A cross-functional advisory alliance

Make the path from innovation to revenue visible.

The gap rarely belongs to one function.

When a new product, acquisition, or strategic shift changes what a company sells, how growth works, and what people need to understand, we evaluate the situation together. Then we recommend what is needed and who is best placed to do it.

From the executive seat

The signals are familiar. The underlying problem is connected.

These are moments when product and market choices, the growth system, and the stakeholder story may all need to change.

New offer

The product changed. The business around it has not.

The buyer, value proposition, route to market, growth measures, and story need to move together.

Acquisition

Two companies need one way forward.

Portfolio choices, coverage, reporting, leadership messages, and employee understanding cannot be solved in isolation.

Growth pressure

The number is under scrutiny, but the causes are disputed.

Leadership needs a shared view of the commercial model, growth system, and market response before choosing what to fix.

Strategic shift

The strategy changed. People heard different stories.

Employees, customers, and the market need a consistent account of what changed and what comes next, grounded in the commercial choices and operating reality.

The cross-functional layer

Three disciplines. One business problem.

Connected Growth Alliance is the shared front door when a leadership question crosses three established practices. Rita shapes the commercial proposition; Joe connects it to a working growth system; Erin helps the company and its leaders communicate the change.

Commercial Model

What value should the business take to which buyers, and how should it reach them?

Rita Patel JacksonAiRi Advisory

Product and market choices, buyer value, pricing, packaging, commercialization, and go-to-market

Visit the practice

Growth System

How does that direction become owned, measurable, repeatable growth?

Joe MartinielloMiranda Rise

Pipeline, routes to market, shared definitions, measurement, decision rights, and operating cadence

Visit the practice

Narrative & Communications

How will leaders, employees, customers, and the market understand and trust the change?

Erin McCabeAbandoned Press

Corporate narrative, executive voice, employee and change communications, presence, and reputation

Visit the practice

The Alliance method

Same moment. Three seats. One read.

The principals evaluate the same situation together. Leadership gets one reconciled recommendation, not three parallel pitches.

The combined evaluation

Evidence in. One recommendation out.

We work together to determine what the company actually needs, without assuming that every situation requires all three practices.

01

Start with the situation

We first determine whether the question genuinely crosses commercialization, growth operations, and communications.

02

Evaluate together

The three principals examine the same customer, commercial, performance, organizational, and stakeholder evidence.

03

Reconcile the findings

We test where the three views reinforce or challenge one another, rather than deliver parallel opinions.

04

Recommend the route

Leadership receives a prioritized view of what is needed and whether one practice, several, or an internal team should act.

The shared starting point

A combined evaluation

One situation. Three executive perspectives. A clear recommendation about what comes next.

What leadership receives

  • One shared assessment of the business situation
  • The material disconnects across the three disciplines
  • Prioritized decisions and practical first moves
  • A recommendation for the right execution route

How we begin: The first conversation establishes fit. If a combined evaluation is useful, we agree on its scope, timing, and commercial terms before work begins.

What the combined view changes

Consider a post-acquisition shift.

This illustrates how the three perspectives connect. It is not a client case study.

Rita examines the portfolio, buyer, value proposition, and route to market. Joe examines coverage, pipeline definitions, measurement, and the operating cadence. Erin examines what leaders, employees, customers, and external audiences need to understand and trust.

Instead of three separate workplans, leadership gets a shared view of the decisions that must be made together and a recommendation about who should carry each part forward.

The right-sized answer

When one seat is enough, we'll tell you.

Some problems belong to one practice, another specialist, or your own team. Three people in the room for a one-lane problem is overhead you should not pay for.

Start with the situation

What changed, and what stopped working?

Tell us what the leadership team is trying to decide. We will discuss whether a combined evaluation is the right next step.

This opens your email app with Joe, Rita, and Erin addressed; it does not send automatically. The three principals will read your note and discuss the right next step with you.