Every Operator yearns to have all the answers to running their business. In today’s fast-paced environment of information, new trends, and never-ending challenges, where do you find the time to think about those answers?
Managing your day-to-day responsibilities can be daunting enough, let alone worrying about the PE Board Operator Partner company’s future. Solving problems alone can be frustrating, isolating, and costly.
- Hand-picked (selected)
- Non-competing and confidential
- Committed to accountability
- Focused on finding solutions to your cases – Challenges, Opportunities, Problems, Ideas
- Embrace learning, challenge convention
- A circle of trusted peers as advisors
- Annual deep-dives
And here is a bit about LXCouncil:
From non-competing industries UNBIASED
with no conflicts of interest
committed to confidentiality AND accountability
With over 10,000 hours of successful, proven monthly agendas, have grown and made progress toward their vision. They are healthy companies that develop their employees, which results in their communities thriving around them and because of them.
Even during COVID, our members thrived, pivoted, and grew in large part due to their peer group. Hear from a CEO and their experience during COVID.
Managing your day-to-day responsibilities as a CEO can be daunting enough, let alone worry about the company’s future. You shouldn’t feel alone and frustrated to solve all your problems, challenges or get ideas by yourself, trial and error, costing you a lot of money and time.
CHRISTOPHER “KIT” LISLE
Kit Lisle is the founder of Strategic Growth Council, a certified license partner of LX Council. Kit serves as moderator/facilitator for our peer advisory groups of middle market M&A professionals. Strategic Growth Council is focused on middle market mergers, acquisitions and strategic growth. In addition to peer advisory councils, Strategic Growth Council also serves a strategic planning role with its members.
Kit is also the founder and Chairman of Acclaro Partners, a growth strategy consulting firm serving the ecosystem of middle market Mergers & Acquisitions in North America. Acclaro’s primary services are buy-side services such as commercial/market due diligence for private equity groups, value creation and strategic growth decision support services, and sell-side services such as sell-side market studies for Investment banks.
Kit has always gravitated to concepts such as servant leadership, listening first, asking lots of questions, being engaged and following through to ensure positive outcomes for clients and colleagues. He is particularly passionate about facilitating strategic planning, coaching and moderating discussions around strategic growth. The opportunity to serve as a peer advisory council facilitator was fortuitous and Kit is very enthusiastic about the opportunity to serve in this capacity.
Prior to founding Acclaro Partners in 2000, Kit served as Vice-President of Acquisition Services for Markowitz and McNaughton, developing extensive experience with market-entry analysis, competitive analysis and market due diligence for Fortune 1000 companies. Kit’s experience in market intelligence and market due diligence is based upon his role as Military Intelligence Officer with the U.S. Army, where he served as a Eurasia Desk Officer at the National Joint Military Intelligence Center, within the Joints Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon.
An active member of the Association for Corporate Growth, Kit has an undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall College in Government and a Master’s degree from the University of Virginia in Foreign Affairs. He has written for numerous publications on topics related to M&A, niche strategy penetration and strategy development post-close, and has also been a speaker at conferences and seminars around the country on the same types of subjects.
Kit currently is engaged to be married, and has two children from his first marriage, a son and a daughter, one in high school and the elder in college. When not working, Kit enjoys traveling, boating, home renovation, car restoration and sports. He has participated in numerous triathlons, plays in a racquetball league, and loves (watching and coaching, but no longer playing) basketball!