Strategy & Transformation
Translating strategic choices into operating plans, leadership rhythms, performance routines and workstreams that teams can actually run.
Strategic adviser & operator
Strategy. Integration. Execution.
I work as a trusted adviser to leadership teams, bringing calm, evidence-led judgement to high-growth and politically complex environments, then turning decisions into measurable action.
Clarity when the environment is noisy.
Teresa combines consulting discipline, corporate transformation and first-hand business ownership. She uses data and measurable KPIs to test competing narratives, make trade-offs explicit and keep strategy connected to operational results.
Areas of expertise
Clear routes from intent to execution.
Useful when the business has a strategic mandate, an acquisition to integrate, or a growth problem that cuts across markets, functions and leadership teams.
M&A, Due Diligence & Post-Merger Integration
Integration strategy, synergy and value tracking, governance design and operating-model alignment from deal logic through Day 1 and beyond.
International Growth & Commercial Transformation
Market growth, GTM planning and cross-functional execution across consumer, media and financial services environments.
Selected impact
Results that stand up to scrutiny.
A concise view of the work that matters to recruiters, interim hiring managers and executives: measurable outcomes, complex settings and the ability to bring people with you.
Commercial growth
2.5x France revenue growth in six months
When competitive constraints threatened momentum, refocused investment on priority categories, aligned demand with constrained supply and worked across local and central teams to sustain growth.
Integration
Repeatable integration playbook for a five-deal year
Converted buy-and-build strategy into a practical SOP for functions, SMEs and target firms across acquisition types. It reduced repeated planning effort and formed the basis for the firm's largest strategic acquisition; linked cost and synergy work also identified a 23% premises-saving opportunity.
Planning
Strategic planning across 11 markets
Led market planning discipline for Condé Nast, joining executive intent to country-level action.
Merger execution
$12.5bn Sales & GTM workstream
Worked across 18 European markets on the Coty and P&G merger, aligning commercial execution.
Investment decisions
15+ commercial due diligence projects
Brought structured market, customer and operating insight to diligence work across transaction contexts.
Cross-border integration
Four-layer cost model from compliance to synergy
For a founder-led acquisition with geopolitical exposure, separated the investment needed to close financial, payroll, IT and process-control gaps; reach international audit, HR and operating standards; run a dual-culture integration with AI-enabled communications; and unlock commercial synergies.
How I work
A partner in the room. An operator in the detail.
I work in trusted-adviser mode: listening for what is not being said, separating signal from noise and using evidence to help teams make difficult choices without losing sight of delivery.
Frame the real decision
Separate facts, assumptions and organisational noise before clarifying what must be decided and by whom.
Build the route to results
Translate priorities into owned 30-, 60- and 90-day plans, with clear decisions and dependencies.
Check results and adapt
Compare outcomes with the plan, identify what has changed and put practical mitigation in place early.
Focus scarce resources
Concentrate time, investment and supply where they can shift the outcome, then align teams around the trade-offs.
Selected organisations
Boardroom logic, market-level delivery.
Experience spans consumer products, media, financial services, professional services and private equity-backed contexts.
SharkNinja
Schroders
Benchmark
Condé Nast
Coty
P&G
Yorkshire Building Society
PE-backed businesses
Teresa Chu works with organisations navigating the hard middle between strategic intent and operational delivery: where executive priorities need to become planning discipline, operating-model choices, integration governance and market action.
Her background combines consulting and corporate transformation with first-hand experience of running businesses. Across M&A, commercial due diligence, market planning, sales and GTM execution, she works with leadership teams and delivery owners to create alignment without losing pace or practical detail.
The common thread is commercial clarity: understanding where value is meant to come from, what must change in the operating model, and how to create the cadence that makes progress measurable.
Contact
Let’s talk about the mandate.
Relevant for interim, contract and consulting roles across transformation, M&A integration, commercial growth and operating-model delivery.