C04 - Meridian Professional Group
Overview
- Founding Year - 2013
- Location - Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Industry - Professional Services (Legal Consulting and Compliance)
- Revenue - $38M
- Current State - Founder-led, bootstrapped, considering institutional PE investments
- Starting HQ Score - 24/100
About
Meridian Professional Group is a $38M professional services firm that Robert Adams built over many years from a solo practice into a team of more than fifty people with a national client base.
Primary Operational Challenge
A professional services firm where the operational infrastructure and the founder are two different things for the first time.
Characters
- MP-01: Robert Adams, Founder
- MP-02: Patricia Osei, CFO
- MP-03: Lisa Park, Director of Operations
- MP-04: Diana Wells, Operations Manager
- MP-05: Carlos Rivera, Senior Operations Associate
Is it relevant for me?
The Meridian Professional Group case studies are relevant to you if:
- You are an operations leader at a founder-led professional services firm, particularly as someone who is building operational infrastructure for the first time, managing the transition from founder-dependent to systems-dependent operations.
- You are preparing the firm for a capital raise or PE conversation.
- You are navigating the challenge of establishing formal authority in an environment that has been governed by informal authority for a long time.
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Dimensions
Starting HQ Score shows the company's position at the beginning of its Headroom HQ story. The HQ Score changes as the story progresses through each Issue.