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Antonio Nigro, founder of AN2 Partners
Antonio Nigro, founder of AN2 Partners

Your Change & Leadership Partner for SMEs and scale-ups

Clear strategy.
Consistent execution.
Strong leadership.

As a former CEO, I bring your strategy into execution and strengthen your leadership. For owners and managing directors who need to drive growth or change and are not seeing enough progress and results in day-to-day business.

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Does this sound familiar?

A lot of effort. Still not enough progress.

  • Day-to-day business wins. You have a strategy, but day-to-day business swallows every implementation idea within 48 hours.
  • You carry overall responsibility, mostly alone. Your leadership team is stuck in operations, and you have to step in yourself far too often.
  • Too many projects, too many priorities. Everyone works hard, but the impact is missing and what matters most falls by the wayside.
  • You have big ambitions or are under pressure. But there is no clear, focused strategy that everyone understands, supports and consistently implements.
  • You know your business. But nobody prepared you for leadership. You want to lead more clearly, act more deliberately and make confident decisions in critical moments.

What’s at stake

Every month in which not enough moves forward costs time, money and energy.
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Our services.

  1. Strategy workshop series

    Clear strategy.

    Recommended starting point

    A clear direction & strategy that everyone understands and supports.

    In 3–4 days (tailored to your needs), we work with your leadership team to develop direction and strategy, clearly set out on 3–4 pages, with a strategy kick-off for your organisation.

    More on the strategy workshop series →

  2. Strategy execution

    Consistent execution.

    Execution that delivers visible progress and results.

    Weekly or fortnightly support so your strategy doesn’t fail in day-to-day business: holding priorities, clearing blockers, making decisions. Also as interim leadership.

    More about strategy execution →

  3. Strengthening leadership & teams

    Strong leadership.

    Even under pressure, at high speed and amid growing complexity.

    Through personal executive sparring and targeted development of your leadership team, we strengthen your effectiveness as a leader, collaboration and shared ownership of results.

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Portrait of Antonio Nigro

Antonio Nigro · Founder, former CEO

We turn intentions into results.

Why me

I don’t come from theory, I come from responsibility.

Over 20 years of leadership experience, including as CEO and General Manager in consumer goods. From corporate groups to SMEs and private equity portfolio companies. With revenue responsibility of up to CHF 650 million and spans of leadership from small teams to organisations of more than 3,000 employees.

Selected results

Built CHF 125M in revenue in 2 years.

Successfully scaled a new product category and sales channels.

Raised EBIT margin from 13% to 20%.

Despite a sharply declining market and a difficult business situation.

Restructured a distressed company in 8 months.

Stabilised the business and laid the foundations for the turnaround.

How I work

Pragmatic. To the point. Results-driven. No consulting slides for their own sake, but clarity, decisions and execution that show up in the numbers and in your organisation’s daily life.

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Voices from our work together.

“Antonio is one of the best leaders I have had the privilege to work with. He combines strategic vision with rigorous execution and manages to bring people along even in the most demanding situations.”
Greg McKelveyEVP / CEO
“Antonio combines exceptional leadership with deep transformation expertise. He builds successful teams, develops organisations effectively and creates sustainable, profitable growth.”
Franco AnselmiFormer Managing Partner
“Antonio’s ability to inspire people around a shared vision is exceptional. He creates alignment, drives growth and positive change, and develops people through trust and inspiring leadership.”
Christine JanosaMarketing Director
“Inspiring leadership, transformation expertise and excellent coaching skills set Antonio apart. His clear thinking, holistic leadership style and fair, human approach make him an exceptional leader.”
Marcel GrafHead of HR EMEA & APAC
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Let’s talk.

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