Translate food, alcohol, employment, safety, fire, accessibility, environmental, privacy, security, and license rules into daily controls.
Assets
U.S.-based · Global reach
Asset Protection
Hospitality assets include more than equipment: inventory, cash, keys, systems, data, facilities, licenses, vendor relationships, and brand reputation all require protection. Cole identifies where custody or accountability breaks down, establishes layered physical and procedural controls, clarifies access, and creates escalation and recovery plans for high-impact events.
What this work is designed to deliverBetter protected physical, financial, information, and reputational assets with clear ownership.
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Senior expertise.
Practical execution.
We establish who has custody, access, approval authority, and reconciliation responsibility for each critical asset class. Preventive and detective controls are placed across acquisition, use, transfer, storage, maintenance, and disposal, with escalation and recovery steps for loss, damage, interruption, or compromise.
Our operating approachNo seagull management. We can enter at the diagnostic, planning, implementation, stabilization, or ongoing-advisory stage—and remain accountable through execution, adoption, and a sustainable handoff.
Inventory critical equipment, inventory, cash, data, credentials, documents, licenses, intellectual property, facilities, and supplier relationships.
Assign custody, access, authorization, location, condition, valuation, reconciliation, maintenance, transfer, and disposal responsibility.
Strengthen receiving, tagging, storage, keys, user access, physical counts, preventive maintenance, backups, warranties, and vendor controls.
Review liens, leases, insurance schedules, ownership records, serial numbers, licenses, service contracts, and replacement or continuity dependencies.
Plan for theft, damage, breakdown, contamination, cyber compromise, utility loss, disaster, vacancy, default, and emergency relocation.
Use exception reporting, inspections, reconciliations, incident records, corrective action, and executive review to keep protection active.
Details that protect the work
What clients cannot afford to discover too late.
Requirements vary by jurisdiction and operating model. We identify the dependencies early, assign ownership, maintain the evidence, and coordinate licensed specialists wherever professional authority is required.
Assign owners for inspections, training, logs, incidents, corrective actions, renewals, records, drills, maintenance, and escalation.
Test controls during peak volume, turnover, outages, emergencies, management change, and contractor or vendor activity.
Maintain evidence that standards are understood, followed, reviewed, corrected, and sustained—not merely written.
When to bring us in
Before a decision.
During a transition.
When performance slips.
Build or launch
Get the structure, economics, people, systems, and controls right before opening or expansion.
Fix or stabilize
Step into an urgent gap, stop leakage, restore accountability, and protect the business.
Improve or grow
Strengthen the operating platform before scaling, transacting, refinancing, or adding leadership.
Flexible engagement
Focused project
A defined issue, deliverable, timeline, and implementation plan.
Fractional leadership
Hands-on senior ownership without adding a permanent full-time executive.
Ongoing advisory
Regular operating review, decision support, accountability, and governance.
Step in where it matters