The What

Strategic Planning and General Strategic Advice

Alma Grove Consulting offers strategic planning support for the development of new strategic plans as well as the review and revision of existing plans. Alma Grove Consulting is able to apply its Four Quarters' Strategic Planning framework to assess core strengths, growth opportunities, the competitive landscape and the organisation's risk appetite.

Strategic Planning Workshops

Alma Grove Consulting can facilitate board, executive and business unit strategic planning workshops. Peter Deans' extensive and broad industry expertise can provide unique insights into strategic, financial and operational challenges and opportunities that organisations face.

Enterprise Risk Management (including Operational Risk Management)

Through use of Alma Grove Consulting's unique risk framework, a clear and concise summary of an organisation's risks can be quickly established. This can be used as the basis of implementing, reviewing and revising risk strategies and processes.

Establishment of Risk Appetite / Risk Boundaries - Banks & Financial Institutions 

Alma Grove Consulting can assist to establish risk appetite and risk boundaries for identifiable and measureable risk categories. Monitoring and reporting processes can be developed to then manage the risk profile of the organisation.

Risk Management Frameworks - Superannuation Funds 

Alma Grove Consulting can assist Trustees and Boards establish or enhance risk management frameworks to meet prudential, regulatory and stakeholder requirements.

Independent Reviews of Problems / Issues

When things do go wrong, an organisation needs a cost effective, insightful and balanced independent assessment of what has occurred and practical recommendations on appropriate course of action.

Independent Project Quality Assurance Reviews

Our Project Assurance Review service can provide a cost effective, efficient and independent review process to give owners, shareholders, directors and management the confidence that projects and change initiatives are on track and likely to achieve the original objectives.

Credit Risk and Client Engagement Training

Alma Grove Consulting provides credit risk training in the Asia Pacific Region itself directly and through its affiliated company, AG Financial Education Pty Ltd (www. agfinancial.com.au). Programs can be tailored to meet a bank or financial institutions' particular training requirement and business objectives.

Tailored Business Development, Sales and Risk Engagement training can also be provided to banks and financial institutions.

Change Management and Organisation Restructuring

Alma Grove Consulting can provide support in the strategic development and planning stage of the change management and organisation restructuring process. Alma Grove Consulting's Principal Peter Deans has extensive change management experience in banks and financial institutions, in particular in risk and sales roles.

Coaching & Mentoring in Strategy, Risk and Finance for Senior Executives

Peter Deans is available to provide confidential mentoring and business coaching for Directors and Senior Executives, with a particular focus on developing strategy, risk and finance skills.