Welcoming Derick Jiwan: a strategic advisor built for what’s next.
The business owners who come out ahead on a sale rarely do it by accident. They started preparing years before anyone expected. That belief sits at the foundation of everything we do at Agora — and it shapes who we bring onto the team.
Today, Derick Jiwan joins Agora Strategic Consulting Group as an Associate Advisor.
A career built on strategic clarity
Derick has spent more than a decade helping companies grow in ways that actually stick. That includes driving consistent year-over-year growth in both corporate and startup environments, launching products across 20+ states and 5 countries, building financial models that supported $9M+ in revenue potential, and advising ag-tech startups on commercialization and pricing through his own practice.
The common thread: assess where you actually are, build a strategy you can execute, and create value you can measure. That’s not just how Derick operates. It’s how Agora is built.
▎ Why Derick. Why now.
We weren’t looking to add an advisor for the sake of it. We brought Derick in because his background covers something our clients consistently need and rarely find in one person: commercial strategy, financial modeling, go-to-market execution, and operational fluency across sales, R&D, supply chain, and regulated environments.
For an owner trying to figure out where their enterprise value actually lives — and what’s holding it back — that combination matters. Derick has spent his career turning complex operational realities into clear, actionable commercial strategy. That work sits right at the core of our readiness frameworks.
▎ The Agora advantage: frameworks and the right team
Derick joins as Agora continues to build out both our tools and our advisory bench. Two frameworks sit at the center of how we work with clients:
Value Quotient™
The Value Quotient (VQ). A proprietary assessment that scores businesses across 40+ metrics in 7 categories. Owners get an objective picture of what is building enterprise value and what is suppressing it. Not a gut check — a real scorecard with a roadmap behind it.
Readiness Roadmap™
The Readiness Roadmap. A structured three-phase process — Discover, Elevate, Position — that takes owners from uncertainty to strategic clarity, often long before a transition becomes necessary.
The data is consistent: owners who invest in readiness sell for more, succeed at higher rates, and run better businesses in the meantime. Derick’s depth in financial modeling and commercial strategy adds real range to that process for the clients we serve.
▎ Looking ahead
We’re selective about who joins our advisory team. We look for people who have actually done the work — built things, scaled businesses, navigated real transitions. Derick checks every one of those boxes.
LET’S TALK If you’ve ever wondered whether your business is genuinely ready for what’s next — growth, transition, or exit — that question is worth a conversation.
