Advisory
Team
Our team at Bedford Group specializes in providing expert business management services to help businesses of all sizes grow and thrive. We understand that every business has unique needs, which is why we take a personalized approach with each of our clients to ensure that we create a tailored engagement to achieve their specific objectives.
Founder's Bio: Blake McDonell is an Executive with 30 years of operating experience having spent the majority of his career conducting professional advisory for mid-market organizations across a broad spectrum of industries. Blake possesses a holistic knowledge of all facets of business with a strong business development, operations and financial background. He has run high performance teams and served as a trusted advisor to CEO’s and senior executive leaders, helping them to convert strategy into execution. A graduate of the University of Guelph, he is well respected for his interpersonal skills, integrity, and leadership.
Service Overview
Bedford is a tactical resource used by organizations to accelerate initiatives that improve operational efficiency and create more predictability for executive leaders to generate measurable & sustainable performance improvement. Our clients use us in a few different ways:
- Fractional COO: organizations that have a vacant senior operations position or are of a size that doesn't support a full-time COO, will employ Bedford on a fractional basis to help the organization in achieving its operational objectives
- Study: organizations that have a very specific 'pain point' that they would like to analyze, engage Bedford to conduct a 'Study' to understand the underlying issues and provide direction with respect to the solution(s) for their internal leaders to implement
- Implementation Program: organizations that require support to accelerate change, engage Bedford for an implementation program - our programs are tailored to the specific client need and are broken down into 3 phases:
- Due diligence: detailed analysis of processes, systems and management practices
- Solution Development: developing tailored solutions to improve performance in one or more of the following areas: working capital, sales, expenses, quality, service
- Implementation: we support management through the implementation of identified change initiatives and measure the improvement in one or more key performance indicators (KPIs)
Clients
Bedford partners with a diverse mix of clients spanning a variety of industries:
- Private Equity
- Healthcare
- Distribution/Warehousing/Logistics
- Manufacturing
- Senior Living
- Construction
- SaaS businesses
- Nurseries (farms and retail)
