Managing a design or construction firm is tough business—and many firm leaders feel as if they are doing all alone. Kogan & Company’s consulting provides the expertise to turn your firm into a top performer.

• Strategy consulting and strategic planning combine to make the highest-leveraged tool a leader and his or her management team can employ to guide a firm to a brighter future.

• Scenario planning is a strategic planning approach that can help you, as a firm leader, to consider several contexts within which you might have to make critical decisions in the future, and therefore be better prepared for an array of alternative futures.

• Merger and acquisition integration planning is a vital step in ensuring the success of a firm’s significant investment in a new acquisition.

• Client research and perception studies help you to better understand your clients’ own missions and what keeps them awake at night, as well as the trends that they are tracking and their perceptions of your firm and your competitors—in an independent, comprehensive reading that you simply can’t glean from your day-to-day relationships.

• Principals’ retreats bring performance and interpersonal issues into focus in a positive, supportive, and constructive environment, improving the effectiveness of your leadership team.

• Management consulting provides advice and counsel on a variety of issues, from targeted marketing and business development, firm and individual performance, and organizational structure to mergers and acquisitions.