Transitions
Mergers and acquisitions, rapid growth, restructuring and succession: planned, funded and carried out.
- Turnaround management
- Fund sourcing
- Preparing a company for sale
- Four doors
- Consulting
Consulting for founders and leadership teams in transition.
StillGround Partners grows out of Magnus Associates, a firm that has spent twenty-five years inside mergers, rapid growth, restructurings, culture change and research funding. That practice works alongside your leadership team, as a fractional partner or a bespoke package.
Three areas of work.
People and culture
The human side of organizations, with organizational psychology behind the strategy.
- A culture roadmap
- A collective, collaborative culture
- A team scenario evaluation
Innovation and funding
Strategy, grants and commercialization for companies and institutions built on research and technology.
- Grant development
- Feasibility studies
- Licensing and partnerships
How we work with you.
As a fractional partner
Senior help alongside your leadership team, at the intensity your situation needs and for as long as it needs it.
As a bespoke package
A defined piece of work built around one decision or stage, such as preparing for a sale, integrating an acquisition or getting ready for rapid growth.
Carried out, not handed over
We implement the plans we write with you, and we stay until the permanent organization can carry them.
Big decisions go better from steady ground.
Leadership that works for everyone in the room.
Organizations do better when capable people of every background can lead, advance and be heard. We have worked with women in leadership, with how different parts of a person’s identity combine to shape their experience at work, and on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB). The work is practical, evidence-based and built for your context.
Women in leadership
Advancement, sponsorship and retention, and the particular experience of being the only one in the room.
Intersectionality, in plain terms
How gender, culture, age, disability and other parts of a life combine to shape what work is like. We design for real people, not an average.
Inclusion and belonging
Fair processes for hiring, promotion and pay, leaders who are accountable for the culture they set, and a place where people can do their best work.
We use the words your organization uses: inclusion, belonging, fairness, culture. We work within the law and the norms of each place you operate, and we agree up front how to tell whether it is working.
Candid advisors, with a record.
Senior leaders trust Magnus for its candor: honesty, directness and a willingness to challenge. Most consulting also stops at the company. Pair any engagement with weekly coaching or the Intensive, so the leader is held as well as the plan.
$800M+
Funding Magnus has sourced for its clients’ R&D projects since 1998.
Magnus Associates, company-reportedStart with a conversation.
Tell us what you are working with. A person reads every request and will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Confidential. No pitch. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better.