#Unreliable partners
#Unfair competition
#Prolonged business conflicts
#Problematic business diversification
#Vulnerable corporate teams
#Unstable management structures
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UNDERDOG Strategic Consulting

elegant solutions for desperate situations

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UNDERDOG Strategic Consulting

crisis management — when you’re facing a deadlock

Conflict Troubleshooting
Corporate Education
Business Support
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#Complex circumstances

When you’re in a crisis situation, it’s time for a different approach

Underdog Strategic Consulting — specialists in cases where the standard methods are no longer effective.

It seems there is no way out

Our customers are companies faced with major challenges: long-running disputes, unfair competition, unstable partnerships and vulnerable structures.

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We view crises as opportunities for rethinking things

We deploy a strategic approach, centred on our ability to look at the situation from a new angle, and turn vulnerabilities into advantages.

We don’t just treat symptoms

We focus on transforming the nature of the problem itself, using creative strategies to put our customers in a strong position. Underdog Strategic Consulting — sophisticated solutions to free you from your deadlock.

OUR KEY SERVICES
#The idea behind \"Underdog\"

The Underdogs are not obvious winners and this is their strength

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Underdogs use qualitatively different approaches for an unexpected victory

There are routes and actions that others wouldn't notice or try. Where others see obstacles, we find the way. This is how we help our clients overcome even the most challenging pressures and external forces.

THE PRINCIPLES OF OUR SUCCESS

POWER OF KNOWLEDGE

This means that our advantage is derived from our abilities to pull together comprehensive information and to extract important insights that are unavailable to others. Knowledge gives us the ability to notice opportunities and find solutions in places where others aren't even looking.

POWER OF PUBLIC EXPOSURE

The right type of public presentation of information can shift the balance of power dramatically, making a significant difference in problematic situations. Open discussion and exposure of the less evident aspects of a conflict can bring hidden issues up to the surface helping to steer things in a beneficial direction towards a favourable outcome for our client.

POWER OF UNPREDICTABILITY

Unlike the traditional approaches, our actions are unconventional, consisting of individual and original sequences of steps that can never be calculated in advance. This creates unique opportunities for us and our clients - we're always several steps ahead of our rivals, which puts us in exactly the right spot to find the best way out of these deadlocks.

#We are Underdog

We saved $1 billion in assets for our clients

10

years

of legal background

9

years

of Underdog approach

26

people

multi-disciplinary professionals

10

years

of legal background

We believe that the keys to success are knowledge, flexibility and skill in combining disparate resources into a powerful collective advantage.

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#1 key service

Conflict Troubleshooting

We work by your side and on your side with indirect approaches, shifting the balance of power to alter the course of conflicts that may seem impossible to win, and leaving your opponent’s weaknesses exposed.

By coordinating intelligence with legal support and media strategies, we are able not only to protect you, but to change the dynamics of the conflict.

“Fighting against superior force may score high on nobility and heroism but normally low on discretion and effectiveness. This is why underdog strategies, in situations where the starting balance of power would predict defeat, provide the real tests of creativity. Such strategies often look to the possibility of success through the application of a superior intelligence, which takes advantage of the boring, ponderous, muscle-bound approach adopted by those who take their superior resources for granted“ Lawrence Friedman

Conflict always involves stress and discomfort. But when somebody is openly encroaching on your interests beyond the boundaries of what is allowable, that's when you need an experienced conflict troubleshooter. Open attacks in violation of the legal framework show us that the attacker clearly believes he is invincible and beyond the law. This can involve deliberate deception, betrayal of trust, exploitation of your own vulnerability - the attacker does this to create an illusion of their superiority, pushing you to engage on their terms only.

In conflicts, we become your defence team. We don't take the place of your lawyers, PR personnel or private investigators. Instead, we create the strategy that will bring you victory by mobilising the resources and tools required to launch the practical actions derived from our Underdog concept. This is the core of our approach: no reliance on brute force, but intelligent use of your unique advantages and the latent opportunities of your situation.

That's why you need UNDERDOG. Our story is about victory - against the odds. Our success comes from our use of unorthodox solutions and creativity to bring even the most powerful opponents to a point of recognition of their own vulnerability and exposure, so that they become ready to apologize and fully make amends. How? Read about our methodology. 

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#2 key service

Corporate Education

With our Underdog Education programme, we will empower your team with the psychological and tactical resilience to be able to deal with the most complicated of threats.

Using artificial intelligence and virtual reality, we create real-world scenarios, such as cyberattacks, legal manipulation, media provocations, which are used to train your team, so that they will flourish under pressure and will always be a few steps ahead of your adversary. Details at: edu.underdog.guru

“Ultimately, the purpose of war is not the destruction of the enemy’s physical strength, but the breaking of his will to resist”, B. H. Liddell Hart

There is always more to a conflict than the obvious physical or material advantages — psychological effects play a crucial role. The goal of an aggressor is not so much to destroy your resources, but rather to end your determination to keep fighting.

This is why we take great care when working with the subjective aspects of conflict situations — the emotions, fears and perception of aggression. This will apply not only to you, but also to your team, your partners and all your systems of interaction. Experience has shown that a chain is only ever as strong as its weakest link, which is why every single aspect of your protection has to be strengthened.

Our route to victory is to remove any fear of the aggressor at every level. To make this happen, we have developed our Underdog Education programme, which focuses on team building and preparing your personnel for the most challenging and dangerous scenarios. Using highly advanced virtual reality and artificial intelligence technology, we create real-life scenarios to mirror the threats faced by your business. These may include cyberattacks, manipulations of the legal system, threats to your reputation generated by trolling and media provocation.

The Underdog Education programme will give your teams the psychological fortitude and readiness for action that they need to be able to deal with these threats. We create an environment within which your team can work through any weaknesses and fears, allowing you to avoid losses but also bringing you success in situations where others lose control.

 

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#3 key service

Business Support

We build resilient and robust business structures that can withstand external pressures.

We help you to create the checks and balances that will ensure that your business benefits from reliable long-term partnerships and is protected against hidden vulnerabilities.

“We evolved to live in groups, which has brought with it a capacity for incredible acts of empathy and cooperation, but along with that — the ability to dehumanise and exploit those we perceive as “other”, Robert Sapolsky

In our experience of strategic conflict resolution, we often see how fragile and brittle business agreements and partnerships can be. However, we also know there are some relationships with better balance, connections that have been created without conflict and are now continuing without further disagreement.

As part of our business support practice, we create balancing mechanisms to systematically guarantee stability in your partnerships, companies and ongoing interactions.

In our work as strategic consultants, we call on the professionals required — lawyers, mediators, sometimes psychologists — to build partnerships with the resilience and reliability to withstand challenges and prevent conflict. 

Our customers recognise us as experts in defence against aggressive behaviour. This establishes the necessary conditions to avoid any pressure being applied by partners and external contractors.

We develop unique balancing levers and processes for every situation, helping our customers to establish any conflict-free relationship that aligns with their goals.

We take pride in our expertise in creating amicable agreements without the need for conflict management practices.

#Call us when

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NOW THAT YOU'VE SEEN OUR APPROACH, YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES AVAILABLE

APPLY OLD METHODS & LOSE

CHOOSE UNDERDOG & WIN