Transforming Creative Businesses
Transforming Creative Businesses
Innovia is a specialized management consultancy that helps creative companies to transform and grow.
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We exist to help creative businesses succeed.
Since 2004, Innovia has been bringing ideas, analysis and implementation to each stage of corporate growth – from start-up to maturity to renewal – and we have accompanied some clients on every step of their entrepreneurial journey.
Our clients advance their industries.
Since 2004, Innovia has been bringing ideas, analysis and implementation to each stage of corporate growth – from start-up to maturity to renewal – and we have accompanied some clients on every step of their entrepreneurial journey.
We advance our clients.
Since 2004, Innovia has been bringing ideas, analysis and implementation to each stage of corporate growth – from start-up to maturity to renewal – and we have accompanied some clients on every step of their entrepreneurial journey.
Strategy, Transformation and Restructuring
Setting future direction for a professional practice or project-based firm is a critical leadership job – especially in tough times when a company may need to pivot, transform or rebuild. Firms that succeed use strategic planning to anchor their decisions, communicate direction to their teams, and create superior value for their clients. We’ve built expertise and experience in strategic planning for every stage of the entrepreneurial journey. We’ve helped clients build roadmaps to accelerate growth, change market focus, improve profitability, prepare for acquisition or sale, or restructure.
Strategic planning & assessment
Managing change
Developing turnaround strategies
Finance & Operations
Leading creative businesses take a strategic approach to managing finances and operations. We look closely at our clients’ systems and processes to find opportunities to optimize finances and generate cash. We help them achieve their professional goals within a realistic economic framework.
Assessing financial performance
Optimizing cash management
Improving project profitability
Streamlining business processes
Succession Planning
Succession planning is a continuous strategic process that can build a firm’s value and creative power. We help owners of creative businesses assess their options for succession. We support them by developing and facilitating succession plans that integrate business strategy, people, and finances.
Developing succession strategy
Selecting and developing the right owners
Financial planning and analysis for share purchases
Talent Management
People are the primary economic resource in a creative business. Leading firms understand that a strategic approach to people and culture drives up skill levels, increases productivity and creates a rewarding culture of meaningful work. We assess people and culture to help shape workforces that deliver on strategic objectives. We develop systems to manage recruitment and retention, compensation, learning and development, and succession.
Developing pathways to leadership
Managing talent
Structuring the organization
Professional Learning & Development
Creative and professional services firms need business skills and creative abilities to drive success. When companies invest in teaching their emerging leaders advanced business and consulting skills, they reap rewards through improved engagement, better management, and stronger succession. We design and deliver custom learning and development programs that serve business goals and individual learning needs.
Programs for emerging leaders
Programs for new managers
Programs for professional employees
Branding, Business Development and Strategic Marketing
Successful professional service firms actively use their brands to stand out from the competition. They drive growth by integrating their brand, business development and strategic marketing activities. We help develop compelling brands and create strategic business systems to deliver on a firm’s brand promise.
Brand Audits
Brand Building
Brand Activation
Our home is Toronto, Canada and we work across North America and Europe. Let’s talk to see how we can transform your creative business together.
Rowley Mossop, Principal
500-247 Spadina Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 3A8