
Consulting Services for Agency Leaders
Whatever challenges your agency faces, including the impact of AI, we’re here to help. We’ve seen it. We’ve lived it. We’ve done it. And now we’re here to help you do the same.
Growth begins here.

New business for the next gen.
Win. Together. Now.
We advise agencies how best to showcase their own unique value proposition, thought leadership, and culture to the world in a way that’s geared to help them win.
We also make it easier than ever to get started.
If we haven’t met you, book an initial Meet & Greet session with our top-tier consulting team today.
Fast-Track Solutions
Design for Rapid, Targeted Improvements
Leaders often continue to invest significant talent, time and costs in to grow. Whatever challenge is on your mind, and if you seek expert confidential advice, our affordable, project-based solutions help leaders like you solve agency problems, fast.
Our experienced team of agency and business veterans will listen and learn what is most important to you; we can evaluate your immediate plan as well as your current new business efforts. Our experts advise agency teams for excellence from the initial RFP to the final delivered presentation.
We help leaders like you turn the tables; the more we discuss, understand and preview, the more our POV will help.
Most importantly, we’ll give you our opinion as to how the agency brand is presenting itself from the lens of business overall based on its purpose, vision and values. We will help you translate all of the great things about your agency and its cultural values to the prospective clients that matter the most, ensuring the best version of the agency is the one that marketers want to connect, collaborate and hire your agency.
Guidance & Support:
Our Fast Track Solutions include 6 areas for immediate change for new business success. Leaders may want one or all problems addressed. Whether at a scheduled weekly cadence, or immediate response to problems, we’ll be agile, collaborative and impactful. Request our short GrowthWave Survey to rank your areas of interest or schedule a GrowthWave team call.

STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS FRAMEWORK
GrowthWave Six Solutions Framework is our comprehensive approach for consulting service designed exclusively for advertising agencies seeking to sharpen their competitive edge. Whether you're an emerging agency refining your story, or a seasoned agency evolving for the future, our team of experienced consultants and former marketing executives works alongside yours to elevate your agency’s brand, internal operations, and new business performance.
We help agencies develop bold, differentiated positioning, structure their internal, integrated teams for smarter delivery, as well as activate business development strategies that win.
Our hands-on, collaborative approach ensures your agency team isn’t just pitch-ready, but collaborating together on the GrowthWave.
The GrowthWave proprietary process, tools, data and deliverables will provide clear pathways for agency leaders to achieve growth goals in 2026.

This short term program includes six proven ways agency leaders can address immediate problems. As short as the “10 Day Launch” and as effective as “Jumpstart Organic Growth”.
Next Step: Schedule your GrowthWave Intro Meeting.
You will receive a simple survey to complete and return. The way you rank these topics become the call agenda. So we can address how best to move forward.
Fast Track Solutions
Tier I- Fast, Affordable
Strategic Solutions Framework
Tier II- Comprehensive, Immediate 2025-2026 Impact
This strategic program is built upon six foundational pillars that have proven to be effective. This work is an average of 3-6 months depending on what an agency leaders wants to accomplish.
Next Step: Schedule your monthly GrowthWave RoundTable Meeting
You will receive a simple survey to complete and return. The way you rank these topics become the call agenda. So we can address how best to move forward.
Team Mentorship, Coaching
& Relationship Building
Communication is the most paramount part of any organization, particularly one that develops and delivers communications for the world to see on behalf of a brand. With every day life becoming more and more digital, and AI making task after task a mere afterthought, it’s easy to lose some of that authentic humanity that leads teams to success both internally, and externally.
In multiple areas, team or offices, measurement of shared values accelerates success, internally with employees and externally with clients and other agency partners.
Our mentorship and coaching expertise will help your team communicate more effectively in leading team meetings, properly prioritizing internal and external communications, conflict mitigation, speaking more passionately and clearly to drive internal sync and action, presentation and public speaking.
It’s not coaching a team member to speak in corporate or ad jargon. It’s not just communication by a text, email, or a deck. It’s a thoughtful response to questions of concern or today’s problems to ensure their agency teams have their best interests in mind. Coaching and advising applies to the next gen on how to address complex communications. Confidently, clearly, authentically, and in a true human voice.
This ultimately leads directly to better client relationships, sharper team members that are excited and passionate about their own growth, and the confidence to step in and lead.
Executive recruitment of the best talent also helps leaders know who does, what, when and why with maximum commitment.

Strategic Brand Positioning & Narrative Development

Business Development Strategies & Prospecting Planning

Team Design & Organizational Structure, Impact of AI

Talent Identification & Team Member Selection

Pitch Process Optimization & Coaching

Innovation Audits & Ideation Sessions for Modern Relevance
John Gardner, Principal
GrowthWave Agency Advisory Services
Problem Solving !
Client Retention and Growth
New Business Development Success
Pricing & Performance Based Models for Comp
Clarity in team member roles and responsibilities
Defined agency goal setting with defined KPI’s of importance
Change in client relationship structure and work process to achieve leaner and more agile teams
Operational Efficiency to reduce rework, delays, friction that halts progress
Talent Recruitment and Retention
Elevate your work product as leaders re-engage teams with new ways of working better together
Measure and manage cultural values to set the stage for next wave of growth!
Let’s Get Started.
We are at the ready to tackle your agency’s unique challenges, and help provide the proven solutions to conquer them.