Interim Executive Leadership
Assume responsibility during a transition, launch, growth period, or transformation—bringing senior leadership, operating discipline, and forward movement when the organization cannot wait.
Generation IV Advisory Solutions
Experienced leadership for consequential moments.
Interim and advisory leadership for businesses, ventures, and organizations navigating growth, transformation, launch, or transition.
Generation IV gets the call when…
Leadership that moves the enterprise forward.
Leadership change: The CEO is leaving, the search will take months, and the enterprise cannot stand still.
Strategic growth: The opportunity is real, but the management infrastructure is not ready for it.
An ambitious idea: The vision exists. The organizational structure, capital, and team do not.
Stalled transformation: Something must change, but no one owns the process from end to end.
Executive leadership engagements
The right leadership, shaped around the moment.
Growth & Transformation Leadership
Own a consequential initiative that requires senior operating leadership across functions, stakeholders, and competing priorities.
Strategic Advisory
Advise boards, investors, founders, and executives on growth, capital, culture, governance, partnerships, and organizational direction.
Why Generation IV
Experienced leadership—not another report.
We do more than solve the immediate problem. We help build the strategy, leadership capacity, operating disciplines, resources, and relationships an enterprise needs to thrive, create value, and have enduring impact after our work ends.
Who we serve
Built for leaders at an inflection point.
Generation IV partners with boards, investors, founders, and executive teams during periods of growth, transformation, launch, and leadership transition.
Private & Investor-Backed Enterprises
Companies navigating commercial growth, professionalization, margin pressure, succession, or organizational change.
Cultural & Experiential Ventures
Museums, cultural attractions, entertainment concepts, and ambitious ventures moving from idea to operating institution.
Civic & Mission-Driven Organizations
Organizations managing consequential leadership, capital, governance, and stakeholder challenges.
How we work
See the whole enterprise. Move it forward.
- Diagnose
- Align
- Build
- Execute
- Transfer
Four connected questions help leaders see the whole enterprise, make sound decisions, and move forward with clarity.
Strategy
Where are you going? How will you get there? What is the timing?
Culture
Is the team aligned? What will it take to get people bought in?
Access to Capital
Do you have the resources needed to execute? Where will you get them?
Revenue & Expenses
Is the revenue mix right? Are growth, expenses, and margin aligned with the strategy?
Representative experience
Distinctive experience across enterprise, capital, and institution building.
Bank of America
Investment banking and private equity experience supporting capital formation and strategic transactions.
BelPak
Commercial transformation leadership for a private-equity-backed manufacturing platform.
Katalyst
M&A advisory and commercial strategy for early-stage data-center and managed-services companies.
National Black MBA Association
Enterprise leadership, governance, commercial partnerships, and national stakeholder engagement.
Case study · Onyx Capital Ventures
Commercial leadership across three portfolio companies.
The challenge
Lead commercial organizations across portfolio companies in food, beverage, and injection molding.
The work
Team formation and leadership, pricing and margin improvement, and contract negotiation.
The result
Business stabilization, revenue growth, and successful exit.
Leadership
Henry Beecher Hicks III
Henry has spent his career helping enterprises navigate growth, transformation, and institution building. His experience spans investment banking, private equity, entrepreneurship, national organizational leadership, cultural institutions, and private-equity-backed operating companies.
$100M+Institutional capital raised
$1B+Transactions advised
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What consequential moment are you navigating?
If your enterprise is facing growth, leadership transition, organizational change, or strategic transformation, let’s talk about what experienced leadership could make possible.