Private equity firms operate under intense pressure to generate rapid transformation and measurable value creation. Yet, many overlook a crucial driver of success: organizational health—the ability to align leadership, optimize operations, and engage talent to deliver sustained performance. This post explores the three pillars of organizational health—Strategic, Operational, and Talent Health—and how they accelerate value creation. Discover how PE leaders can leverage data-driven insights to diagnose challenges, drive execution, and build high-performing, scalable organizations.

Managing a private equity portfolio isn’t just about financial performance—it’s about decoding and acting on the complexities that drive that performance. Some companies thrive with minimal involvement from their PE sponsor, while others demand hands-on guidance to address deeper, structural challenges.

When leadership transitions and operational shifts create uncertainty, culture often becomes the first casualty. But what if those challenges became an opportunity to design a thriving, intentional workplace culture instead of reacting to problems as they arise?

Talent partners in PE can drive impact by prioritizing early wins, leveraging scalable solutions, and building a community of experts for portfolio executives. These strategies establish credibility and sustain long-term success.

The PE market is shifting, focusing on leveraging organizational health and talent insights to drive value creation, mitigate risks, and accelerate impact amid tighter conditions and rising capital costs.

We brought together a panel of industry experts to walk you through the proven process of fast tracking commercial growth and explain how it was used to deliver significant sales productivity increases.

This article gives advice for senior leadership teams to understand a surprising disconnect that has emerged in today’s workforce entering the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guest Author: Sarah Sonnenfeld, Principal & Founder at Alsephina Consulting

Change efforts in an organization are never easy. Often, leaders lack visibility into critical influencers who may be hidden at lower levels of the organization. Using Organization Network Analysis to locate champions for your initiative can go a long way to maximize your efforts.

Jan Jamrich, current CEO of Entromy and a former principal from BCG’s Boston office, discusses his entrepreneurial journey and what keeps him inspired.

Every company aspires to build an exceptional culture that drives performance - yet very few are able to achieve, let alone maintain an award winning culture. Definitive Healthcare’s (DHC) people-first approach has helped them earn recognition as one of the best places to work by several large publications over the last several years.

Private equity firms have sometimes held a reputation for ruthless emphasis on value creation through financial engineering, M&A, or hard operational levers to realize returns.

The disruption caused by COVID-19 across the global economy has been formidable

This is part two of a four part series focused on providing a playbook to navigate the disruptive changes and new realities caused by COVID-19.

My first week at Entromy was awesome. I learned so much more than I ever expected to. I learned how we partner with private equity and consultant firms to leverage an innovative platform to help leaders understand their organizations instantly. I learned how virtual startups utilize various tools and platforms to stay connected in a meaningful and productive way. And I learned that working with a small and integrated team allows me to feel a sense of purpose in a way that I was truly craving.

Consulting is amongst the first line items to get cut in downturn (with few exceptions). This is part one of a four part series focused on providing management consulting firms with a playbook to navigate the disruptive changes and new realities caused by COVID-19.

At Entromy, supporting our customers through COVID-19 is our #1 priority right now.

How can a company almost doubling in size every 6 months ensure alignment and continue to build exceptionally high-performing, consistent culture?

Entromy delivered unmatched speed and quality in a comprehensive organizational diligence

Entromy’s organizational diagnostic served as a blueprint for major transformation

Entromy closely collaborated with a strategic consulting partner. Together we accelerated commercial transformation with an innovative organizational diagnostic and network analysis.

Entromy shattered the notion of a 100-day plan and delivered a deep organizational blueprint within one week to help the new CEO come up to speed immediately

Entromy enabled one of the best strategy planning sessions to date for the client

Private Equity markets are seeing bigger bets, increased competition, and higher risks. WeWork is not the only example of a house of cards that’s waiting to fall, resulting in billions of losses.

She chooses Organizational Health Diagnostic (OHD) to help solve her problem — getting critical, deep, nuanced insights from the organization in less than a week.

Recently, Entromy partnered with Wine Access to deliver a rapid organizational diagnostic and provide insights to support 2019 growth.

Just a few weeks ago, Entromy partnered with the executive team of a leading software company to assess its executive team and catalyze a culture welcome to change and innovation.

We are thrilled to announce a new Accelerated Strategy Planning (ASP) offering, powered by Entromy’s Insights Platform, that changes the paradigm of what’s possible in running a highly effective executive strategy planning session. About 50% of executives admit to not having full confidence in achieving the company’s strategic goals and priorities.

The Institute for Contemporary Leadership (ICL), in conjunction with global communications marketing firm , concerted a premier panel of private equity leaders in New York City at the Harvard Club on September 26th. Facilitated by the ICL, the candid panel of private equity managing partners addressed successful practices to radically strengthen senior leadership performance within the firms’ portfolios.

Such rapid growth created a need for equally quick employee insights to empower Welltok’s leadership and sustain its accelerating growth.

Entromy and the Institute for Contemporary Leadership recently completed a webinar with industry experts Tony O’Driscoll, global head of Duke Corporate Education Labs.

Leadership, the focus on and development of collaborative cultures, agility, innovation and the effectiveness of leadership programs is what elevates company performance.

Many companies and consumers are wondering what GDPR is and how it will impact them.

We sat down with Alan Ross, a seasoned senior HR executive who held executive roles at large companies including Dun & Bradstreet, Nielsen, Trizetto, Matrix Medical, and US Anesthesia Partners, and is currently advising several PE firms on topics of leadership, organizational effectiveness, M&A and change.

“Embrace the difference” — advised Corinna Werkle, General Manager, Reebok.

The right level of transparency in an organization can accelerate business performance. But too much of it can bring significant negatives.

Entromy is fundamentally changing how quickly organizations can collect actionable information, create insights, make informed decisions, achieve leadership alignment, and increase accountability to action.