Strategic and operations consultants

You want success for your people and your firm. We can help.

As a vastly experienced team of 10-plus consultants to the design industry — whether it be architecture, engineering, or construction — we see every situation as an opportunity to help you realize your goals and potential.

1967

Founded — and consulting to design firms ever since.

10+

Principals and key consultants across every discipline.

A/E/C

Architecture, engineering and construction firms are our practice.

7

Service areas, combined into engagements built for your firm.

Why firms call us

It's not about one solution. It's about giving you the critical information to make the right decision for your firm.

Every engagement is bespoke. We use history, analysis, and a clear view of what’s ahead to help you weigh the choices in front of you — because any one question has more than one answer, and every firm is different.

Our consultants have led design practices, taught, written, and advised through four decades of change in the profession. That experience shows up as perspective you can act on, not a template you have to adopt.

Our services

Broad and bespoke for each client

Examples of engagements are broad and bespoke for each client. We encourage you to explore the more complete list — here is a distillation.

Strategy

Where the firm is going, what it will take to get there, and how leadership lines up behind it.

Marketing

Positioning and pursuit strategy that fit how design and construction clients actually buy.

Transition Planning

Ownership and leadership transition and succession, structured so the firm outlasts the people who built it.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Valuation, fit and negotiation — plus the integration work that follows the signature.

Human Resources

Compensation, incentives and org design — the systems that decide who stays and who advances.

Operations

Project delivery, staffing models and financial management, measured against performance goals.

Design & Creativity

Unleash creative juices — the talent, collaboration, culture and process behind a firm’s design work.

Not sure where to start?

Most engagements begin with a conversation about what’s actually in the way.

Entrust our business consultants for architecture, engineering, construction and other professional firms.

Our process

Consulting is a process. Having the answer is not the answer.

For any situation there are choices. We explore those options with you and help you reach the decision that is right for your firm — one you are motivated to pursue.

Step 01

Listen

We start with where you are today and where you want to be tomorrow — from the people who run the firm and the people who make it work.

Step 02

Assess the options

Our approach is not formulaic. Every situation is an opportunity to combine years of wisdom and understanding with a passion for creativity.

Step 03

Forge the strategy

Our goal is a dialogue that lets you build a strategy that is both effective and comfortable — an answer you actually believe in.

Step 04

Hand back the wheel

The consultant’s role is not to run your firm. We enable you to realize your goals and potential. The results will always be your achievement.

1967

The year the firm was founded — and the reason we have seen this cycle before.

Our people

A focused group of highly effective consultants

Since the firm was founded in 1967, The Coxe Group has remained a focused group of highly effective consultants working to improve the lives of our clients and their people.

Through listening and understanding where clients are today — and where they want to be tomorrow — we provide perspective, insight, tools, strategies and actionable information to help you succeed in your chosen path.

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When we are at our best, we can sense what's coming around the corner. We help our clients with their current situation and, perhaps more importantly, we help them prepare and plan for where they want to be in the months and years ahead. We are committed to helping our clients excel — however they choose to define it.
Hugh Hochberg

Principal, The Coxe Group, Inc.

Our work

What an engagement looks like

Ownership transition

A Sale That Made Winners of Both Buyer and Seller

The partners of a highly successful, single-market firm wanted to sell the firm as a means of extracting some of the considerable value that had been created. They also wanted to gain the organizational and managerial support that they hoped the buyer would provide. They asked for our help in finding the buyer and in structuring the deal.

Ownership transition

Ownership transition: A leadership evolution opportunity.

Martin was one of two 50-50 owners in a 20-person architecture firm when he decided to depart the firm several years before “normal” retirement – so that he could become more involved with a real estate development company.

Strategy & operations

Increasing a Firm’s Batting Average

A long-established firm with a strong presence in its market sectors experienced an alarming drop in its success rate at interviews. Since most of its work was in institutional sectors, interview success was hand-in-hand with the firm’s success. We were asked to help.
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