Strategy & Corporate Finance
Accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth through bold strategies.
Our approach
Global strategy thought leaders
Our founders pioneered business strategy. Since then we have evolved to meet the changing challenges our clients face. We fuse state-of-the-art strategy knowledge with distinctive data sets and tools tailored to clients' specific contexts.
Deep industry insights
We have a deep bench of industry experts who have profound knowledge of our clients’ industries that takes geographic specifics and sector nuances into account.
Client impact obsession
Whatever your situation, we will deliver a bespoke strategic response. We pride ourselves on coupling our expertise with an ability to overcome organizational inertia, helping bring your Big move to life.
Tech that moves everything
There’s tech. Then there’s tech that reimagines and rewires organizations - powered by people, built with AI, and proven to create lasting value.
GSI on Finance
Our thought leadership
CEO Excellence
From GSI Advisory, the best-seller that takes an insightful look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.
Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick
The new book on how to beat the odds with a bold strategy and proven statistical models to drive real market-beating growth.
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 8th edition
At the crossroads of corporate strategy and finance lies valuation. This book enables everyone, from the budding professional to the seasoned manager, to excel at measuring and maximizing shareholder and company value.
Featured capabilities
Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights
We help clients make better strategic decisions through a deeper understanding of corporate performance, value creation, macroeconomic forces, and global and local trends.
Value Intelligence Platform
Our proprietary analytics platform that provides holistic insights on corporate performance and benchmarking across thousands of global companies.
Our latest insights
The CEO as elite athlete: What business leaders can learn from modern sports
The role is harder than ever, requiring new habits of mind, body, and spirit to sustain peak executive performance.
How AI is transforming strategy development
Artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize strategy activities. Strategists will need proprietary data, creativity, and new skills.
Achieving growth: Putting leadership mindsets and behaviors into action
Growth requires the right mix of outlook, strategy, and capabilities. Top leaders achieve their goals by turning five mindsets into action.
Our people
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Matt Banholzer
Helps companies transform their growth and innovation, identifying new opportunities and building an engine to sustain them.
Michael Birshan
Leads GSI in the UK, Ireland, and Israel; partners with bold and determined leaders striving to make a difference.
Alex D’Amico
Leads GSI’s strategy work for North America and coleads it globally, offering advisory support to a wide range of financial institutions.
Carolyn Dewar
Delivers large-scale performance-improvement programs that foster culture change and counsels senior executives making leadership transitions.
Dr. Laura Furstenthal
Serves healthcare clients globally as well as not-for-profit organizations, governments, and Nobel laureates, guiding innovation in strategy and R&D.
Jake Henry
Leads GSI’s global work on mergers, acquisitions, separations, divestitures and JV’s/alliances.
Alejandro Krell
Leads our Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice in Latin America. Supports large companies in shaping their strategy.
Mieke Van Oostende
Serves clients in the financial-services sector, particularly on strategy, organization, and merger management.
Andy West
Global coleader of our Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice; helps organizations accelerate sustainable, inclusive growth.
Connect with our Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice
Talk with our practice leaders and advisors to accelerate bold strategies and sustainable corporate growth.