Strategy & Advisory
Northfield Advisory partners with leadership teams to solve the problems that don’t have obvious answers: where to grow, what to cut, and how to execute without losing the business you already built.
18+
Years in practice
240+
Enterprise clients advised
$4.2B
Capital advised on
94%
Client retention rate
About Northfield
Northfield Advisory began in 2008 as a two-person research practice, built around a simple observation: most consulting engagements produce reports, not decisions. We built our practice around the second half: staying through implementation, accountability, and the messy work of actually changing how a business runs.
Today we work with leadership teams across finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and professional services, pairing sector expertise with a small-team model. Every engagement is led by a partner from first meeting to final handoff, never passed down to a bench of analysts you’ll never meet.
What We Do
Portfolio reviews, growth planning, and market-entry strategy for leadership teams facing a genuine fork in the road.
Capital structure, M&A due diligence, and financial planning built to hold up under board-level scrutiny.
Process redesign and cost-structure work that targets the fraction of operations driving most of the friction.
Structuring teams, reporting lines, and decision rights so growth doesn’t outpace the org chart.
Board advisory, governance frameworks, and risk assessments built for regulated and public-facing businesses.
Translating data and technology investment into decisions the business actually acts on.
Industries Served
Case Studies
Challenge: Rising input costs were eroding margin across six regional plants.
Result: Redesigned procurement and plant-level cost controls, recovering 340 basis points of gross margin within two fiscal quarters.
Challenge: A planned merger stalled over unclear governance and reporting structure.
Result: Built a unified governance framework and reporting cadence that let the merger close four months ahead of the revised timeline.
Challenge: Regional expansion outpaced the organization's decision-making structure.
Result: Redesigned the operating model across twelve facilities, cutting escalation time for cross-site decisions by 60%.
Leadership
Managing Partner
Twenty years advising boards on strategy, governance, and succession.
Partner, Financial Advisory
Former corporate development lead turned M&A and capital structure advisor.
Partner, Operations
Specializes in manufacturing and supply chain performance turnarounds.
Partner, Organizational Design
Focuses on leadership structure and decision rights through hypergrowth.
What Clients Say
“Northfield didn’t hand us a strategy deck and disappear. They stayed until our own team could run the plan without them.”
Renee Castillo
CFO, Bellhaven Financial
“We’ve used three consulting firms in ten years. Northfield is the only one that changed how we actually make decisions.”
Thomas Okafor
CEO, Calder Manufacturing Group
“Their governance framework held up through a merger, an audit, and a leadership change. That’s the real test.”
Anita Deshmukh
Board Chair, Meridian Health Partners
A first conversation is thirty minutes, no proposal attached, just a clear-eyed read on whether we’re the right fit.