Dan Cremons's Linkedin Analytics

Nearly two decades in private equity have taught me one thing: the game is changing. Fast. Gone are the days when investors could bank on financial engineering and multiple arbitrage to generate outsized returns. Welcome to the Value Creation Era of PE. The winners in this era? They'll be the firms that are surgical and systematic about driving value creation—and the ones that recognize you need the right leadership and talent in place to make it happen. But here's the uncomfortable truth: many PE firms and portfolio companies aren't built to win in this new era. → Shoddy hiring and talent practices → Skipping org due diligence pre-deal → No systematic approach to value creation planning → Failing to get the right team in place to drive that plan We see these same mistakes over and over. And early on in my own PE career, I learned the hard way that these things can be supremely costly. 🚫 Lose precious time 🚫 Put value creation at risk 🚫 Leave returns on the table Luckily, over years in the trenches at a top-decile PE firm—as an investor, operator, and board member—I figured out a thing or two about: → How to size up a target’s value creation readiness before investing. → How to get newly-acquired companies off to a strong start in the First 100. → How to ensure you have the right leaders in the most critical port-co roles. → How to develop leaders capable of meeting PE’s sky-high demands. In 2021, I made the leap: left a cushy role in PE to help more firms win in this new era. Through Accelera Partners, I help PE firms accelerate what I call "people-powered value creation" in four ways: • Org due diligence - https://bit.ly/orgduedili • Executive assessment - https://bit.ly/execassmnt • Executive development - https://bit.ly/leadershipalpha • Value creation planning - https://bit.ly/fst100 The bigger vision beyond advisory work? I’m building a constellation of businesses, projects and partnerships to help PE leaders accelerate people-powered value creation in their companies. Recent projects: → Wrote the bestseller Winning Moves (the “defacto playbook” for PE value creation) → Created Ascend, a group-based leadership accelerator for PE-backed executives → Dropping a new book/product in 2025 on turbo-boosting value creation with AI → Teaching the next gen of value creators at Chicago Booth Want to learn more? → My bestselling book on PE value creation >> https://amzn.to/3WsV0XP → Leadership accelerator for PE-backed execs >> https://bit.ly/ascendla → Loads of resources for PE professionals and execs >> https://bit.ly/dcremons