Strategy Advising for Complex Challenges

About Impono

Impono is a boutique LLC advising firm specializing in innovation, strategy execution, and performance. Our primary clients are investors, full boards, individual board members, c-suites, and executives seeking to create or enhance winning strategy execution programs at the organizational and portfolio level.

Our Mission is to motivate and advise highly regulated STEM organizations to be profitable through innovation and improved strategy execution, leading to more wins, fewer product issues, and improved organizational performance.

Our Expertise

Our advisors are business practitioners and thought leaders with deep experience in highly regulated industries such as life sciences, aviation, healthcare, and defense, providing strategic insights and innovative solutions for complex challenges.

We offer Innovation Thinking Facilitations, Funding Strategy Development, Portfolio Reviews, Operational Plan Reviews and Revisions, and Performance-Focused Programs.

Our Founder

Dr. Christa Dhimo brings over 25 years of expertise in strategy, leadership, and performance management across highly regulated industries. She has successfully spearheaded startup initiatives, organizational transformations, and turnarounds in a diverse range of organizations, from emerging science companies to Fortune 100 engineering firms.

In 2017, Christa founded Impono with a vision to empower a wider network of STEM-based companies. Her mission is rooted in a belief that many organizations could benefit from early-stage interventions and an efficiency mindset, potentially avoiding (or at the least, reducing) the need for future turnaround efforts, and instead creating a future of growth.

Renowned for her dynamic approach and approachable style, Christa has cultivated an extensive network of accomplished advisors and consultants. Together, they are dedicated to inspiring others and driving meaningful change within organizations. Throughout her career, Christa has focused on helping organizations achieve their objectives by prioritizing employee well-being as a foundational metric for performance, while also constructively challenging existing business models.

Her extensive experience includes developing and implementing innovative programs in organizational effectiveness and strategy execution for complex STEM organizations. Christa’s expertise encompasses business development, exit strategies, strategic alliances, operational efficiency, and talent optimization—all while fostering employee engagement and support, even in challenging times, to enhance organizational resilience and performance.

Christa holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from Drexel University, specializing in organizational performance and management. Her research centers on prosocial and participatory employee voice behavior in highly regulated industries, highlighting its role as a key driver of success. She also earned her MBA from Northeastern University and a Master of Science in Management (Informatics) from the University of Dallas. Furthermore, Christa has held her PMP certification for over 20 years, underscoring her commitment to excellence in project and program management.

Strategic Advising Services

We offer expert guidance for boards and executives in regulated industries to drive innovation and execution.

Our decades of experience, ongoing real-world practice, and upkeep of the latest business research enables our programs to be practical, efficient, and effective. We tailor our work to the needs of our clients.

We also partner with various institutions to conduct and contribute to our own research, white papers, business articles, and media. Our goal is to earn trust and respect from our clients while boosting business as a social science.

Funding Strategy Development

Creating tailored funding strategies to enhance financial performance, create scalable growth models, and guide sustainability for organizations.

Operational Plan Revision

Revising operational plans to respond to current and future events while aligning with strategic growth goals and regulatory requirements.

Innovation Thinking Facilitation

Facilitating innovation thinking sessions to inspire creative solutions and new ways forward.

Performance-Focused Programs

Reframing cultures to be healthier, communications to be more transparent, and metrics to be more relevant from supply chain to employees, from contractors to customers, and from outsourced partners to regulators.

Portfolio Reviews

Comprehensive and objective reviews of product, service, and/or internal program portfolios to assess the fit and function of your resources and investments, recommending contractions or holds when appropriate or offering opportunities for competitive and sustainable expansions.

The Impono team pulled our business plan together in six weeks, creating multiple opportunities for our Series A funding after running in circles with Seed funding for two years. Our Board loves them. Their approach to breaking how we thought about strategy so that we were focused more on innovation and execution gave us the push we needed to move into the bigger leagues.

C. Haverness, Founder

★★★★★