The work crosses several teams
Each team does its job, but the decisions and delivery don't join up.
Copenhagen · Since 2023
cordero noun · Spanish · lamb
Not a black sheep. A different breed.
The team you call when a problem crosses several teams.
Carve-outs and mergers, stalled transformations, AI adoption, leadership and people, business growth, commercial and go-to-market. People who spent years inside organisations, responsible for results, join your team, do the work, and make sure your people can carry on.
- The experienced people do the work
- Inside the work, not around it
- What we build stays when we go
01 · Why we exist
Every so often, one steps out.
Everyone at Cordero spent years inside organisations, running programmes, leading teams and carrying the result. Then we stepped out, to bring that experience to the problems no single team can solve on its own.
- OutcomeWe own it, from strategy to implementation
- PeopleThe people you meet are the people who do the work
- AfterYour people carry it on when we leave
02 · When to call
Everyone is doing their part. Why is the problem still there?
These are the situations where the answer sits across teams, not neatly inside one of them. In any industry.
A carve-out, merger or separation
One event that touches people, processes and systems at the same time.
The plan is ready. The business isn't.
Strategy or technology is in place; the way people work hasn't caught up.
Leaders need to get things moving
The direction is set, but momentum has stalled between the people who need to act on it.
The right experience is missing
You need seasoned judgement for this problem, not a permanent new department.
The business has grown, but the way it works has not
What used to work is now slowing people down, or leaving important work between roles.
03 · Cordero Independents
And it's not alone. There are more of us.
Senior specialists, each with their own set of capabilities. Independents who wear different hats depending on the problem. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
Many Independents. Many hats.
Pick a capability to see who brings it. Pick a person to see their capabilities. Dashed hats come from our wider network.
Capabilities belong to all of us. We assemble the hats each problem needs.
Want to become a Cordero Independent? Read how it works →
For clients
One team. One agreement. No hand-offs.
You agree the outcome with one team, and the people you meet are the people who do the work. We work with your people, so the answer is theirs too.
Bring us the problem04 · How we work
One team around the problem. Not an A-team outside and a B-team inside.
Called in when it's serious. Gone when you can carry it yourself.
Start with the people closest to it
We hear the problem the way your people live it, and find where work changes hands and decisions get lost.
Bring in the experience that's missing
The Independents the problem needs join your team, in the decisions and in the work. The people you met stay on it.
Leave you able to carry it
The people who'll run it help build it. When we go, they know what to do next, and why.
What should still be there when we have gone.
Progress
Decisions made and things moving, not another plan on the shelf.
Leaders
Leaders who know where they are going and feel able to take people with them.
Habits
New ways of working your people use every day, without us.
05 · Proof from the work
What happens when people work together.
Selected work. More cases follow as clients approve them.
Separating two companies out of their group: systems, processes and people, standing on their own.
- Our partDelivered inside the client's own teams and governance, with successors named for every role we hold.
Raul is far more than a delivery partner. He is a trusted strategic thinking partner.
- The workM&A and carve-outs, hardware programmes, identity and access, employee experience, CRM and AI.
Working with Raul has been an exceptional experience.
- The work1:1 executive coaching for a leader carrying the change.
06 · Why Raul started Cordero
There must be a different way.
Cordero mgmt was built on a simple belief: outside experience should strengthen the people already inside a business, not sideline them.
So we bring in people who have been accountable for results, work alongside the teams already there, and leave the business better able to carry on.
Raul Cordero · Founder07 · The newsletter
Whose problem is it anyway?
A weekly note from Raul about the problems that cross teams, why they get stuck and what helps move them forward.
08 · Masterclasses & events
Learn it with us, in the room.
Open sessions for leaders, in any industry. Built with BLOXHUB in Copenhagen.
AI literacy masterclass
What leaders need to know to decide well about AI, without the hype. Open to any industry.
Register interest →Under Cyber Attack
Experience a cyber attack before it happens. Take part in the live exercise or join the audience.
Register →Bring a session to your team
Any masterclass can run in-house for your leadership team.
Ask us →09 · The film · 0:48 · Sound on
Not a black sheep. A different breed. The story behind the name, in under a minute.Narrated by Raul Cordero
10 · Start here
You don't need to know the full answer.
Tell us what's happening. We'll work out together who needs to be involved, what's in the way, and whether Cordero is the right team to help.
raul@corderomgmt.com
+45 2185 0356