Assembling the right experts for whatever the moment requires.

We get to the heart of your situation first. Then we bring together the right people to move the solution forward. From strategy to execution, we meet your business where it is.

The challenge in front of you probably
doesn’t fit neatly into a job description.

The good news is, it doesn’t have to.

And the right solution doesn't have to fit into a neat framework either. Every engagement is different, but our work typically draws from four core capabilities, tailored based on your mandate.

Focus & Grow

For leaders who need to cut through ambiguity, set clear priorities, and put resources behind what matters most.

Helping organizations define where they’re headed and focus on what matters most.

Capabilities

  • Growth strategy & market expansion

  • New business & investment opportunities

  • Go-to-market strategy & commercialization

  • Portfolio strategy & prioritization

  • Strategic planning & roadmap development

Design & Organize

We help teams run more effectively by matching their structure and day-to-day routines with their tangible goals.

Shaping roles, rhythms, and ways of working to create sustainable progress.

Capabilities

  • Operating model & organizational design

  • Process & workflow improvement

  • Governance & ways of working

  • Cost optimization

  • Performance management

Drive & Deliver

We turn plans into progress, bringing the leadership and accountability to keep cross-functional efforts on track.

Leading complex work and seeing it through to success.

Capabilities

  • Transformation management

  • Program & project management

  • PMO & portfolio management

  • Vendor management

  • Implementation & go-live readiness

Adopt & Sustain

We coach leaders and teams through new tools and ways of working, and build the capabilities to sustain forward progress after we step back.

Bringing people along in the process and making the changes stick.

Capabilities

  • Change strategy & planning

  • Stakeholder engagement & communications

  • Training & implementation

  • Technology adoption & enablement

  • Culture & employee engagement

  • Leadership development & coaching

We’re both big-picture thinkers and roll-up-our-sleeves doers.

We laser in on what you're trying to accomplish and gather the right combination of people, expertise, and support to move it forward.

About Us

Support level 1   /   Leader

Filling in a senior role

Senior support is needed, now. This is an experienced leader handpicked to fit with your company in the face of a leadership vacuum, ready to lead until the longer-term plan takes shape.

This can look like:

  • Stepping into an empty seat
  • Steadying a team through a leadership transition
  • Serving as an interim operator or fractional executive

Support level 2   /   team

Owning a focused priority

Some priorities need more than one kind of expertise. We bring together experienced leaders whose strengths complement each other to see the initiative through.

This can look like:

  • Redesigning how a team or function operates
  • Implementing workstreams
  • Launching a new product or service

Support level 3  /  partner

Supporting enterprise-wide change

A transformation spans functions, systems, leaders, and dependencies that no single internal role can see or steer cleanly. We show up as a comprehensive partner to orchestrate the work across your entire system.

This can look like:

  • Rolling out new enterprise technology across the business
  • Bringing newly merged teams together as one organization
  • Resetting a transformation that's lost momentum

From the thick of it to the other side.

See All Work
Partner
/
Adopt & Sustain
Making a global technology transformation work at the local level.

4

regions moved to one global platform

300+

stores rolled out across Greater China

100%

of transitions delivered on time

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Still determining the need?
Don’t sweat it.

All we ask is that you bring us your problem. That’s it. We’re here to dig in and make a plan alongside you, no matter how messy things may be. 

Part of the work for us is to determine the shape of our engagement by evaluating the entire picture of the situation you’re in.

Alder45 helps solve business challenges when high-stakes work asks more of a company than its current structure can give. This includes leadership gaps, cross-functional initiatives, growth that’s outpacing your team’s capacity, and enterprise-wide changes like technology transformations, integrations, and operating-model shifts. If your situation is hard to name, that’s usually a good sign to start a conversation.
A company should consider hiring a consultant when an important priority needs expertise, leadership, or capacity beyond what the current team can provide. That might mean temporarily filling a senior role, moving a critical initiative forward, or navigating a complex transformation. Alder45 helps determine what kind of support the situation calls for.
Alder45 works alongside the team members who know your business best: executive sponsors, the leaders accountable for the work, and the teams who will carry it forward. Their involvement is what makes the work understood, supported, and owned by your organization once the engagement ends.
Every consulting engagement starts with understanding what your business needs to make happen and what's standing in the way. From there, we match the right experienced leader, team, or partner to the work. Every engagement is shaped around the situation, so scope and length vary. Alder45 works side by side with your team so the clarity and rhythms we build keep going after we're gone.
Strategy consulting focuses on deciding where a business should go and why, while operations consulting focuses on how the work gets done day to day. Most important priorities need both, and connecting the dots between them is a step that can easily get missed. Alder45 isn't a traditional strategy firm or an outsourced operations team. We bring experienced leaders who connect the two: setting direction, designing how the business runs, driving the work forward, and bringing people along.
The best way to get started is to tell us about the situation you’re facing. You don’t even need a defined scope or a perfect plan—that’s what we’re here for!  The first step is just to have a conversation so we can understand what’s at stake and figure out how Alder45 can help.
Yes, Alder45 provides interim and fractional executives when a critical seat is open or a priority needs a senior owner. We handpick an experienced leader to fit your company, your culture, and the moment you're in. The leaders Alder45 brings know how to  step in quickly, steady the work, and lead until the longer-term answer is clear. That might be an interim executive during a leadership transition, or a fractional COO or chief of staff while you figure out what the role should become.

What gap are you facing?

From “I’m not 100% sure, I just know something’s off” to “We’re on a strict transformation timeline”, we want to hear where you’re at. 

Alder45 is a Portland-based consulting firm serving businesses at moments that matter. We navigate complex transformations by bringing in the right people to support your work, see it through, and leave your team stronger when we step back.

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