You’re an Academic. Beyond teaching, you also have consulting relationships. You serve many clients as an individual advisor, giving them the benefit of your experience. Sometimes, though, your clients need a bit more than just you. Perhaps you need one or two more senior people acting as catalysts of change on your behalf. Or a resource in a distant geography. Or a small team able to do some field work inside the relationship you have built. This is when you look for trusted partners for help.

Of course, numerous consulting firms are eager to become involved. Leads are a consulting firm’s scarcest resource. In their eagerness to work with you, they may promise you total allegiance, massive distribution for your ideas and advantageous financial arrangements. Yet, you’ve been there before, and know what follows. These firms will attempt to upstage you in the client relationship role. They will maximize the size of their potential engagements. They will take your concepts and transform them into a hodge-podge of other “stuff,” to the point where the project will end up bearing no resemblance to what you originally intended. By then, you will have missed an opportunity to test your concepts in the market.

If you’re tired of these mercenary consulting relationships, the MAC Partnership is for you. We build personal relationships with Academics, founded on mutual trust and the experience of many decades. Our senior Consulting Partners view themselves as an extension of you. We never attempt to substitute our own people for you.

We always respect the integrity of your concepts, going to school where necessary to understand your views and become your disciples. We make sure we never introduce any improper or competing material inside your assignments. Our efforts are geared not only at solving the client’s problem, but at providing you with an applied body of field experience you can proudly use as a teaching or consulting reference. Before you know it, you also have a fully-trained senior group of practitioners at your disposal, without incurring the risk of building your own firm.

With you, we design engagements that meet your personal constraints. We work around your teaching schedule, and organize your involvement around high-impact workshops and senior management counseling sessions. We brief you individually before any major client event, allowing you to be fully prepared when key issues arise. We take care of the administrative hassle of scheduling, project management, invoicing, collecting, or tax-planning on your behalf.

We also offer attractive economic returns to our Academic Partners who entrust us with projects. The economic returns we provide are a combination of individual project attribution, the per diems involved in the projects, and, for our core Academic Partners, the equity rights you receive in the MAC Partnership.

If you would like to discuss possible leads or projects with the MAC Partnership, please write to info@macpartnership.com.