North American Strategic Consulting Partners

Our network of Strategic Consulting Partners include many of the world's most accomplished Performance Management, Measurement, and Improvement consultants. Our Strategic Consulting Partners work with organizations that need help in these areas:

• Strategic planning
• Strategy mapping
• Defining and deploying performance metrics/KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
• Balanced Scorecards
• Performance improvement training, including Lean, Six Sigma, and PDCA workshops and certifications
• Process improvement and process management training
• Baldrige and Performance Excellence
• And many related fields

Our partners are carefully selected by ActiveStrategy because they have demonstrated results using a best practices approach to Performance Management, and believe that ActiveStrategy's best-in-class methodology and automated solutions drive the improved accountability and action that their clients need.

Our network of North American Strategic Consulting Partners includes:

Berger Consulting

Principal: Bruce Berger
Location: Florida, U.S.A.

Bruce Berger is a management consultant and Master Black Belt who has been training and coaching private and public sector organizations since 1992. He has taught Six Sigma techniques, process management, lean concepts, creative thinking, and benchmarking classes. At Florida Power & Light, he played an active role in the company's pursuit of Japan's prestigious Deming Quality Management Award. In 1989, FPL became the first company outside of Japan to win the prize in its 38 year history.

Bull River Group

Principal: Randall Cole
Location: Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Bull River Group is a management consulting firm specializing in strategy execution for Life Science and Healthcare companies. Driven by expertise honed in their former leadership roles in the Palladium Group and the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, and with a mission focused on helping companies address performance management challenges and accelerate their results, Bull River Group helps clients align and refine their strategy through structured, proven methods.

 

DecisionVu

Principal: Lawrence Maisel
Location: New York, U.S.A

DecisionVu is a specialized management consulting practice focused on delivering measurable performance improvement. Their solutions provide leading companies with innovative tools and capabilities to measure and manage the performance of their organizations, and their insights produce meaningful and useful information to support effective decision-making. DecisionVu's consultants are experienced practitioners who partner with you and your team to deliver value in your organizational development.

 

Food Technical Consulting     

Principal: Darrel Suderman
Location: Colorado, U.S.A.

Food Technical Consulting (FTC) provides Executive C-level business consulting to help organizations align business processes, identify and define business KPIs, qualify interim leadership placement, and provide independent project review and advisement from those with deep food and beverage experience.

MGB Management Consulting

Principal: Mark Graham Brown
Location: California, U.S.A.

Mark Graham Brown has worked with a diverse array of clients in the U.S., as well as in 16 other countries, for 30 years. He has written six books about performance management and measurement, including the acclaimed titles Keeping Score: Using the Right Metrics to Drive World Class Business and Beyond the Balanced Scorecard: Improving Business Intelligence with Analytics. He is also an expert at applying the Baldrige model to a wide-range of industries.

Pamela Brown Associates, LLC

Principal: Pamela W. Brown, MS, RN
Location: Vermont, U.S.A.

Pamela Brown focuses exclusively within the healthcare sector, applying her more than 40 years of deep and broad clinical and quality management experience within academic, community, and rural hospitals. She has a proven track record of building effective, integrated quality management programs in large and small hospitals that successfully engage board, executive and physicians leaders, and staff in quality initiatives, resulting in significant and sustained improvement in quality of care measures.


Performance Management Associates

Principal: Steve Paiement
Location: Colorado, U.S.A.

Performance Management Associates (PMA) is a Colorado-based Management Consulting firm providing Strategic Business Planning, Measurement Management Systems and Productivity Solutions along with the implementation expertise to realize the benefits of Corporate Performance Management.


RAF & Associates

Principal: Frank Felton
Location: Michigan, U.S.A.

RAF & Associates LLC helps organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution. By employing cross-industry best practices in performance management, portfolio management, organizational learning, change management, and proven program, project, service management methodologies, RAF can help clients measure and meet strategic goals.
Integrated in RAF’s “Value Management Framework,” organizations select and prioritize programs aligned with their strategy.

Skyhawk Information Strategies

Principal: George F. Mihalcik
Location: Texas, U.S.A.

George Mihalcik, President and CEO, created SKYHAWK in 2008 and brings over 36 years of planning expertise with experience in public education, in the Department of Defense and NATO, and in private industry. He has training in systems analysis, distance learning, communications, information management and technology, personnel acquisition, project management, disaster preparation, and emergency response. He holds a B.S. in Education, an M.A.in Administration, Management Information Systems, and a Top Secret security clearance. 

ST Iovino, Inc.

Principal: Steve Iovino
Location: New York, U.S.A.

Steve Iovino has helped clients in healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, and a wide range of other industries fine-tune strategic plans, improve overall alignment, prioritize improvement initiatives, and drive results. Before becoming an independent consultant, Steve had an extremely successful thirty-year career as an executive with JP Morgan Chase, where he utilized management systems for reengineering, performance improvement and business turnarounds.

Strategy Management Institute

Principal: Michael Brazukas
Location: Virginia, U.S.A.

The Strategy Management Institute is a regional provider of strategy management methodologies. Serving Hampton Roads, Richmond, Washington D.C., and Raleigh, SMI delivers expertise via open enrollment training classes, customized workshops, onsite coaching, and strategic planning retreat facilitation. Focusing on techniques such as the balanced scorecard, strategy maps, performance measurement, initiative portfolio management and process improvement, SMI believes strategy management should be simple, logical, and accessible in order for organizations to achieve financial results and mission-based outcomes faster and with less effort.

Vision Alignment

Principal: Patty Azar
Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Vision Alignment, providing dynamic business solutions, utilizes innovative technologies and methods to improve an organization’s people, processes, and profits. Vision Alignment provides organizations the tools and knowledge to improve leadership, increase revenue, and ensure a positive partner experience. The company trains executives in strategy and planning, communication, and succession planning, which all translates to bottom-line revenue growth and corporate cost savings. Vision Alignment is an Executive Command® Advanced Strategic Business Program Strategic Partner, which utilizes its exclusive content and state of the art methodology to support organizations in achieving extraordinary results with minimum time and resources. Chief Strategy Officer Patty Azar has been instrumental in supporting the strategic, operational, and hiring initiatives of clients including LifeLock, Inc., Desert Schools Federal Credit Union, UPS, Federal Express Latin American Division, and many others.