What is the value that a OneAccord interim manager brings to an organization?
My primary focus has been on developing products and brands effectively and profitably. I see marketing as the key company contact with the consumer and must it be approached from a business perspective. Most of my direct experience has been in the [...]

One of the reasons an interim sales executive can be invaluable at solving marketing problems at an organization, is that they often have a specific area of specialized expertise. This contrasts with the common practice of organizations to develop their executives to be generalists.
According to the book Leadership on Demand by Charles Besondy and Paul [...]

How does a company find the right interim executive to fill a key interim role in sales or marketing?
There are a variety of elements needed in selecting the right candidates for interim sales or marketing roles. Certainly experience in the industry is a plus and having experience in the specific horizontals is valuable, however what [...]

Why does OneAccord exist?
It’s serving companies with a variable cost model, in project or interim, best in class people to to help companies with flat or stuck revenue.
What’s the mission of OneAccord?
The mission of OneAccord is to multiply business success, but do it through relationships, yet driving results. It’s not to write reports. It’s not [...]

The client relationship starts out with a partner driving that conversation, that dialog, opening up what are the needs that client organization has. How can our skill set in total serve that client? It’s not necessarily about the one person who is the client manager. The client technically belongs to corporate, but it’s always driven [...]

Interim management is showing strong growth in the UK, where “Interim assignments are up 24% from last year, and the amount of revenue they generate is up 55% from 2006, according to the Interim Management Association.” ( More Than Filling In the Missing Piece, Feb 16, 2009, Resourcing).
When budgets are tight it may be difficult [...]

OneAccord was started for a number of reasons, one was the market needs, we saw that there were a ton of experienced people in the market that could be consultants but didn’t traditionally consider themselves as a consultant that growing demographic of baby boomers brought a wealth of experience with them but they weren’t used [...]

My background is multi-unit retail chain marketing with a lot of brand building mixed in. I think the benefit [of OneAccord], for instance, the first proposal I worked on was really a manufacturing company and I’ve had no experience with manufacturing in a direct way. I’ve been more with companies like Pizza Hut or Cracker [...]

Too many organizations have limitations put on themselves by themselves, by their culture. We have a process, we have an integrated program, that we work with organizations to develop their culture so they can reach their potential. Let me give you an example. One of our clients has a union management situation that has developed [...]

I think the biggest trend that aligns with the product strategy is the M&A activity we currently see in the market. For companies that are considering going into an M&A, they need interim help and project help to ramp their numbers. But for companies on the back end of the deal, they likely need additional [...]