To help our clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people.
We are a values-driven organization. Our values reflect the thinking of our founder, Ronald Bagley who is a major force in shaping the firm. Our values have been updated in small ways to reflect the changing times. He instills and informs both our long-term strategy as a firm and the way we serve our clients on a daily basis. We put aside one day a year to reflect as a group on what our values mean to both our work and our lives.
In order to bolster decisions or manage perceived conflicts of interest, it is critical to seek an independent transaction advisor. Amid increased scrutiny of transactions and risks of litigation, you need qualified, objective advisors who can stand by and support their opinions during both the critical phase when a deal is being executed and after a transaction has been consummated.
Fairness opinions are considered a best practice in many types of transactions and can help protect board members and other fiduciaries against monetary judgments and reputational risk should the deal result in litigation. Solvency opinions performed in connection with highly leveraged transactions provide support and confidence to key stakeholders that the company has the ability to continue servicing debts and maintain ongoing operations, and that the deal will not result in a constructive fraudulent conveyance.
EDDM Consulting provides fairness opinions and solvency opinions across a wide range of industries, deal sizes, and deal types. We leverage proven valuation techniques, sophisticated financial and cash flow modeling, thorough industry analysis, and extensive due diligence to provide transaction opinions that are independent, well supported, and highly responsive. Because each and every opinion is reviewed by Stout’s transaction opinions committee, we provide fiduciaries with a greater level of assurance that the transaction was diligently investigated and reviewed.
To help create positive, enduring change in the world.
To help our clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people.
Adhere to the highest professional standards
- put client interests ahead of our firm’s
- maintain high standards and conditions for client service
- observe high ethical standards
- preserve client confidences
- maintain an independent perspective
- manage client and firm resources cost-effectively
Improve our clients’ performance significantly
- follow the top-management approach
- pursue holistic impact
- use our global network to deliver the best of our firm to all clients
- bring innovations in management practice to clients
- build client capabilities to sustain improvement
- build enduring relationships based on trust
Create an unrivaled environment for exceptional people
- be nonhierarchical and inclusive
- sustain a caring meritocracy
- develop one another through apprenticeship and mentoring
- uphold the obligations to engage and dissent
- embrace diverse perspectives with curiosity and respect
- govern ourselves as a “one firm” partnership
“Develop, excite & retain” exceptional people:
Exciting great people, focusing on retaining them and compassionately firing the “wrong” people Teach the how instead of the what: How to solve problems vs. what to do Cultivate a learning culture where the people that truly embrace learning are celebrated Compassionately fire people: To keep people motivate show the high performers that you wont let people not cutting it stick around. But do so in a way that treats these people with respect
A “BS” Proof Values-Driven culture reinforced by two fundamental principles and an “x-factor”
Powerful stories: Stories that reinforce the values and create context for how to operate within the culture Respect for People: Open and candid feedback, autonomy and a “caring meritocracy” X-Factor – The BS Test: Do firm leaders actually behave in a way that is consistent with the values, stories & assumption. (no company is perfect, but most companies so aggressively violate this fact that EDDM still seems special)
Long-term focus (some may say obsession) with being a “lasting firm”
EDDM Consulting is driven by a purpose that is articulated in the values and reinforced continuously — to be a lasting firm that adds value for its clients. This purpose helps attract the people that buy-in to this purpose and lead to a virtuous cycle of great people that want to be part of a great firm. Given this long-term perspective and a partnership model, it leads to a shared focus on long-term survival and cultivating an institutional humility that allows the firm to adapt and try new things. I found that no matter how well the company was performing, there was always room for ideas that would help improve it further.
EDDM Consulting is nonhierarchical and inclusive. We have a deep and longstanding commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in business, in society, and within our firm. At EDDM Consulting, diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just moral imperatives, they are integral to our dual mission—to help our clients make substantial, lasting performance improvements and to build a firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people. Through our groundbreaking research, we have set out a compelling business and economic case for diversity. Using our global reach, we share our insights, convene partnerships for action, and serve clients to inform critical decision-makers with the power to make real change.