Corporate Transformation

We bring leadership, action and results to your transformation

With execution skills honed from decades of restructuring experience, A&M helps CEOs and boards who are facing tough situations drive sustained and substantial improvement initiatives at a scale and pace that conventional approaches cannot match.

Complex Transformation | Corporate Transformation Services

Executing Complex Transformation

A&M leads CEOs and Boards through the planning and execution of large, complex organizational restructuring and business transformation initiatives. We provide an objective perspective of a company’s performance and accelerate lasting bottom-line results.

Managing Shareholder Activism

A&M helps predict, prepare for and manage activist engagements. Our team of experts is free of agency conflict, offers pragmatic advice to help proactively align key stakeholders around a common narrative, and executes a plan to address activist concerns and deliver shareholder value.

Restructuring Enterprise Portfolios

A&M helps companies leverage M&A and divestitures to unlock shareholder value. We help clients achieve the full benefits of an acquisition as well as help streamline the organization through divesting or restructuring under-performing and non-core business units or assets while also tackling residual overhead costs.

Outside-in Evaluation | Lens Bringing into Focus

Providing Outside-In Evaluations

A&M provides an objective, data driven perspective of a company’s performance and business case for driving shareholder value based on publicly available information filtered through the lens of an activist investor.

Thought Leadership

Activist pressure starts with underperformance

June 18, 2026

Shareholder activism is accelerating, and the root cause is consistent: sustained operational underperformance relative to peers. In a feature for CFO.com, A&M Managing Director Ron Orsini outlines a more disciplined path: close performance gaps early, build a credible value creation plan, and retain control of your strategy before activists define it for you.

Thought Leadership

Jay Frankl and Annie Peabody featured in The Deal’s Activist Investing Today Podcast

June 11, 2026

Jay Frankl and Annie Peabody discuss current M&A activism trends in The Deal’s Activist Investing Today podcast, highlighting insights from A&M’s US Activist Alert (AAA) report.

Thought Leadership

Turning AI Investment Into P&L Impact: What Sets Leaders Apart

June 10, 2026

The latest piece from A&M's Corporate Transformation Services team breaks down the three patterns emerging across industries, and the four fundamentals that separate the organizations turning AI investment into real P&L impact from those stuck in pilot mode.

Thought Leadership

Daniel Schmeltz Shares Why Enterprise AI Still Isn't Delivering Financial Returns in CFO Dive Feature

May 7, 2026

Companies are investing billions in AI, but most struggle to convert adoption into measurable financial returns. Managing Director Daniel Schmeltz explains why real AI ROI depends on operating model redesign, not more pilots or tools.