Education Strategy and Transactions Consulting

We help clients across the education ecosystem shape strategies that create, preserve, and recover value. From Pre-K to workforce learning, we support governments, foundations, institutions, investors, and education companies in achieving strategic goals across global education markets.

What the EY-Parthenon Education Strategy and Transactions Consulting team can do for you

Leaders in education are under significant pressure due to changing geopolitical dynamics, rapid technological advancements, changing workforce demands and increased diversity among student populations. To remain relevant and effective, it’s critical that they prepare students for a dynamic future, align with job market requirements and create inclusive environments that cater to all learners with an increasing focus on financial sustainability and new and innovative models for internationalization. Additionally, the growing need for accountability and the increasing competition for budgets and resources further necessitate innovative approaches to sustain quality education and support student wellbeing.

As the education industry transforms, EY-Parthenon teams can help you answer some of your most critical questions:

Transformative strategy

How can we implement a strategy that can drive better outcomes for students?
How can we grow the business and impact in uncertain market conditions?
How can Education providers leverage AI in the more comprehensive and impactful manner?
In what ways can performance improvement strategies be tailored to address unique challenges, and how can these strategies drive transformative change?
What changes to our current operating structure would best position us to anticipate and adapt to future disruptions in the education sector?

Transformative transactions

How can we identify and assess potential acquisition targets that align with our strategic vision?
What are the critical success factors for executing a transformative transaction that supports education, and how can we mitigate risks associated with such changes?
In what ways can we facilitate transformative transactions to drive innovation and growth?

Portfolio company value creation is at the core of every transaction investment thesis. We have the strategic insight, sector experience and transformational capabilities to help private equity firms create differentiated value faster across their portfolio companies and maximize returns. Learn more.

EY-Parthenon Education and Transactions Strategy Consulting professionals advise clients on developing transformative growth strategies by providing broad market, competitor and customer insights. But a strategy alone is not enough: We also help organizations execute strategy through real operational change. We help them become more agile and efficient, transforming the vision into reality by leveraging strategic, financial and operational perspectives, based on deep sector experience and firmwide knowledge to help enable end-to-end execution.

Our focus includes:

Known as a leading strategy organization in this space, EY-Parthenon teams help federal and state education institutions, as well as foundations, develop strategies and detailed execution plans and provide hands-on support to facilitate success on large and transformative programs. Our efforts focus on aligning talent and budgets with strategic initiatives for learning acceleration and system-level change, alongside support for grants management, cybersecurity, technology systems and public health programs. We also advise our clients on their Digital and AI Strategy and help them transition to a more sustainable and impact driven financial and operating model. Our work with Governments and Foundations covers the Prek, K12, Higher Education and the Workforce and Skilling sub segments.
EY-Parthenon teams provide comprehensive consulting services for some of the largest global and region Pre-K and K-12 providers, covering market and growth assessment, strategic planning, performance analytics, financial advisory and operational improvement. We have advised the largest PreK and K12 providers at the C Suite level across various stages of their growth journey on how they can accelerate and optimize both organic and inorganic growth for the institution and be well positioned to attract capital to fund growth. Learn more.
EY-Parthenon teams assist higher education institutions in achieving practical and sustainable transformations. Our services include identifying new market and program expansion opportunities, optimizing education delivery models, developing efficient organizational structures and managing transformative processes through partnerships. By providing analysis and insights, we empower higher education leaders to unlock the full potential of their institutions, making sure they thrive in a competitive and rapidly changing landscape. We have worked closely with universities in developing their AI and broader digital strategies and also assisted a number of large universities in reframing their internationalization agenda in a rapidly changing global geopolitical landscape and are working closely with some of the largest global universities in enhancing financial sustainability and improving fiscal discipline and overall commercial excellence at the institution. Learn more.
EY-Parthenon teams help organizations carefully determine their unique growth path. They provide knowledge and support throughout a process that might include organic or inorganic growth, such as acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures or even divestments. Whatever the growth path, we offer practical, hands-on help during the transition process to help ease the transformation.
EY-Parthenon clients include venture capital, private equity and corporations. Our education teams identify new education investment opportunities to help produce both short- and long-term value in current investments, support investors with commercial due diligence on potential acquisition and investment targets. We support deals from the pre-contract stage through the eventual integration (or separation due to divestiture) with EY-Parthenon Education Strategy teams supporting both the decision-making and execution assistance through the deal lifecycle.

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