Realize more value from your strategic initiatives.

Marden Fitch helps leadership teams navigate AI adoption, post-merger integration, and organizational change through deep and diverse experience.

Why Marden Fitch

The value of an honest and independent perspective.

Pattern Recognition

We guided transformation across IBM, Accenture, LEGO, Fortune 500 organizations, and developed 10,000 global leaders through the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme.

Diverse Thought

An experienced, multidimensional and objective outsider increases creativity, innovation, and value realization in ways an internal analysis cannot replicate.

Trusted

All conversations are confidential. We serve your interest - not a consulting firm's staffing model, a technology vendor's sales target, or an internal team's budget justification.

40+ Acquistions

$34B Transaction

10k+  Leaders

When to engage us

Adopt AI at Scale

Investing in AI but not yet seeing returns? We assess what's blocking value - leadership alignment, readiness, and governance.

Whether you are mid-stream or preparing to launch.

Implement ERP

Mitigating risk and realizing the value? We bring the change management discipline to realize the full business case.

Integrate Acquisition

Acquired a company? We bring disciplined post-merger integration across leadership, culture, operating model, and synergy.

Increase Leadership Impact

Navigating complexities across these and other areas?

You need a trusted advisor focused on your success.

How we work with you

Engagement begins with understanding your situation. We match depth of involvement to the complexity.

Assessment

Proprietary frameworks that give your leadership team a scored, structured assessment of readiness and value realization potential. Self-service and guided options available.

Advisory Retainer

Retained access to experienced counsel. Defined advisory or coaching sessions per month, priority access for ad hoc questions.

Board & Sponsor-Level Engagement

Deeper engagement with the board, executive committee level that high-stakes initiatives require.

Keynotes & Executive Workshops

Selective speaking engagements and bespoke leadership sessions for executive teams, boards, and conferences.

ATRI™ Quick Scan: Complimentary AI Readiness Index

Not sure where to start? Request your complimentary 14 question self-assessment for a composite readiness score in five minutes.

Who we are

Founder, Christopher Fitch, brings three decades of experience leading enterprise transformation at the intersection of strategy, technology and organizational change. His career spans leadership roles at IBM, Accenture and LEGO across the US, Europe, and Asia.

  • The $34B merger of Red Hat with IBM and leading IBM acquisition integration from due diligence on to deliver billions in deal value through disciplined transformation, operating model governance, leadership alignment and change management.

  • Built and led dozens of global strategy and transformation practices and programs delivering billions in operational efficiencies and revenue growth across industries such as, among others:

    • Strategy and transformation lead for several billion USD in IBM ERP sales

    • eProcurement and Strategic Sourcing EMEA lead for Accenture

    • Designing and implementing AI and digitally enabled workflows

    • Transforming IBM’s Sales force and Partner Ecosystem

    • Reducing IBM spans and layers

    • Divestiture of Kyndryl

    • Leading transformation, value realization, master data management, eProcurement and strategic sourcing for dozens of SAP implementations

    • Ensuring governance and senior stakeholder adoption of salesforce.com

    • Active Conference Board Executive Council Member for M&A

    • Partnering with Bain, BCG and McKinsey on several strategic programs

    • Transformation of dozens of Fortune 500 organizations and the Danish Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation

    • Establishing and scaling the green field retail division LEGO Global Brand Retail

  • Head Programme Instructor and Tutor for more than 10,000 leaders through 30 cohorts of the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, strengthening global executive cohorts in systems thinking and strategic execution

  • Decades of experience of living and working in Europe and East Asia. MBA, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Graduate studies in EU Competition Law, MA in International Affairs, Bachelors in Philosophy, ICF Coaching Certification, Hogan Leadership Assessment Certification, and studies at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. Fluency in Danish.

  • Fluency in several established strategy, operating model and transformation frameworks including Kotter's 8-Step Change Model, Lewin's Change Management Model, McKinsey 7-S Framework and Three Horizons, Gailbraith’s Star Model, Prosci and the ADKAR Model integrating them with value and human-centered disciplines such as Benefits Realization and Enterprise Design Thinking.

Diagnostics

Not sure where to start? Our proprietary diagnostic frameworks give you a structured, scored assessment of readiness and value realization potential.

AI Transformation Readiness Index (ATRI™)

Seven-dimension diagnostic measuring leadership alignment, use case discipline, change readiness, data foundation, operating model, governance, and value measurement. Produces a composite readiness score.

Acquisition Integration Readiness

Assesses post-merger integration readiness across leadership alignment, cultural compatibility, synergy capture planning, change management, and value realization disciplines.

Enterprise Software Value Realization

Evaluates organizational readiness for a major platform implementation — stakeholder alignment, change capacity, adoption infrastructure, data readiness, and measurement architecture.

Leadership Capability Assessment

A structured assessment of leadership effectiveness in transformation contexts — drawing on experience and Oxford executive leadership frameworks.

ATRI™ Quick Scan — Complimentary

Request the 14-question self-assessment for a composite readiness score. You'll receive it by email within 24 hours and can complete it in under five minutes. Your results will include your readiness and a high-level dimension profile with strongest and weakest areas.

The conversation starts with understanding your situation.

Whether you need a diagnostic baseline, ongoing advisory counsel, or a speaker for your next leadership event — it begins with a conversation.