Growth strategy
Understand and develop the right growth thesis across markets, customers, services and assortments, and capabilities.
Senior-led teams · Athena-powered analysis · Measurable execution
Strategy that moves
from thesis to traction.
Our expert consultants help business leaders find profitable growth, redesign commercial systems, and lead the cross-functional work required to deliver it.
Marton Consulting brings small, efficient teams of industry and functional experts to your growth challenges. Athena, our agentic analyst platform, accelerates the research, evidence gathering, and synthesis behind their work. Our experts bring years of experience not just advising clients, but leading execution.
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TeamYouSelected sectorsConsumer productsRetailIndustrial products & servicesBusiness servicesFinancial services
Where we help
Find the value.
Build the path to it.
Senior-led strategy work grounded in market evidence, operating reality, and the cross-functional requirements that decide whether a plan survives contact with the business.
Go-to-market
Turn the growth thesis into channels, coverage, sales roles, operating cadence, and measurable execution.
Market entry
Pressure-test demand, competition, economics, and capability requirements before committing capital.
PE value creation
Support diligence, post-close priorities, commercial acceleration, margin improvement, and exit readiness.
Sales transformation
Redesign the organization, operations, measures, and pilot plan needed to move performance.
M&A integration
Align commercial and operational workstreams around the value thesis and the realities of execution.
Representative work
Complex mandates.
Concrete outcomes.
Selected examples spanning the deal lifecycle, from market assessment and growth strategy through sales transformation, integration, and execution.
Utility services · PE-backed
A phased go-to-market strategy built from the market up.
Built a geographic and customer-level market assessment, evaluated the service offering and competitive landscape, then translated the evidence into a sequenced growth plan.
Business services10% vs. 2%pilot growth vs. rest of firm
Growth strategy carried through a six-month sales pilot.
Redesigned the growth agenda, sales organization, and sales operations. The pilot organization delivered 10% sales growth versus 2% across the rest of the firm.
Chemicals manufacturing · M&A
Integration strategy across operations and growth.
Led post-acquisition analysis and integration planning across manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial strategy for a chemicals division.
CPG · B2B
A new B2B route to market, designed cross-functionally.
Tested domestic and international demand, built the business case, and aligned supply chain, manufacturing, technology, finance, and sales around the operating requirements.
Financial services · Post-acquisition
Commercial transformation after the deal.
Defined the commercial strategy and redesigned the sales organization and sales operations approach for a newly acquired financial services firm.
Financial services · Market entry
A disciplined path into a new national market.
Developed the market perspective, assessed product and capability requirements, and built a phased roadmap and growth plan for a non-domestic entrant.
About Sandor
Consulting rigor.
Operator accountability.
Across 25 years, Sandor has worked both as an advisor and as the executive accountable for the P&L. That combination changes the work: recommendations must be analytically sound, but they also have to survive budgets, capabilities, incentives, and organizational friction.
His experience includes McKinsey consulting, Fortune 500 leadership roles, and more than a decade leading growth strategy, go-to-market, market entry, sales, and operations programs for private equity firms and large corporate clients.
Evidence before enthusiasmBuild the market fact base before choosing the answer.Design through executionConnect strategy to owners, capabilities, economics, and cadence.Senior attention throughoutThe person shaping the answer stays close to the work.
Athena from Chronos Insights
Athena-powered consulting:
applying a trained AI consultant agent to accelerate work.
Athena gives each engagement a dedicated agentic analyst workspace for market research, competitor analysis, source synthesis, and repeatable analytical work. Clients see the evidence, outputs, and checkpoints. Sandor and the engagement team design the research, review and revise the insights, and remain accountable for every recommendation and outcome.
Research Design↓Evidence and Analysis↓Draft Insights↓Senior Consultant Review and Revision
The next move
Bring the hard growth question.
We’ll determine what evidence is missing, where value is likely hiding, and what it would take to turn the answer into action.