Why Stratechia
The Stratechia Difference
We exist to help our clients profitably grow to market leadership by catalyzing and coaching the internal creativity and organizational capabilities that often lie dormant, hidden, or even locked away.
Unlike traditional strategy consulting firms that sell you back your own ideas derived and repackaged from a long, drawn-out interview and assessment process, we facilitate your best thinking in real-time from the inside out in focused workshops using our proprietary Framestorm™ method, typically in one-tenth the time and at one-fourth the cost.
Stratechia FactsheetOur Values
Guiding Principles
What we believe shapes who we are. Who we are shapes how we work.
I. Elegance rules
Achieving maximum effect with minimum means.
II. Choices, not plans
Strategy is about making choices, especially what not to do.
III. Frame first
Difficult challenges demand intelligent framing.
IV. Test everything
Every great idea is but a hypothesis when first conceived.
MBA, Wharton School
BA, Johns Hopkins University
Stanford d.school
Shingo Prize for Research
6 bestselling books
Founder
Matthew E. May
Matthew spent nearly a decade working with Toyota Motor Sales USA — eight years as an exclusively retained Senior Advisor (1999–2006), followed by continued advisory work in subsequent years. During his retainership, he played a pivotal role in developing and launching the University of Toyota — the company's corporate university. He designed and taught capstone courses in the Toyota Production System and continuous improvement, and completed hundreds of kaizen cycles across dozens of functions, from design and engineering to sales and service. That experience built a practitioner-level understanding of lean principles that can't be acquired from books or classrooms.
He later studied strategic choice-making under Roger Martin, co-architect of the Playing to Win framework, and completed Stanford d.school's Design Thinking Bootcamp — weaving these disciplines into a Lean methodology purpose-built for growth-stage companies.
From 2021 to 2025, Matthew served as Sr. Operating Advisor at Insight Partners, one of the world's leading technology-focused private equity firms. There, he built and ran the Lean Scale-Up program, deploying his methodology across the firm's portfolio of growth-stage technology companies — driving measurable gains in revenue growth, process efficiency, and time to value.
Matthew is the author of six books. His first, The Elegant Solution (Simon & Schuster, 2006), was the world's first insider account of Toyota's approach to innovation and a Wall Street Journal bestseller. His most recent, What A Unicorn Knows (2023), coauthored with Insight Partners Operating Partner Pablo Dominguez, captures the S.C.A.L.E. framework at the heart of the Lean Scale-Up program. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Strategy+Business, and Inc.
He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management & Strategic Planning from the Wharton School and a BA in Social & Behavioral Sciences from Johns Hopkins University. His books have received the Shingo Prize for Research and the Axiom Gold Medal. He founded Stratechia in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles.
"Developing even one good strategy is difficult and often takes weeks or months. We developed five winning plays inside four hours using the Playing to Win framework. That's solid!"
— Ananth Ava, CEO
"The Customer Value Mapping workshop produced a 360-degree view of how our most important customers experience our product and delivered a robust list of points to action immediately. A tremendously efficient use of the team's time!"
— Ori Yankelev, Chief Revenue Officer
Advisory Partners
Our Specialists
Advisory Partner
Ken Meyer
Ken Meyer is Co-Founder of Growth Loop Advisors, a Stratechia partner firm. Ken is a revenue operations and enablement specialist whose work has focused on helping sales teams execute their day-to-day operating systems. He is an experienced practitioner of pipeline management, frontline enablement, and sales hygiene.
He is a dedicated operator who specializes in the rigorous execution required to turn high-level go-to-market strategies into repeatable, predictable revenue loops. By installing and running targeted meeting cadences and pipeline inspection standards, he helps teams dramatically improve CRM accuracy, pipeline health, and data integrity.
Ken has worked extensively with growth-stage and scaling organizations to bridge the gap between abstract sales strategy and frontline market reality. Working as an operational specialist, he diagnoses economic models and helps companies eliminate friction to build self-sustaining, data-driven engines for customer acquisition.
Ken brings a highly disciplined, metric-driven approach to every client engagement, ensuring that organizational strategy translates directly into measurable momentum. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BA in Economics from Yale University, but he counts co-developing and launching the widely followed ADP National Employment Report as one of his most unique accomplishments.
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Advisory Partner
Ganesh Shenbagaraman
Ganesh Shenbagaraman is Co-Founder of Growth Loop Advisors, a Stratechia partner firm. Ganesh is a dynamic technologist and Go-To-Market (GTM) leader whose work has focused on helping high-growth companies develop high-velocity, data-driven sales teams. He is an experienced practitioner of sales, marketing, channel design, and ecosystem development.
Ganesh is a recognized expert in building repeatable revenue engines and driving organizational culture transformation. He specializes in helping senior executives conceptualize, construct, and optimize their demand generation, customer success functions, and generative AI strategies to achieve breakthrough scale.
He has collaborated with more than 500 high-growth companies over the last three decades. An alumnus of Oracle and Microsoft, Ganesh has also successfully led three SaaS sales organizations, guiding them through periods of hyper-growth and facilitating highly profitable exits.
Ganesh is currently finalizing his new book, The Irreplaceables, a guide designed to help future leaders reclaim what only humans can do — create meaning and lead with heart — to shape a wise future. He holds an MBA from the prestigious W.P. Carey School of Business, but he considers his work executive-coaching entrepreneurs in breakthrough thinking to be his most rewarding professional achievement.
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Advisory Partner
Ken Campel
Ken Campel is Founder and Managing Director of the global customer research and insights firm Tidewatch, with a deep and broad client list that includes household names such as ABC, Antech (a part of Mars Petcare), Anthem (Elevance Health), ASICS, Betterment, Citi, CNN, Disney, ESPN, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett Packard, the National Football League, National Geographic, NBC, New Balance, New Era Cap Company, Nike, Target, Tom's of Maine, and UnitedHealthcare.
With over 25 years of research and consulting experience, Ken is tireless about creative approaches to business — from rigorous qualitative and quantitative research and analysis to actioning real-world data into creative designs and global re-branding initiatives. His international experience is extensive — from Canada, Paris, Spain and the UK, to India, Singapore and Brazil.
Ken's specialties include qualitative and quantitative design, data visualization, consumer insights, research technology, executive interviewing and moderating, highly immersive experiential deep dives, workshops, and bringing the research to life through multimedia insights galleries, infographics, and high-end video illumination.
A master moderator, interviewer and workshop runner, Ken thinks nothing of spending hundreds of hours immersing himself in the customer experience — often actually becoming the customer much the same way an undercover detective operates. His range is both broad and deep, covering customers, segments, brands and verticals, including automotive, communications, consumer products, financial/fintech, healthcare, retail, sports, media and entertainment and technology.
Ken is a graduate of Boston University. He lives with his family in St. Augustine, Florida, where he is an avid tennis player.
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