Strategy and Process Excellence:

• Strategic Planning – LYT reviews your current position within your business environment, prioritizes your objectives, and develops a strategic plan with goals and key performance indicators (KPI’s) to unite your organization and clarify responsibilities.
• Process Design and Alignment – Review current processes against the strategic plan to ensure alignment.
• Process Optimization – Implement measures for continuous process improvement and optimization, including data analytics and visualizations.
• Strategic Delivery – Install practical methods for process management and governance to help sustain elevated operational performance.

Program and Project Leadership:

• Tactical Alignment with Strategic Plan – Review potential projects with those already underway, based on their alignment with the strategic plan. Create a project portfolio prioritization, rationalization, and right-sizing plan. Prioritize resource allocation for initiatives tied to goals and objectives.
• Program Management – Evaluate the current state and envision enhanced ways of working. Create a project management group with the right subject matter expertise.
• Project Life Cycle Management – Provide supplemental support for projects already in process were it becomes evident resources are lacking, timelines will not be met, or deliverables will not be completed.
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  Portfolio Oversight and Governance – Implement a governance model that establishes accountability and ownership. Dynamically manage portfolio initiatives. Keep leadership updated on performance and milestones.

Organizational Effectiveness:

• Organizational Structure and Design – Build and restructure teams to improve efficiency, stimulate collaboration, and maximize value.
• Change Management – Design and oversee an actionable plan for driving change and achieving strategic goals.
• Culture Transformation – Reshape the shared values, behaviors, and norms within an organization to align with its strategic goals and desired outcomes.
• Employee Experience – Create interactions that employees have with their organization that positively influence their engagement, satisfaction, and overall well-being.

Accounting and Finance:

• Accounting Consulting – Create a tailored approach to people and process ensuring our clients’ goals are met and needs are addressed.
• Managed Services – LYT can take the burden of critical accounting and finance functions off clients and manage those functions for them.
• Audit Finding Resolution – Support with operational and financial audit findings to help organizations achieve resolution. This includes determining the root cause of the deficiency, designing and implementing a remediation plan, and managing the effectiveness of any process or control related changes to prevent recurrence.
• Interim Executive Services – Our experience in accounting and finance leadership roles enable us to step in and fill unexpected gaps in leadership when they arise to make sure teams continue to support the organization’s strategic initiatives.

Risk Mitigation and Management:

• Internal Audit – We help organizations of all sizes assess the effectiveness of their internal audit function, supplying a detailed action plan that validates their conformance and successful practices and identifies opportunities for improvement between the current and desired states
• Enterprise Risk Management – Ensure the right foundation is in place to meet the new and increasingly complicated markets. Our focus is on helping companies build and maintain a strong risk management foundation tailored to their needs and enabling them to focus on the activities most impactful to achieving their strategic goals.
• SOX Compliance – Establishing a SOX compliance program requires planning and scoping. If a company is planning an IPO or has recently gone public, LYT can create and guide the company through a risk-based approach, laying the foundation for successful and sustainable SOX compliance.
• Internal Controls Optimization – Review company procedures, assess potential risks, and develop plans for integrating or enhancing effective internal controls.

Can you share more about LYT’s values as a firm and what those mean to you?

Our values are trust, respect, connections, courage, curiosity, and community.

• Trust – Everything begins and ends with trust. We believe in taking ownership for our actions and holding ourselves accountable – being honest and transparent, trustworthy, reliable, and dependable.
• Respect – We exhibit dignity, empathy, and kindness. We acknowledge and value the differences between people and their unique perspectives, which is key for strong relationships and building a positive work culture.
• Connections – Relationships and true connections unite us and are the core of everything we do. We meet you where you are at, seeking to understand and build meaningful connections.
• Courage – We create a space where people feel valued, motivated, and engaged. We feel courage allows you to follow your heart, persevere in the face of adversity, stand up for what is right, and stretch outside your comfort zone.
• Curiosity – Having a curious mindset improves decisionmaking and problem-solving abilities, increases engagement and performance, supports collaboration and teamwork, and increases resilience. It is a critical skill and value for transformative growth and change. Curiosity moves us forward as humans to learn, innovate, and grow.
• Community – We emphasize the importance of social connections, mutual support, and shared responsibility and believe we can create more resilient communities that are better equipped to tackle the challenges of the future.

What sets your firm apart from other consulting firms?

The LYT difference is evident in the core values that guide us and the impact we make on our communities through our client delivery. LYT enjoys getting to know our clients so we can confidently guide them in taking intelligent risks that enable them to continuously improve. We have sat on both the client and consultant side of the table and bring well-rounded perspectives. We can be an advisor at your disposal offering a broad range of business consulting services, available to help with any issues you face. We launched LYT in September 2023, and it has been the most exciting work in our careers. We are adding meaningful value to organizations and are grateful for the trust extended to our firm by our clients.