advice to help achieve optimal — and sustainable — results.

We create a custom approach tailored to each client’s unique situation and bring extensive business and sector experience with tested analytical techniques. As experienced advisors to the C-suite, EY-Parthenon helps you answer:

How can I seise growth opportunities and competitive advantage?
What are the appropriate revenue, profitability and sustainability targets for my business?
How can I better anticipate and adapt to digital transformation?
Can I use an M&A strategy as an accelerant to achieve profitable growth goals?
When is a divestiture best for my long-term value?
How can I build and secure liquidity, managing the impact of disruption between finance and operations?
How can I win the competition for capital?

We work directly with CEOs and their teams to craft, exceptional forward-thinking strategies to drive specific, value-creating change. We move beyond generic frameworks to create insights and opportunities others might miss. Because we recognise strategies need to be delivered as well as conceived, we help you navigate the change exceptional strategies often require. Then, we bring our transformation and execution skills to bear, equipping you to transform at pace.

We help with:

Corporate and business unit strategy
Reinvent business models to respond to industry disruption
Optimise portfolios for value
Find, assess and execute new market entries
Commercially valuable digital transformation
Our strategic transformation practice joins strategic vision with organisation wide performance improvement. We help you create change programmes aligned to strategy, focussed on commercial outcomes – and flexible enough learn as the programme unfolds.

We avoid detailed, fixed programmes. Instead, we create practical, phased, adaptable workstreams. We also provide the analytic and problem-solving support you need to find, solve and react to the inevitable bumps along the way. By integrating strategic clarity with executional discipline, we help you achieve lasting impact while maintaining the agility needed to navigate an ever-changing business landscape.

We help with:

Bottom line performance improvement
Operating model alignment with strategy
Business and corporate level cost and revenue enhancement programmes
Self-disruption change programmes
From acquisitions to divestments we help companies deliver real-world value: solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. With deep functional and sector expertise, we take an investor mindset to partnering with CEOs, boards, private equity firms and governments to shape their future. We provide end-to-end solutions across the transaction lifecycle, including M&A and divestment strategy, valuations, and decision modeling to deal origination, financing, integrated diligence, M&A execution, and post-merger integration. We help you reimagine portfolios to achieve your strategic objectives and create new value.

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Our financial and business restructuring professionals support EY-Parthenon clients, from design to delivery, focusing on practical solutions that yield measurable results. The teams focus on identifying value creation opportunities to rapidly improve performance.

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Experienced strategy consultant. Served boards and chief executives across a range of industries globally. Committed husband and father of five.

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