Welcome to aopartners

Accelerating Performance Transformations &
Value Creation for Over 20 Years

Our worldwide network of experts and interim leaders brings a full spectrum of operational and transformation expertise to implement high-impact improvements that last. AOPartners consultants blend hands-on execution with AI tools and SPOT Analytics®  to efficiently and effectively deliver sustainable enterprise value for our clients.
Expert Consultants
Our ever-growing 20K+ vetted consultant network spans all functions, disciplines, and industries anywhere in the world. AOPartners experts and expert teams combine meaningful "shop-floor" experience with board-level presence to support all aspects of your transformation, leveraging the latest internal and third-party AI solutions and tools to power performance.
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Interim Leadership
AOPartners delivers highly matched interim leaders to ensure your transformation and value creation plans stay on track despite unexpected organizational changes. Our experienced Interim Leadership team can swiftly, within 48 hours, fill voids at all levels in all regions, delivering measurable results from day one and stabilizing your organizational structure.
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Permanent Placements
AOPartners' Permanent Placement team brings together talent and transformation to help clients deliver superior operational and financial performance. We take an uncompromising and relentless approach to finding the best leaders, with no retainer fees, no exclusivity requirements, and fully contingent search fees of approximately 20%.
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We've provided transformative talent to over 1,000 companies including
Who we are

For over two decades, AOPartners has provided to our clients the right experts & interim leaders to stabilize operations and boost performance.

We rapidly fill your talent gaps, embedding real expertise inside your organization to have a meaningful and measurable impact from day one.

About Us
20+
Years In Operation
250+
Worldwide Clients
2,000+
Expert Resources Deployed
20K+
Vetted Experts
our capabilities

Where We've Delivered Results

Since 2005, AOPartners, enabled by our 20K+ expert network, has led engagements across all functions and disciplines, including commercial operations, supply chain, SG&A, service operations and mergers / carve-outs, in practically every industry – including industrials, manufacturing, distribution / logistics, healthcare, financial services, insurance, and more.

Expertise

AOPartners’ Managing Directors oversee each resource placed on the ground, ensuring all talent, experience, and expertise is fully harnessed and pointed in the right direction for our clients. The combination of our experts, our proven methods, and our AI-enabled yields transformative results across any function or discipline.

Industries

Over the past two decades, AOPartners has assembled a global network of deeply knowledgeable and experienced experts in all industries and sectors deployable anywhere in the world. Our industry experts leverage their knowledge gained from driving operational improvements in manufacturing plants, call centers, warehouses, etc. and get their hands dirty implementing change at our clients.

Testimonials

Client Reflections

With AOPartners, we got big consulting firm quality at significantly lower rates, and we didn’t have to fight the constant push to expand a project the way the big firms operate.  There is really terrific value provided by AOPartners.
Former CFO
Private Equity-backed Chemicals Manufacturer
For over a year, the AOPartners team made sharp analytical and project management capability available to us. On a major sales force effectiveness initiative, they integrated fully with our project team and our wider organization, helping us better understand the metrics that mattered and surface real opportunities to improve the business.
Group Publisher
Marketing Company in Housing Industry
AOPartners gave us the structure, method, and experience to guide my leadership team through a multi-month strategic planning process. They helped us define and mobilize the critical initiatives that would fuel global growth and streamline how we operate.
CEO and Founder
Global, UK Headquartered, Talent Management Company
AOPartners introduced and implemented the processes and tools that gave us far greater visibility and control over engineering, procurement, and construction, which proved decisive in completing several wind farm projects above $200M on schedule.
Executive VP
asset management company
AOPartners mobilized, launched, and ran a roughly $200M restructuring and cost-out program across two years, overseeing the full transformation and driving the operational initiatives behind it: complexity reduction, plant and line asset optimization, strategic sourcing, and transportation.
COO
$5B Consumer Packaged Goods Company
AOPartners gave us excellent tools to optimize our product design and capital budgeting processes. They learned our business quickly and worked shoulder to shoulder with our team, and that closeness is what kept the process moving.
CEO
Tier 1 Automotive Supplier
The AOPartners team defined, launched, and supported a multi-faceted performance transformation built to lift customer service and delivery. Their lean consultants mapped every key product flow and pinpointed where to measure and track the bottlenecks that were holding us back.
CFO
$50M Medical Services Company
AOPartners has delivered on several transformative efforts, including a new operating model and organizational design, plus performance analytics and metrics for major capital programs. Their experts carried my team through serious analysis and change management to reach consensus on the future-state structure and processes.
Head of Engineering
$15B Transportation Company
AOPartners is a genuinely trusted advisor on critical transformation work across several of our portfolio companies. The team is skilled at finding what blocks top-line and bottom-line performance, mobilizing an internal working team around the most pressing issues, and steering an organization through significant change to sustainable results.
Managing Director
Major Private Equity Firm
Over several years, AOPartners has driven the strategic planning and execution processes we run on, delivered a multi-year business process re-engineering and ERP program, and supported CEO-sponsored work spanning organizational design and an enterprise-wide project management office.
President and CEO
Large Consumer Packaged Goods Company with #1 Brands