Private Equity
What Makes Vaya Unique?
We leverage Private Equity expertise to customize our approach and meet your specific needs.
We support PE deal teams, operators, and CEOs across the investment lifecycle
- Support success through top-quality assessment and advisorship
- Help our clients define great and identify, select, and develop high-performing leadership teams
- 25+ years of experience
We match our approach to your business
- Meet you where you are and customize a path forward
- Take the time to understand your business—strategy, priorities, and exit plans
- Tailor our process and work product to reflect, align, and help grow your business
We care most about results and relationships
- Our goal is real, quantifiable results measured against clear, client-defined objectives
- Results build relationships—we become an extension of your team
- Work closely with you as advisors and partners, coaches and confidants, to help you achieve your long-term goals
Vaya’s Approach to Value Creation
Portfolio company leadership has 30% impact on market valuation
of investors feel significantly less confident assessing leadership skills (compared with technical skills)
In a recent Vaya study of PE CEOs, leadership behavior accounted for 63% of the variance in predicting portfolio company EBITDA growth
Portfolio company leadership has 25-30% impact on market valuation
of investors feel significantly less confident assessing leadership skills (compared with technical skills)
In a recent Vaya study of PE CEOs, leadership behavior accounted for 63% of the variance in predicting portfolio company EBITDA growth
Vaya’s Approach to Value Creation
How we create value:
Vaya’s Approach to Value Creation
We help our clients make informed, data-driven talent decisions and provide interventions to enable successful execution of the value creation plan.
How we create value:
• Determine whether the right talent is in the right roles and the management team is ready to scale
• Provide expert advisory for operating partners on how best to work with and leverage the talent of key executives
• Support the CEO and key team members to evolve as the organization grows
• Help management teams align and collaborate in driving business outcomes
• Reduce hiring risks by ensuring new hires are strong matches for the requirements of the role
Why Our Clients Partner with Us
Vaya’s Picture-Perfect Client
- Open and willing to change, and ready to act
- Our ideal client is a growth-minded, strategic private equity firm whose operating partners recognize the importance of human capital in enabling portfolio company growth.
- They understand the importance of investing in their leadership teams, and how dedication to talent enablement can impact future success of the organization.
- Our clients achieve the highest return on investment when we are engaged as a strategic talent advisor and can use our years of experience to provide guidance and solutions to increase leadership effectiveness.
Lay a clear path to success for your employees.
High-Potential Leadership Programs
Deliver an equitable and inclusive solution to identify, develop, and engage high-potential talent.
Leadership Framework
Define what great looks like for your organization and provide a consistent framework to assess, select, train, and develop talent.
Executive Candidate Assessments
Select the best executive candidate for your unique business context and position them for success from day one.
Leadership Assessment and Development
Provide rich, real-world development experiences for emerging leaders at multiple levels of the leadership pipeline.
Succession Planning
Ensure you have a strong, diverse bench and accelerate talent readiness to take on critical roles.
Leadership Team Effectiveness
Accelerate the alignment and productivity of leadership teams to drive high performance against business and cultural goals.
Vayability
Provide a personalized executive coaching experience for your emerging leaders and empower your talent to unleash their full potential.
Executive Coaching and Development
Ensure senior leadership positively impacts productivity, profit, culture, and retention.
Diligence Leadership Assessments
Mitigate investment risks by assessing an executive team’s fit for the Value Creation Plan and creating talent plans aligned to critical results.