Strategy for Value-Critical Matters
What We Handle
- Governance crises requiring immediate action
- Regulatory exposure where speed and precision determine outcome
- Growth or operational complexity scaling domestically, expanding cross-border, or professionalizing for exit
- Strategic matters with legal dimensions requiring business strategy in conjunction with counsel
- Complex disputes requiring development of business evidence and strategic positioning to enable counsel to establish jurisdiction, create leverage, or pursue other wise nonviable strategies, while preserving privilege.
- Distressed operations needing turnaround, stabilization, and value creation
- Complex labor and regulatory situations with business continuity implications
- Matters demanding direct accountability for results under compressed timelines
How We Work
When to engage.
We are brought in when a matter falls outside routine management, standard advisory work, or requires operator experience and mentality.
Type of engagement.
We enter quietly and work to mandate. Engagements begin under a framework agreement, a defined scope contract, or for established clients, immediate execution with terms formalized in parallel.
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 with direct access to the highest decision-maker(s). 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
Solving the operational problem is half the challenge. The other half is navigating the organizational dynamics that created it.
Success in high-pressure, politically complex environments requires understanding where control, benefit, and decision making actually reside, not where they appear on paper.
Over three decades, 157Global’s leadership has maintained high performance within the complex closed power systems of global organizations: environments where authority is concentrated, learning curves are not permitted, and the margin for error is zero.
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.
While most engagements are confidential, 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.