Jefferson Madison Franklin & Co.

JMF & Co. is a management consulting firm. We combine strategy consulting and corporate executive coaching to help clients envision new products, brands, and growth markets. We are unique in that our services operate at the intersection of strategy, neuroscience, and leadership development. Our engagements provide a systematic and disciplined approach to achieving measurable objectives. Our experience includes corporate development, market segmentation, sales strategies, leadership development, and industrial psychology.

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Testimonials

Strategy and Corporate Development | Advisory and Coaching: Advised a senior management team through the process of creating a strategic plan and acquisition strategy enabling them to pursue a $2.5 billion divisional carve out from a telecom conglomerate. Utilizing our network and relationships, we also set up introductions and coached face to face meetings between the management team and decision makers at private equity groups such as TPG, KKR, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Golden Gate Capital, and others.

Testimonial: "Michael and his team helped us through a solid plan and set up real face to face meetings with top tier investors. The advice, introductions, and coaching were extremely helpful".

Bill Werner, Former Senior Vice President,
Motorola, a Fortune 500 company

Corporate Executive Coaching: Advised an executive at a global technology company.

Testimonial: "Thank you for a profoundly insightful, thought-provoking, and inspiring session yesterday. Your balance of reflexiveness, experience, and "cheerleading" (in the most flattering sense) have left me pondering some excellent questions -- and opened my eyes to new horizons."

Daniel Smith, Managing Director
Dell, a Fortune 500 company

Corporate Productivity Training | Industrial Psychology: Desinged a productivity training workshop to boost productivity by helping a team improve their brain capacity, recover from fatigue, reduce stress, and improve performance.

Testimonial: "The training session was both informative and rejuvenating to our marketing team. We all learned new valuable skills that will enhance our productivity in the future."

Mark Lukehart, Marketing Manager
Medtronic; a Fortune 500 company, leader in medical technology

Mergers & Acquisitions | Corporate Executive Coaching: Coached CEO of internationally based private company on the process and negotiations involved with merger and acquisition opportunities.

Testimonial: "Mike was extremely helpful in helping me think through the challenging issues related to mergers & acquisitions and private capital opportunities. He helped me think through the process, helped guide me while I organized a deal team, and coached me prior to entering negotiations. It was helpful to bounce ideas off of an experienced advisor prior to making a key decision. Every CEO would benefit from coaching from Mike."

Yuri Gold, CEO
Private company; former McKinsey consultant

Private Equity - Deal Origination: Conducted market research of the spice industry and sourced a profitable acquisition opportunity with high margins. Organized the deal team, executed the valuation, structured the transaction, sourced the appropriate private equity group, and led negotiations with business owners.

Testimonial: "Several years ago, we worked closely on a private equity transaction with Mike. He was thoughtful and professional in every respect and we would look forward to working together again on another opportunity".

Paul L. ("Lew") Davies III
Managing Principal
The Cambria Group - private equity group

Social Media Company - Business Development and Corporate Development: Advised a team of a growing social media company on corporate development efforts including business development partnerships. Helped them through the process of designing a plan outlining synergies and then made introductions and set up meetings with decision makers at multi-national media conglomerates such as Viacom and others..

Testimonial: "Well-screened introductions that maximized value for all parties. Extremely responsive, diligent, and provided creative solutions."

Jeff Yasuda, CEO
Blip.fm

Growth Strategy and M & A Advisory: Advised an owner of a privately held business on improvements to be made to the business prior to sale. Advised in the development of the Information Memoradum and advised on sale of business.

Testimonial: "Prior to owning a business, I was a former partner at a private equity firm and partner at a venture capital firm and have worked with many investment bankers, brokers and consultants. Mike and his team were outstanding, unique, and a cut above the rest!"

Ted Paff, CEO
Professional services firm

Corporate Development and M & A Advisory: Advised an owner of a privately held business on how to assemble and effectively work with his deal team (lawyer, accountant, investment banker, valuation firm). Coached them on how to find and evaluate the appropriate private equity and corporate buyers and coached them on how to best engage and interact with them. Also, coached them on how to structure and think about due diligence.

Testimonial: "The process was very helpful. Mike and his team helped me think through key decisions I needed to make."

Andrew, CEO
Fast growth and profitable startup

Corporate Development - Venture Capital for Digital Media Startup: Advised and coached a management team through the decision making process involved in determining a market approach, business model, presentation(s), and funding strategy.

Testimonial:"Michael was really helpful! He helped us think through our model and then got us a meeting with venture capital firms such as Draper Fisher Jurvetson. We look forward to working with him again."

Vlad, CEO & Co-founder
Internet Startup

Social Entrepreneurship - Private-public partnerships: Advised and coached a school teacher helping him build a leading non-profit called Little Kids Rock. We started with 25 kids and it has now served over 150,000 kids in public schools. Helped organize and lead the board, brought in experts, and made numerous introductions to capital sources and set up private-public partnerships. It is now considered a four star and top ten charity according to Charity Navigator and has been featured in Time, CNN, ABC, NBC, and MTV and supported by rock star bands and musicians such as Black Eyed Peas, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Linkin Park, Metallica, Slash, Ziggy Marley, and Nick Jonas, and companies such Pandora, Salesforce.com, GE Capital, and Goldman Sachs.

Testimonial:"Little Kids Rock would not be in the position of success it is today without Mike. Period. He has so much to contribute to any organization he's a part of, and I hope we get to continue working together for a long, long time."

Doug Camplejohn
Serial Entrepreneur
Chairman of the Board, Little Kids Rock

Testimonial:"Mike has been instrumental in helping me build Little Kids Rock. I honestly don't know where we would be today without his help."

David Wish
Founder, Executive Director
Little Kids Rock