— ADVISORY FOR BOUTIQUE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRMS
Your expertise is stronger than the market's perception of it. That gap is costing you business.
Highlander Consulting helps founders and managing partners of boutique advisory firms convert their expertise into the credibility, authority, and targeted conversations that lead to client relationships.
— A CONTRARIAN POINT OF VIEW
Most thought leadership sits on websites
like trophies no one looks at.
Boutique advisory firms invest significant time and resources producing insights, articles, LinkedIn posts, and media appearances. Too often, those assets become passive marketing content — visible in theory, invisible in practice.
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​The problem isn't the quality of the thinking. It's that the assets were never designed to do the one thing that matters: start conversations with the right people.
The conventional approach
Produce content. Post it.
Hope it builds visibility.
Hope visibility eventually becomes opportunity.
Wait. Repeat.
Wonder why the pipeline hasn't changed.
The Highlander approach
Build credibility and authority assets that are designed from the outset to support business development — and deploy them directly into targeted outreach that opens doors, earns conversations, and creates opportunities with the firms you actually want as clients.
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"This is the first time in 30 years I've referred a potential marketing partner, but Gordon Andrew has reset my views on what's possible. He is the best marketing operator I've worked with, ever."
— ROB ANDREWS, CHAIRMAN & CEO, ALLEN AUSTIN
— THE HIGHLANDER METHOD™
A structured path from expertise to
market engagement.
Every engagement follows a deliberate sequence — because credibility assets deployed without strategy are just marketing. And your prospects already have enough of that.
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Close the Expertise Visibility Gap™
We begin by understanding how the market currently perceives your firm — across digital signals, AI-influenced discovery, and the authority indicators that sophisticated buyers actually evaluate. Most firms are surprised by what they find. This clarity is the foundation of everything that follows.
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Develop Authority Assets That Work for a Living
We develop or sharpen the credibility assets — positioning, insights, thought leadership, executive visibility — that will serve as your business development tools. Not content for content's sake. Assets built to open doors.
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Activate Those Assets Directly in Business Development
We integrate your authority assets into targeted outreach and business development initiatives designed to initiate conversations with the specific firms you want to work with. The goal is not a stronger website. It's a healthier pipeline — and a system that continues producing after the engagement ends.
Head of Communications, Travelers Group — reporting to Sandy Weill and Jamie Dimon prior to Citibank merger
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SVP Marketing & Communications, Prudential Financial
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CMO, Travelers Life & Annuity
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​Advisor to Phibro Energy's CEO Andy Hall on the introduction of energy derivatives​
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Head of Marketing Services, American Stock Exchange, and Financial Communications at Continental Group
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Crisis communications advisor, Enron's former CFO​
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40+ years. Real organizations. High stakes.
I've built market credibility
for firms under real pressure.
Most advisors in this space have studied how credibility is built. I've spent four decades building it — for some of the most complex and scrutinized institutions in American business history.
I work with a deliberately small number of clients. I bring the same standard of performance I've applied at every stage of my career — which is why I call it Marketing Craftsmanship®. Not because it's about marketing. Because craftsmanship means you don't cut corners on the things that really matter.
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"Gordon is a very original and out-of-the-box thinker. His first project for us was a simple monthly newsletter. Our first issue went to a couple of hundred subscribers. Today we have more than 60,000 subscribers."
—SAL WAKSMAN, FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, BarclayHedge, Ltd.
— HOW I WORK
Fewer clients. Better outcomes.
Longer relationships.
This is a deliberate choice, not a limitation. The firms I work with get my complete attention, my full experience, and a genuine commitment to achieve business outcomes — not marketing "deliverables."
You work with me directly.
Not a team of junior associates. Not a project manager who reports to someone who reports to me. Every conversation, every strategy, every piece of work — me.
Results outlast the engagement.
The measure of success is whether your firm is more capable of driving market engagement on its own after we're done working together. That's the bar I hold myself to.
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I only take on clients that I can help.
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If I don't believe I can deliver meaningful results for your firm, I'll tell you. There are no bad clients — but there are bad fits. I've been doing this long enough to quickly know the difference.
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"Gordon played a critical role in helping Connextions evolve from a small, regional call-center to a national, consumer-directed healthcare BPO firm...This successful rebranding and increased revenue were critical factors in the company's acquisition by UnitedHealth Group."
— STEVEN RUSSELL, FORMER CFO, CONNEXTIONS INC.
