Strategy advisory — New York
Est. 2011
Clarity for the decisions that shape your company.
Independent advisors for founders and leadership teams navigating growth, change and the decisions that can’t be undone.
Trusted by leadership teams at
About Halden
We take on a small number of clients at a time, so every engagement gets senior attention from start to finish.
Years advising founders and boards
Engagements across 14 industries
Clients return for a second project
Enterprise value our clients have created
Services
Four ways we help leadership teams move forward.
Selected work
Decisions that changed the trajectory of a company.
Strategy · Fintech
Refocusing a payments company on its most profitable segment
+38% gross margin in 18 months
Market entry · Hospitality
Taking a boutique hotel group from two cities to seven
5 openings, all profitable in year one
Operating model · SaaS
Rebuilding the leadership structure of a 400-person scale-up
Decision cycle cut from 6 weeks to 10 days
Transaction · Family business
Guiding a third-generation business through its first sale
Closed at 2.1× the initial offer
How we work
Three phases. One decision your team can stand behind.
01
Diagnose
Two to three weeks of interviews, data and market work to understand what is really going on — not just what the deck says.
02
Decide
We frame the real options, model the trade-offs and work with your leadership team until there is one clear, owned decision.
03
Deliver
A plan with owners, milestones and metrics. We stay close through the first 90 days so momentum doesn’t fade.
Client perspective
“Halden gave us the clarity to say no to the wrong opportunities — and the conviction to go all in on the right one.”
Elena Marsh
CEO, Northwind Payments
“They asked the questions our board should have been asking — and then stayed with us until we had real answers.”
Daniel Okafor
Founder & CEO, Harbor Hotels
“Halden rebuilt how we make decisions. A year later, our leadership team moves faster without me in every meeting.”
Marcus Hale
CEO, Tessellate
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