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Enterprise performance advisory

Make strategy perform.

Rao Advisory helps leaders make better decisions, deliver complex change and build stronger enterprises.

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Rao Advisory

Senior advice grounded in the realities of execution.

We work with CEOs, executive teams, boards and investors when the mandate matters, the organization is complex and performance needs to improve.

What we do

Focused support for consequential business challenges.

Enterprise performance

Clarify priorities, strengthen planning and create the management discipline required to turn strategy into measurable results.

Transformation leadership

Bring focus, governance and executive accountability to complex portfolios, critical programs and enterprise change.

Risk and decision intelligence

Connect customer, commercial and operational evidence so leaders see risk earlier and make better decisions.

How we work

Clear accountability from decision through delivery.

Every engagement begins with the outcome that must change. We bring the right senior expertise, establish clear decisions and remain accountable through implementation.

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Selected impact

A record of measurable performance.

32%

EBITDA growth during a private equity transformation

$500M

Business value enabled through planning and benefits realization

29%

Improvement in net revenue retention

$350M+

Enterprise portfolio governed across more than 90 programs

Leadership

Experienced inside complex enterprises.

Steven Rao is an enterprise performance and transformation executive with more than 20 years of experience working with CEOs, executive committees, boards and private equity sponsors.

Rao Advisory brings together experienced operators and specialist practitioners around each mandate. The team is shaped by the work, with senior accountability throughout.

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Advisory and ventures

Building practical solutions to operating risk.

Client risk and decision intelligence

CustomerSuccess.ca

Helping organizations identify client risk earlier, connect operational evidence and make better decisions before performance issues affect renewal and growth.

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Regulatory compliance

SteriTrace

Strengthening sterilization traceability, audit readiness and operating discipline for dental clinics working under rigorous compliance requirements.

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Contact

Let’s discuss the mandate.

Share a little about the challenge and the outcome you need.