Co-Creation Partners

What Co-Creation Partners does

Co-Creation Partners is a boutique business transformation management consulting firm founded in 2010 by Gaurav Bhatnagar, a former McKinsey & Company partner. The firm employs approximately 9 senior practitioners and operates from Scarsdale, New York, with growing reach into European markets. Its offering is methodology-based rather than technology-based, anchored on the proprietary 'Unfear' framework that integrates individual mindset work ('I'), team dynamics ('WE'), and organizational systems ('IT'). Service lines include Business & Culture Transformations, Top Team Effectiveness, Strategy Development & Deployment, Operational Excellence, Organizational Design, Executive Coaching, Capability Building, and Organizational Diagnostics, delivered through a four-phase engagement model (Discovery, Design/Activation, Transformation, Materialization/Deployment) that is co-created with clients rather than delivered to them.

The firm serves primarily large enterprises — including BASF, Arconic, Alcoa, USAA, TIAA CREF, Fannie Mae, BNP Paribas, Qualcomm, Novartis, and Pfizer — along with government agencies (U.S. Department of HUD, U.S. Department of Education) and nonprofits (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). Documented client outcomes include $100 million per year captured at a Fortune 100 chemical manufacturer after 12 months, ~40% sales team productivity gains from executive coaching, and 10% over plan for four consecutive years at a global medical equipment manufacturer. The firm has earned two PEX Network awards (2016, 2017) and published the 'Unfear' book (November 2021) as a thought leadership extension.

Revenue mechanics are entirely professional services: custom, co-created engagements on project-based or retainer structures with no public pricing. The firm is privately held and entirely founder-controlled, with no disclosed venture capital, private equity, or acquisition activity. Customer acquisition is high-touch and primarily inbound, driven by white papers, podcasts, webinars, OPEX conference participation, and referrals from existing clients and senior practitioner networks.

Name

Co-Creation Partners

Legal name

Co-Creation Partners, Inc.

Website

https://cocreationpartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Co-Creation Partners is a Scarsdale, NY-based boutique management consulting firm that delivers co-created, human-centered business transformation, culture change, and operational excellence services to Fortune 1000 enterprises, government agencies, and nonprofits via its proprietary 'Unfear' methodology.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive Leadership & C-Suite Development (EDABAAAA)

Keywords

• Business transformation consulting
• Culture transformation services
• Operational excellence consulting
• Executive coaching services
• Organizational development consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Management Consulting Engagements: Co-Creation Partners generates revenue through custom business transformation consulting engagements. Services include culture transformation, operational excellence, strategy development, team effectiveness, and executive coaching. Engagements are co-created with clients and customized to specific needs, suggesting project-based or retainer fee structures typical of management consulting.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Co-Creation Partners is a boutique management consulting firm that co-creates business and culture transformation programs with enterprise clients. Its core offerings include organizational culture transformation, operational excellence, strategy development and deployment, top team effectiveness, executive coaching, organizational design, organizational diagnostics, and capability building — all delivered through a human-centered Unfear Methodology that works on individual, team, and organizational levels.

Product overview

Co-Creation Partners offers a comprehensive portfolio of business transformation consulting services organized at organizational, team, and individual levels. Their core offerings include Business & Culture Transformations, Operational Excellence programs, Strategy Development & Deployment, Top Team Effectiveness workshops, High-Performance Team Journeys, Capability Building, Executive Coaching, and Organizational Diagnostics. The company also publishes the 'Unfear' book as a thought leadership extension of their consulting practice. All services follow a co-creative approach with clients, utilizing a four-phase journey: Discovery, Design/Activation, Transformation, and Materialization/Deployment. The offerings are deeply customized and built on the foundation of addressing individual mindsets (I), team dynamics (WE), and organizational systems (IT).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Unfear: A book by Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas on transforming fear into opportunities for learning and growth

Products and services

• Business & Culture Transformations Co-designing and implementing an organization-wide culture transformation program to achieve desired performance results, including transformational workshops and implementation of new ways of being and doing, for large enterprise clients.
• Top Team Effectiveness Workshops for top teams (typically two 2-day sessions) to develop high-functioning leadership teams that can effectively lead the entire organization.
• Strategy Development & Deployment Facilitating strategy through a series of co-created interactions that allow deep ownership for the final outcome and its deployment.
• Organization Design Consulting services focused on organizational structure and design to support business transformation.
• Targeted Problem Solving Focused consulting engagements to address specific organizational challenges and obstacles.
• Coaching Individual and team coaching services including executive coaching for senior leaders, typically over ~6 months, focusing on leadership impact.
• Organizational Diagnostic Culture and OpEx diagnostic approaches including interviews, focus groups, mapping sessions, 360 surveys, and mirror workshops to assess current state.
• Operational Excellence Co-designing and implementing an OpEx transformation program combining mindsets and skills with traditional OpEx tools such as waste elimination, value stream design, and root cause problem-solving.
• Unfear Book Book by Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas on transforming fear into opportunities for learning and growth, enabling peak performance and well-being; published as a thought leadership extension of the consulting practice.

Quantifiable outcome

• $100M/yr captured at chemical manufacturing client after 12 months (potential $400M/yr)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

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Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with deep practices in leadership development, executive coaching, and culture transformation. Overlaps with Co-Creation Partners' Coaching and Top Team Effectiveness offerings but operates at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• FranklinCovey: Global performance and leadership development company offering consulting, training, and coaching at scale. Overlaps with Co-Creation Partners' Coaching, Capability Building, and High-Performance Team offerings but with a more productized, training-led delivery model.
• Bain & Company (Organization Practice): Global strategy consultancy with a strong transformation and operating-model practice that competes for many of the same enterprise culture and operational excellence engagements as Co-Creation Partners, with significantly larger bench and global delivery.
• Heidrick & Struggles: Global executive search and leadership advisory firm (parent of Senn Delaney) that competes for the same C-suite advisory, culture, and top-team mandates as Co-Creation Partners, but with much broader service breadth and international footprint.
• McKinsey & Company (Organization Practice): Global strategy consulting firm with a dedicated Organization Practice that delivers culture change, transformation, and leadership engagements. Co-Creation Partners' founders are former McKinsey leaders, and the firm competes directly for many of the same enterprise transformation mandates.

Direct peers

• RHR International: Boutique leadership and top-team effectiveness consultancy serving senior executives and boards, with overlapping practice areas (executive coaching, top team effectiveness, leadership development) and a similarly senior-practitioner delivery model.
• Senn Delaney (Heidrick & Struggles): A culture transformation consultancy that pioneered shifting organizational culture to improve performance, serving Fortune 500 CEOs with a human-centered, whole-system approach very similar to Co-Creation Partners' Unfear methodology.
• Katzenbach Partners: Specialist organizational culture and performance consultancy founded by Jon Katzenbach, focused on informal organization, team effectiveness, and cultural drivers of performance — a closely aligned niche peer.
• Proudfoot Consulting: Operational excellence and business transformation consultancy that combines lean/OpEx tools with cultural change to deliver measurable performance improvements, directly comparable to Co-Creation Partners' integrated OpEx + culture model.
• DDI (Development Dimensions International): Global leadership and transformation consultancy that combines leadership development, culture change, and capability building for large enterprises, paralleling Co-Creation Partners' Capability Building, Coaching, and Culture Transformation service lines.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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