Value Creation

Venture Capital & PrivatE equity Investors

The way in which private equity firms evaluate target companies and build their portfolios is constantly evolving, with many looking for alternative levers to give them key insights and a winning edge in an ever-increasing competitive deals and M&A landscape.

For many investors, the ability to evaluate the company’s management & leadership teams’ capability to develop the commercial model, achieve key milestones and deal with significant scale change, can be the difference between an expected return and an exceptional return. Having a world class diverse, inclusive and community-engaging culture is now widely accepted as key differentiating factor that also matters more and more to investors. 

Which in turn, places a progressive workplace culture high on their list of predicative priorities.

  • Hyper-Growth Companies

    Hyper-growth companies now require more agile and relevant portfolio NED’s. Our team of Independent Directors supports investors by providing near term, interim and longer-term bridge gaps to your Non-Exec structure delivering agile advisory and board solutions alongside training and development for existing NED’s.

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  • Portfolio Solutions for Investors

    Holding a string of portfolio companies and having the next target and transaction in sight, means you need bespoke solutions to assess the capabilities of your target to deliver the growth indications, advise on the leadership value in the deal and examine the human capital asset in relation to the deal multiples.

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  • Leadership & Culture Due Diligence

    Each deal has a value and so does the management team in a transaction. Our unique Lightbulb Leadership Valuation Model™ enables investors to quantify the value return potential in management teams, assess their ability to implement rapid scale and change and understand the culture of a potential asset.

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  • Gender Lens Investing

    As a female-founded business, we have truly unique expertise on both sides of the Atlantic of supporting female investors to accelerate and significantly scale female-founded businesses

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  • Female Founders

    Raising investment can be challenging for women. Globally, women have access to less than 2% of total venture capital investment.

    As a female-founded business, we know what it takes to grow and scale your business.

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“If women are not receiving specific leadership development and non-biased performance feedback, they are automatically at a disadvantage when accessing and raising capital, getting equal pay and equal bonus. That’s why I’m on a mission to get every organisation and every woman to get behind my FeedbackFirst™ campaign.”

Fiona McKay

CEO of Lightbulb Leadership Solutions

WHAT HAS YOUR BUSINESS DONE TODAY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO YOUR COLLEAGUES, CUSTOMERS AND YOUR COMMUNITIES?

Lightbulb Leadership Solutions value creation team are ESG specialists in delivering growth and inclusive leadership for investors and portfolio companies, ensuring higher exit returns in portfolios and support the raising of further capital.

See how our Lightbulb Leadership Solutions can transform your business

  • Menopause Maze™ Programme

    We help organisations to improve this time of transition for women, equipping them, their managers, and the wider organisation with our evidence-based Menopause Maze™ method and development tools.

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  • Winning Women™ Programme

    Our bespoke gender improvement programme identify and accelerate future female leadership talent and removing barriers to progression.

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  • Feedback First™ Programme

    Harness the #1 action women and employers can take to improve equal and gender-balanced feedback and create an inclusive workplace in the workplace.

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