Gilead Sanders

What Gilead Sanders does

Gilead Sanders is a privately held, independent management and digital transformation consulting firm founded in 2012, operationally based in Pompano Beach, Florida with a registered address in Loveland, Ohio. The firm serves mid-market to large corporations, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies seeking to modernize their operating models, business models, and organizational culture for the digital economy. Its named client engagements span financial services (Sogebank in Haiti, Western Union's Caribbean and Canada agent network), insurance (Pinnacol Assurance), education (Xavier University), and religious/nonprofit sectors (Episcopalian Diocese of Southeast Florida), with stated reach across 20+ industries and 15+ countries since founding.

The firm's delivery model is built around proprietary, branded methodologies — most prominently the BOLTS Framework (Business model innovation, Organizational design, Leadership adaptability, Team agility, Strategy) and the (TIP)2M digital transformation equation. Services are packaged into structured programs: the FastPivot Program delivers a proof-of-value concept in 90-120 days using the BOLTS framework, while the Catalyst Program embeds a senior consultant directly into a client's team for 6-12 months. Complementary offerings include Strategy Design, Innovation Sprints, Business Model Innovation workshops, Mindset Shift engagements, the Prime Directive Leadership Series, and Experience Innovation Workshops, alongside live/virtual and on-demand training in design thinking, agile, and outcomes-driven innovation.

Gilead Sanders operates as a remote-first, partner-led boutique with fewer than 10 personnel, led by Sr. Managing Partner Marvin Dejean and supported by a small bench of senior strategists and analysts. Revenue is generated entirely through quote-based professional services engagements; the firm has no software product, no API, no app, no patents, no funding rounds, and no public financial disclosures. Marketing is content-driven, anchored on a blog ("Industry Insights"), case studies, LinkedIn presence, and speaking engagements at industry and academic venues.

Name

Gilead Sanders

Legal name

Gilead Sanders

Website

https://gileadsanders.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Gilead Sanders is a privately held digital transformation consulting firm founded in 2012, providing strategy design, innovation sprints, and proprietary BOLTS framework-based programs to enterprises, nonprofits, and government agencies across 20+ industries and 15+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Loveland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Gilead Sanders generates revenue through professional consulting engagements, including strategy design, innovation sprints, business model innovation workshops, and transformation programs. Services are delivered through embedded consultants, workshops, and training sessions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Gilead Sanders is a digital transformation and innovation consulting firm that helps companies, nonprofits, and governmental agencies build 21st-century business models, organizational agility, and leadership capability. It delivers this through proprietary frameworks (BOLTS Framework, (TIP)2M Model), embedded consulting engagements (Catalyst Program), rapid proof-of-value programs (FastPivot Program), and structured training in design thinking, agile, and strategic foresight. Core deliverables include strategic roadmaps, business model prototypes, leadership and culture development programs, and interactive innovation workshops.

Product overview

Gilead Sanders is a digital transformation consulting firm offering a portfolio of advisory and training services. The core offerings include Strategy Design, Innovation Sprints, Business Model Innovation, Mindset Shift, Catalyst™ Program (6-12 month embedded consulting), and FastPivot™ Program (90-120 day transformation program using the BOLTS framework). These services are complemented by Live/Virtual and On Demand Training programs covering Design Thinking, Agile, and innovation methodologies. The company does not offer a software product or platform but rather provides human capital and advisory services to help organizations transform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Catalyst™ Program: A transformation acceleration program that embeds a senior consultant into a client's core team for 6–12 months, helping gain clarity on key customers, strategic partners, market gaps, and strategy implementation.
• FastPivot™ Program
• B.O.L.T.S. Framework
• T(IP)² Equation
• Prime Directive Leadership Series
• Experience Innovation Workshop

Products and services

• Strategy Design Develops strategic roadmaps for innovative growth based on future technologies and trends that may impact a client's industry and business segment, targeting companies, nonprofits, and governmental agencies.
• Innovation Sprints Builds and coaches internal innovation teams while training executives and creating long-term innovation transformation programs that deliver business results for organizations pursuing innovation capability.
• Business Model Innovation Explores and builds new 21st-century business models by prototyping, testing, and validating key ideas and concepts quickly with consumers or emerging markets.
• Catalyst™ Program Accelerates transformation by embedding a Gilead Sanders senior consultant into the client's core team for 6–12 months, helping gain clarity on key customers, define strategic partners, spot market gaps, and implement a solid growth strategy.
• FastPivot™ Program Uses the BOLTS framework to help organizations focus on 7 main areas of digital transformation by developing a proof of value concept in 90–120 days.
• Live/Virtual Training Live and virtual instructor-led skills training covering Design Thinking, Outcomes Driven Innovation, Experiment Design, Agile Training, and other transformation methodologies for enterprise audiences.
• On Demand Training Self-paced on-demand training covering various skills for the new world of work, complementing the firm's instructor-led offerings.
• Experience Innovation Workshop Interactive workshop that challenges teams to solve a realistic and complex design challenge while engaging with terminology, techniques, and thought patterns of successful innovators.
• Prime Directive Leadership Series Leadership development program focused on preparing executives to lead Intelligent Organizations in the Knowledge Economy, emphasizing questioning assumptions, engaging a systematic grassroots view of leadership, and becoming agile in the face of uncertainty.

Quantifiable outcome

• Sogebank trained over 500 core team members in new ways of working, agile scrum processes, design thinking and customer-centricity models
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Appleseed EQminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAppleseed EQ assists individuals and organizations in developing and utilizing emotional intelligence to be more connected, effective, and resilient. They use a heart and science-based approach to transform individuals and uplift communities, complementing Gilead Sanders' transformation methodology.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• McKinsey & Company: Global management consulting giant with extensive digital transformation and organizational change practices serving exactly the same enterprise buyer as Gilead Sanders, but with thousands of consultants and broad functional coverage.
• Bain & Company: Elite strategy consultancy with innovation and digital practices serving the same mid-market to enterprise transformation buyer as Gilead Sanders.
• Accenture Strategy: Global consultancy whose strategy practice focuses heavily on digital transformation, operating model redesign, and innovation — directly overlap in service portfolio with Gilead Sanders' BOLTS framework and Catalyst Program.
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG): Top-tier strategy consultancy with deep digital transformation, innovation, and change management practices; competes for the same enterprise transformation budget pool as Gilead Sanders.
• Frog Design (Capgemini Invent): Design and innovation consultancy (now part of Capgemini Invent) that delivers transformation, design strategy, and innovation programs to enterprise clients in the same digital-transformation category as Gilead Sanders.
• Deloitte Consulting: Big-Four-adjacent consultancy with large-scale digital transformation, human capital, and strategy offerings; overlaps directly with Gilead Sanders' Catalyst-style embedded transformation and change management engagements.

Direct peers

• Board of Innovation: Boutique innovation consulting firm specializing in corporate innovation sprints, business model innovation, and transformation programs for enterprise clients — closely mirrors Gilead Sanders' Innovation Sprints and FastPivot offerings.
• Kotter International: Consulting firm specializing in change management and organizational transformation led by John Kotter; competes for the same change-management / mindset-shift engagement budget Gilead Sanders targets.
• Strategos: Boutique strategy and innovation consultancy founded by Gary Hamel focused on business model innovation and organizational transformation, very comparable in size and positioning to Gilead Sanders.
• Innosight (Huron): Innovation and transformation strategy firm (founded by Clayton Christensen) that helps legacy companies build innovation capabilities and transform business models — near-direct competitor to Gilead Sanders' business model innovation and strategy design practice.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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