RSGI / PAG Partnership

The Professional Alternative is a subscription-based business acceleration platform launched by Derek Southall, Sarah Katherine Bagshaw and Steve Parrott – aimed at professional services firm leadership teams, offering business expertise, practical tools and best practice in the business of running a professional services firm.

Firms are under significant pressure to change how they deliver business support, to improve margins and to accelerate innovation – Covid-19 has increased the imperative to change. Simultaneously they face unprecedented technological change and a tsunami of new solutions. The Professional Alternative provides law firm leaders with a central, trusted, curated, information resource and support platform that will help them to get things done – faster, cheaper and to the highest standard.

Subscribers will have access to a huge array of applications and resources, customised to their needs, including the latest thought leadership, peer content, market overviews and best-practice guides. Information will be delivered when, where and how users demand, across a variety of media.

The platform has already secured two rounds of investment.

“We are excited to be part of a venture with so much potential. It is an idea, which fulfils a pressing need for accessible, standardised information and expertise on how to run a professional services business. It is amazing that no one has thought of it before. It will democratise innovation and drive up standards across the board” said Reena Sengupta, Executive Director, RSGI.

“The team at RSGI are at the top of their game and have a phenomenal depth of knowledge and insight in relation to innovation and strategic leadership in the legal market. They have produced some of the best work in this sector and have years of experience. We are honoured to be collaborating with them.” said Derek Southall, Co-founder of The Professional Alternative Group.