WHO WE WORK FOR

Driving growth and value for professional services leaders and investors

Professional Services

We help professional services leaders and their teams achieve sustainable growth, improve operations and prepare for capital events. We’ve done that our whole professional lives as advisors, founders, CEOs and board members.

Whether they’re consultants, auditors, lawyers or tech services firms, our clients turn to Garwood Growth for strategic advice and hands-on support. Working together, we help them build and realise long-term value in their firms.

Investors

We support investors in professional services to de-risk investment decisions through due diligence, drive growth and operational improvement in their portfolios, and achieve successful exits and capital events.

Our private equity and corporate clients rely on Garwood Growth's insight into the opportunities and challenges of investing in professional services. Working together, we help them create a clear path to value and maximising returns.

Our Services

We help professional services firms address the challenges that matter most: growth, operational improvement and value realisation

Growth

Operational Improvement

Value Realisation

I had been approached by several companies over the previous three or four years who were interested in acquiring the business. Garwood helped with due diligence of those firms and offered me advice on long-term value, relative size and the strategic fit.

Having received a speculative offer for my business, I appointed Garwood to help me evaluate it and subsequently — concluding it was the wrong offer — to take my business to market. Garwood provided the expertise I required in a calm, supportive manner that de-risked the process and optimised the outcome. Garwood led me and my leadership team through an initial market engagement, offer evaluation and, finally, deal negotiation. Their advice and guidance as well as leadership were invaluable to me in selling my business.

I worked with Garwood as they supported us during our implementation of a PSA platform. Their knowledge of operational best practice for professional services organisations proved invaluable. They challenged our team each time we started to fall into the trap of maintaining the status quo. Their team would be an asset to any professional services firm considering process or IT change.

Garwood’s business process knowledge and experience was invaluable during our Kimble implementation, helping cut through some of the difficult configuration questions and achieve what was a very aggressive implementation timeline.

The Garwood difference and unique value is that they bring personal, deep experience of consulting and professional services businesses. They've built and run these businesses themselves and know the reality. So, what we get is focused and pragmatic — not theoretical. It's instantly applicable and valuable — not just to us the investor but, even more importantly, to the leadership team taking the business forward.

John has been an invaluable trusted friend to ETHOS. His ability to align shareholders, challenge our thinking, and develop a clear growth strategy has transformed how we lead and structure the business. With his guidance, we now have the clarity, control, and confidence to drive our next phase of success. Any business navigating shareholder alignment, growth, or strategic leadership would benefit greatly from working with Garwood.