A dynamic financial professional with over twenty years of broad business experience, available for consulting assignments for companies seeking a Chief Financial Officer on a consulting basis, or specific assignments including preparing a business plan, raising additional financing, an IPO, acquisition or financial and administrative support to facilitate growth. Experience includes clients with listings on Canadian and US stock exchanges.

Many entrepreneurial companies require a Chief Financial Officer but not on a full-time basis. James provides an experienced Chartered Accountant with the expertise for that role without having to commit your company to a full-time position.

Mastermind Solutions Inc.
38 Charnwood Place, Thornhill, ON L3T 5H3
Telephone: 905.731.8255 Fax: 905.731.0641
www.MastermindSolutions.ca

Articles by James Phillipson

Cash Management
Collection Practices
Credit Granting Policies to Improve Cash Flow
Inventory Management to Improve Cash Flow

Mastermind Solutions Inc. is a flexible, dynamic Toronto management consulting company that delivers top line revenue growth, higher profits, satisfied customers, motivated staff and lower operating costs.

Our core group of expert management consultants represent a number of different business disciplines. These Masterminds work in total synergy with each other to deliver management consulting services that work hard to improve your productivity and profitability, but do so in the most cost effective way possible. As such, we are the opposite of the cumbersome consulting behemoth.

The core areas in which we work are:

• Strategic Planning
• Organizational Design
• Strategic Marketing Planning
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Top Line Revenue Generation

In these areas of our expertise, the Principals and Senior Associates function both as management consultants and project managers, creating innovative and practical solutions and marshalling the appropriate resources and expertise to actualize projects as quickly, professionally and cost effectively as possible.

Our goal: To deliver accelerated solutions to your business challenges.

ur group of professionals can help your organization achieve your desired results.

Business and Strategic Planning

• Diagnostic review and strategic planning
• Sales effectiveness review
• Business plans
• Meeting facilitation and project management

Organizational Design

• The right strategy
• The right structure and organizational levels to fulfill the strategy
• The right cross functional relationships
• The right people to accomplish the work
• Clear accountabilities & authorities for everyone
• Leadership practices for growth and productivity
• Process re-engineering

Financial

• Coaching Controllers, CFO’s, V-P’s Finance, Accountants etc.
• Financial management, cash flow, strategic budgeting, accounting procedures
• Negotiation and due diligence reviews for acquisitions
• Securing capital and financing
• Annual, quarterly and all other compliance reporting to securities commissions
• IPO’s, mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate governance and board effectiveness

Human Resources

• Strategic human resources and labour relations management
• Occupational health and safety, workers’ compensation

Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

• Executive coaching and leadership development
• Communication skills training
• Communication skills training
• Mastering stress

Marketing

• MasterPulse
• Stantech Marketing Audit

Competitive Intelligence & Market Research

• Hear the voice of your customers.
• Hear the voice of your competitors.
• Understand the needs of your market.

Creative Problem Solving

• You have to work hard at being a creative thinker.
• The Simplex system is a comprehensive system of applied creativity that connects a process of creative problem solving with skills and tools to make that process work. Give your people the tools and confidence they need for breakthrough thinking. Rather than taking the first solution that comes to mind, the real skill lies in digging deeper and looking at the problem from all sides and finding the best answer./li>

 

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