Strategy for Value-Critical Matters
What We Handle
- Breakdowns in leadership, governance, or control requiring immediate intervention.
- Regulatory or legal exposure where execution and timing determine outcome.
- Cross-border growth, expansion, or complexity beyond current operating structure.
- Situations where legal strategy requires operational reality to be aligned and executed.
- Complex disputes requiring business evidence, financial analysis, and strategic positioning to support counsel, while preserving privilege.
- Matters involving analysis of financial flows, operational exposure, or evidentiary development through CFE and AML specialist.
- Distressed or underperforming operations requiring stabilization and value creation.
- Labor, regulatory, or structural issues with direct business continuity impact.
- Matters requiring direct accountability for results under compressed timelines.
How We Work
When to engage.
We are engaged before or when a situation becomes too complex, sensitive, or consequential for standard management or traditional advisory.
How we engage.
We are a principal-level operator deployed into high-consequence situations across legal, operational, reputational, and financial boundaries. Engagements are direct and confidential.
Type of role.
We may act as an advisor, operator (independent or nominee), temporary executive, or delegated decision authority.
Decision-making.
Authority and escalation paths are clearly defined at the outset. We do not operate by committee.
Information flow.
Visibility is intentional and controlled. Work is conducted within a small, closed group using security and access protocols appropriate to the matter.
Execute and exit.
Engagements conclude once the objective is achieved.
Navigating Complexity
We understand where control, incentive, danger, and decision-making are real, not where they appear on charts and presentations.
Over three decades, our leadership has delivered results inside centralized, performance-driven organizations, navigating leadership transitions, competing stakeholder interests, and cross-border, geographically diverse environments across the US and Europe.
Representative Work
Across the United States and Europe, this work has repeatedly included the formation and operation of independent companies established specifically to resolve complex operational, legal, and reputational challenges.
The following represents work in the public domain:
Port Operations Crisis & Turnaround
Engaged by c-suite to resolve a critical operational and labor crisis at a Fortune 50 European automotive group's primary U.S. Mid-Atlantic gateway, 157Global's leadership stood up and operated an independent port processing company from ground zero—restructuring the local Teamsters labor rider to establish management authority, directly employing and overseeing a 300-person union workforce, implementing all quality and compliance systems, and assuming full P&L responsibility with capital authority.
The operation delivered the group's highest-rated quality performance in North America, zero compliance failures, and annual cost reductions in excess of eight figures—while restoring supply-chain functionality, stabilizing labor relations, and protecting enterprise reputation over eight years of continuous operation.
Experience
157Global is led by Skip Glass, who over three decades has founded and operated more than 25 organizations across the United States and Europe.
Contact
Engagements are conducted with discretion.
By introduction preferred.