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Finance Transformation Firm | Boutique Professional Services Podcast
Most founders discover margin erosion long after it starts, because it never arrives as a single bad decision. It shows up as a discount to win the logo, a hire made ahead of demand, scope that quietly expands. Ravit Gutman of Extropy Advisors watched margin compress across her firm and then did the harder thing: she found where it was leaking and rebuilt profitability from the cost and delivery side. In this session, she walks through what she found, what she changed, and what it took to hold the line while the correction was underway.
In this episode:
• Where margin actually leaks in a professional services firm, and how to find it
• The operating changes Ravit made to restore profitability
• How she carried clients and the team through the correction without losing either
• Margin compression is hitting a lot of boutiques right now, and most founders diagnose it too late
• Growing revenue while margin falls builds a bigger firm that is worth less
• Recovery is an operating problem, not a pricing problem, which means it is solvable
If you run a boutique professional services firm and want to make more money, make scaling easier, and make an exit achievable, join Collective 54 at collective54.com.
Most founders discover margin erosion long after it starts, because it never arrives as a single bad decision. It shows up as a discount to win the logo, a hire made ahead of demand, scope that quietly expands. Ravit Gutman of Extropy Advisors watched margin compress across her firm and then did the harder thing: she found where it was leaking and rebuilt profitability from the cost and delivery side. In this session, she walks through what she found, what she changed, and what it took to hold the line while the correction was underway.
In this episode:
• Where margin actually leaks in a professional services firm, and how to find it
• The operating changes Ravit made to restore profitability
• How she carried clients and the team through the correction without losing either
• Margin compression is hitting a lot of boutiques right now, and most founders diagnose it too late
• Growing revenue while margin falls builds a bigger firm that is worth less
• Recovery is an operating problem, not a pricing problem, which means it is solvable
If you run a boutique professional services firm and want to make more money, make scaling easier, and make an exit achievable, join Collective 54 at collective54.com.
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