Turnaround Strategy Course

TMA Education’s Strategy Course helps you master the art of turnaround.

This self-paced online course is designed for advisors, financiers, investors, directors, and management teams working with distressed or underperforming organisations.

By mastering a structured approach, participants gain the skills needed to take earlier action and drive more efficient, successful turnarounds.

Course Introduction

Completion of the Turnaround Strategy Course is a key element of becoming a Certified Turnaround Analyst (CTA  Aus).
Learn more about becoming certified here

Stages of a turnaround

  • Burning platform
  • Diagnosis
  • Planning
  • Implementation

Understanding the state of the business

  • Using the enterprise value curve
  • Nature of the crisis
  • Hard and soft asset base
  • Time to act and optionality
  • Focusing the strategy

Stakeholders and turnaround

  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Competing interests
  • Trust and communication

Operational aspects

  • Mapping drivers
  • Levers of operational change

Financial aspects

  • Forecasts and baseline
  • Cash and working capital management
  • Funding sources
  • Layering change and sensitivities

Legal aspects

  • What are the issues for directors
  • Considerations in getting in new funding
  • Contractual issues in cutting costs
  • Mechanisms to deleverage

Length: 4+ hours all modules

Firms: Allegro, KPMG, Ashurst, KordaMentha

Course Contributors

Adrian Loader

Founding Partner, Allegro Funds

Carl Gunther

Adviser and Shareholder, LEARNT

Gayle Dickerson

Partner, KPMG

James Wagg

Partner, KordaMentha

Anouk Darling

CEO, Scape Australia

Chris Martin

Director, Client Success, Law Compliance

Michael Sloan

Partner, Ashurst

Alinta Kemeny

Partner, Ashurst

Maria O'Brien

Partner, Clayton Utz