Matthew Pringle

Your Strategic,
Commercial Advisor

Supporting
clients through
demanding times

I bring a broad capability combined with deep technical expertise and practical experience to achieve the clarity and confidence required in making critical commercial decisions.

My experience spans decades in which I've advised in boom times as well as numerous cyclical downturns, market-driven panics and one-off crisis events. I've also seen how technology, innovation and global trade have reshaped our business world.

Disruption, which is familiar and constant, presents an opportunity for businesses to reset. How a business responds to headwinds will either accelerate growth and wealth creation or be the reason it doesn't achieve its potential.

As a former senior partner with Melbourne's largest mid-tier accounting and professional advisory firm, I draw on experience across industries and sectors to partner with clients in making robust commercial decisions and achieving results.

What I Do

I provide expert counsel and professional support through restructures and refinancings, pivots and turnaround, mergers and acquisitions, and succession plans and exits. Proudly, I can say I've helped launch and grow businesses, and been instrumental in successful turnarounds and saving livelihoods.

While business is seen as a numbers game, it is more fundamentally about people. Interpreting a set of figures is crucial, but it's only part of the story. A complete understanding of a scenario requires a broader set of literacies. Alongside the financial aspect is the human dimension.

My expertise draws upon 40 years of experience, working with business owners, executives, directors and employees to achieve optimal outcomes for key stakeholders. I have sat around kitchen tables and in boardrooms to properly understand clients’ dreams and what it will take to get their plans across the line. I prioritise collaboration, connection and communication in all my dealings.

Listening to people is where it all starts.

Understanding my client's viewpoints and perspectives add texture and depth to a set of numbers. An effective strategy is born when ambition meets reality to create a spectrum of possibilities. From this vantage point, we formulate plans, make decisions and take action to achieve the desired outcomes.

My experience cuts across the spectrum, from start-ups through to major listed national and international firms.
I help businesses protect their commercial position, grow market share and transition successfully.

Protect

Grow

Transition

Protect

  • Restructures and turnarounds
  • Distressed balance sheets
  • Situation analysis and available options
  • Litigation support and forensic investigations

Grow

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Capital solutions
  • Robust governance
  • Management, support and structuring of IPOs and capital raising

Transition

  • Succession planning
  • Divestments
  • Exits

Bespoke Offering


I support and enable individuals and teams to evaluate, pivot and drive commercial outcomes.

Strategic Enquiry

A critical assessment of the business structure and plan, and its people’s skills and capacity to deliver growth outcomes.

Outcomes

  • Factual understanding of the present state
  • Realising possible future states
  • Recognising individual and organisational drivers and inhibitors
  • A clear vision for growth

Solution Design

Facilitating strategy design and business planning.  Providing additional project management support and network access.

Outcomes

  • Shared understanding of the strategic direction
  • Bespoke solutions supported by subject matter expertise
  • Addressing critical gaps
  • Acknowledging the time and resources required
  • A clear pathway for growth

Coaching & Mentoring

Coaching and mentoring for owners and key executives. Providing strategic advice and a safe sounding board.

Outcomes

  • Critical change leaders are supported
  • Leverage an independent sounding board
  • Access to an extensive network of subject matter experts and industry leaders
  • Draw learnings from broad experience with similar business challenges

Guiding Principles

As an experienced advisor, I apply the following guiding principles to help organisations consider both short term and long term objectives when making critical decisions.

Cut through the emotion

Access quality information

Maximise action

Cut through the emotion

  • Disengage from panic to create time and space to reflect
  • Balance out enthusiasm for new shiny opportunities
  • Understand the factors that influence critical decisions

Access quality information

  • Mitigate risk and put protections in place by obtaining quality information
  • Acting on informed insights leading to enhanced outcomes

Maximise action

  • Understand what is truly critical both in the short-term and long- term
  • Invest in and cultivate good people and a positive leadership culture