O'Shea Business Services

Your Business is Our Passion: We're Committed To Your Success

You're growing your business, and we're here to help. With part-time/interim executive roles, you'll get access to a wide range of expertise and an average of 50% cost savings compared to full-time hires. We're on a mission to make your growth journey easier.


Welcome to OBS

We're a strategic consulting firm that specializes in delivering efficient, high-level executive services on a part-time or interim basis. Our team of experienced professionals has a track record of supporting businesses during periods of transition and growth, providing expertise and optimizing processes to lower costs and boost efficiency.

Our Benefits

  • Industry-leading Expertise: Our team is composed of consultants with a proven track record in C-suite roles and exceptional intellectual abilities. Many are also members of renowned high-IQ societies, reflecting their excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. This combined expertise translates into valuable market insights and strategic decisions across multiple business facets.
  • Cost and Efficiency: We offer expertise for a fraction of the cost of a full-time executive. The average cost of an OBS executive is $75,000, compared to an average of $120,000-$315,000 for full-time executives in the Northeast.
  • Multi-Departmental Leadership: Our executives are versatile, often absorbing responsibilities across multiple departments. In some cases, our executives reach into every department in a leadership capacity.
  • Long-term Partnerships: OBS believes in fostering long-lasting relationships. Our average client relationship extends beyond eight years.
  • Sustainable Growth: With OBS, businesses can grow without worrying about increasing headcount. We are equipped to support your growth and transition you to a more permanent solution when the time is right.

Recognizing The Challenge

In today's business landscape, organizations face numerous challenges when it comes to full-time executive roles:

  1. Executive Costs: Hiring full-time executives is expensive. The annual cost of an executive can range from $120,000 - $315,000.
  1. Efficiency Gaps: Traditional executive roles can often become encumbered by non-essential activities such as unnecessary meetings and inefficient systems. This leads to diminished productivity and wasted hours. While the average executive works between 40-60 hours per week, up to half of this is considered unproductive.
  1. Growth Management: As businesses grow, managing transitions and scaling efficiently often requires specialized expertise not readily available within the organization.
  1. High Turnover: The costs associated with executive turnover can be staggering, ranging from 50-213% of the executive's salary.
  1. Lack of Support: Full-time executives often lack the necessary support systems, leading to burnout and decreased productivity.
  1. Lack of Oversight and Complacency: Without the right checks and balances, executives can become complacent, hindering their motivation to improve and innovate, and in many cases, be effective leaders. Studies have shown that the average employee spends up to 7.5 hours per week on social media.
  1. Training Deficits: Keeping executives updated with the latest trends and industry insights is crucial, but often neglected due to time and budget constraints.

By recognizing these challenges, we can begin to explore transformative solutions that not only address these issues but also provide new avenues for growth and efficiency.

OBS: Your Strategic Solution

O'Shea Business Services (OBS) offers a strategic solution to these challenges, empowering your business to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively:

  1. Reduced Costs: OBS offers access to seasoned executives for an average cost of $75,000 - a fraction of the cost of full-time executive hires. We handle our own overheads (401k, health insurance, vacation, training, hiring, etc.), meaning you only pay for the services you receive.
  1. Efficiency Boost: Our executives, focusing on what truly matters, average between 10-20 hours per client, per week. That's over 1,000 hours annually that you could allocate to driving real, impactful growth. Plus, OBS operates at a staggering 90-100% productivity level.
  1. Tailored Support for Growth: OBS adapts to your unique business rhythm, offering high-level executive support when and where you need it. With OBS, businesses can grow without worrying about increasing headcount.
  1. Long-Term Partnership: OBS executives stay with you for as long as you want them, providing stable leadership and reducing turnover costs.
  1. Multi-Departmental Leadership: Our executives bring their multidisciplinary expertise to provide leadership across multiple departments. They transform overlapping roles into opportunities for process streamlining.
  1. Strong Support System: OBS provides a team of experienced professionals to support each executive, fostering a culture of continuous learning and avoiding executive burnout.
  1. Oversight and Continuous Improvement: OBS offers oversight for executives to ensure accountability, curbing complacency and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
  1. Continuous Training: OBS provides regular training and updates for its executives on the latest industry trends, ensuring they stay ahead of the curve and bring fresh insights to your business.

By partnering with OBS, you're investing not just in cost savings, but in redefining your expectations from executive leadership, optimizing resource allocation, and boosting operational efficiency.

Versatility and Multi-Departmental Leadership

Dynamic Leadership

OBS executives break free from the confines of traditional roles. They employ their diverse skills and vast experience to provide leadership across multiple departments, ensuring streamlined operations, elimination of redundant efforts, and fostering collaboration within your organization.

Holistic Expertise & Enhanced Efficiency

OBS executives distinguish themselves with their broad, multidisciplinary expertise, fostering innovation and improved performance across diverse functions. Instead of creating inefficiencies, they transform overlapping roles into opportunities for process streamlining, honing in on what truly matters to enhance productivity.

Collective Problem Solving

One of the unique aspects of OBS is our monthly roundtable discussions. Our executives come together to discuss ongoing challenges faced by our clients, leveraging the collective knowledge of all our experts. This pool of shared wisdom frequently results in unique, effective solutions that a single executive might not have considered.

When you partner with OBS, you gain more than an executive; you tap into a reservoir of strategic leaders working collectively for your success. Our focus is not just to cut costs, but to foster growth, increase efficiency, and position your business for a prosperous future.

Maximize Efficiency

Effective Hours, Peak Productivity: Understanding that 'time is money,' our executives at OBS embrace the principle of 'effective hours,' ensuring every contracted minute is dedicated to productive, meaningful work. Whereas the average employee achieves less than 40% productivity in an eight-hour workday, OBS executives operate at an astounding 90-100% productivity level. This dramatic efficiency doesn't just save time—it directly benefits your bottom line. Studies, like those from the University of Warwick, show that inefficiency and disengagement can cost companies up to $550 billion a year in the US alone, a wastage that our executives strive to eliminate.

The Result: By opting for OBS, you're choosing a partner that values efficiency, efficacy, and exceptional results. Experience the difference that an optimized executive can make to your bottom line, and see why more businesses are making the switch to OBS. Our executives are selected for their ability to concentrate on the tasks at hand, eliminating inefficiencies, and driving your business forward. When an OBS executive is on the clock, they're all business, ensuring that not a single dollar you invest goes to waste.

The Proof (Case Studies)

Start-Up Success: Pioneering the Optical and Solar Space

Working with a start-up in the optical and solar space, OBS provided key executive support during their early stages:

  • Strategic Leadership: Our part-time executives offered guidance on strategic planning and decision making to set the company on the path to success.
  • Investor Relations: We helped the start-up navigate funding rounds, presenting financials in a way that attracted and reassured investors.
  • Market Positioning: Through our combined industry insights and business acumen, we were able to identify unique market opportunities, helping the start-up to differentiate itself in a competitive industry.
  • Securing Capital: Our deep industry experience and executive leadership instilled confidence in investors, enabling the start-up to secure an additional $2M in early-stage funding.

Driving Growth: 35% increase in revenue over three years

Our client relationship isn't just about maintaining operations - it's about strategic growth. In a three-year partnership with one accounting services client, OBS achieved the following:

  • Revenue Resurgence & Operational Efficiency: After identifying and halting a declining revenue trend, OBS led the turnaround, achieving a substantial 35% growth over three years. We achieved this through streamlining the operations department and managing ongoing costs to increase efficiency, directly contributing to the client's bottom-line.
  • Cost-Savings and Strategic Leadership: OBS incorporated the marketing department into our role, saving substantial costs, while maintaining effectiveness. Simultaneously, as a part-time permanent CFO, we led accounting and HR departments, ensuring alignment with the organization's overall strategic direction.
  • Financial Acuity: Through expert navigation of tax credits and grant funding, we added significant value to the client's financial health. Furthermore, we reduced legal & professional fees by 80% through effective liaison with outside firms.

The Proof (Case Studies cont.)

Long-Term Commitment: A 10-Year Journey

At OBS, we pride ourselves on forging long-lasting partnerships. This is embodied in our 10-year relationship with a key client in the real estate industry. Here's how our commitment to their success translated into action:

  • Enduring Partnership: Over ten years, our role within the client's organization has evolved and grown, demonstrating our flexibility and adaptability in meeting their changing needs.
  • Cost-Efficiency & Deep Involvement: We've been instrumental across various departments, handling tasks from audit and tax preparation to project requisitions and budgeting. Our services saved the client 22% immediately on payroll for the accounting department. Our deep involvement shows our readiness to go the extra mile, while driving efficiency and cost savings.
  • Trust & Dependability: Our constant presence in their daily accounting, payroll, HR, and operations has earned us their trust, making us a dependable partner in their success.
  • Future-Oriented: By helping them make informed financial decisions, we've shown a commitment not just to their present success, but to their future growth.

Our Mission:

Efficiency, Empowerment, Growth

Efficiency Through Strategic Resource Allocation: At OBS, we specialize in efficient deployment of executive resources. We offer a cost-effective solution when replacing full-time executives, and even when stepping in for staff or contractors, we often provide cost savings. Furthermore, we excel at designing and implementing efficient systems and procedures, ensuring peak operational performance. Our approach includes consolidating redundant job functions across your organization, starting with the OBS executive role as a model of streamlined leadership.

Empowerment Through Strategic Leadership: At OBS, we believe that every business, regardless of size, deserves access to Fortune 500-level guidance. Our team of seasoned executives supports and enhances your decision-making processes, empowering you to make strategic moves with confidence. Our goal is to equip you with the knowledge and support you need to navigate complex business landscapes successfully.

Growth Through Proactive Planning: Our partnerships are designed to foster sustainable growth. While we pride ourselves on aiding clients to achieve their forecasted growth, we frequently see an average 15% year-over-year growth rate among our partners. In certain sectors, like tech startups, some clients have experienced phenomenal growth rates of over 50% year over year.

At OBS, our mission goes beyond delivering services - it is about creating transformative success stories. We are dedicated to infusing Efficiency in operations, fostering Empowerment through knowledge, and engineering Growth for sustainable success. We believe that every business has the potential to operate with the precision of a Fortune 500 company without the associated costs. By embedding efficiency in processes, empowering decision-making through expert guidance, and proactively planning for growth, we're shaping business success stories, one client at a time. OBS: Efficiency, Empowerment, Growth - that's our commitment to you.

How to Get in Touch with Us

O'Shea Business Services 73 Newton Road, Suite 25, Plaistow NH 03865
Dan O'Shea
603-819-6219 (cell)
Dan@OSheaServices.com

We welcome the opportunity to discuss how our expertise can empower your business growth and enhance your operational efficiency. Reach out today for a free consultation and quote!

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