​Why Professional Services Struggle To Pivot?

A 3-Part Series

Part 1 - The Problems - Click Below

Part 2 - The Solutions - Coming Soon

Part 3 - The BIG-4: A Closer Look - Coming Soon

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Learn About Our Work With Professional Firms Globally

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We Have Advised Most Professions

Having worked with nearly every profession including accounting, actuarial, legal, engineering, architecture, planning, project management, management and environmental consultancy, real estate, technology, finance, investment banking, insurance, a wide variety in the health sector, all levels of education, science, biotech and more...we feel confident we have got you covered.

Our Work With Professional Services Spans The World

Pamela Young, Managing Director, growthcurv: professional firm specialist, author, presenter, speaker

Ian Terry, Global CEO and Managing Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer, UK

'Pamela is dynamic and innovative. She is passionate about change and achieving success for the businesses she advises. She brings a wealth of experience to bear on issues and is a pleasure - and challenging - to work with.'

Helping you move upwards and onwards!

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A Firm's Journey Is Rarely A Straight Line: We Use Growth Curve Analysis To Remove Hurdles & Accelerate Growth

All organisations experience slowed growth sometime. Our work with professional services helps them to remove hurdles, then formulate strategies that fit their 'stage' to accelerate growth.​

Your leadership, structure, technology and culture must evolve at each stage of your journey to align with your strategic direction and goals. Sometimes firm growth is interrupted by unexpected hurdles. We help you remove obstacles enabling you and your firm to adapt...while keeping your 'professional firm values' in tact.

Philip Pillai, Chairman, Shook Lin & Bok, Singapore

'Pamela provided Partners with welcomed direction for change, in light of fast changing market conditions in Singapore at that time. These developments took the firm towards its long term goals and greatly improved both our focus and our effectiveness.  This is turn brought benefits to the firm and its partners.'

The Culture Circuit 

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Everyone In Your Culture Circuit Influences Your Success Or Failure 

1.  Performance Behaviours Are Driven By Hidden Cultural Assumptions - Professionals adopt values of cultural groups they belonged to such as their family, community, school, religion, sport, club, university, industry association, the countries they have lived in.

2.  Look Deep To Find The Source of Conflicts and Productivity Inefficiencies - People bring their values with them to work each day. If you don't like the behaviours in your firm examine the underlying assumptions of the people who created the culture, then consider the mix of values among firm members to find the source of issues, inefficiencies or misunderstandings. 

3.  The Culture Circuit Is A Framework for Analyzing and Changing Cultures - That's Been Proven Worldwide - Our proprietary culture change framework was formed through decades of work with professional services in four regions of the world: it is a guide for leaders to unblock hurdles and accelerate growth.

growthcurv's proprietary Culture Circuit is detailed in Pamela Young's book Stepping Up

Pamela's book Stepping Up: Lead Culture Change for Diversity and Growth in the Asian Century is a leadership book that includes research with 100 leaders from 16 cities and 26 industries across Asia-Pacific.

​Chapter One is FREE to read - scroll down on this page​

Evelyn Bourke, Group CEO Bupa, United Kingdom

'I was impressed by Pamela’s detailed attention to the strategic and commercial aspects of the business…She demonstrated that she can motivate a team of people to work closely with her... one of Pamela’s greatest talents is a sustained focus on seeing a project through to its proper conclusions.'
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Sean Larkin, Managing Partner, Minter Ellison, Australia

​'Pamela is one of those unique people - knowledgeable, a strong sense of values, always enthusiastic and full of inventive ideas on how to improves one's business or professional practice. A real passion for helping others and organisations grow and succeed.'
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Pamela Young:
​Your PSF Specialist

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A Few Highlights of Pamela's Global Career With Professional Service Firms. She has...

• established her first consulting firm in New Zealand at 26
• presented with Harvard guru Michael Porter in London at 30
• guest lectured at University of Sydney Business School's Master program in International Business Cultures
• researched members of Australian financial services living in Singapore
• run Shook Lin & Bok, a leading law firm in Singapore
• advised CEOs of global 'big guns' in London - KPMG, Freshfields, Barclays, Zurich FS, Prudential Bache and Towers Perrin
• advised 'big guns' down under, such as PwC and Accenture in New Zealand and Australia
  
• facilitated a global accounting network conference in Mauritius
• published the first book ever written about Australian business culture called Stepping Up
• presented at Global Women's Day events
• contributed business opinion and commentary on radio and television
• produces thrive2030 - a highly regarded online series of video-recorded CEO conversations
• launched online learning and mentoring programs for CEOs and top teams called CEOExpand
• speaks at and moderates corporate and industry conferences across Australasia, SE Asian, the UK, Europe and the USA​

Pamela Young
Managing Director, growthcurv
Author, Stepping Up
Producer, thrive2030
Director and Coach, CEOExpand

Kathryn Roberts, Tax Partner, PricewaterHouse, New Zealand

'Pamela's great strengths are her energy and enthusiasm. She relates well to people and has great personal charm. When added to her experience and commitment to high standards of service, these personal skills make for a very talented individual with an ability to succeed in any endeavour and market.'

Sara Katz, Founder and CEO, Katz & Associates, California, USA

'I hired Pamela to help us formulate a new strategy to take us forward. Her broad experience was evidenced by her quick grasp of our business operations and issues. I asked her to return a few years later to investigate the ‘stress fractures’ that had arisen due to the growth; she again provided solutions that allowed us to move forward with sure footing.'

Pamela invites you to make contact here - Request a FREE Zoom consultation  

30 minutes free consulting time for verified CEOs, Managing Partners or Chairman of any professional service firm or group.