Step Up Your Business Game
With Our Experience
Launching, scaling or pivoting a business can be daunting.
Move beyond survival. Transcend hesitation. Overcome inertia.
Start your journey to gain clarity and maximize impact.
Strategy Enabled
A harmonious plan brings clarity and focus
Implementation Focused
A clear pathway charts the course
Human Centric
Your people and organization deliver the dream
Do NOt delay your opportunites
Hasten The Future
Kairos, Chen & De Smet (Kairos CDS) is a boutique consulting and services firm. We believe that, while time is short, opportunities abound. Gifted entrepreneurs recognize the present opportunities and passionately pursue the future, but often lack a sounding board or sparring partner. We offer entrepreneurs, start-ups, SME’s, ngo’s and non-profits, who want to scale or pivot a safe space to brainstorm and refine, an additional pair of hands and critical experience. We help deliver impactful business plans, attract investors and craft effective execution frameworks. We coach our clients on the plan, the path & the people. We help bring clarity. We bring the most out of every opportunity. And we do it as a team.
The gaps we help you bridge
maximize your opportunities
1
Start ups
As a start-up you want to get your offering to market as quickly as possible. You are wrestling through your go-to-market options and commercial models.
2
Scale ups
As a scale-up you need to professionalize amidst evolving external pressures from market and investors. Your strategy needs to be reviewed, your 5-year plan needs to be revamped, your business processes need to be future-proofed or your day-to-day organizational approach requires optimization.
3
Small/Medium Enterprise
As a successful SME with strong local roots, you are looking to expand into new markets or new regions. You are considering evolving your portfolio, entering new geographies or modifying your distribution channels. You’d like to review your options, scenarios and staging. You are concerned about launching smoothly and delivering consistently.
4
Refocusing the business
As a well-established global SME, you want to pivot your approach. You want to retain your entrepreneurial agility and unique inhouse grown expertise, but also feel it is time to bring in new and fresh perspectives. An organizational review and operational overhaul in one or more areas is required to keep up the growth – without, however, losing the heart and mind of your people.
5
NGO or Non-Profit
As an ngo or non-profit you want to increase efficiencies. You want to do more with the resources you have or modernize the methods in order to better serve the cause, and attract more donors.
6
Human Centric
As an organization that’s looking to grow or pivot, you want to prepare your people to embark on an exciting but challenging journey of change. Your people is what makes your company tick and your organizational culture is what makes you unique. You are looking for ways to robustly and sustainably onboard your cherished teams in this new phase of growth.
Don't Go It Alone
Business Growth Can Be Simple
Formulating your strategy, implementing your pathway and preparing your people does not need to be overwhelming. Getting your stakeholders’ buy-in on the plan, the path and the people is not an art that only a few can master. Smooth execution and entrepreneurial agility are not mutually exclusive. We lead you on the journey of maximum impact by helping you align the strategy, execution and organizational components of your next phase of growth.
Yet You Have Probably Experienced
Unclear Steps
Competing options or unclear priorities for your next phase of growth
Misaligned Paths
Misaligned execution paths or implementation cascades
Unrealized Potential
Unrealized potential for asset monetization
Resistance From Others
Bosses, partners, investors, team members or consultants who just don’t seem to understand what you’re after
This is what drives us
We Get It
At Kairos CDS we know that you want to grow your business beyond the here and now. In order to do that, you need clarity and confidence to bring your opportunity or dream to its maximum potential. The problem is that there is too much noise around you, which makes you feel alone and discouraged. We believe your idea exists because it has value. We understand how much you believe in it, which is why we come along with you to help you professionalize it.
0pportunity development
Unleash Your Opportunities
You envision a future state beyond the here-and-now. It feels so real you can practically touch it. Yet, the journey from here to there is nebulous. Restraints keep you from seizing the opportunity.
We help you unleash your opportunity and release it from restrictions and obstacles by, for example:
Reviewing, finetuning or formulating your business plan and strategy
Crafting a robust execution pathway
Sharpening your portfolio offering and product roadmap
Honing your go-to-market approach
Optimizing your organizational design
Project managing your critical path items
Staffing and developing your leaders
Coaching your team through change management
Preparing or delivering impactful pitches to investors or stakeholders
Shepherding the legal transactions of your deal
Our Mission, Vision & Values
Our Mission
Kairos CDS exists because of you. We serve your opportunity by developing it to its highest potential in concept and realization. As a team we will discover the what, how and who that constitute the opportune conditions for success.
Our vision
Success is driven by people who work together. Kairos CDS’ expertise does not sit in the initial idea, but brings out the best in already bright people and unlocks their full potential in our teamwork. We sharpen the collective view on your opportunity. We see what others don’t see and pass this on to those with whom we work.
Our values
Together, we aim high
We want you to look up, beyond the here-and-now. We help you to re-imagine your dream and envision what the realized opportunity could look like.
Together, we build for value
We identify and implement the parameters for success while removing the boundaries that hold your opportunity back.
Together, we find peace in the process
Chaos, stress and striving are deterrents. We believe that success comes through processes that serenely focus the plan, the path and the people. Unity and clarity are our KPI’s.
We've seen a lot and yet...
we see your potential
Our experience stems from over 35 years of combined experience in B2B high-tech, legal,
commercial real estate and counseling sectors where we held international commercial leadership positions, managed multi-faceted projects, transacted complex deals, advised senior leaders and worked with many different talented people.
We do not claim to be masters of all, so we nurture a network of seasoned professionals who are able to assist us when and where
needed.
We are passionate about people with good ideas who want to do good. We get excited about
ideas that make a difference for the world and in people’s lives. We love working with people.
We are curious and interested in you. We see what others don’t see. Seeing ideas and people
grow is what gives us joy. We get fulfillment out of seeing you successful. Yet it is not about us.
Our intrinsic motivation sits in knowing that there are things bigger than ourselves to be
pursued.
We believe that the best is yet to come, but within reach of those who consciously reach for it.
Floris De Smet
Founder & Principal
