"The quality of your impact often matters much more than the quantity of your activities” Anonymous
Advisory Engagements |
Advisory work is strategic and involves working closely with the leadership in the organization. Its foundational work that supports the business in understanding where it is and and where it wants to go. It involves prioritization and focuses on communication and vision. Once we establish where the business is going and agree on ideas for how to get there, then we support that course by setting clear priorities and holding the business accountable focusing on execution of those priorities.
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Consulting Assignments
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Consulting is more tactical and involves rolling up the sleeves and focusing on what needs doing. It typically involves improving sales and business processes, and operations with a focus on good execution. In order to improve and reach major milestones, it is important to understand where you are and where you want to be and in this sense, advisory and consulting work can benefit each other.
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Supporting the Success of Others is Why We Do What We Do .
Here is a brief sketch on who and where we've served in recent years:
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We helped the founders at Grantbook mature their approach to sales by introducing pipeline management best practices, including forecasting and closing opportunities. We provided coaching and mentoring of both leadership and key staff.
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We helped the founder at Switchboard mature operational processes as well as improve and streamline proposal development. We also coached and mentored leadership and key staff addressing some internal communication challenges and some company culture issues along the way to improve transparency.
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We worked with the leadership team at Total North Communications as part of their Business Advisory Board, helping them with strategic planning toward their next level of growth. Here's what they said about working with us: "Bonnie was an exceptional asset to our Business Advisory Board. From her C-level visionary capacity to her exceptional eye for marketing detail; it was a pleasure working with a consultant that took the time to fully understood our brand and goals before embarking on the strategic exercise. We've implemented a number of Bonnie's ideas and they are taking our company to the next level!" Josh Clark, Vice President
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Working with Yukon College's Cold Climate Innovation we supported the founder of Frostbyte Software Design, the creators of borealist, a Yukon centric online classified service, to help evaluate the site's commercial viability. Marko needed to explore his ideas and goals for the site to help him make important decisions. Here's what Marko says about working with us: "It was outstanding - Bonnie was able to communicate everything about my business in such a clear, matter-of-fact manner, much better than I could ever dream of. The things I had in my mind but couldn't quite articulate, Bonnie could figure them out and write them down so concisely. I feel I now have a greater understanding of how my business could develop and grow. Thanks again!" Marko Marjanovic, Owner
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Working with Yukon College's Cold Climate Innovation (CCI), we supported the founder of Boreal Compost Enterprises (BCE) to help him transition the company from years of R&D to commercial readiness. This ground breaking innovation which was supported by CCI during the R&D phase has just completed its testing, secured a patent allowance and was already in discussion with a US agricultural equipment manufacture interested in a global licensing agreement with Boreal Compost. Working directly with the inventor, we secured Economic Development funding, developed a working project plan and created the outline for the beta testing program. Here is what Garret says about his experience: "Bonnie, thank you for everything. I could not have done it without you..." Garret Gillespie, Owner
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The founder at d1zi hired us to develop, launch and run a summer sales program that expanded their client base and grew revenues. We hired staff, structured compensation and mentored leadership. |
We've been supporting the success of others a long time...
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In addition to these recent stories above, over the years we've supported a long list of consulting companies, technology and services and software companies. Our focus on prioritization and execution enables us to move across industries and concentrate on the basics (which like common sense, isn't so common). |