Engineering Systemic Organic Growth

Connecting advisor performance to enterprise value.

Practice Intel partners with wealth management firms and their PE sponsors to engineer firm-wide organic growth. Predictive analytics. Scalable value creation. Enterprise-wide adoption. All translating into durable organic growth and multiple expansion.

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The Industry Challenge

Billions deployed.
Growth still underwhelming.

~2%
Average organic growth across the wealth management industry, despite extensive investment in growth initiatives.
McKinsey & Company
<15%
of financial advisors consistently deliver the behaviors that drive value creation and organic growth.
J.D. Power and Associates
+0.5–1x
Every 1% increase in systemic organic growth corresponds to 0.5 to 1x of multiple expansion in enterprise valuation.
Mercer Capital

Diagnosing Enterprise Growth Trajectory

The Growth Equation

The Growth Equation is an enterprise diagnostic that evaluates growth velocity, quality of cash flow, and enterprise value trajectory. It reveals what's constraining growth and the levers to drive it.

Value × Amplification × Efficiency
Commoditization
=
Organic Growth
v × a × e / C
Little-to-no growth
Most firms operate here. Commoditization dominates, value creation is limited. Compressed multiples. The industry default.
v × A × E / C
Capital-dependent growth
Amplification can buffer Commoditization at client acquisition, but it doesn't remove it. Capital-intensive. The market discounts it. Limited multiple expansion.
V × A × E / c
Sustainable, compounding growth
A big V creates a small c. Value fuels its own amplification through advocacy and referrals. Pure organic growth. Premium multiples.

Every firm is either V-dominant or C-dominant.

One compresses multiples. The other expands them.

A Measure of Value Creation

The Relationship Quality Index®

Traditional metrics don't predict organic growth. Not retention. Not NPS. Not client satisfaction. RQI is different. A composite of five client-relationship attributes scored from 0 to 100, RQI measures not just advocacy, but the quality and value of the experience being advocated for.

0
Scored from 0 to 100
Multiple
Compression
Multiple
Expansion

One number. Practice-level, enterprise-wide, or portfolio-level. Diagnostic and predictive.

Predictive of

Organic Growth

Retention, consolidation, and advocacy. The behaviors that compound into durable, capital-efficient growth.

Quality of Cash Flow

Cash flow driven by value creation is stickier, more predictable, and worth more in a valuation model.

Enterprise Value

The first metric that draws a direct line from how advisors engage clients to the multiples firms command.

RQI connects the entire value chain from advisor performance to enterprise value

Client to Advisor

Objective insight into relationship quality, including attrition risk, organic growth trajectory, and practice valuation.

Advisor to Enterprise

Roll up advisor-level scores and RQI reveals top performers, performance gaps, and embedded risk. A measure of organizational vitality predictive of earnings quality.

Enterprise to Multiple

A leading indicator of multiple expansion. The first metric that connects advisor performance to the multiples firms command.

Our Approach

Engineering Systemic Organic Growth

The Organic Growth Flywheel

A three-stage framework that spins a self-reinforcing cycle: create value, activate it enterprise-wide, monetize it. Each stage builds on the last. Each cycle compounds the results.

The through line: one diagnostic metric at every stage, connecting advisor performance to enterprise value.

The Value Creation Engine

Transforming How Advice Gets Delivered

Advisor performance is the predominant driver of value creation and organic growth, and our industry's most underleveraged lever. We help advisors transform the value of their advice leveraging predictive metrics, micro practices, peer-to-peer learning, and AI-powered coaching.

Enterprise-Wide Activation

Driving Firm-Wide Advisor Adoption

Not one advisor at a time. Unit by unit, OSJ by OSJ, region by region. Peer-to-peer networks embed the learning and accelerate adoption across the enterprise. The metrics validate the improvement, which motivates the next unit, which spins the flywheel again.

Monetize

Enterprise Value and Multiple Expansion

Each cycle builds a provable growth narrative. Advisor performance connects to relationship quality, to retention, to durable organic growth, to earnings quality, to the multiples firms command. The same metrics now validate enterprise value and multiple expansion.

The Outcome

What This Produces

Durable Organic Growth

Growth that compounds through value creation, not capital. Value-driven, not amplification-dependent.

Stickier Clients, Stickier Advisors

Advisors who create more value retain more clients, consolidate more assets, and generate higher-quality cash flow. Firms that invest in advisor performance retain their best talent.

A Defensible Valuation Story

A data-backed growth narrative that connects advisor performance to relationship quality to organic growth to earnings quality. Built for PE due diligence and board-level conversations.

Multiple Expansion

Organic growth is the single largest lever on valuation multiples. This framework makes it provable, measurable, and repeatable.

Insights

From the field and the research.

Regular columns and analysis on what's actually driving, and stalling, growth in wealth management.

Leadership

CEO & Founding Partner

25+ years in wealth management. Former Head of Wealth Solutions at J.D. Power, Executive Director of Practice Management at Brinker Capital, and VP of Learning & Development at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Barron's Advisor contributor and Wealth Management columnist. Brings a data-driven understanding of what actually drives advisor performance, value creation, and enterprise growth, grounded in both research and decades of field experience.

Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder

Organizational psychologist with senior leadership roles at Disney, Raytheon, and Tenet Healthcare. Deep expertise in enterprise-wide behavioral change, competency design, and organizational performance improvement. Brings the science of how large organizations actually adopt and sustain new ways of working.

Ready to engineer organic growth at the enterprise level?

We work with firms and PE sponsors who are ready to connect advisor performance to enterprise value. If organic growth is on your agenda, let's have a conversation.

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