the path to success:
optimize value.
build sustainability.
Clarity in a Complex World
We empower organizations to optimize their value chains, strengthen competitiveness, and achieve sustainable profitability through data-driven strategy and world-class advisory support.
Key Service Pillars
- Transformation Advisory: Strategic and operational support to unlock long-term growth.
- Economic Intelligence: Actionable insights to support high-stakes decision-making.
- Organizational Capability Building: Training and development that strengthens execution capacity.
- Sustainable Value Creation: Advisory aligned with SDGs and long-term societal impact.
Our Purpose
Carthena Advisory is a trusted financial and management advisory firm supporting businesses and institutions across Africa. We combine rigorous economic analysis, strategic clarity, and hands-on transformation expertise to help clients deliver superior performance.
Our services are grounded in global best practices and aligned with Sustainable Development Goals such as zero hunger, quality education, gender equality, decent work, climate action, and partnerships for development.
Key Featured Insights
Our Capabilities
Business Planning & Feasibility Studies
Carthena Advisory provides rigorous business planning and feasibility assessments to support organizations at critical decision points. We combine market intelligence, competitive benchmarking, financial modeling, and operational analysis to help clients validate opportunities, mitigate risks, and structure viable business models.
Our feasibility studies evaluate commercial attractiveness, regulatory alignment, capital requirements, operational readiness, and long-term profitability. We deliver actionable recommendations that enable investors, founders, and established companies to move forward with confidence.
Merger & Acquisitions
We support clients across the full M&A lifecycle, including target identification, valuation, commercial due diligence, synergy assessment, structuring, and negotiations. Our team brings a strategic viewpoint grounded in financial and operational realities, ensuring that every transaction creates sustainable value.
Carthena works closely with leadership teams to assess integration risks, model post-merger financial outcomes, and design value-capture roadmaps that strengthen the combined entity’s competitive position.
Process Reviews & Optimisation
Operational excellence is a core driver of organizational competitiveness. Carthena Advisory helps clients diagnose inefficiencies, redesign processes, and implement improved workflows that enhance productivity and reduce cost.
Our approach blends Lean methodologies, systems mapping, and performance management frameworks to deliver measurable improvements in cycle time, service quality, and resource utilization. We partner with teams to embed continuous improvement as a cultural capability, not a one-off exercise.
Developing Institutional Strengthening Initiatives within the Public Sector
Carthena Advisory works with government institutions to build stronger systems, improve policy execution, and enhance service delivery. Our institutional strengthening programs focus on governance frameworks, organizational restructuring, capability development, and performance accountability.
We provide practical solutions that leverage existing infrastructure while integrating global best practices tailored to local realities. Our work supports transparency, operational discipline, and more effective use of public resources.
Supply Chain Configuration & Management
In a volatile environment, efficient supply chains are a strategic advantage. Carthena helps organizations design resilient, data-driven supply chains that improve forecasting accuracy, reduce delays, minimize waste, and enhance customer responsiveness.
Our capabilities span supply chain strategy, network design, inventory management, procurement transformation, logistics optimization, and technology integration. The result is a supply chain system that aligns cost efficiency with business growth.
Transaction Advisory for Start-Ups & Business Expansion
We support early-stage and expanding companies through transaction structuring, capital raising preparation, commercial analysis, and investor-readiness assessments. Carthena bridges the gap between entrepreneurs and investors by helping founders articulate a compelling business case supported by robust financial and operational insights.
We also develop expansion models, market-entry analyses, and funding strategies that enable clients to scale sustainably and attract the right partners.
Strategy Development & Implementation Monitoring
Carthena Advisory partners with organizations to craft clear, coherent strategies grounded in market realism and organizational capability. We help executive teams define winning aspirations, design integrated pathways for growth, and align teams around shared priorities.
Our implementation monitoring frameworks ensure discipline and accountability through metrics, dashboards, progress reviews, and operational governance. We remain deeply engaged to ensure strategy translates into measurable results.
Forensic Audit, Investigation & Financial Planning
We conduct comprehensive forensic audits and financial investigations to uncover irregularities, strengthen internal controls, and restore fiduciary confidence. Our approach adheres to global standards of evidence, documentation, and reporting.
In addition, our financial planning services help organizations structure sustainable financial systems, improve transparency, forecast liquidity needs, and optimize capital allocation for long-term performance.
Management Development Training Programmes
Carthena’s management development programs equip leaders and teams with the skills needed to drive high performance. Designed for both private and public sector organizations, our training interventions strengthen leadership capabilities, improve decision making, and enhance individual productivity.
Clients that invest in our training programs consistently experience measurable improvements across revenue growth, productivity, and cost efficiency. We tailor each program to reflect industry dynamics and organizational context.