Embedded Leadership, Not Arm’s-Length Advice
Wood Consulting Group exists to improve how organizations make decisions—and follow through.
Team
Andrew Wood, MBA, MSF
Andrew is a Finance & Operations Executive with extensive experience integrating strategic, operational, and financial plans. He excels at driving business transformation by leveraging both qualitative and quantitative data to guide decision-making, identify restructuring opportunities, and inform commercial strategies.
Andrew has a proven ability to propel organizational goals, policies, and metrics to new heights, ensuring alignment across departments to foster sustainable growth. His expertise lies in executing complex strategic initiatives, managing change, and creating innovative solutions that optimize operations and performance.
With a strong focus on delivering measurable results, Andrew’s work ensures organizations remain agile and competitive in an ever-evolving business landscape.
Dr. Cara Orton, PsyD.
Organizational Transformation
Dr. Cara Orton is a licensed psychologist with a PsyD, specializing in behavioral health. She has extensive experience working in psychiatric care facilities, providing her with deep insights into mental health, emotional resilience, and complex human behavior.
Cara’s expertise extends to organizational behavior, team dynamics, and interprofessional collaboration. She helps organizations build cohesive teams, enhance communication, and improve workplace environments through strategic frameworks that foster productivity and synergy.
Her approach focuses on optimizing employee well-being and fostering high-functioning teams, ensuring that organizations thrive by aligning people and processes effectively. With a passion for creating healthy workplace cultures, Cara partners with businesses to promote resilience, growth, and sustainable success.
Adrian Mott
Revenue Acceleration
With 20+ years of experience in startups and scale-ups, Adrian has successfully grown go-to-market teams across marketing, customer success, and sales. He has held marketing and customer success leadership positions at numerous companies.
Adrian is adept at crafting go-to-market strategies, implementing effective marketing tactics, and leading team building and operations.
Our Mission
To maximize financial and strategic value by embedding disciplined decision-making inside the organizations we serve.
We exist to strengthen leadership teams, clarify economic reality, and build systems that create measurable enterprise value.
Core Values
Trust
We strive to be worthy of our clients’ trust and act with integrity in all affairs—remaining genuine, direct, and empathetic. Trust is earned through transparency and consistency.
Innovation
In the universe of opportunities, there is at least one way to make anything possible. Finding that one thing is the task.
Responsibility
Serving the greater good because we can. When entrusted with authority, we use it carefully and ethically in service of long-term value creation.
Purpose
We improve our clients’ lives, their businesses, and the lives of their employees—and by extension, the communities we all live in. Value creation has real-world impact.
Standard
Never blame anything or anyone, for anything ever. Accountability begins internally.
How We Work
Our engagements follow a disciplined structure:
The DECIDE Framework
The DECIDE Framework is our assessment methodology for whole organizational health:
Direction
Clear strategic intent and capital priorities.
Economics
Deep understanding of the business model and value drivers.
Capability
Leadership, systems, and processes aligned to strategy.
Decision Discipline
Structured, documented, data-informed decision-making.
Execution
Consistent follow-through measured against visible metrics.
The Outcome
Clients engage WCG seeking clarity in moments of growth, complexity, or transition.
They emerge with:
Clear strategic direction
Economic visibility
Structured decision processes
Stronger execution rhythm
Improved cash flow
Increased enterprise value
Our role is not to be the loudest voice in the room.
Our role is to ensure the right decisions are made—and executed—by the right leaders.