Give your high-stakes moment the attention it deserves.

Alder45 is a boutique strategy and operations consultancy for established and high-growth companies of all kinds navigating moments that matter.

We hand-select experienced leaders to fill critical roles, carry important initiatives, and guide complex transformations from strategy through execution.

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There’s a gap between what leadership transition demands and what your team can realistically carry.

The strategy is set, but turning it into coordinated action across major launches, new initiatives, or company-wide change requires someone to own the follow-through.

Leadership is changing, deadlines aren't moving, and business priorities keep piling up. The work calls for experienced leadership, but your existing team is already stretched thin.

Growth, new technologies, and AI are outpacing the roles, systems, and ways of working that got you here, creating new demands for how the work moves forward.

We’ve lived through, led, and been accountable for high-stakes transformations.

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$50M+

Program budgets managed

1,500+

Employees supported through a global transformation

40%+

Reduction in IT spend after a vendor overhaul

15+

Core vendors aligned for a single digital go-live

Your mandate shapes the match.

Every situation calls for different expertise. We don't use a predetermined team or methodology. We start with what the moment requires, then bring the right combination of experienced humans to carry it forward.

How we help

Leader

When a senior role needs to be filled quickly, we provide an experienced leader to steady the ship while the company shapes what comes next.

Team

When the work needs more than one kind of expertise, we bring together experienced leaders whose strengths complement each other to carry it from decision to delivery.

Partner

When change spans functions, systems, and leaders, we partner with your executive team to orchestrate the work and build the ownership to carry it forward.

Focus & Grow

Design & Organize

Drive & Deliver

Adopt & Sustain

A women-owned consulting firm where the
people matter more than the method.

Alder45 was founded by two consultants and operators who've spent their careers inside complex organizations like Nike, Lowe's, Coca-Cola, & Cencora.

They believe the hardest work needs the right people in the room instead of another framework. They get experts close to the work to help organizations move forward, and leave them in a better place once they're gone.

Meet Alder45

This is what becomes possible when we step into the work.

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"Jess came in without a finance background and within days was asking the questions that mattered most to our business. She helped us set a clear strategy for our portfolio, connecting every workstream to our goals and giving us a realistic view of what we could take on. She built the structure and governance that gave us visibility into the work in flight with pragmatic flexibility to navigate the unexpected. Working with her felt like having a true partner on my leadership team."

Senior Director, Finance Data & Analytics

Global Athletic Brand

"It was a huge project to move to a global platform and harmonize Korean local business practices to global standards and systems, and Jessica took the time to understand both sides. Jessica's work helped the leadership team make decisions that were difficult and required a new tool development only for Korea.

She also worked side by side with our local team to build the training content and prepare them to train our store employees, so we were ready for every launch. Most of all, she listened and made sure our voice was heard by the global teams."

KyoungMin Lee

Global Apparel Company, Korea Omni-Channel Director

“Our business was experiencing rapid growth and we needed our operations to support us instead of hold us back. Elizabeth helped us streamline our proposal process and then built the proposals to grow our business. She has a way of turning what we do every day into a clear, convincing story for the people deciding who gets the contract. We now go into bids fully prepared, confident, and ready for all the growth that’s ahead.”

Siri Miller

Owner, VP Procurement and Administration at a Portland Biohazard remediation company

"We had multiple priorities vying for our attention, but Elizabeth structured the work so every initiative supported the next, including our move to a new IT partner. The complicated changes we were facing not only became manageable, but we now have better protection for our data, a partner we trust, and lower costs."

Kellie Chauncey-Lance

Owner and VP, Operations and Finance

Say goodbye to saying “one day
we’ll figure that out”.

Imagine relief instead of dread, decisiveness instead of pressure, and vision instead of uncertainty once the problem has been solved.

This is the reality you can live in when capable partners help shoulder the weight, and then walk away with your business fully owning its progress.

What gap are you facing?

From “I’m not 100% sure, I just know something’s off” to “We’re on a strict transformation timeline”, we want to hear where you’re at.