John Chisholm Consulting works with individuals, firms and groups, in-house legal departments and corporate counsel to offer a range of services underpinned by a vital core skill: creative thinking to solve problems. His services have been utilized by organisations and firms throughout Australia, New Zealand USA, Middle East, UK and Asia.
Some of the services John provides includes:
Johns experience as a partner and leader in various firms means he both understands a professionals situation and the challenges and opportunities they face.
As Simon Sinek, author of ‘Start with Why’ states “All organisations know what they do and how they do it, but very few know why they do what they do.”
John can help you discover or rediscover your firms purpose to allow you to set your firms vision and align business strategies.
John’s skills as a facilitator and presenter are used regularly at firm retreats and conferences internationally, by a variety of professional firms and industry bodies.
Whether it be for partners, practice groups or firm wide, John works interactively as a facilitator with your group to deliver your objectives…
Without question, the greatest effect on your organisations profitability is your client selection and your prices.
John works with professional firms all over the world to assist them in understanding the value they provide to their clients, communicating that value to their clients and then pricing that value accordingly.
In many firms partner compensation and underperformance not only leads to lower firm wide performance but can create tension and conflict and severely impact upon the firm’s culture.
John is experienced in dealing with these sensitive issues and by remaining external and objective he is able to guide firms through appropriate performance models.
The traditional partnership model is under threat and is in many ways obsolete.
John guides firms through a range of better and alternative business structures and models that deliver more effective outcomes to the stakeholders
The professional services industry is highly competitive and there is a need for firms to perform to their optimum and differentiate themselves in their marketplace is more critical than ever before.
John regularly undertakes reviews of a firms internal and external health and business strategies which often includes meeting with a firms key internal personnel and their key clients.
Unlike most consultants and professional firms we do not charge by a unit of time. We believe that the amount of time spent on something for you may
bear little resemblance to the value you receive from us and furthermore that you are entitled to know the price of our work before we undertake the
work-and not afterwards.
We will always agree with you both the scope of our work, our prices and our payment terms before we undertake any work work for you.
We also make an unconditional guarantee with our clients that, notwithstanding any agreement on our fees, if for any reason whatsoever you do not believe we have provided value to you then simply pay us what you believe we are worth.
