Advisory

The distance between your team and its targets, and what it takes to close it.

Close enough to change things. Outside enough to say them.
In a nutshell,

Every sales team is somewhere. Its targets are somewhere else, and rarely for a single reason. Sometimes the number went up. Sometimes the market moved under it. Sometimes a competitor changed what buyers expect. Sometimes half the team is new. Sometimes the positioning changed and the old story stopped working.

So the distance is real, and it does not stand still. That is why we never hand over a plan written against a target that has already shifted. We measure the distance, we describe the team that would close it, we build the governance that makes that team possible, and we stay while it is deployed.

And because the target will move again, the competence lane never stops. We do none of it for you. We do all of it with you, in short loops, inside your teams.

From where you are to where you now need to be two lanes, one journey, and a target that keeps moving

The advisory lane climbs from the gap to the targets. The competence lane runs alongside it from the first day to the last, because a target that moves keeps opening new gaps. And the line itself is two threads, yours and ours, crossing at every iteration.

your targetsand they keep movingwhere your teamis todaythe gapyour teamsusThe two threads cross at every loop.Every loop is an iteration with your people.ITERATION00The starting pointmeasure the gap01The desired statethe team as it will have to work02The governancedesigned, then set up03The deploymentpilot, then scaleCompetence and methodologymodules, programmes, coaching, train the trainer, AI companionsEVERYTHING ELSE ON THIS SITEIn parallel, from day one to the last. Each station calls for competences, and the field keeps revealing the ones that are missing.
A consulting firm describes the desired state. We build it with the people who will have to live in it, and we stay until they do.

How we work this part is who we are

Thinking together, co-creating, bending to what the field actually asks for, and working from inside your teams. It is the same in training, in coaching, in advisory, in implementation and in follow-up.

We think with you
  • We are a sounding board before we are a supplier. One of our proposals puts it in five verbs: structure, challenge, systematise, equip, and set in motion
  • A thirty minute slot with the decision maker every fortnight, where the philosophy of the model gets settled before its content
  • We ask what nobody in the house asks. One of our entry documents asks an owner to write down the managerial conversations he has been avoiding
  • We bring what we have seen elsewhere, in other industries and at other levels of maturity, into your own reasoning
We co-create
  • Your team produces the shared diagnosis, and that diagnosis becomes the working tool
  • Workshops run on your live account file, your pipeline and your real deals. Thirty per cent concept, seventy per cent live work
  • The governance backbone gets defined with one representative per market, precisely to defuse the resistance a top-down rollout creates
  • On our last governance model, two of the three people who designed it were the client’s own
We stay flexible
  • The model bends to your reality. When a chief executive refused a fixed cap on accounts per manager, because load depends on complexity, the whole capacity model was rewritten around his call
  • Programmes keep being adapted for the entire length of a project
  • Our own proposals carry version numbers, because they change after each conversation
  • Some engagements are bought as a standing line of days, used when the field needs them, with refreshes your teams trigger themselves
We get involved
  • We chair your first monthly account meetings, and we write the minutes
  • We sit in real client meetings, and we take the lead when losing the thread would cost you the deal
  • We co-run workshops with your people, who present their own topics to their own peers
  • We spot your catalysts early and give them a visible role, because they are the ones who hold the rhythm after we go
Vincent Flament (left) and Tom Vierstraete (right) of Valorize Solutions, preparing a client programme.Mathieu Swine (left) and Vincent Flament (right) of Valorize Solutions, thinking through a client engagement.Isabelle Wats (left) and Vincent Flament (right) of Valorize Solutions, in a working session to build a client programme.
We build, we think, we roll up our sleeves with the team members to bring the greatest possible added value to our coaching engagements and to our advisory and consulting projects.
Vincent Flament with Tom Vierstraete, Mathieu Swine and Isabelle Wats of Valorize Solutions.
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Listen, one by one

Interviews with a sample your leadership picks itself. Nothing individual is ever reported back.

2
Settle the philosophy

Firm rules or managerial judgement. What you stop serving. What stays non negotiable.

3
Co-build on real data

Your accounts, your pipeline, your deals, and the diagnosis your own teams produced. Never a case study.

4
Install the rhythm

Reviews, committees, war rooms, quarterly resets. We run the first ones, then we move to the back of the room.

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Hand over and leave

Managers coached to coach, an AI companion left in your environment, and an exit written into the proposal.

Three ways in three situations, three starting points

Stations 01 and 02
For a group sales leadership

Design commercial governance

roles, thresholds, rituals
  • The desired state first: how the commercial organisation will actually have to work
  • Customer types and a segmentation that changes service levels for real
  • Matrix, roles, capacity thresholds, KPIs per role, one central ownership file
  • Dashboards, and the rituals that keep them alive
Station 03
For a plan without traction

Support the deployment

the pilot, the rituals, the handover
  • We run your first account reviews and war rooms, and write the minutes
  • We pilot on a narrow scope before scaling, so the model gets tested for real
  • We equip your catalysts, the people who will carry it after us
  • We hand the room back, on a date agreed in writing
The whole journey, compressed
For an owner-led company

Structure the growth

target clients, dormant levers, execution
  • Your ideal client profile, and above all the clients to walk away from
  • Dormant levers: referrals, technicians as opportunity sensors, local partners
  • A four-indicator dashboard, a follow-up rhythm, a real one to one
  • Field coaching in real client meetings, where it counts
And one transversal layer
For every situation, before or after the training

Commercial excellence: your people, your processes, your methods, your tools

Sales Acceleration & Sales Efficiency
  • Four gears that have to drive each other, and two criteria to judge the mechanism: the friction it produces, the energy it requires
  • Your AI tools and your CRM loaded with your method, to relieve administration and make everyone better with the same data
  • Anchoring what was learnt, where your teams work, every day and without thinking about it
  • Measuring behaviours, if you want it, with clear rules on who sees what

None of this was designed in an office it was built on the ground, and it is still moving

Every model, every ritual and every question on these pages came out of real mandates. They were co-created with clients, corrected by them, and they keep changing with each new project. What you buy is closer to a way of thinking than to a method: experience across industries, judgement in the room, and people who would rather have a well-made mind than a well-filled one.

It comes from the field

Nothing here was written from a framework. Every object exists because a client needed it, and every example on this site is a real mandate, anonymised.

It gets rewritten

Rituals nobody missed were dropped. Capacity rules were rewritten mid-mandate because a chief executive was right. What survives is usually what a client argued with.

It keeps moving

This page will read differently in a year. The field keeps teaching us something, and that is also what lets us bring another industry into your reasoning.

What this is, and what it is not because advisory means something else to most buyers

What this is NOT
  • A team of consultants parked in your offices for six months
  • A target operating model handed over for you to sell internally
  • An audit, or an assessment of your people
  • A model designed at the top and pushed down
  • A dependency that quietly renews itself
What it is instead
  • One consultant, sized to the decision at hand
  • A desired state built with the people who will have to live in it
  • A picture of a starting point, taken without judging anyone
  • A backbone defined in a workshop with one representative per market
  • An exit written into the proposal, and a refresh that you trigger
And the trade-offs we put in writing, because someone has to
  • Not every customer will get senior attention.
  • Some short term transactional volume will be deprioritised.
  • Local freedom will be framed by a small number of non negotiable rules.

What it looks like in practice some illustrations

Technical materials maker, five markets

Seven months. Interviews across every market, a governance model in six workstreams, a thirty minute leadership slot every fortnight, a two day workshop co-run with the client’s own people, and a pilot on five strategic accounts whose monthly meetings we chaired ourselves.

ICT group, three year growth plan

A steering framework co-built with the vertical directors, then rolled down into each vertical, one day per team. Grafted onto the war rooms already in place. The training programme came afterwards, with a flexible advisory line of twelve days a year alongside execution.

Owner-led IT services company

Flat revenue for two years, one salesperson. Three months, two days a month: target clients, dormant levers, a simple dashboard built by the three of us in one afternoon, a structured one to one, and coaching in real prospect meetings.

Station 00 · where it starts

The Starting Point a picture of where you are, before anyone proposes anything

  • Six to eight interviews with a sample your leadership picks itself
  • A read of what already exists: account file, pipeline, offers, meeting notes
  • One aggregated report. Nothing individual is ever reported back, ever
  • A first sketch of the desired state, in two or three options, so your leadership has something real to decide on
  • A ninety minute working session with your leadership team, on two or three options
  • Three to four weeks, from first interview to session
A fixed fee, agreed before we start. Everything else we do is sold in days, counted. This one comes as one number. You know it before the first interview, and it is deducted from the mandate if you decide to go further. It also works perfectly well on its own, with no sequel.
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Where this connects the vertical lines of the diagram

The competence lane

Every station calls for competences, and the field keeps revealing the ones that are missing. That lane runs alongside this work, from the first day to the last. See our programmes and modules ›

When the seat itself is empty

Sometimes the role itself is vacant. Interim and part-time sales or L&D management answers a different problem. See FLEX ›

Built to be retired well we install your autonomy, then we step back

This page is a working proposition. It is meant to be discussed, adjusted and sharpened in a first conversation, on your situation.

Tell us where your team is today, and where it has to be.
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Frequently asked questions

What does sales strategy consulting cover?

It usually starts by measuring the distance between a sales team and its targets, then describing the team and the commercial model that would close that distance. At Valorize Solutions the advisory work and the competence work run alongside each other, inside your teams rather than in a report.

How is advisory different from sales training?

Training changes what people can do. Advisory changes what the organisation asks of them: the roles, the rhythm, the decisions. Either one alone tends to fade, which is why the two lanes run together here.

Do you arrive with the answer?

No. We bring two or three options and the questions that make the choice explicit. The decision stays with you, because you are the one who will live inside it afterwards.