10-STEP GUIDE TO CREATING YOUR OWN GROWTH STRATEGY FOR YOUR COMPANY: THE SECRET TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY OF ACHIEVING AND SUSTAINING PROFITABLE GROWTH
10-Step Guide To Creating Your Own Growth Strategy For Your Company, is a step-by-step 'how-to-guide' that addresses the current need of CEOs, business owners, founders, entrepreneurs (existing and aspiring), Board members, and executives of startups, small to middle market companies, and other large organizations, by teaching you how to develop your own growth strategy for your company in 10-STEPS
Your Trusted Growth Strategy & Execution Advisor & Interim Executive
Since 2005, Elevate Diamond Strategy, has developed and executed holistic strategies and plans to help companies like yours win, and grow and expand faster and more profitably than they could on their own.
Michelle Diamond advises CEOs, business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives, when they need a 'second set of eyes',
and an unbiased solution to win against competitors, solve their growth problems, and achieve their growth goals.
"Strategies Do Not Belong On A Shelf."
In today's changing times, the need to identify and capitalize on market shifts and new growth opportunities is crucial.
Elevate Diamond Strategy uses both direct industry expertise and best practices across industries to provide companies like yours,
with innovative, yet practical solutions:
- Tailored to your organization
- Simple and easy to understand
- That are implementable and executable
- To educate and train you and your management team
Learn How Elevate Diamond Strategy Can Help You
BY GROWTH SITUATION
ACCELERATE GROWTH
(ORGANIC/M&A)
BREAK
THROUGH STAGNATION
HIGH GROWTH MANAGEMENT (SCALE)
WIN
AGAINST COMPETITORS
BY GROWTH SOLUTION
NEW MARKET IDENTIFICATION, ENTRY, GO-TO-MARKET, & EXPANSION
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE & ANALYSIS
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
(TARGET IDENTIFICATION)
GROWTH STRATEGY EXECUTION
"As Aceable looked at our growth opportunities outside of our core, Michelle was able to step in and do a thorough analysis of potential markets and verticals from sizing to competitive landscape. The work she performed played a key role in our ability to raise subsequent venture capital funding and most importantly, to make future market investment decisions.”
Blake Garrett, CEO
Aceable
"Michelle Diamond of Elevate Diamond Strategy is a strong problem solver who helped break down barriers to successful execution. With a strong focus on results, she was in tune with our company's needs and overall goals ensuring obstacles were overcome to successfully implement our initiatives. We would definitely work with Michelle again and would absolutely recommend her to others."
Gabrielle M. Melka, Former Senior Vice President & Division CFO
Constellation Energy
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,
while defeated warriors go to war first, and then seek to win." - Sun Tzu
Michelle Diamond
Founder & CEO
Michelle Diamond, CEO of Elevate Diamond Strategy, a growth strategy and execution independent advisory, consulting, and interim executive business expansion firm recognized by Forbes Magazine (NEXT 1000), Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc., Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, Los Angeles Business Journal, CEO Journal, CFO Magazine, and others, has 25+ years’ business strategy, general management, marketing, go-to-market, finance, audit, and operations experience.
Michelle has strong expertise in helping domestic and global high growth companies scale, scenario planning, developing, evaluating, and implementing diverse, yet innovative growth strategies and strategic plans for acceleration and long-term value creation, leading mergers and acquisitions (pre/post), identifying where to invest and then capitalizing on market opportunities through competitive advantage and differentiation, and in turnarounds/ restructuring to optimize costs and overall profitability.
Michelle is a growth expert, operational executive, and entrepreneur, who has worked on investor, Board, CEO/C-Suite, and SME issues for 65 organizations ranging from start-up, early/growth stage, small/middle market, private equity/venture capital, to Fortune 50 companies in 31 industries including CIGNA, Colgate-Palmolive, Elsevier, MetLife, Daimler, Dekra, NRG, Constellation Energy, Time Warner, and Club Med – just to name a few.
Her industry experience includes Automotive, Broadcasting (Television & Radio), Cable, Chemical, Consulting, Consumer Products, Dental, Education, Energy, Event, Financial Services, Food, Government, Health Insurance, Human Resources, Insurance, Medical Device, Music, Nonprofit, Packaging, Printing & Distribution, Private Equity/ Venture Capital, Professional Services, Publishing, Renewable Energy, Retail, Software, Technology, Travel, and Vision.
Prior to Elevate Diamond Strategy, Michelle worked for CIGNA, where she was the creator and Head, Competitive Intelligence for the $1B+ Group Insurance Division. Prior to that role, Michelle oversaw CIGNA’s $20M Printing & Distribution business (100+ employees), was Manager of Strategy for Accenture, and in Mergers & Acquisitions and Assurance and Business Advisory Services at Ernst & Young LLP. She also held various financial roles at Colgate-Palmolive Company, Citibank, and West Merchant Bank and was selected for Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble camps.
Michelle holds an MBA from Duke University, a BS from Morgan State University (Summa Cum Laude), and attended Wharton Executive Education. She is also a nonpracticing Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
Michelle is a former Board President, a former member of Extraordinary Women on Boards (EWOB), and has led efforts and volunteered for the United Way, March of Dimes, Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Habitat for Humanity.
She was a speaker and facilitator for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW), YearUp, Renaissance Executive Forums, INROADS, EY, Constellation Energy, and others, a frequent podcast guest, and a growth expert on radio shows, Accelerating Your Business™ (creator and host), Executive Leaders Radio, and The Marketing of Business.
Michelle is the author of the book,
10-Step Guide To Creating Your Own Growth Strategy For Your Company: The Secret To Unlocking The Mystery Of Achieving And Sustaining Profitable Growth.
She was also a winning contestant on the game show, People Puzzler, hosted by Leah Remini.
Michelle lives in Beverly Hills and enjoys sports, dance, entertaining, and travel.
Speaker
GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADER IN HOW MINDSET AFFECTS GROWTH STRATEGY
Michelle Diamond is a top business keynote speaker and global thought leader on how mindset affects every stage of growth strategy development and execution
in organizations of all sizes, situations, and industries.
While working with 65 companies in over 31+ industries from startup, small to middle market, private equity/venture capital, to Fortune 50
in both advisory and operational executive roles, Michelle discovered that different types of mindsets (whether known or unknown) played a large part
in terms of whether or not organizations achieved financial success.
GLOBAL SPEAKER BUREAU REPRESENTATION
Press & Publications
MICHELLE DIAMOND OF ELEVATE DIAMOND STRATEGY NAMED TO THE FORBES NEXT 1000 LIST
(September 15, 2021) - Congratulations! Forbes and our partners at Square are thrilled to welcome Michelle Diamond of Elevate Diamond Strategy to the Forbes Next 1000 class of 2021. This first-of-its-kind initiative celebrates bold and inspiring entrepreneurs who are redefining what it means to run a business today. Forbes received thousands of nominations. Selection was made by Forbes editors plus a panel of top business minds and entrepreneurial superstars.
WANT TO ELEVATE YOUR GROWTH STRATEGY? HAVE A CHAMPION'S MINDSET
(May 2024) - Strategic growth expert and advisor Michelle Diamond shares insights on how to apply a champion’s mindset to your growth strategy.
Learning from defeat and setbacks is the foundation for repeatable success. (Entrepreneur Magazine)
How Do You Grow & Expand Your Business in Times of Feast or Famine?
While growth is a priority for business, many companies will undergo a difficult economic period. Michelle Diamond explains how, by sticking to fundamentals, an organization can turn itself around and put itself back on the road to growth.
"Sometimes to find answers to today's problems, we have to go back to the things we enjoyed and valued in the past."
Agile Businesses: Michelle Diamond of Elevate Diamond Strategy On How Businesses Pivot and Stay Relevant In The Face of Disruptive Technologies
"Identify growth opportunities, shift the organization to the new paradigm (communicate, communicate, communicate),
execute and track results (making course adjustments where necessary)."
