Interim Management Question: What are common objections from clients to Interim Management and how do you overcome these objections?
Objection: I have to hire someone after you leave which means we’ll be starting over from scratch.
Response: OneAccord provides a ‘front-end’ Revenue Review that is completed by 2 or 3 CEO-pedigreed Principals with proven revenue growth history. [...]

How does interim management work?
Interim management is the temporary hiring of an executive to provide management resources for an organization, often during times of transition or change. One scenario where interim management would be very valuable to an organization is when a marketing or sales executive leaves a company. Instead of leaving the position vacant [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Interim management can be an effective tool for increasing revenue growth at a company. Can you give an example of when you have been hired in an interim marketing or sales management role in which you helped a company increase revenues?
The client is a network security consulting firm, needing to transform its sales structure and [...]

An article in Gulf News titled Stress of Interim Management, discusses how hiring an interim executive can help a company during a period of organizational change.
“The practice of hiring temporary managers (or head-renting) is aimed at relieving the potential problems inherent in major organisational change. It provides professional leadership management through a transitional phase by [...]

With over 25 years in sales and marketing experience, Rich Hennessey has gained a thorough grasp to successfully develop and implement business development plans for both the Fortune 500 and business start-ups in the high technology industry. Mr. Hennessey is a proven entrepreneur teaming with both angel and early stage investment to open new markets [...]