Prevent
Failure Prevention — Your business survival first requires steps to prevent disaster. There is no "Next Level" without it.
Strategize & Execute
"Next Level" Business Strategy Decisions & Execution, Adaptation and Evolution to sustainable success.
Seize
Creating Conditions To Recognize, Create, Seize, & Integrate Opportunities for your business growth.
Founder
Bill Hubbard
Founder of each of Hubbard Business Counsel and Hubbard Business S.A.E.–Inc., Bill has been selected as a SuperLawyer™ in the categories of Mergers & Acquisitions and Closely Held Businesses and has been selected by Corporate INTL™ as the Business Transition Attorney of the Year in Illinois for 2014.
Also involved will be such of his associates, family, friends, acquaintances, and others who, in conjunction with the Business Owner and CEO, are believed to be professionally right for the challenges.
Our Companies
Why
Why Choose Hubbard Business Strategy
Because you've consciously chosen to improve your odds of reaching your “Next Level.”
Why Me and My Firm?
Because I have developed the knowledge, skills, business savvy, network of other professionals, motivation, pride, and judgement worthy of each client's personal and professional trust as a key and trusted advisor towards reaching their next level.
Why an Advisory Board?
Because the empirical evidence supports that a specifically tailored Advisory Board should be an imperative for private middle-market companies. Research and decades of experience confirm that companies with well-designed advisory boards outperform those without.
Why Now?
Your competitors are not standing still. Markets are changing faster than ever. The window of opportunity for gaining competitive advantage through strategic advisory support is open—but it won't stay open forever.
How
How to Achieve Your “Next Level”
A Multi-Step Process — Each situation will differ, yet here are the common steps to achieving your “Next Levels.”
Baseline Analysis
A baseline transition analysis and actions advisory through your HB "Next Level" Business Baseline Transition Analysis and "Next Level" Action Steps Advisory.
Advisory Board
Designing, Implementing, and providing Leadership through your HB "Next Levels" Focused Advisory Board for your initial period.
Strategy Testing
Exploring various strategic and tactical alternatives available as potential "Next Level" paths and testing them against probable outcomes.
Simulate & Execute
Simulating—with you and/or your leadership team—the probable outcomes from chosen strategic paths and then executing.
Who
Who Will Guide You To Your “Next Level”
By me, Bill Hubbard… and others in my extensive network, developed over the past 40 years and to be developed, of family, friends, and acquaintances, both inside and outside the U.S.
Trusted for Personal Integrity
They will each be ones I believe can be trusted for the purpose. Trusted for their personal integrity.
Trusted for Professional Competence
Trusted for their professional competence in areas critical to your business success and growth.
Trusted to Act In Your Best Interest
Trusted to act in your best interest towards your “Next Levels.”
Business Legal Services
Are provided by Hubbard Business Counsel, a business law firm wholly owned by me.
Business Advisory Services
Are provided by Hubbard Business S.A.E.–Inc., a firm in which I have majority interest. “S.A.E.” stands for Strategy And Execution, Adaptation, and Evolution.
My Commitment
My commitment is to each client's personal and professional trust as a key and trusted advisor towards reaching their next level. The professionals I bring to your Advisory Board will share this same commitment to integrity, competence, and your best interests.
When
When Is the Right Time to Engage an Advisory Board
When you decide that investing in your next steps toward your next level is more important than…
The Investment In Your Future
First Step — Baseline Analysis
For our first step (our HB “Next Level” Business Baseline Transition Analysis and “Next Level” Action Steps Advisory), investing in about 6 months worth of services from one worker working at about minimum wage at your firm or, on a personal basis, a couple extra options on your next vehicle or a very nice vacation.
Advisory Board — Custom Design
For your custom designed, implemented and led HB “Next Level” Advisory Board, a variable amount (based upon the size and time to be invested) strategically designed to align the interests of each of your future board members, our company, and you—and to provide a significant personal incentive for each advisory board member to invest their reasonable best efforts towards your next successes.
This is an investment in your future and the future of your company. When you consider the cost against the potential upside—avoiding costly mistakes, seizing opportunities you might otherwise miss, having trusted advisors who challenge your thinking—the question becomes not “when can I afford this?” but “when can I afford to wait?”
Timing Is Critical
The best time to engage an advisory board is before you need one. The second best time is now. Every day without structured, expert advisory support is a day of potential missed opportunities and unmitigated risks.
Advisory Boards
HB “Next Level” Advisory Board
A hidden imperative to achieving your “Next Level”
The Advisory Function
Public Company Boards often primarily focus on compliance. As or more important than compliance is the board advisory function and its relation to the success of the firm.
Rather than outsiders, the majority of Private and Family-owned Enterprises have historically used solely family members and insiders on their legal and advisory boards for both compliance and advisory functions. Why? Control, cost, trust and knowledge of the business is the frequent rationale.
30+ Years of Experience
Much of my past 30 years has been spent representing & advising private company (and frequently lower) middle-market owners, leaders and boards. Survival, sustainable success, strategy, leadership, and board advisory functions have been my focus.
It has become clear that outside, independent advisory input is imperativefor companies aspiring to their “Next Level”.
What Makes Our Advisory Boards Different
Each HB Advisory Board is specifically tailored to your unique situation, your industry, your challenges, and your goals. We don't use cookie-cutter approaches. Each board member is selected for their relevance to your specific needs and their commitment to your success.
White Papers
Research & Insights on Advisory Boards
Why Would the Most Successful Private Companies Use a Specifically Tailored Advisory Board?
Quite simply — it makes good sense. And even the most cost-benefit focused doubters should acknowledge that the empirical evidence supports such a specifically tailored Advisory Board.
How do I know? Utilizing the knowledge developed during my three decades as a business attorney as well as my training in leadership, strategy, and tactics at and as an officer in the U.S. Army, I devoted hundreds of hours compiling and examining a wide range of business and academic research on the subject.
My findings and analysis led me to conclude that a specially designed, tailored and led “Next Level” focused Advisory Board should be an imperative for private middle-market companies—so I decided to form and lead a company devoted to just that.
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