Florida Strategy Consulting Firm
The Florida economy doesn't behave like the rest of the country. Family-owned operators sit alongside private equity rollups consolidating fragmented industries. Hospitality, healthcare, marine, and infrastructure all carry seasonal and weather dynamics most firms outside the state don't price into their advice. The PE capital that's relocated to Miami and Tampa over the last five years is now actively writing checks in the I-4 corridor. Firms that win here understand how those forces actually interact — not in the abstract, but on a Tuesday morning when a portfolio company's hurricane plan, integration sequencing, and seasonal workforce model all have to line up.
Stonehill is a Florida strategy consulting firm headquartered in Tampa Bay. We work with middle market companies and PE-backed operators across the state — concentrated in the I-4 corridor but active from the Panhandle through South Florida — who need senior thinking applied to the decisions that actually move the business. Every engagement is staffed senior, run by partners who've sat in the operating seat, and scoped to deliver in weeks and months, not quarters.
Why Florida is different
Concentrated middle market deal flow. The Tampa–Orlando corridor has become one of the most active PE territories in the country. Infrastructure, services, healthcare, and consumer platforms are being rolled up faster than most operators have integration capacity to absorb.
Weather and seasonality are operating variables. Hurricane season, snowbird revenue cycles, and Florida-specific insurance markets show up in operating models and forecasts. Outside firms tend to discount these as edge cases. They aren't.
Family-to-institutional transitions. A large share of Florida's middle market is founder- or family-owned and now navigating its first institutional transaction. The operating model questions that surface during diligence and post-close are often very different from what a Northeast playbook prescribes.
No state income tax changes the calculus. Comp structures, site selection, and where talent actually moves are different inputs in Florida than in higher-tax states. We price that in.
What we do for Florida clients
Strategy and repositioning for PE-backed and founder-led platforms preparing for scale, acquisition stacking, or exit.
Post-merger integration — Day 1 readiness, Day 100 planning, synergy capture, and cultural alignment, with hurricane season and workforce seasonality built into integration timelines where it matters.
Operating model design — roles, spans, decision rights, and process ownership realigned to the scale and complexity the business is moving into.
Carve-outs and TSA management for divisions separating from corporate parents into Florida-domiciled standalone entities.
Change management and transformation grounded in ADKAR and Kotter, calibrated to Florida workforce realities — seasonal staffing, multi-site operators, hospitality and infrastructure verticals.
Our work
Our Florida client roster includes PODS (Clearwater), The Melting Pot (Tampa), FIS (Jacksonville), and Continental Infrastructure Group — a PE-backed infrastructure platform anchored by the Bell Mine in Southwest Florida — alongside PE portfolio companies across the I-4 corridor. Outside of client work, our team holds board roles with the Tampa Bay Economic Development Corporation and the Town of Belleair Infrastructure Committee, which keeps us close to the regional operating environment our clients are running in.
Why a Florida-based firm matters for Florida work
Most strategy firms don't have anyone on the ground here. The senior people fly in from New York or Chicago, do the work, fly back, and price the engagement to cover the travel. We don't. We're here — which means lower delivery cost, faster response, and judgment shaped by the same operating environment our clients are working through. When a client calls about a Q3 hurricane season operating plan or an I-4 corridor acquisition target, the answer comes from someone who's been working in that market for years, not reading about it on the plane.
If you're evaluating a Florida strategy consulting firm for an upcoming transaction, repositioning, or operating model question, let's talk. Send the situation — the acquisition, the integration, the platform decision, whatever's on your desk — and we'll come back with how we'd approach it and what it would cost.
